It’s all in the family for Wolfley brothers

There are plenty of ties that bind when it comes to the brotherhood that takes place in a locker room and on a football field.

But today’s game between the Steelers and Arizona Cardinals at Acrisure Stadium will feature a different kind of brotherhood, one that runs deeper than all of them.

Not only will Craig Wolfley handle the color commentary on the Steelers’ radio broadcast, his younger brother, Ron, will do the same for the Cardinals’ broadcast.

And if the two swapped places at halftime, few would be able to tell the difference between them. They both have a deep baritone voice tinged with their upstate New York accent and a, shall we say, unique way of using the English language that is purely Wolfley.

“There’s little things here and there,” Craig said of telling the two of them apart from their voices. “But Ronnie’s just so talented with this. You listen to his broadcast, he somehow broaches a very masculine Myron Cope-type of craziness. I just love listening to him. He’s a riot.”

The brothers and their families might be able to more easily tell the two apart. But to the average listener, it’s much more difficult.

“People in Phoenix will contact me, reach out to me and say, ‘Hey, were you in Pittsburgh this past week? I heard you on the radio,'” said Ron, who like Craig also hosts a daily radio show, as well. “No, that wasn’t me. That was my brother Craig. But it makes me laugh. We get it all the time. When Craig was on this past week, Craig came on three days in a row, which never happens in radio. We had Craig on to talk about this game. All the people that reach out, ‘It’s stunning how much you sound alike.'”

They had similar paths to the broadcast booth.

Craig was a standout guard in the NFL from 1980 through 1991, spending most of that with the Steelers. Ron, meanwhile, played from 1985 through 1995 with the Cardinals, Browns and Rams and was a four-time Pro Bowl player as a special teams…