Tennessee Titans' best moments: Remembering the famous 'Terrible Towel' stomp
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It’s a cursed moment. He cursed the franchise. It was the beginning of the end of one of the most memorable eras in Titans football.
I understand, Jeez. But what do you know? Shut up. It was cool and you know it.
And it is n ° 11 on the list of Tennessean of the best moments of the Titans du Tennessee.
At the end of the third quarter on December 21, 2008 at the LP Field, with a home advantage in the 2008 AFC qualifiers at stake, the Tennessee Titans followed the Pittsburgh 14-10 Steelers. But a brilliant pass by the quarterrier Kerry Collins in third and long, a touch of 21 yards mounted by Chris Johnson in the 4th and 1, an interception of Michael Griffin and a white touch of Lendale of 1 rod gave things up to give the Titans an advance of 24-14 late.
The Steelers are trying to come back late, but time is running out. QB Ben Roethlisberger brings Pittsburgh into the territory of Tennessee, but Griffin again obtains the best of Roethlisberger and intercepts a pass intended for Hines Ward, which makes it 83 yards for a reinstallation touch.
With the victory, the advantage of the Titans for the first time since 2000. It is the peak moment of one of the peak seasons in the history of the franchise, in which Collins and the offensive put more yards against the defense of the Steelers than any team that year until Super Bowl, and the defense of the Titans recorded five bags and Albert Haynesworth.
But, of course, the real memory is Bo Scaife and the second -hand winger and Keith Bulluck on the famous “terrible terrible Towel” of the Steelers after the Touché de Griffin. The mockery was not well received, and the Titans continued to lose their next eight games in the process of managing next season, including an eliminatory match against Baltimore in Nashville.
Let us not leave the circumstances that followed the moment, however. The Titans played their way to the summit of the world of football this afternoon, and the celebration felt won. Be that as it may, the titans are back to the playoffs four times since the incident. The Steelers are now on a sequence without victory in the playoffs while the Titans were in the years following the towel.
Surely say this particular The curse no longer applies to Tennessee titans. If there are others at work, it is certainly no longer the fault of this moment.
Nick Suss is the writer of Titans Beat for Tennessean. Contact Nick at nsuss@gannett.com. Follow Nick on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, @nicksuss.
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