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stillers4me
11-14-2010, 07:24 AM
Sunday, November 14, 2010
By Gerry Dulac, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Lake Fong/Post-Gazette
The Patriots* and quarterback Tom Brady* won the AFC Championship game in 2005 at Heinz Field.



Two games, two different situations, one same result. It signaled the beginning of a dominant era in the National Football League, the advent of a franchise that would win three Super Bowl trophies in four years. And it did it by kicking down the door and taking the road that Bum Phillips always said would lead to the promised land.
Right through Pittsburgh.

Literally.

In two vastly different games played in vastly different circumstances, the New England Patriots* launched their campaign as Team of the Decade with a pair of stunning victories in AFC Championship games at Heinz Field, first in 2001 when they were 11-point underdogs and listening to the Steelers talk about packing their bags for the Super Bowl and again in 2004 when they finally ended the magic of a rookie quarterback whose team became the first in American Football Conference history to win 15 games in a regular season.

They were the Steelers of the 1970s, the San Francisco 49ers of the 1980s, the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s -- teams that won three or more Super Bowls in a decade.

And the coronation began right here, right in Heinz Field...............

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10318/1103260-66.stm#ixzz15GM0luRx

GoSlash27
11-14-2010, 07:49 AM
Sunday, November 14, 2010
By Gerry Dulac, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201011/20101114steelers_500.jpg
Lake Fong/Post-Gazette
The Patriots* and quarterback Tom Brady* "won" the AFC Championship* game in 2005 at Heinz Field.



Two "games", two different situations, one same result. It signaled the beginning of a dominant era in the National Football League, the advent of a franchise that would "win" three Super Bowl trophies* in four years. And it did it by kicking down the door and taking the road that Bum Phillips always said would lead to the promised land. (by shamelessly cheating)
Right through Pittsburgh.

Literally.

In two vastly different games "played" in vastly different circumstances, the New England Patriots* launched their campaign as Team of the Decade* with a pair of stunning "victories" in AFC Championship "games" at Heinz Field, first in 2001 when they were 11-point underdogs and listening to the Steelers talk about packing their bags for the Super Bowl and again in 2004 when they finally ended the magic of a rookie quarterback whose team became the first in American Football Conference history to win* 15 "games" in a regular season.

They were the Steelers of the 1970s, the San Francisco 49ers of the 1980s, the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s -- teams that "won" three or more Super Bowls* in a decade.

And the coronation* began right here, right in Heinz Field...............

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10318/1103260-66.stm#ixzz15GM0luRx

Fixed that for ya :D

stillers4me
11-14-2010, 08:00 AM
:lol: :thumbsup:

Steeltreal
11-14-2010, 02:41 PM
"The Steelers are like complete replicas of the Patriots -- hard-hat guys who played hard, guys who played under the radar and weren't self-promoters," Harrison said.


:huh:

JayC
11-14-2010, 03:51 PM
i hope we want this as bad as i do.

HometownGal
11-14-2010, 03:57 PM
The Bung-holes and Browns lost today, so by late this evening, we can be the dominant force in the AFCN. :thumbsup: :pray: