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Jason Day reveals he roots for Browns and Steelers despite long-standing rivalry

Australian golf star Jason Day is going viral on social media for a hot take on his favorite NFL team. On Saturday, the 37-year-old revealed his favorite team is the Cleveland Browns and his second favorite is their rival, the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

During the U.S. Open tournament, Day revealed, "My favorite football team is the Cleveland Browns.

"Even though they have a rivalry, my second favorite team is Pittsburgh. I know I'm gonna get a lot of slack for that, but I do have the Pittsburgh colors on today, so I'll just leave it at that." 

Fans quickly took to the comment section to discuss the take, given the heated history between the two franchises. 

"Someone needs to tell just how wrong this is," one user wrote. 

"I guess he didn’t get the memo. If you are a Browns fan, it is required that you hate the Steelers and vice versa. Don’t be like a f**king politician, pick one," another added. 

"That's wild. Imagine if he said he was a Bears and Packers fan? lol," wrote a third. 

The Browns-Steelers rivalry dates back to the AAFC-NFL merger in 1950, which placed the teams in the same conference. Their proximity and eventual placement in the AFC North division has led to the teams facing each other twice a season. 

The Turnpike Rivalry has now led to 146 meetings. The Steelers have the upper hand in the longest-standing AFC North rivalry with an 82–64–1 record against Cleveland. Pittsburgh also has a 2-1 playoff record over the Browns. 

Day currently sits in a six-way tie for 26th place at the U.S. Open. 

Jason Day reveals he roots for both Browns and Steelers despite long-standing rivalry

Australian golf star Jason Day is going viral on social media for a hot take on his favorite NFL team. On Saturday, the 37-year-old revealed that his favorite team is the Cleveland Browns and his second favorite is their rival, the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

During the U.S. Open tournament, Day revealed, "My favorite football team is the Cleveland Browns.

"Even though they have a rivalry, my second favorite team is Pittsburgh," he continued. "I know I'm gonna get a lot of slack for that but I do have the Pittsburgh colors on today so I'll just leave it at that." 

Fans quickly took to the comment section to discuss the take, given the heated history between the Browns and Steelers. 

"Someone needs to tell just how wrong this is," one user wrote. 

"I guess he didn’t get the memo. If you are a Browns fan, it is required that you hate the Steelers and vice versa. Don’t be like a f**king politician, pick one," another added. 

"That's wild. Imagine if he said he was a Bears and Packers fan? lol," wrote a third. 

The Browns-Steelers rivalry dates back to the AAFC-NFL merger in 1950, which placed the teams in the same conference. Their proximity and eventual placement in the AFC North division has led to the teams facing each other twice a season. 

The Turnpike Rivalry has now led to 146 meetings. The Steelers have the upper hand in the longest-standing AFC North rivalry with an 82–64–1 record against Cleveland. Pittsburgh also has a 2-1 playoff record over the Browns. 

Day currently sits in a six-way tie for 26th place at the U.S. Open. 

Ben Roethlisberger believes 2025 will be Aaron Rodgers's last year

This year, Aaron Rodgers will become the latest successor to Ben Roethlisberger in Pittsburgh. And Roethlisberger believes it will be a one-year arrangement.

“I don’t think he’s got much more after this year,” Roethlisberger said on his Footbahlin with Ben Roethlisberger podcast, via Andrew Vasquez of USA Today. “I think this might be it for him — personally. I have no reason — you could ask, ‘Well, how do you know?’ I don’t know. I’m just guessing in terms of you coming off an Achilles [tear]. Coming off my elbow [injury], my first year back I felt like I was 100. I wasn’t even — you don’t realize you’re not 100 until the next year when you are 100.”

Rodgers started all 17 games in 2024, a year after suffering a torn Achilles tendon on the fourth play of the first game of the season.

“He’s going to feel better, but it doesn’t mean that he’s going to have two or three years left," Roethlisberger said. "I think this might be his last go."

Roethlisberger is hardly going out on a limb. Not many quarterbacks have played deep into their 40s. Rodgers turns 42 in December. (Roethlisberger retired at 39.)

While he hasn't said it, Rodgers's main objective seems to be authoring a final chapter that has a better ending than his two-year detour to New York. For him, making the playoffs would do the trick.

For the Steelers, winning a playoff game seems to be the bare minimum to make the experiment a success. That's something the team didn't do in any of Roethlisberger's five final seasons in football — or in the three since he retired.

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