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In terms of Steelers playoffs disappointments? I'm thinking about it and it's right up their with the other heartbreakers/wanting to throw your remote into tv kinda games.

My top 5:

5) '97 AFCC. That INT before half began my disdain for Kordell. Then...
4) '01 AFCC. What a huge letdown after such a great regular season. I really hated Sheryl Crow and her stupid song that day
3) '94 AFCC. Screw Popanu and I'm glad they got hammered in the SB
2) '10 Super Bowl. **** Mendenhall
1) '95 Super Bowl. Still have only ever seen this game once
 
Switch 1 and 3 for me. I guess I was so excited about being in the super bowl after so many years, the loss didn't hurt as much. But that San Diego game still tears me apart. 10+ favorites at home. That defense. Barry. We won that game in my head before they took the field.
 
Thats my list to a tee Buff...losing any Super Bowl is gonna hurt me more...The SD game will always go down as the biggest let down because we were the better team...this past Denver game I can deal with...the Teblow one hurt much more..
 
I'm with Blitz and switch 1 and 3.

As much as I hated to lose that SB game we gave the Cowboys all they could handle.

The talking heads gave us zero chance. Supposedly Emmitt was gonna run all over us, we couldn't handle that massive OL and the Cowboys had SB experience. If it weren't for O'Donnell we could have won that game.

01 what can you say it was ******* terrible and a huge disappointment.

I ******* despised that 97 Donkey squad.

10 Absolutely, **** Mendenhall.

94 was heart breaking for me I took that **** personal. I didn't even want to got to work the next day.

So looking back this most recent loss to the Donkeys had elements of all those games.

I still maintain next year is our year!
 
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This loss didn't bother me at all. I was expecting to win, and those men competed, they just didn't win. It was surprising to make it that far, and without our skill players playing, we weren't going any farther.
 
Buff said:
In terms of Steelers playoffs disappointments? I'm thinking about it and it's right up their with the other heartbreakers/wanting to throw your remote into tv kinda games.

My top 5:

5) '97 AFCC. That INT before half began my disdain for Kordell. Then...
4) '01 AFCC. What a huge letdown after such a great regular season. I really hated Sheryl Crow and her stupid song that day
3) '94 AFCC. Screw Popanu and I'm glad they got hammered in the SB
2) '10 Super Bowl. **** Mendenhall
1) '95 Super Bowl. Still have only ever seen this game once
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Wasn't that the one where Bettis took a shot before the game, they hit a nerve and he was out? Ugh...
 
94 AFCC game............I caused over $800.00 damage to my my dorm room.
My RA came down, saw the damage, saw I had beer ( dry dorms ), went to say something and I cut him off saying, "NOT right now. Not tonight. Lecture and punishment tomorrow."
He was cool and said OK, as he saw the rage in my face.
I took my medicine the next day with the University and my parents.
Nothing before or since that day has stung that much.
I think I was even more irate knowing the boys were out making a rap video for the SB, indicating they looked past San Diego and weren't focused.
We should have absolutely rolled the Chargers like San Fran ended up doing.
I also wanted to see that D vs that O.
That would have been one heck of a chess match.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Buff said:
In terms of Steelers playoffs disappointments? I'm thinking about it and it's right up their with the other heartbreakers/wanting to throw your remote into tv kinda games.

My top 5:

5) '97 AFCC. That INT before half began my disdain for Kordell. Then...
4) '01 AFCC. What a huge letdown after such a great regular season. I really hated Sheryl Crow and her stupid song that day
3) '94 AFCC. Screw Popanu and I'm glad they got hammered in the SB
2) '10 Super Bowl. **** Mendenhall
1) '95 Super Bowl. Still have only ever seen this game once
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Well to lose via late fumble and make some questionable 3rd and 4th down calls was disappointing.

The calls I refer to is trying a bomb on 3rd and very short, and punting on a day where Berry was terrible for a net of 19 yards instead of letting an excellent Boswell add three points.

This was a divisional playoff game on the road, not an AFC championship game, or a super bowl. So for me it's not in the top five. The loss to Tim Tebow to me was worse.

PS: You should see the 1995 super bowl more than once. Outside of one bad play when Hasting ran the wron gway, the team played very well vs a dynasty team, limiting Smith, and Aikman and making them sweat.
 
I was at the 01 AFCC vs the Patriots, Sheryl Crow with that "walk in the sun" bs.......pisses me off just thinking about it! Long walk across the bridge after that game, everybody was stunned!!!! The loss to the Broncos with Tebow's NFL highlight play ranks up there for me.
 
'94 AFCC sucked but SB XXX had me bullshit....5 minutes left and the momentum has turned. Kirkland sack-slams Aikman and I remember all those Cowboy fans look of shock and somebody yells out in the club "Here we Go Steelers, Here we Go." O'Donnell with the horrible INT moments later...soul crushed. To look that bad in the first half and claw back to have that happen, ugh. Still can't watch that replay when it's on TV.
 
Turd Ferguson said:
'94 AFCC sucked but SB XXX had me bullshit....5 minutes left and the momentum has turned. Kirkland sack-slams Aikman and I remember all those Cowboy fans look of shock and somebody yells out in the club "Here we Go Steelers, Here we Go." O'Donnell with the horrible INT moments later...soul crushed. To look that bad in the first half and claw back to have that happen, ugh. Still can't watch that replay when it's on TV.
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I heard from a source that Hastings ran the wrong route, so the interception is on him as much as Neil. O'Donnnell was actually devloping into a decent passing QB before he became a free agent and went to the Jets.
 
Buff's list covers the top ones... the worst for me still was '95 Super Bowl -- after such a long drought, to lose to the hated Cowboys?

1. '95 Super Bowl
2. '10 Super Bowl
3. '94 AFCC
4. '01 AFCC
5. '04 AFCC -- the Patriots again?!
6. '14 Wild Card -- being at the game and losing to the Ravens in the rain
7. '97 AFCC -- wasn't that the game when Romanowski spit in Kordell's face?
8. '11 Divisional -- Tebow time!
9. '08 Wild Card -- Jags David Garrard and Josh Scobee? really?!
10. '15 Divisional

I honestly can't remember much from before that '94 Chargers game -- that was the first that REALLY affected my mood for a couple of weeks.
 
'94 AFCC
'95 Super Bowl

These are the two that really killed me. The others were huge disappointments but, those two games took years off my life.
 
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I'm with Blitz and switch 1 and 3.
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Dittos, and I'd replace the '97 game with the '04 loss to the Cheats. Knowing that the ******** cheated and kept us out of one and maybe two Super Bowls hurts worse.
 
All of them ******* blow. The Super Bowl losses because we fought back to have a chance to take the lead and **** it away with a turnover, yeah those ******* suck. This loss isn't as bad as any of the AFCCG losses either. I think the expectations for this team going into Sunday without the top WR in football and with a 3rd and 4th string RB was super low and the played above the line save for the fumble, the personal foul face mask on Gilbert that knocked us out of scoring range, the ref missing DPI in the end zone on Bryant and a few dropped balls.

I just want one year where this team can keep the core healthy and make another run. I hope 2016 is that year because this team is dynamic on offense and Ben unfortunately only has a few seasons left.
 
This one didn't hurt much at all for me. Certainly disappointing, but not much pain. We were 7 point dogs playing on the road without one of the best players in the NFL (AB) and with our 3rd string running back. This season has been a fun ride, but we were behind the 8-ball from day 1 of training camp (Mike Adams and our #2 draft pick out for the season when they showed up at camp) and then the hits just kept on coming (Suisham, Pouncey, Martavis suspended for 4 games, Tom Brady's suspension overturned) before the season even got started. Then Ben goes down in game 3 and Bell and Beachum follow. Our offense - which we were all counting on to carry us - was "complete" for less than 2 quarters.

It would've been great to be able to follow this team for at least another week and anticipate a game on Sunday, but this is not even remotely in the neighborhood of the '94, '97, '01, '04 AFCCG or SB 30 or 45.
 
Not a problem for me. With all the injuries I didn't expect a win.
 
BLITZ said:
Switch 1 and 3 for me. I guess I was so excited about being in the super bowl after so many years, the loss didn't hurt as much. But that San Diego game still tears me apart. 10+ favorites at home. That defense. Barry. We won that game in my head before they took the field.
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Yep, '94 championship game for me will always be the worst. Horrible all the way around. That was the first time, as a fan, that I was just stunned. I agree with most of the rest of the list, but one I would personally rank very high would be the '89 divisional against the Broncos. I was in high school then and it was probably my first real, football disappointment as a fan. Come to think of it, that game was a lot alike the loss to Broncos we just witnessed. Throw in '97 and all I can say is, **** the Broncos.
 
Booted said:
'94 AFCC
'95 Super Bowl

These are the two that really killed me. The others were huge disappointments but, those two games took years off my life.
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My sentiments echo this. No one loss bothers me more to this day than SD 17-13. The SB 30 loss because we WERE going to win that, and also I was at the game, which hurt even more. '97 loss to Denver at home in the AFCCG was another. Denver definitely has the Steelers # throughout the years..and that burns me as I live there. I get a lot of ****.

The Tebow game, and the other loss to Denver in '89 (I believe Steelers were up 23-7 at one point) when Elway brought them back.
 
Steelerz99 said:
The Tebow game, and the other loss to Denver in '89 (I believe Steelers were up 23-7 at one point) when Elway brought them back.
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Not quite. They had two 10 point leads though, once at 10-0 and then 17-7. Broncos tied it in the 3rd and then the Steelers took a 23-17 lead late in the 4th and choked it away at the end.
 
The worst loss for me was 2004 AFCC when the Pats blew us out of our home stadium, knew all of our plays, and used our reads against us. Fortunately for them, they got all our play reads when we beat them in the regular season...
 
This one doesn't even register for me. It's a mixture of I don't get quite as worked up as I used to, and with all the injuries, my expectations weren't that high.

For me personally, the worst was the '01 AFCCG loss to the Patriots. I was shocked. It took me weeks to even smile again. lol
 
'94 AFCC and '95 SB are 1 and 1A to me. Those teams were so loaded, in some parallel universe we won back to back SB's with that team.

I'd rank the SB loss to the Packers as #2, just cause its the Super Bowl.

#3, for me, is the the AFCC loss to the Raiders in '76. That was probably the best team the Steelers ever fielded and we would have 3-peated if Franco and Rocky didn't get hurt the game before. Every other AFCC loss is tied for 4th.
 
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Doesn't even come close to any of the "worst" losses the Steelers have had in the last 20-25 years, in my opinion; I guess it's because I personally harbored NO illusions that this team was going to win the big one this season. In 5-10 years we'll barely remember this game. For me, the worst non-superbowl loss was '94 vs. San Diego. I was the most despondent 14 year old kid in America for that following week.
 
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This loss didn't hurt at all. I wanted my team to win. But with the amount of injuries. I'm glad they put up the fight.

I'm a youngster 26 years of age
So the moments that hurt for me were
1: 2001 afccg
2: 2004 afccg, especially going 15-1 ugh
3: 2006 @ oakland. Ben coming off the motorcycle accident, but my uncle is the biggest raiders fan. Jackass
4: 2011 wild card @ Denver--Time Tebow? Football just wasnt the same for me after that
 
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