Super Bowl 45 didn't bother me as much either. I guess witnessing the team raise two lombardi's kinda made me happy
So Where Does This Game Rank?
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As I get older, I realize how lucky I was in many ways to be a kid in the '70s. For example, the Olympics were much more fun, because it was us against the Russians, and they seemed so damn big and serious, almost scary and all that. You hated the Russians.
That's what it was like with the Raiders. You hated the Raiders. On top of that, you really believed that the Steelers had all the good guys. The Raiders had nothing but bad guys. So, that is a long way to explain that the number one loss for me is the '76 AFCC game when the Steelers lost to the hated Raiders without Franco and Rocky.
1. '76 AFCC game
2. '82 San Diego - Bradshaw was really at his best. I think that game is on Youtube. Watch it and remember how good he was. Big time missed opportunity there.
3. '95 SB
4. '10 SB
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That's what it was like with the Raiders. You hated the Raiders. On top of that, you really believed that the Steelers had all the good guys. The Raiders had nothing but bad guys. So, that is a long way to explain that the number one loss for me is the '76 AFCC game when the Steelers lost to the hated Raiders without Franco and Rocky.
1. '76 AFCC game
2. '82 San Diego - Bradshaw was really at his best. I think that game is on Youtube. Watch it and remember how good he was. Big time missed opportunity there.
3. '95 SB
4. '10 SB
4.
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I remember this too as a young pup at the tender of age of 9. I remember cause I was home sick as a dog that day and watched the Steelers go up 14-3 as the Chargers fumbled consecutive kick offs and Three Rivers was going absolutely nuts and I was feeling so much better. And then, well, things took a turn for the worse. And yes, the game is on youtube somewhere, I watched most of it again some time ago. That game was probably my first, solid memory of watching the Steelers in the postseason. I have vague recollections of watching some of SB XIV three years earlier, but I'd be lying if I said I can vividly remember that.
I was in '76 where you were in '82. I really for the first time would sit through whole games that '76 year. I remember the Super Bowl against the Cowboys the year before. I remember seeing Swann make that great catch you always see, and then going outside and throwing the ball over the wire, diving in the snow to catch it. Never really dawned on me the game would keep going. Got back in just in time to see the long TD to Swann and Glen Edwards picking the ball off in the endzone to end the game.
The San Diego game I watched on a little TV, maybe no more than about 14 inch screen. We had an old box on the floor TV at home, and if it broke down, you were ******. Wasn't money laying around to fix a TV. So we had this little white TV my grandparents gave us for emergencies. Antenna. During football, my sister had to go outside and turn the damn thing to try to get reception. "Keep turning...NO! Go back a little!" Great stuff.
Anyway, they were winning late, and SD drove but Fouts threw a pick in the end zone that should have been it. Blount picked it. They called Jack Ham for illegal contact. Still don't know what they saw there. And SD scored a TD.
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Ha ha, I remember my dad constantly fiddling with the TV antenna back in those days too. I watched that Charger playoff game on a tiny black and white TV my grandmother had bought me for Xmas one year, may have been that very xmas just before the game, not sure, but it was around there. Anyway, I remember having to twist the dials around on it and it made this massively loud clicking sound with each turn, extremely annoying. But I was able to watch TV in my bedroom, a dream come true! And then you had to fiddle with the rabbit ears and the horizontal and vertical hold....kids today just don't understand the suffering.
Man, that must've been an amazing time to be a sports fan. I remember the Penguins trip to the Stanley cup finals in '08 when they lost to the red wings. To me at the time Detroit seemed like this big, bad monster team that really just got me more into watching hockey. I've been a Pens fan for quite some time. And hockey has had that impact that the 70's steelers had on you yinzers. To hear all your guys stories makes me proud to be part of Steeler nation and to us. Its more than just football or hockey. Its being part of a tradition
1). **** Neil O'Donnel
2). **** Rashard Mendenhall, David Johnson, & Chris Kemoeatu
3). **** Tim McKyer & Alfred Pupunu
2). **** Rashard Mendenhall, David Johnson, & Chris Kemoeatu
3). **** Tim McKyer & Alfred Pupunu
The Steelers lost to the Chiefs (and Montana) in overtime, there, 27-24 in Jan. 1994. It think it was Cowher's first playoff game, and the last time the Chiefs won in the postseason until this year.
Steelers led until late in the fourth quarter, when the Chiefs blocked a punt by Mark Royals (there's a name from the past).
I remember the crowd was raucous. And it didn't help when Steeler CB David (D.J.) Johnson, who'd played a good game, was ejected for impersonating a Bengal and kicking a Chiefs player in the head.
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Steelers led until late in the fourth quarter, when the Chiefs blocked a punt by Mark Royals (there's a name from the past).
I remember the crowd was raucous. And it didn't help when Steeler CB David (D.J.) Johnson, who'd played a good game, was ejected for impersonating a Bengal and kicking a Chiefs player in the head.
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Oh ****, how could I forget that one. Joe Montana bounces the ball to the WR (don't remember who), and the officials call it a completion. It was OBVIOUS that it hit the ground!! Stevie Wonder even saw it. It BOUNCED into the receivers hands. First down Chiefs.
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This was a killer, too. Steelers lose at Denver, 24-23, to cap the 1989 season. It was Noll's last playoff game.
I read somewhere that the Broncos have beaten the Steelers in the postseason more than any other team (either four or five times):
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I read somewhere that the Broncos have beaten the Steelers in the postseason more than any other team (either four or five times):
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Frank Gifford worked the game with Al Michaels (and someone else) for ABC.
I got to know Gifford pretty well from my years as a sportswriter. At the start of the next season he told me it was one of the most "entertaining" games he ever saw.
I thought that was interesting, akthough I replied that, as a Steeler fan, I'm not sure "entertaining" was how I'd describe it.
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Remember that one well too. Think Montana started the game with gloves on, sucked it up, took them off, and then was crushing it. That wasn't Cowher's first playoff game though, his first was the year before where he started a busted Neil against the Bills in the divisional round and they were totally manhandled.
Cowher took over in 1992. I think we ended up with the #1 seed that year. But we lost our first game to the Bills, who had just completed the greatest comeback ever against the Oilers in the Wild Card round.
Nowhere near anything. I was proud of the effort they put up considering the situation. After all is said and done, few will remember that game, many will remember who won the brawl the week before.