Carson hates the steelers too. Article from Enquirer
During the offseason, he made the cover of Sports Illustrated, sitting in a hydrotherapy pool, with the words, "The Rehab of Carson Palmer," superimposed over the picture. In the article, Palmer talked about the emotion he felt in the minutes after the injury and the "hate" he had for the Steelers, the team that went on to win the Super Bowl.
Not much has changed in the months since Palmer expressed his feelings for the Steelers.
"It's nothing against the city, the fans or the individual players," Palmer said, sitting on a golf cart inside Paul Brown Stadium that was parked in the same runway in which he was carted off the field seven months ago. "It's just the team, that's our rival. They are the guys that are where we want to be. When you play at USC, you hate UCLA. You don't hate the strong safety, you don't hate the left outside linebacker, but it's just something that develops.
"Until you're part of that rivalry, like a fan, like a crazy rabid Steelers fan or a crazy Bengals fan, when you have a love for a team like our fans love our team, like their fans love their team, and they're where you want to be and they have want you want to have, then you get an aggressiveness toward them. It's nothing individually."
Palmer reminded that one of his closest friends is Steelers safety Troy Polamalu, with whom he shared a house when they were teammates at USC.
"Troy is one of my favorite people in the world. It's nothing like him or them individually. I like Ben [Roethlisberger] a lot; it's nothing to do with Ben. It's just that the rivalry is so intense. I'm not sure how it is on their side of the ball because they've been whupping our butts for years and we've been getting our butts whupped by them for years.