The Situation: Steelers had just kicked a field goal to take a 30-28 lead over the Packers, in Green Bay, with just 3:58 remaining in the game.
Lessons In New Ways To Lose Games: The Pittsburgh Steelers
↵What Most Teams Do: kickoff.
↵What Pittsburgh Did: attempted an on-side kick.
↵Result: not good.
↵If the Steelers had recovered, the public backlash surely would have been quieter. But they didn’t recover -- instead, someone on Pittsburgh touched the ball before it went 10 yards, Packers took over, marched down the (short) field and scored a touchdown.
↵New Situation: Steelers down 36-30 with under a minute to go. Congratulations, Mike Tomlin, you all but secured your team’s sixth consecutive loss.
↵UPDATE: Ignore me. Ben Roethlisberger just led the Steelers on a game-winning drive, throwing a 19-yard touchdown with no time left on the clock to Mike Wallace, who made amazing catch and somehow kept both feet in bounds. (But I still think the onside kick was dumb.)
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