Super Bowl XLIII

…to capture their record sixth Super Bowl championship. After missing the playoffs following the 2009 regular season, Pittsburgh captured its third AFC championship in a six-year span in 2011 to earn a berth in Super Bowl XLV, a loss to the Green Bay Packers.

…a dramatic 27–23 victory in Super Bowl XLIII (2009) over the Arizona Cardinals. With 42 seconds left in the game, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger connected with receiver Santonio Holmes on a 6-yard touchdown pass to give the Steelers the lead. The 36-year-old Tomlin became the youngest coach to win a Super…

…at halftime of Super Bowl XLIII. With an average viewership of 98.7 million, the game was the most-watched televised sports event in American history up to that time. Many fans and much of the press criticized Springsteen for commercializing himself in that way, but in the aftermath it was generally…