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Post by elp525 on Sept 2, 2009 10:33:55 GMT -5
Since Mountaineer Field opened in 1980, one professional football game has been played there. Who were the NFL teams that participated and when was the game played?
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Post by WVUMntneerJim on Sept 2, 2009 13:21:10 GMT -5
It was a pre-season NFL scrimmage, the Atlanta Falcons vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers... not sure whether it was 1996 or 1997 when that happened.
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Post by elp525 on Sept 3, 2009 8:43:51 GMT -5
You got it. Here is the backup......
On August 22, 1998, Bill Cowher's Pittsburgh Steelers squared off against Dan Reeves' Atlanta Falcons in a pre-season game at Mountaineer Field. 62,000 fans watched the Steelers win 28-22. The game was billed as an experiment of sorts, as it was thought that the Steelers were looking for a possible location to play if construction on their new stadium, set to begin in June of 1999, wasn't completed in time to start the 2001 season. The Steelers had done the very same thing 30 years earlier. A game was played in 1968 against the Cincinnati Bengals at Old Mountaineer Field, and Three Rivers Stadium opened two years later in 1970.
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