What was your toughest, hardest, most depressing, gut-wrenching loss to take as a Steelers fan?
Super Bowl loss to Dallas?
Super Bowl loss to Green Bay?
AFC CG loss to San Diego?
For me, it's the loss to Oakland in the AFC CG that would have been a chance at a 3-peat and we were without Rocky and Franco.
What was your hardest loss to take?
1. Definitely the SB loss to Dallas. We were on our way back to winning that game.
2. Every loss to the Patricheats.
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I can't erase the picture of Harris standing on the sidelines as we lost our chance at a 3 peat. By far the hardest to take.Originally Posted by saturdaysarebetter
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1994 AFCC game: Losing to the Bolts and their no name WR and TE. Watching Tim McKyer cry like a little bitch at the end.
Yes the Super Bowl losses were hard but I didn't think they would win so I prepared myself for those.
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Agreed with the 1976 AFC championship game
Once that team woke up in week 6, with the defense stifling teams and the offense catching up when Bradshaw returned in December, it was peaking with the 40-14 blowout playoff win in Baltimore the week before
At its peak better than the '75 champs from the year before, which IMO is the greatest Steelers team of them all (need to win a championship to be the greatest)
I guess it would be tied between the two Super Bowl losses - we really threw both games away. Was too young to remember any of the '70s stuff and not born for some of it.
Then the catch-rule game against the Patriots last season, although I don't actually consider that a loss; more like a win and a record-keeping error that caused the final records and playoff seedings to be incorrect.
See you Space Cowboy ...
For me the Super Bowls against Dallas & Packers should have both of those games and, the 07 Playoff game against the Jags where we were down big early came all the way back to get the lead. Then with a chance to get a first down to seal the game Tomlin/Ariens called a QB draw on 3RD & 6? Still gets me and, last years game against the cheats Jesse James TD catch.
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Tim Tebow.
First playoff loss to the pats*** after that tuck rule game. Thought we had the best team that year. We outplayed them but still lost because of some shitty special teams play
Not to mention Korkie with his patented 3-INT AFCCG performance, including 2 in the last 4 minutes of the game trailing 24-17.
Another SB missed because of Cowher's stubborn refusal to upgrade at QB.
That's the exact one I was going to use. I can still see Romanowski looking at Kordell and slapping his own head. As if to say you freaking idiot... Dang, now I'm pissed off all over again
"Zeds dead baby, Zeds dead." - Butch
All the losses to the cheats... Damn, I hate them Rat bastards.
I tend to lump all of the Cowher home AFCCG losses into one massive gut punch. We could have 2 or 3 more rings. On a side note, can you imagine if that Colts guy had come down with that hail mary in 95?
SB vs Packers without question ..My brother in law is a HUGE packer fan and he brings it up every time we see one another
we go to his place and he always asks if I wanna watch his CD of it ....
one of these days I am going to take it and snap it in half and say sure if you think it will still play LOL
Kenny Pickett is who I though he was .. Eagles didn't value him either , now he is a Stain at the Mistake by the Lake 3 teams in 4 years more of a shooting star than a superstar
Losing to Oakland in the 76 AFC championship game, a game we would have never lost with a healthy backfield.
The offense was peaking, the defense was dominating.
The three-peat was there for the taking.
1994 AFC championship game loss at home to the chargers.
Another game we had no business losing.
Last weeks loss to the Packers and that one is going to haunt me for years.
I've yet to see a highlight from the Superbowl against GB. The Steelers should've won.
The Mendenhall fumble will always be stuck into my memory.
The game alone has to be SuperBowl XXX. (see: my comments in the “My most hated Steeler” thread.)
But, living in San Diego, I saw replay after replay after replay of the 1994 AFCCG. Chargers fans have had NOTHING else to brag about, and so, they have talked about that game for decades (literally... decades!!!).
Super Bowl loss to the Packers, so many missed opportunities and what-ifs in that game, it was unreal. Thanks a lot Fumblehall
Also the Jags loss stings. First of all it represented a missed opportunity. 10 pro bowlers in the weakest either conference had been in over a decade, a conference where there were legitimately 2 above average teams other than the Steelers (one which had a crappy QB, the other a crappy defense). That team should have went to the Super Bowl that year, but instead goes 1 and done because Keith Butler can't run a defense, Todd Haley can't call plays, and Mike Tomlin allows for a toxic culture in a locker room that allows for excessive locker room drama and looking ahead to other opponents. Add to that it led to a lot of crap-talk from a bunch of classless punks and their hick fanbase (90% of which are transplants from the seahag fanbase)
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super bowl 30 hands down
For those i love i will sacrifice.
Si ventus non est, remiga
Superbowl 30.
Though, we did get the memory of Woodson breaking up a pass and pointing to his knee! That was classic.
Most gut-wrenching personally was 2004. I loved that team and that season. Of course, it was the fucking Patriots again.
Patriots and Jaguars last year was pretty bad, but at the same time. If the Steelers were really as good as they were last year (and they weren't), they would've clobbered them both. Instead they found a way to lose to the Patriots (again), and were thoroughly outclassed by Jacksonville. Cue long offseason of embarrassment.
Yeah, that blocked FG for a TD was a tough game to watch.
The other for me is the Titans when Joe Nedney got a 2nd chance to kick the game winning FG on a bogus penalty call.
or David Garrard of the Jaguars jogging into the end zone as James Harrison is tackled around the throat and held right in front of the play. Losing playoff games due to mistakes being made on key plays of games is painful.
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Another game I have blacked out of my memory.
Every post-season loss with Kordell as the QB.
Edit: I wouldn't say gut wrenching. I fully expected the Steelers to lose with Kordell as the QB.
Hater = Realist
Dallas Super Bowl for sure. It had been such a long time, and that Defense deserved a ring!
However, a fairly meaningless game in 2001 at Cincinnati is the worst loss for which I was in attendance. Cowher blows a 13pt lead in the 4th to John Kitna?
Just about everything mentioned brought back some real bad tastes.... but one that still stings bad is being TEBOW'd without a doubt.
What I remember most vividly from that one was Plexiglass' postgame pout fest in the locker room about "not gettin' enough touches" after alligator-arming a sure TD pass.
And then to top it off, he dissed the entire city of Pittsburgh as "racist" the following summer after he had left in free agency for the Giants (a claim which Hines Ward even took time out during his own contract holdout to call out as bullshit).
Needless to say, I was PISSED when the team re-signed him later.
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Last year's "loss" to the Patriots because once again they get the call their way. I don't mind losing fair and square. I cannot stand losing in that way. 14-2!
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SB XXX -- just thinking about it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.....
And...... I live in Green Bay - - - we should have a ring for SB XLIII I still get ragged for that one.... But, I do hold my own pretty well......
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