{"id":872100,"date":"2026-04-22T18:50:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:50:56","slug":"rooney-trolls-ravens-fans-at-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872100\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooney Trolls Ravens Fans at NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026 NFL Draft<\/a>\u2022Steelers News<\/a>\u2022Steelers Opponents<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"SteelersPittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II speaks at the 2026 NFL Draft clock reveal on May 12, 2025 — Ed Thompson \/ Steelers Now\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Hosting the NFL Draf<\/a>t has some perks. Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II<\/a> revealed on WDVE<\/a> that he got the NFL to move a seating area reserved for Baltimore Ravens fans so Steelers fans would get better seats at the NFL Draft Theater.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did ask that, you know, on the normal seating chart, I noticed that the Ravens fans were sitting in front of the Steeler fans in one section of the draft theater. So I asked them to make that change, and they agreed to make that change,\u201d Rooney said.<\/p>\n

Rooney said the NFL has been very open in allowing the Steelers to have a voice in running the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re hosting the draft the league lets you do some things you don\u2019t normally do during the draft,\u201d Rooney said.<\/p>\n

The Steelers and Ravens have one of the best rivalries in all of sports. Their contests almost always go down to the wire. <\/p>\n

Free agent wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins explained in a recent interview what it was like in the Baltimore Ravens\u2019 locker room after Tyler Loop\u2019s<\/a> game-deciding 44-yard missed field goal against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 18 this past season.<\/p>\n

With Loop\u2019s miss, the Steelers clinched the AFC North and a playoff berth, while the Ravens went home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was probably the hottest I have seen the locker room,\u201d Hopkins said. \u201cDerrick (Henry) and I were just looking at each other like, \u2018Did that really just happen?\u2019 I didn\u2019t think it was real for a second. I thought I was still dreaming like, \u2018There ain\u2019t no way he missed it,\u2019 but you know he human. It was hot, though. It shouldn\u2019t even have gotten down to depending on him to make a 40-yarder. We failed as an offense. We should have ran the ball with Derrick like as offensive players. I ain\u2019t going to say it was the offense, but as players, we felt like we should have just kept handing off the ball to Derrick and let him try to go score.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ravens\u2019 loss marked the end of the John Harbaugh era. But Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said Harbaugh would have only kept his job for \u201ca week\u201d longer had Loop made the kick.<\/p>\n

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