PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – To Beanie Bishop the whole situation is very easy to explain, it’s a rivalry. That’s what people do in a rivalry when they don’t like each other.
What happened was the Steelers safety, and former Mountaineers safety, was in the Pitt locker room Tuesday, because the Steelers borrowed it for a couple of days to do some in-house pictures, scoreboard videos, stuff like that. That is why Bishop was in there, as were most Steelers players for a brief time during OTAs. It is what happened next. Bishop posted on social media video of his feet as he wiped his shoes on the Pitt logo with a poop emoji added to the post.
“It’s a rivalry, obviously people are not going to like me based on what school I went to and that’s fine,” Bishop said very matter-of-factly. “It’s part of the rivalry. We don’t like those guys and they don’t like us.”
“I don’t really have any liking for those guys, that’s part of it.”
This wasn’t a game or an act to him. Asked if it was just in good fun or real hatred, he said both. What you could say about his reaction is that it was genuine and he wasn’t going to back down from his feelings even if the Pitt head coach or players are upset.
“I got some guys that I am cool with that I train with that went to Pitt,” Bishop said. “It was kind of towards them, too a little bit. They talk mess to me and I talk mess to them. MJ Devonshire being one of those guys.”
Devonshire had a pick six as the Panthers came back to beat West Virginia in 2022. Pitt also won in 2024 at Acrisure Stadium.
“They always talk, especially after they beat us last year, but things got quiet as the season went on,” Bishop said. “That was pretty much it. I look at it like the Beanie Bishop Fan Club.”
Bishop said he hasn’t talked to fellow Mountaineer and Steelers center Zach Frazier about what he did, but said he wouldn’t like it. He said Frazier would probably give him hell for doing it and say he shouldn’t have done it. But for Bishop, it’s about the rivalry.
“You don’t like those guys,” Bishop said. “That’s self-explanatory. If you go and ask them, they probably hate me. Do I care? No, not really? That’s just part of it. If you go ask any fan in Baltimore ‘what do they think about the Steelers?’ They hate us.”
“It is what it is. It’s part of the rivalry. I’m only concerned with the Pittsburgh Steelers fans and West Virginia fans in that instance.”
While Bishop used social media to post the story, he said he really hasn’t looked at the reaction. That he didn’t do it for clicks, but it’s just what you do.
“I’m not really seeing too many things,” Bishop said. “I’ve got a baking podcast, Beanie’s Bakery, on YouTube. That’s what I’m more worried about as far as the internet goes.”
That’s real, he does have a baking podcast. He heated up a firestorm on social media and got both sides ready in early June for the game in Morgantown on September 13.