stillers4me
01-15-2011, 09:32 PM
STORYLINE
Terrell Suggs referred to this matchup as World War III, as Armageddon, and he then declared that the winner of the game “probably” would go on to win Super Bowl XLV. The general sentiment among the national media seemed to be that the Ravens were due to defeat the Steelers, especially in light of the way they had handled the Kansas City Chiefs (http://www.kcchiefs.com/) in the AFC Wild Card Round.
TURNING POINT
At halftime, the Steelers trailed by 21-7, and as Coach Mike Tomlin said, “We had kicked our own butts enough.” A 14-point lead in a game between these teams is unheard-of, but the Ravens came out in the second half playing as though they were trailing by two touchdowns instead of leading by two touchdowns. James Harrisonhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/james-harrison/f955db12-de79-47a3-9c61-d50c2583d49b/) sacked Joe Flacco on the first play of each of the Ravens’ first two offensive series in the second half, and then Ryan Clarkhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/ryan-clark/cf65ed11-5ecb-4e40-9341-ff499509537d/) first forced a fumble that LaMarr Woodleyhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/lamarr-woodley/ca7b64f1-170e-449e-a835-4851e785246d/) recovered and then intercepted a pass to set up the offense at the Baltimore 25-yard line. Because of the play of the Steelers defense, the offense had to put together touchdown drives of only 23 and 25 yards to forge a tie before the end of the third quarter.................
Read more @ http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Win-sends-Steelers-to-AFC-Championship-Game/858f5c8f-26e6-478f-9cc2-6f48e65a08bb
Terrell Suggs referred to this matchup as World War III, as Armageddon, and he then declared that the winner of the game “probably” would go on to win Super Bowl XLV. The general sentiment among the national media seemed to be that the Ravens were due to defeat the Steelers, especially in light of the way they had handled the Kansas City Chiefs (http://www.kcchiefs.com/) in the AFC Wild Card Round.
TURNING POINT
At halftime, the Steelers trailed by 21-7, and as Coach Mike Tomlin said, “We had kicked our own butts enough.” A 14-point lead in a game between these teams is unheard-of, but the Ravens came out in the second half playing as though they were trailing by two touchdowns instead of leading by two touchdowns. James Harrisonhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/james-harrison/f955db12-de79-47a3-9c61-d50c2583d49b/) sacked Joe Flacco on the first play of each of the Ravens’ first two offensive series in the second half, and then Ryan Clarkhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/ryan-clark/cf65ed11-5ecb-4e40-9341-ff499509537d/) first forced a fumble that LaMarr Woodleyhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/lamarr-woodley/ca7b64f1-170e-449e-a835-4851e785246d/) recovered and then intercepted a pass to set up the offense at the Baltimore 25-yard line. Because of the play of the Steelers defense, the offense had to put together touchdown drives of only 23 and 25 yards to forge a tie before the end of the third quarter.................
Read more @ http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Win-sends-Steelers-to-AFC-Championship-Game/858f5c8f-26e6-478f-9cc2-6f48e65a08bb