Product Description

Nothing is easy when the season is on the line. Four times during the 2008 season, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ fate “season” repeats; change to “fate”?hung in the balance. Each time they withstood the challenge. The result: insert colontheir NFL-record sixth Vince Lombardi Trophy. It was a team that displayed classic Pittsburgh toughness. From quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to a punishing defense led by Troy Polamalu and 2008 Defensive Player of the Year James Harrison, the Steelers battled for every yard from the first snap to the final whistle. Now, in this unforgettable four-disc set, relive the Steelers remarkable championship run with the original network broadcasts of four thrilling games. Follow Pittsburgh from their exciting Week-15 clash against Baltimore – the game that decided the AFC North title – through their playoff victories over San Diego and Baltimore again, to their breathtaking victory over Arizona in Super Bowl XLIII. Over these four games, the Pittsburgh Steelers became super once again. Now, those games are yours to own on DVD. Disc 1: Week 15 – Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens Disc 2: AFC Divisional Playoffs – San Diego Chargers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers Disc 3: AFC Championship Game – Baltimore Ravens vs. Pittsburgh Steelers Disc 4: Super Bowl XLIII – Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13374 in DVD
• Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
• Released on: 2009-06-02
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 448 minutes

Features

• Nothing is easy when the season is on the line.Four times during the 2008 season, the Pittsburgh Steelers? fate ?season? repeats; change to ?fate??hung in the balance. Each time they withstood the challenge. The result: insert colontheir NFL-record sixth Vince Lombardi Trophy.It was a team that displayedic Pittsburgh toughness. From quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to a punishing defense led by Troy

Customer Reviews

Pittsburgh Steelers Road to XLIII DVD
As a long time Steeler fan, and an owner of the Road to XL dvd set, I was looking forward to getting this set. The quality of the dvd's is great. The video and sound is fantastic. If all you want is the same old, tired commentary of Al Micheals and John Madden, then by all means, buy this set. However, if you have a dvd recorder, you could have done just as well, except for editing of commercials, of course, but I kinda like them
If, however, you are like me, and were looking forward to hearing the Steelers radio announcers, as in the Road to XL set, you will be VERY DISAPPOINTED, as I am. While the quality, as I said earlier, is great, the decision to include NO BONUS MATERIAL...NONE!!!, is a MAJOR disappointment. If you didn't record the games, these are worth having, if you did record them, save your money.
I hope the NFL corrects this mistake soon and releases another set of discs soon. I am sending them a request, and my opinion of this set, tonight.

not as good
I'm disappointed with this "Super Bowl XLIII" DVD set. Sure, it contains four football games as advertised, but that's about all the good I can say about it. In almost every way this set is inferior to the "Pittsburgh Steelers - Road to Super Bowl XL (Post-Season Collector's Edition)" DVD box set.

The video quality is quite similar and almost exact. However, the video presentation seems quite rushed on the XLIII set, as if the on-field action was cut even shorter than the XL set. (The DVD menus are "flashier" this time around, although you look at them for about three seconds.)

The XLIII audio track features the inferior television commentary as opposed to the superior radio commentary used for the XL set. The XLIII set also uses an audio track that seems to have been mixed in a studio with a four-year-old child constantly pushing buttons. The audio track is very uneven and distractingly so. (The crowd noise keeps rising and falling although nothing is happening on-screen and it occurs too often to be replays on the "Jumbotron".) BOTH sets, XL and XLIII, feature English-only subtitles. (But considering the target audience, I'm not surprised.)

The XLIII set is without any extras. NO extras. None. Zilch. Zip. Nada. This is a major disappointment. The XL set had one documentary per disc.

The packaging is different and less eco-friendly. However, I personally prefer the hard plastic XLIII packaging to the cardboard XL packaging for long-lasting presentation.

Here's the short version:

Super Bowl XL (40) set
VIDEO - DVD
AUDIO - Radio commentary
EXTRA - One documentary per disc
PACKG - Cardboard

Super Bowl XLIII (43) set
VIDEO - DVD
AUDIO - TV commentary
EXTRA - None
PACKG - Plastic

While I believe that the video quality of the XLIII set "MAY" be better due to the fact that a Blu-Ray version was produced, it's imperceptible on DVD. I also believe the extras were cut to make room on the discs for this imaginary "improved video quality". The audio commentary difference is one purely of preference and is obviously inferior to me. The omitted extras are a disappointment.

Aside from having four more football games on DVD, this set is almost a WASTE OF MONEY. (A DVR-version would be better, at least then I'd have the commercials.) The XL set is far superior. Buy that. (Pittsburgh Steelers - Road to Super Bowl XL (Post-Season Collector's Edition))

Road To Near Perfection...A Must for Steeler-Nation
I am a diehard Steelers fan through and through. For any Steeler fan this is a must have to your collection of Steeler DVDs. I went to the Steelers Sideline Stores which have it priced the same as Amazon for it. The DVD consists of....

Week 15 vs. Baltimore - Steelers clinch division
AFC Divisional Playoff - vs. San Diego
AFC Championship Playoff - vs. Baltimore
Super Bowl XLIII - vs. Arizona

This collection is a near perfect collection...what I don't like is

*You have 2/3 of the classic matchups with Baltimore this past season. EACH game was a classic. Why did they omit the Monday Night thriller against Baltimore? This series has done this before. For the Giants Road to XLII DVD which I have they added the Week 17 loss to the Patriots and the 4 playoff games so the 5th disc has happened and I would have added that game

*You have minor hesistations in the presentation of the Super Bowl and some minor skips in the other games but they are not big enough to complain about but you will notice them (esp. SB XLIII) but it should not disappoint

*There are no special features...which is terrible...what I loved about the Road to XL DVD was the featurettes about the Steelers, the Giants Road to XLII DVD for the Super Bowl had an option of Michael Strahan doing his commentary on the game..there are no Special Features on this DVD

What I like about this....

*Those Steeler fans that bought Road to XL remember the Steelers Radio Team of Bill Hillgrove, Tunch Ilkin, and Craig Wofley do the play by play well its not the case, you get the TV annoucers so you get John Madden's last game as an analyst, historic there. NFL Films started this with the Colts Road to XLI dvd

*These are the actual games...not NFL Films cutting material or NFL Films tapes like the "Road to XXXIX - Patriots"

Overall - If you love the Steelers, if you love football, if you love John Madden this is an absolute must and for $25 - $30 you get to relive in my eyes 2 great games with the Week 15 Baltimore and Super Bowl, and two ok games in the AFC Championship (which you can relive the Troy Polamalu touchdown return) and San Diego game.