‘Monday Night Football’ schedule and results: Steelers score last-second TD to beat Chargers

The NFL has released a statement admitting that San Diego’s clock operator made an error Monday night, one which cost the Steelers 18 seconds late in the game.

The statement doesn’t assign all the blame to the game’s clock operator either.

The NFL acknowledged the error Tuesday afternoon.

After the Chargers kicked a late field goal to go up 20-17, they booted the ensuing kickoff into the end zone for a touchback with 2:56 remaining. No time should have run off the clock as a result, but when the Steelers took the first snap of their drive there was 2:38 left on the game clock. The NFL even noted the error in their official play-by-play.

The Steelers found themselves inches from a game-winning touchdown down 20-17 to the Chargers with five seconds left and a timeout. They had one play for the win, and had to hope it didn’t take more than five seconds. They wouldn’t go with anything crazy, right?

NOPE, THEY DID SOMETHING CRAZY. AND IT WORKED:

The stat of the night might have been both teams’ combined 6-of-25 performance on third downs up until that drive (the Steelers were 2-of-11). This game was not well-suited for spectators ... until late in the third quarter.

The Chargers responded with a sober field goal drive that put the pressure back on Vick to produce. Surprisingly, given how the rest of the game played out, he did.

You ever have one of those days? One of those, “Yeah I’m not really feeling it I’m just going to go through the motions and then go home” days?

That’s backup offensive lineman Trevor Robinson giving negative craps about stopping an interception return. We feel you, Trevor, running sucks.

DeAngelo Williams dyed his hair pink last season to honor his mother, Sandra, who passed away from breast cancer in 2010. Williams wrote about why the color pink was important to him in a story for MMQB, and even inspired Madden NFL 16 to include his pink-tinged dreads in the latest version of the game.

There may be no sane person in the world who wouldn’t be touched by Williams’ gesture. And yet, when he asked the NFL if he could wear pink throughout the 2015 season, he wasn’t “able to do that,” according to Lisa Salters on ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast.

Let’s take a more in-depth look into a key early-season showdown for both teams.

But even if San Diego’s line does struggle in pass coverage against a Steelers front that had five sacks and 10 quarterback hurries a week ago, Rivers should be just fine. He’s completed a league-high 69 percent of his passes while under pressure, and if you factor out throwaways and drops, that number jumps to an insane 86.5 percent.