Following each game in the 2021 Steelers season, I will be highlighting the play or event in the game that is the turning point. These aren’t meant to be anything Earth-shattering, but meant to take a deeper look at how we arrived at the outcome of the game that may be hard to see during the first live watch.
The Monday Night Football game at Heinz Field for Ben Roethlisberger’s last game in Pittsburgh was everything one could have dreamt up theatrically. With the pregame of him jogging out of the tunnel one last time to the twirls of 63,000+ terrible towels to the final shot on ESPN of him walking down the tunnel post-game with his family by his side like the final scene of an Academy Award-winning movie.