Which was the Steelers biggest post-season upset loss?

We were the better team but lost in OT on a horrible call by the refs.

 

...in football purgatory.

 

Worst loss to me was the 01 AFCC loss to the Patriots.

Favorites at home. Everyone wanted to see the Big Nasty D vs the Greatest Show on Turf. Everything went wrong and instead of going to the Super Bowl, that game started the Pats dynasty and ended the Kordell Stewart era.

That was the sickest I have ever been after a game. Sherrill Crow sang at Heinz Field during halftime and got boed. Everytime I hear one of her songs I think about that game.

 

It certainly would have increased their chance by having those two available.

 

What a joke. These games were absolutely NOTHING compared to the loss to the San Diego Chargers in the '94 season AFC Championship.

Edit: We lost to Jacksonville TWICE at home in the playoffs... everybody forgets '07 wildcard plus of course to Bortles 10 years later in '17.

 

There must be a lot of Millennial and GenZ members here who were too young to remember this. Obviously.

 

There are a lot of em buggers it’s like an infestation

 

Many mentioned brought back horrid feelings, but just scrolling through YT and seeing a 'reel' of the80 yard TDpass from Tebow on the first play in OT. That was gut wrenching.

 

The Chargers loss, the Tebow loss and the Superbowl loss to the Packers are my 3 biggest disappointments.

 

The loss to Jax with Bortals still stings when we had the full 5 Killer B’s.

I’ll admit the Chargers was such a bummer even though it was a long time ago, but I’m still mad about the the loss to the Cheatriots in 2001 when we were top AFC seed. I’ve convinced myself that they were Spying even back then despite what people say about our QB then. Kordell was playing very well that season and we went into that game looking as good as anyone and better than the cheats who shouldn’t have even been there except for the dumb Tuck rule debacle.

Their defense was so ahead of our plays that they had to know what was coming; it was like watching a different offense. The pats weren’t peaking in their play, they were peeking at our plays.

 

yup, before Tim Tebow there was Stan Humphreys. We were not supposed to lose that game. As a Steelers fan watching Nolls teams take care of business (when they were good) this kind of upset was a new phenomenon

 

That one stings more than '94 against the Chargers mostly because I thought that '01 team had a better shot at winning the Super Bowl. I'm not sure anybody was beating that 49ers team that obliterated the Chargers.

 

I remember 07 against Gerrard.

There was something that Jax had since the brief era that we shared the division with them where if you won’t say that they had our number then you’d have to admit that they ALWAYS gave us fits. I knew we were joking to lose that one.

But the one in 17 was inexcusable. They already stunned us early in the season when they weren’t taken as seriously as they should have been. Typical Tomlin team playing 30 minutes of football, coming out slow limping along, then rallying late and ultimately losing to a lesser team on paper.

It’s Groundhog Day in the town of Mediocrity with this coach.

 

We would have won 3 straight SB's. IMO that team was one of greatest ever in NFL. Something like a total of 28 points over 9 games by defense. Let's see that happen in today's NFL.

 

The Super Bowl win over the Cardinals, because it gave us false belief in Tomlin and now we have been stuck with him for how long?

 

The 1994 loss to the Chargers was the toughest one for me it took me weeks to get over that one.

 

I see you are now over it

 

Over?
Never over Macho nGrande.

 

Was really surprised the year we went up to NE and lost to the Patriots that first time in 96, and then of course later on when Brady came off the bench as a rookie and beat us.

 

Brady only played in one game as a rookie, and it wasn't against the Steelers. He became the starter early on in his second season when Drew Bledsoe got hurt and started the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, but he was knocked out of that game in the second quarter. Bledsoe threw a touchdown pass in the second quarter, the only offensive touchdown for the Patriots in that game.

 

The Jacksonville loss was the hardest for me to swallow. Wife made a pitcher of powerful Bloody Mary’s and we started drinking on the beach at 8 am. Went to a Steelers bar and with each painful passing moment I consumed more and more alcohol to kill the pain. Had to stumble about a mile and a half back to the condo on the 20th story overlooking the ocean while they tried to get me back down to the beach. It wasn’t happening cause I knew I wouldn’t make it back to the condo. What I knew right away coming out of the tunnel was that one team was prepared for battle and the Steelers thought all they had to do was show up. I don’t know how but I told my son that the Steelers were going to lose when I saw both teams come onto the field.

 

every loss is devastating ----playoffs or not THE PLAYOFFS-- but losing the SUPERBOWL IS WORST OF ALL.