Game 4 and the Infamous 5 on 3

As a sports fan, there are certain moments that are etched in your brain for all time. If you're lucky, more of them are glorious than infamous. In honor the Penguins' woeful 5 on 3 power play late in their Game 4 loss in the Stanley Cup finals, here are the most crushing moments that stick out to me in my twenty-five or so years of rooting for the Pittsburgh sports franchises:

-1985 AFC Conference Championship - based on that fact that I was eight years old, I don't remember much about the game, but I distinctly remember this game being the first time I felt the letdown of a big lose.
-1992 NLCS, Game 7 - Stan Belinda, Barry Bonds, and Francisco Cabrera are usually discussed in reference to this game, but the play that sticks out for me was Jose "Chico" Lind booting an easy ground ball with no outs in the bottom of the 9th. Jim Leyland proceeds to pull Doug Drabek, giving way to Belinda and history. I will go to my grave contending that Drabek would have finished the game and the Pirates would have won the World Series if the usually reliable Lind does not boot that ball.
-1993 Patrick Division Finals, Game 7 - I walked around in a daze for weeks after Ray Ferraro found Dave Volek in OT to end the dream of a Pens three-peat. That 1993 team was by far the best of the 1990's dynasty, but it could not overcome the fatigue of their record season-ending streak.
-1995 AFC Conference Championship - the sight of Alfred Pupunu streaking past Tim McKyer still haunts my dreams.
-Super Bowl XXX (1996) - it's funny, the moment that stands out for me in this game Levon Kirkland's huge sack on 3rd down to take the Cowboys out of field goal range late in the fourth quarter. That play should have set up the Steelers to run the ball right down the 'Boys throats (Bam Morris was fantastic in the 2nd half) for a four minute drive to seal the victory. Instead, Bill Cowher and Ron Erhardt decide to get cute and go five wide, thus Neil O'Donnell's place in Pittsburgh sports infamy.
-1998 AFC Conference Championship - the sight of Bill Romanowski mocking Kordell Stewart after his end zone interception right before halftime always brings back that nauseous feeling.
-2000 Eastern Conference Finals, Game 4 - Keith Primeau, five overtimes, enough said.
-2002 AFC Conference Championship - Stewart usually gets the lion's share of the ridicule for this game, and rightfully so, but if Troy "the Bust" Edwards doesn't run out of bounds on Josh Miller's 70+ yard punt, the Steelers face the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.
-2005 AFC Conference Championship - sensing a painful trend? Ugh. Two moments stand out from this horror show. First, watching Rodney Harrison very…slowly…return a Ben Roethlisberger interception 87 yards for a touchdown was a kick in the shin. Second, the one guy that perpetually drove me insane during his career, Plaxico Burress, drops a gimme touchdown to pull within seven in the fourth quarter. Fitting ending to his Steeler career.

Shockingly, there is only one Pirates moment here…