This is a game that many of us will be talking about 20 years from now and still shaking our heads. To me, it defined the season. The 13-3 regular season was gaudy but hid cracks. Just about everyone I knew had high expectations coming into this season and coming into this playoff game.
These expectations were not baseless. After all, Pittsburgh had the “Killer B’s.” An offensive unit that set the standard at 30 points a game. That’s what we were told the standard was the year before and with the acquisition of tight end Vance McDonald and 2nd round draft pick JuJu Smith-Schuster there seemed no reason to adjust the standard that was set by the players themselves.