Dec. 22, 2009 - Big Ben, Steelers beat Packers 37-36 on final play
PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisberger ended the game the way he
started it by throwing a touchdown pass to Mike Wallace, a desperation 19-yarder
on the final play that ED
Hardy Belts rallied Pittsburgh to a 37-36 victory over Green Bay on
Sunday, ending the Packers' five-game winning streak and the Steelers' five-game
losing streak.
The Packers (9-5) stalled in their playoff run as they
couldn't hold leads of 28-27 and 36-30 in a frantic fourth quarter that was
much like Oakland's 27-23 win in Pittsburgh two weeks ago,
when the lead changed hand five times in the final nine minutes. Green Bay could have secured a playoff spot with its first
win in Pittsburgh
since 1970 and a Giants loss or tie on Monday night.
Roethlisberger went 29 of 46 with three TDs and 503 yards
while becoming the first Steelers quarterback to throw for 500 yards in a game.
He kept the Steelers' decisive 86-yard drive going by finding Santonio Holmes
for 32 yards on a fourth-and-7 play and Heath Miller for 30 on third-and-15.
Down to his last play of the game, Roethlisberger found
Wallace open in the left front corner of the end zone with Josh Bell in
coverage. Wallace managed to get both feet inbounds on a play upheld by replay,
and Jeff Reed — who also kicked three field goals — added the extra point.
A season after the Steelers beat San Diego in the first 11-10 game in NFL
history, they won the first 37-36 game, according to STATS, LLC.
Wallace also caught a 60-yard scoring pass on Pittsburgh's
first play of the game as Steelers (7-7) joined five other AFC teams tied at
7-7 in the chase for the AFC's last playoff spot — and just in the nick of
time.
The Packers' loss clinched the NFC North title for the
Minnesota Vikings.
The Super Bowl champion Steelers have lost five times this
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rally to win during a final quarter that featured four lead changes and a
failed Pittsburgh onside kick attempt with the Steelers ahead.
Aaron Rodgers, who finished 26 of 48 for 383 yards and
three touchdown passes and ran for another, threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to
James Jones on third-and-14 with 2:06 remaining after Pittsburgh gambled and
failed on an onside kick. But the Steelers, beaten so many times in the final
minute this season, finally found a way to win a tight one.
The Steelers outgained the Packers 537-436 in a game that
matched two of the NFL's best defenses but turned into a passing duel almost
from the start. Pittsburgh
avoided becoming the first Super Bowl champion to lose six in a row the
following season.
It was a tense and discouraging finish for Green
Bay coach Mike McCarthy, a Pittsburgh
native who couldn't deliver the Packers' first victory in his hometown since
shortly after the Vince Lombardi era ended. The Packers are 0-4 since last
winning there in 1970.
The Packers trailed 7-0, 14-7, 21-14 and 27-21 as
Roethlisberger also threw a 10-yard scoring pass to Mewelde Moore late in the
second quarter that made it 21-14. But the Packers went ahead for the first
time at 28-27 on Ryan Grant's 24-yard touchdown run halfway through the fourth
quarter. Before that, Rodgers hit Greg Jennings on an 83-yard TD pass that tied
it at 7 and scooted through the Steelers' surprised defense on a 14-yard TD run
that made it ED
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Pittsburgh later retook the lead on Reed's 43-yard field goal, his third of
the game, with 3:58 remaining, but Steelers coach Mike Tomlin — aggressively
trying to shake his team out of a slide that was ruining their season — called
for an onside kick. If the Steelers recovered, it might have allowed them to
burn significant clock time.
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