The Pittsburgh Steelers were fortunate to clinch a playoff ... The last team to do it before the Steelers was the Detroit Lions in 1999. In case you were wondering, those 1999 Lions team finished ...

were the only two teams to finish with worse records than Pittsburgh. The back-to-back seasons of 1998 and 1999 landed the Steelers into a type of football purgatory. Their hopes were on improving ...

Cowher wasn't smiling in 1999 when the Browns were in Pittsburgh a few months after the Hall of Fame Game. Dawson made another game-ending field goal, and the Browns beat Cowher's Steelers 16-15.

The Pittsburgh Steelers' loss to the Cincinnati Bengals ... with the last one coming in 1999 with the Detroit Lions. Detroit lost in the Wild Card Round that year. The other was the 1986 New ...