I went with the Tennessee game, I remember that one and it hurt. I was 7 years away from being born in 1972, and while I understand how awful it is to lose to a lesser team when you are hurt, and how irritating it must be to them hear about Miami celebrating, It was just the beginning.

The Steelers were finally good, you can’t be too broken up when your team makes it that far for the first time. Same reason I wouldn’t vote for Ben’s rookie year loss to the Pats, I didn’t expect much, I think we were better than the Pats, but we weren’t ready to ascend to that level yet.

Remember that the guidelines for this tournament is NOT personal losses! The titans game was more personal to me because we lost on a back call at the end of the game when joe “Oscar” nedney fell to the turf on a questionable hit by washington. damn I hated dewayne washington! Anyways, while that was a personal loss, the ‘72 loss was more significant to the steeler nation because (and this is my opinion) that season gave birth to the steeler nation. That was the first year we won a home playoff game, the first year we went to the AFC championship game and more than likely the only team that should have beaten the ’72 dolphins. Every time I hear the ’72 dolphins and their undefeated season I think of the steelers losing that game. The ’02 loss to titans don’t really come to mind when you think of 2002 if anything, the home cleveland game the previous week was one of the best games I ever saw (I was there at heinz and in the snow but it looked awesome on TV). So I picked the ’72 loss because of the significance