Report says that the Steelers will open the 10 season at home

The Post-Gazette reports that the Steelers will not be opening the season against the champion Saints, and likely will open up 2010 at home:

Scratch the Steelers as possible candidates to open the NFL season against Super Bowl champion New Orleans Sept. 9 in the Superdome. There has been speculation the NFL might pit the past two Super Bowl winners in the first game traditionally held in the city of the current champion on Thursday night of what is called Kickoff Weekend. But Steelers president Art Rooney II said he expects the Steelers to open the season at home Sept. 12 because of scheduling conflicts with their neighbors, the Pirates. “We won’t be playing in New Orleans,” Rooney declared this afternoon. “We have to be home that weekend because of the baseball schedule. Unless they wanted to play us away three weeks in a row, and I don’t think they’ll do that.”