# The 15th Annual Steelers March to the Super Bowl Thread

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 7, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-15th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/795693 "2017-09-07T00:40:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-15th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/795693/341 "2018-02-05T21:26:12Z")

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> Sweet, sweet tears.

Indeed!!! 😃

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-15th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/795693/342 "2018-02-06T00:21:52Z")

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> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> Atamasama, I know this is all in good fun, but we have a strict rule here about editing quotes within quote boxes. Quote boxes at sacred. Please do not do this again. Thank you!
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> No warning issued.

I realized afterwards, it was a dumb mistake on my part. ☹

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**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-15th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/795693/343 "2018-02-06T16:02:14Z")

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Just a little aside. LeVeon Bell had this to say: "“I feel like it was a lot of third downs Todd would maybe call something that Ben didn’t like,” Bell said. “There’s certain plays that Ben didn’t like. As a player, you’ve always got plays that you like, plays you dislike. It would be a big situation and Todd would call a play that Ben don’t necessarily like, and he tried to go out there and just execute it because the play is called.”

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"“Randy’s only kind of going to give Ben what he wants, you know, make him comfortable,” Bell said. “Because third downs, that’s the biggest thing, that was our Achilles’ heel was third downs and red zone.”

Meanwhile, The Steelers had the 2nd highest 3rd down conversion rates (44%, behind only Atlanta) and Rothlisberger had the second most passing attempts in the redzone (2nd to Brady).

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**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-15th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/795693/344 "2018-02-08T08:06:29Z")

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I stumbled across someone named “UrinatingTree” (not anywhere near as grotesque as it sounds, thankfully) whose made some wickedly funny and on-point videos about various underachieving-to-terrible sports franchises. He’s a native of Pittsburgh, so of course he’d have some pretty…strong…opinions of the Steelers. I think you’ll appreciate/sympathize with/be a tad disturbed by [his divisional playoff postmortem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyQ6Bbu8jvE).

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