Rewind: Colts-Steelers ’95 AFC Title with Sigmund Bloom - Remember That Game

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4.8 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Originally aired May 2024. Pittsburgh native Sigmund Bloom (Footballguys) joins host Thomas Emerick for another mid-'90s thriller. Sigmund hosts On The Couch and this episode is in part, psyche. The Steelers lost the previous year’s AFC title on the goal line, as big home favorites. Now they face down the same fate with the Cardiac Colts venturing to Three Rivers as massive underdogs. I’m your host Thomas Emerick and my guest is Sigmund Bloom, Footballguys co-founder and podcast luminary with shows The Audible and On The Couch that are key inspirations for the inception of this show. This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey and chart the path of the zeitgeist. I'm your host Thomas Emerick, enjoy the show. Follow Remember That Game for the full archive: Apple Spotify YouTube "Remember That Game" in search wherever you get your podcasts More from Sigmund Bloom: On The Couch with Sigmund Bloom (YouTube) Footballguys The Audible (YouTube) Sigmund Bloom on a previous episode of Remember That Game: Steelers-Chiefs '93 Wild Card Apple | Spotify More from the Indianapolis Colts at Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1995 AFC title: Box Score: Pittsburgh Steelers 20, Indianapolis Colts 16 (Pro Football Reference) Kordell Stewart, Floyd Turner, and Bam Morris hit paydirt Tony Siragusa forces and early pick Neil O'Donnell finds Ernie Mills to set up the go-ahead on goal line NFL Films hour on the game: Interviews with Bill Cowher, Greg Lloyd, Jim Harbaugh, and more (YouTube) Final play of the game: Harbaugh's throw descends into a crowded end zone (YouTube) NBC intro package: O'Donnell, Cowher, and 4th and 3 (YouTube) HOST RotoViz Contributor Thomas Emerick (@ThomasEmerick) Guest Footballguys co-owner and podcaster Sigmund Bloom (@SigmundBloom) SPONSORS BetterHelp - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZ and get on your way to being your best self. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up at Underdogfantasy.com using this link or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2024" at the time of purchase. Gametime - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code ROTOVIZ for $20 off your first purchase. SHOW NOTES RotoViz Radio provides the power for Remember That Game: Subscribe to the RotoViz Radio on YouTube Direct message: @ThomasEmerick Email: emericktc@gmail.com Subscribe: Remember That Game on YouTube Follow: Apple and Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	a nightmare coming into reality and then it flashes out of you and you see the ref waving it off as an incomplete pass and it's just that rush
0:12.0	it's January 1996 cold set Steelers this is remember that game the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey, and maybe chart the path of the zeitgeist.
0:26.6	I'm your host Thomas Emmerich, and returning to the program is Sigmund Blume, Football Guys' co-founder and podcast Luminary.
0:34.6	His show on the couch, which I've been listening to for 12 odd years, is one of the influences this show wears on its sleeve.
0:41.7	And this episode is in part psyche.
0:45.1	Steelers lose the previous year's AFC title on the goal line as big home favorites.
0:50.3	Now you're back facing down the same fate.
0:53.1	Hopefully not, though.
0:56.2	How you doing, Sig? Three decades later and what was it like waiting a year to knock down that door yeah thanks for having me back
1:02.3	thomas it's great to get to speak as part of the steelers nation or pittsburgh sports born in
1:09.0	1975 so i can just remember in very faint colors, the end of the Super Bowl era, the Chuck
1:21.3	in old era, and you lived through the 80s.
1:24.3	There was a few death throws, like losing to the Damarino dolphins and how that's tied up with Pittsburgh and that story.
1:33.5	And then we were going through the desert, you know, Bubby Brister, Mark Malone, these were some of the quarterbacks.
1:40.5	You had Rod Woodson, you had Louis Lips, you had some players that certainly we enjoyed.
1:48.4	You had some spoiler role kind of games.
1:52.4	Of course, winning in the playoffs, almost beating Denver, I think it was 1989.
1:58.8	But really, only when Bill Cowher, a real Pittsburgher, became the head coach of the team, was
2:05.7	there some sense of a return to glory.
2:09.8	And even before the loss to the Chargers, the first time the Steelers made the playoffs,
2:14.1	they had a home game in the divisional round and just got thumped by the bills. I mean, the bills just humbled them. Uh, and of course, there was the loss
2:22.2	to the Joe Montana chiefs. And so disappointment was a motif of the Bill Cowher Steelers in the
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