Plays of the Year: The Immaculate Extension

Steel City Underground presents “Plays of the Year” featuring the tops runs, catches, hits and everything else in-between for the Steelers 2016 season.

Week 16. The AFC North division title was on the line on Christmas Day, between the Pittsburgh Steelers and their hated rival the Baltimore Ravens.

Baltimore had just regained the lead, up three points with a 27-24 edge following a 75-yard drive which ate up nearly six minutes on the clock. The Steelers would get a chance to answer, but with only 1:18 remaining in the game, and 75 yards of their own to march.

Ben Roethsliberger starts the drive by completing not one, not two, not three, but eight consecutive passes, before his first incompletion: a spike to stop the clock with 14 seconds left.

Fourteen do-or-die seconds to determine who would win the division, and go on to the postseason; and who would lose, and languish at home within a week.

Lining up on Baltimore’s 4-yard line, what would happen next will now forever be known in Steelers history as “The Immaculate Extension”.