Comments on: Three More Yards: 1994 AFC Title Game Still Draws Bitter Memories

By: boltBacker

boltBacker — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:47:44 +0000

I hate thinking about that game, because ever time I do i start laughing and can’t stop. Steelers had a great defense, but the Chargers were a decently rounded team that could run the ball and stop the run. Steelers had no business winning that day, otherwise they would have won. Right?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:47:50 +0000

Harm:
Ask anybody outside of Steelernation who would’ve won a Steelers-49ers SB that year.

Nobody, but nobody, would have beaten the ’49ers that day. Nobody. Steve Young and Co. were at the top of their game and they had one mission–exorcise the ghost of Joe Montana.

You guys should thank the Chargers for winning that AFC Championship and saving the Steelers the embarrassment.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:43:49 +0000

That’s what happens when fans get overconfident and the media plays it up. Nobody, but nobody, should ever disrespect a team like people did the Chargers that day. Why else could you ‘hear nothing but the Chargers celebrating’ after Dennis Gibson knocked down that pass?

That was the problem. Nobody gave the Chargers a chance and, voila, the “impossible” happens.

The Chargers did the same thing to the Patriots back in ’06. The Chargers were clearly the best team in football that year and had the same sort of hype the Steelers did in ’94, yet oops. They got too cocky. They had a media bandwagon ready to drive to the SB and, well, the rest in history.

Moral o’ the story? Any given Sunday.

By: Harm

Harm — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:29:16 +0000

I was there and remember it well. It was the most surreal moment I ever experienced at a live sporting event. After the incomplete pass at the goal line, the only sound you heard in Three Rivers was the Charger bench, just yelling and screaming, on there way to the Super Bowl. I do believe, had those Steelers won that day, they would have shut down Steve Young and the 49ers who demolished the Chargers. I guess we’ll never know.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:51:49 +0000

Matt, you are conjuring up some of the most painful minutes I have ever endured as a Steeler fanatic. I remember vividly that 1982 game wich the Steelers had an early lead in. I had visions of the Steelers playing in another Super Bowl with Terry,John Stallworth, Franco,Lambert..etc..instead it was an aweful loss! Looking ahead, I felt even stronger about a Super Bowl in 1994-95. The Chargers had no business winning that game. Easily the most heart breaking loss I ever felt and I go back over 35 years!I rememeber the Friday before the Steeler-Charger game the host of that weekends Saturday Night Live( I forget who it was) told the tv audience “there are 2 things you can be sure of, one, I am hosting S.N.L and the other is bet your house tomorrow on the Pitssburgh Steelers” My Future father in-law told me “no-problem today” and he is NOT a Steeler fan. I was physically ill at 4p.m that afternoon. How I went to work the next day is a minor miracle.
Thanks a lot Matt, for bringing those memories up. LOL. “3 more yards” our mantra the following year!! How is this for coincidence, in the 4th Qrtr. the following year against the Colts, the Steelers needed “3 more yards” on the 4th down the play before O’donnell hit Mills with that bomb! I think people might forget that.