Voting Now Open for Steelers Great Eight Heartbreak Tournament: Quarterfinals Game Two
by maryrose on Jul 13, 2009 10:29 PM EDT
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Here is the poll for the second game of the Great Eight Heartbreak Tournament.
There is still time to vote for Game One.
Again, by definition, we are not asking solely for your personal experience per se. Such would be categorically unfair to earlier games and skewed to the advantage of more recent games. Of course, use your personal experience when possible, and then project yourself into those games you did not experience. We are asking you to place yourself in Steeler Nation as a whole during the time when each game was played. Thus, the precise question will be, "Which of these two playoff losses was more painful to Steeler Nation."
The seeds are below. You can click on them to review the write-ups and follow-up discussions in order to help you with voting information:
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Ben did great things in his rookie season, so the loss to the Pats didn’t hurt too much. However, to let the HATED Cowboys get the one for the thumb first still burns me up! I still can’t watch that game, and I can’t say Neil O’Donnell’s name without cussing a blue streak.
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How can losing to the Cowboys in the Super Bowl not be the most painful Steelers experience ever? Nothing even comes close. Nothing.
why all the hate for neil o’’donnell by everyone? he had been the best qb we had since bradshaw. he was the perfect qb for our offense. he didn’t need to have a lot of attempts but when he did throw it, he had a good completion % the lowest interception rate of any qb, so we were able to sustain drives and wear the opposing defense down. our passing game was what saved our season that year after starting 2-3. we would never have been in that super bowl if not for o’donnell. remember the 45 yard strike he threw to ernie mills with the afc championship on the line 2 weeks earlier? he couldn’t get the job done 2 weeks later, but he deserves some credit for getting us there that year.
Losing a SB is always worse
Especially since we went on to win the SB in Ben’s second season. That surely took away alot of the sting of losing in ’04.
by WolfpackSteelersFan on Jul 14, 2009 4:38 PM EDT reply actions
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I voted for the 95 Super Bowl over the 2004 AFC Championship, for many reasons. Neil O’Donnell literally threw the game for the Steelers. Ron Erhart forgot that the Steelers were a running team and not a pass happy team. Someone told me that Cowher pulled Erhart aside a halftime and told him to basically give the ball to Bam Morris and by the way your fired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take the camera away from the Patroits and the Steelers are celebrating 8 Super Bowls and not just 6.
I remember a number of times during those AFC playoff games against the Patriot’s, the commentator’s saying that it’s like the Patriots and Beli-cheat know the plays that Steelers are going to run and that the Steelers make horrible second half adjustments. (Oh come on) If the Steelers were this bad at making adjustments, How the hell did they beat so many good teams and that includes the Ravens, Jags, Titians, and Colts. The year the Patriots played the Panthers in the SB, 60 minutes did a segment on how the Patriots use video to predict their opponents next play and that’s 3 years before the league caught them.
I just wish that the NFL would move the New England Cheaters to the AFC North so that the Steelers and Ravens could make them feel the pain that the Browns and Bengals feel.
by Steel Buckeyes on Jul 15, 2009 11:57 AM EDT reply actions
"The year the Patriots played the Panthers in the SB, 60 minutes did a segment"
I found the link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/16/60minutes/main643894.shtml
“There’s a whole lot of the chess-game element involved in this,” says John Fox of the Carolina Panthers.
However, this computerized chess game threatens to get so out of hand that the NFL has tried to rein it in.
“We can’t use any of this system on game day,” says Fox. “They still want the human element. By game day, the coaches have crammed so many details into their brains and onto their clipboards that they themselves are walking computers.”
"It was an attrition football game and you know we like that."
don’t forget that the steelers started that year 2-3 and the only thing that got them back in it was that they starting utilizing a 4-receiver set with thigpen, charles johnson, ernie mills, and andre hastings. so the passing game was a real weapon for them that year, and o’donnell had only thrown 5 int. all year.
i do agree that the patriots cost us a trip to the super bowl in ’01. they freakin knew what was coming before we ran the play. there is no doubt. every time we ran the ball it just so happened they called an all out run blitz right to the spot we were trying to run. i mean, come on. you get lucky like that once in a while, but not again and again. i hate the patriots.
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yes, we were 15-1 that year, but we were extremely lucky to get out of that jets playoff game alive. ben looked very unsure in the playoffs and you just knew he was going to turn the ball over, which he did. that game was no surprise. it doesn’t change the fact that i hate the patriots, but that’s another discussion.
we were underdogs in the super bowl, which you would think made it not as bad to lose, but in reality, that almost made it worse. i am old enough to barely remember seeing the last super bowl of the ’70’s on tv, but i had never really experienced the joy of the steelers winning a super bowl. and these guys battled until they were on the cusp of taking the lead in the 4th quarter, and our defense was shutting them down. we had it in our grasp and let it slip away! that interception was a stake to the heart.
cowher’s teams had been knocking on the door for a few years, and you wondered if this was it. was this their big chance to break through, and they blew it? it would be another decade before the steelers made it back to the big one. i remember that pittsburgh was in a funk for about a week after the loss. people calling out of work. people were genuinely depressed after this game.
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