{"id":285509,"date":"2026-09-14T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285509\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:32:09","slug":"steelers-fans-share-excitement-optimism-following-season-opening-win-against-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285509\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers fans share excitement, optimism following season-opening win against Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday brought with it a big first win for the Pittsburgh Steelers, as football is back in the Steel City. The Steelers kicked off the season with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/falcons-steelers-score-mccarthy-rodgers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">20-13 win over the Atlanta Falcons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fans are already picking out what they&#8217;re seeing on the field and what they like as the regular season gets underway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great win today, looked pretty good. Aaron Rodgers looked a little rough in the pocket, but I think he pulled it together, so we&#8217;re looking pretty good,&#8221; Matt McCloskew said.<\/p>\n<p>Tailgates are back, the jerseys are back and most importantly, Steeler football is back.<\/p>\n<p>And there was plenty to pay attention to with Rodgers kicking off his 22nd professional season, his second in Pittsburgh, and the team entering into a new coaching era with Pittsburgh native Mike McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I liked Aaron Rodgers. I liked the play calling; Mike McCarthy, you know, actually has emotion. He talks to the players; he&#8217;s very much into it,&#8221; Caitlin Monper said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the offense looked fantastic today. Better than it has probably in the last four years. I love what they&#8217;re doing with the offense,&#8221; Ryan Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, fans say a win is a win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was one we had to have. Didn&#8217;t have to be perfect; just needed the positive result,&#8221; Billy Battistone said.<\/p>\n<p>A positive result is most definitely what Steelers Nation got from near and far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was my first Steelers game,&#8221; Nick Bennett said, who traveled to Pittsburgh from Nebraska. &#8220;The atmosphere was insane, all the bars, just walking down and walking over the bridge, all these Pittsburgh fans. Everyone&#8217;s in black and gold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to next week, the Steelers will be in New England for a 1 p.m. kickoff against the Patriots on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday brought with it a big first win for the Pittsburgh Steelers, as football is back in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11861,4849,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":["post-285509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-national-football-league","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}