Pittsburgh’s Forgotten Classics: Packers vs. Steelers, 1998

June 19, 2012   ·   Joshua Hayes   ·   Jump to comments

The '97 Pittsburgh Steelers narrowly missed a trip to Super Bowl XXXII during Kordell Stewart's first year behind center.  Costly miscues halted the Black and Gold's playoff march.
Instead of competing on the grandest NFL stage, the Steelers who could stomach it likely watched the game on television with the rest of us, paying witness to a grand upset when Denver quarterback John Elway and his Broncos took out the defending champion Green Bay Packers, ending a streak of 13 straight NFC victories in the big game.
Entering 1998, many Black and Gold players and fans all had the same question: Could that have been us?  Could Jerome Bettis have run over the tired and overmatched—albeit critically vaunted—Packers defensive front like Terrell Davis?
Some doubts certainly lingered.  After all, the Packers—in spite of their loss that Super Sunday—sported a Brett Favre that was not yet the mistake-prone big game bumbler that so aggravate...

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