(10-09-2017, 05:08 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: I really miss the days of the Jags/Steelers annual meetups. Man those were fun times. And though I didn't get to watch the game I followed here on the gameday thread and was excited to read how well our D was doing. I especially liked the comment of how the Steelers fans had their towels to cry into. Hahaha.

I am hoping this Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde business will stop and Mr Hyde comes out and whips everyone's butts from here on out.

Thank you for the great write up and analogy!

Yeah, I miss those times, too.   I remember when we got the team, and one of the reasons I was so excited was because we would be able to see these storied franchises like the Steelers here in our stadium.   To me, playing the Steelers was always an event that went way beyond season records.

I remember back in 1995 when we hosted the Steelers for the first time, and we hung on to beat them.   I vividly remember very late in the game, the Steelers were driving for what would have been the winning score, and Neil O-Donnell floated this pass down field, the ball hanging in the air for what seemed like forever, and at the very last second, Harry Colon got a hand on it and broke it up.  

It was a wild scene leaving the stadium.  The fans were chanting "Super Bowl!  Super Bowl!"   We were 3-5 or something like that.  We wound up 4-12.   Those were great times.  We were young and naive and not yet scarred by years of failure.   If we won a game, the endorphins flowed for a week.

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