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It doesn't take much to pry open the bad blood that exists between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals.

According to Sports Illustrated, the mere sight of a reporter famous for asking questions about Cincinnati's main rival was enough to set Vontaze Burfict off during a recent encounter with reporters. It was Burfict, if you recall, that was flagged for his hit on Antonio Brown that led to the game-winning field goal in the Steelers' wild card win over Cincinnati this past January.

“I don’t give no f---s about them,” Burfict said. “Zero. You can write that, too. I don’t give no f---s about them. They’re just another team. They don’t scare me. Just another team.”

While Burfict lashed out at the reporter, several other Bengals kept their composure while trying to avoid getting pulled back into a verbal war with the Steelers, months after the two teams engaged in one of the nastiest playoff games to date.

“What’re you tryin’ to start something?” Bengals cornerback Adam Jones said to the same reporter before walking away.

“We’re not talkin’ about the Steelers no more,” safety George Iloka said. “It’s a new season. Like, honestly. It’s mid-August, right? And that was in January? We’re past that. That’s not really in our head. … We told the local media, quit asking us about it, because that was seven, eight months ago. People who aren’t local media, it’s always their first question.”

Burfict, who is suspended for the first three games of the 2016 season, is obviously sick of being asked about Pittsburgh, the team that Cincinnati split with during the regular season before the teams met in the post season. Burfict says his team has moved on from their 18-16 loss to the Steelers, and that all of their focus is solely on the 2016 season.

“They didn’t go to the Super Bowl; we didn’t go to the Super Bowl," Burfict said. "What is there to have a chip on our shoulder for? I would see if they went to the Super Bowl and won it, because obviously we were kicking ass the whole game. … We’re past that. The only people that still talk about it is Pittsburgh.”

While they have no intentions on changing their physical style of play, the Bengals said that they need to learn to control their emotions on the football field, especially when the stakes are high, as they were late in last year's playoff game.

“[The coaches] want us to play physical, be tough guys,” Iloka said. “They don’t want us to back down. And there’s also a fine line, doing things that could harm the team.”

While the Steelers are the more decorated team in the Super Bowl era, it's the Bengals that have more consecutive playoff trips, as Cincinnati has made the postseason every year since 2011, quarterback Andy Dalton's rookie season with the team. But while they've had no problems making the postseason, Cincinnati is still searching for their first playoff victory since January of 1991. While each playoff loss has been painful, there's no question that last year's postseason defeat at the hands of the Steelers was the most painful, as the Bengals held a one-point lead before Ben Roethlisberger mounted a last-minute comeback, a comeback that was aided by two Bengals' penalties.

Now, armed with Dalton and A.J. Green on offense and with one of the league's best defenses, the Bengals know that their time to win is now, if they can figure out a way to get past the Steelers when it matters most.

There's no doubt that the Bengals' mettle will once again be tested this season, when Cincinnati travels to Pittsburgh in Week 2. The big question will be what happens when -- not if -- tensions rise between the two teams, as both the Steelers and Bengals look to once again battle for AFC North supremacy in 2016.