It was a great Upset!..The steelers were underdog by 8.5 points against the 14-2 Colts.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/full-nfl-g...-NFL-Game-Pass
It was a great Upset!..The steelers were underdog by 8.5 points against the 14-2 Colts.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/full-nfl-g...-NFL-Game-Pass
I always think of this as the real Super Bowl that year, the climactic moment of the postseason run. The AFC Championship and Super Bowl that year feel more like epilogues compared to the drama of this game. Also if the Colts win this game, they would have smashed the Broncos for what would have been the 3rd year in a row in the postseason and beaten the Seawhiners by double digits
Man, the number of internet bandwagon fans talking smack before that game who had to eat shit ... that was so much fun rubbing every one of their faces in it.
We were on the verge of turning that game into a rout too, until the blown call on Polamalu's interception that was one of the worst officiating screw-ups of all time at that point. I mean, we were completely pounding their poo.
See you Space Cowboy ...
Prepare to relive the Steelers upset top-seeded Colts
Craig Wolfley
Sideline Reporter, Steelers Radio Network
On Sunday, fans will be able to watch the Steelers win over the Indianapolis Colts in the 2005 Divisional Round of the playoffs for free and in its entirety on Steelers.com and the Steelers Official Mobile App. Steelers Radio Network sideline reporter Craig Wolfley recalls that memorable game:
The crowd was roaring in wavelike continuity. The hair on the back of my neck stood straight. There was electricity in the air people, and the smell of pain was near. And this was just the pregame!
Just after the coin toss, as the noise in the building built to a ground-swelling roar, the offensive unit of the Steelers grouped on the sidelines towards the end of the bench area, in preparation to take the field after the opening kickoff.
I took my place, standing a few yards and more than a decade and a half removed from being a part of that mass of wild and wooly players, intermittently head butting each other like mountain goats. Watching them, I could feel the epic jolts of collisions past, vibrating in my bones, and I so wished to be among them, just one more time. Baby, once you've had that feeling, you never forget.
Amidst all that high octane, combustible war-whooping of the offensive brotherhood, walking casually in a stride as calm as a guy taking a stroll in South Park, Big Ben cruises down the sideline, and stops just in front of me. Pausing, then looking up into the swelling mass of humanity in the stands, it looked as if he just noticed the near hysterical masses for the first time.
Slowly a smile breaks across his face and his eyes light up like a kid at Christmas. He proceeds to start clapping his hands to the rhythm of the mayhem swirling about him, and then he breaks out an even bigger smile, as if all the roaring going on in the building were just for him.
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https://www.steelers.com/news/prepar...p-seeded-colts
They were the top two teams in the league and the steelers were way too underrated before this game because of several reasons like our seed and the bad game in Indianapolis several weeks before (the only loss of Roethlisberger on the road in his first 2 seasons!) but it was obvious that the steelers were a much better team than their record and seed (like the 15-1 record the year before) but the difference is that the steelers had their peak at the right time in 2005 and Roethlisberger was much calm in the playoffs.Originally Posted by st33lersguy
It was also very impressive to dominate the Broncos in Denver in the way that the steelers did in this game ... Historically the steelers are awful in Denver but not in this game!
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Steelers should have been 13-3 in 2005 were it not for Tommy Turnover throwing picks to lose 2 games when Ben got hurt
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