Week 18 · 2025–26 season
Steelers
W 26-24 vs Ravens · Jan 4, 2026
Misery Index · Uneasy
Steelers fans surviving a missed 44-yarder against Baltimore and still not sure if that win fixed anything.
The emotional rollercoaster
Fan misery across the game window. Up is worse.
What happened
T.Loop's 44-yarder sailing wide right is the only reason this card reads as a win, because the defense spent the fourth quarter getting torched by Z.Flowers on a 50-yard score and again on a 64-yard TD that flipped the game. A.Rodgers to C.Austin deep left answered, and P.Freiermuth's 31-yard catch set up the margin, but a secondary that surrenders three deep balls to L.Jackson in one half isn't a January-ready unit.
What fans said
“HOLY FUCKING SHIT HAHAHAHAHAHAO”
u/GetCPA▲ 857joy
“Thanks Dad, I love you.”
u/Problematique_▲ 675despair
“EVERYBODY GET IN HERE #FUCK THE RAVENS”
u/apittsburghoriginal▲ 688rage
“nfl kickers kill more people in america than lime disease”
u/A_Curious_Cockroach▲ 259rage
“AN INSANE GAME. The most heart pounding game of the year. The nfl cooked with this script this time!”
u/Immediate-Arrival-35▲ 139joy
“#KINGS OF SHIT MOUNTAIN BABY YESSIR”
u/bucs2013▲ 98joy
14 more
“This was NFL game of the year....god damn.”
u/Phnix21▲ 111joy
“DK better have 200 yards next week. He is personally responsible for two weeks of significant emotional distress for all of Allegheny County.”
u/Local_Improvement_54▲ 197frustration
“I squealed like a little fucking pig. That was the best football game I've seen since we won the Superbowl”
u/BlackDS▲ 35joy
“I can’t….i just can’t. I was two second from shutting off the game. We were done….its all over.”
u/American-Punk-Dragon▲ 86despair
“IT WAS MAGICAL; THE PASS TO GET THE TOUCHDOWN. RODGERS MAGICAL PLAY.”
u/funkyb▲ 58joy
“OH MY GOD WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS?!?”
u/jdpatric▲ 291frustration
“Thanks Dad. From one Steeler to another. You rest in Peace. Thanks for being one of us.”
u/Unhappy-Attention760▲ 119joy
“FUCK BALTIMORE FUCK THE RATBIRDS AND FUCK THE CLEVELAND BROWNS FOR GOOD MEASURE.”
u/BobaTeaFetish▲ 40rage
“happy you guys sent that Insufferable team packing good luck all the way”
u/sjr2018▲ 105joy
“I think I woke my whole block the way I screamed when the kick went wide”
u/SCAnalysis▲ 46joy
“I can’t think of a game my heart was racing for as long as it did then this one.”
u/SMOKE-B-BOMB▲ 74joy
“KINGS OF THE AFC NORTH!!!! And the Ravens are eliminated. I don’t care how it happened, I am happy”
u/ilovetjwatt▲ 42joy
“If the goal of football was to drop passes, MVS would be fucking Randy Moss”
u/mdmike1534▲ 24rage
“I know you all saw Rodgers shake his head no before the kick. Not a no as in why is this happening - it was a convincing no as in he communicated with an inter dimensional ayuhusca gnome and said… it will not be.”
u/Big_Tomorrow4757▲ 282sarcasm