{"id":389042,"date":"2026-01-05T06:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389042\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:21:09","slug":"nfl-fans-react-to-steelers-use-of-holy-water-before-beating-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389042\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL fans react to Steelers’ use of holy water before beating Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> benefit from divine intervention in Week 18’s win over the Baltimore Ravens<\/a>? It’s being discussed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With two seconds left and Pittsburgh leading 26-24, Baltimore kicker Tyler Loop lined up for a 44-yard field goal. The kick missed wide right, sending the Steelers to the playoffs and the Ravens home in heartbreaking fashion<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Was it simply a missed field goal, or was there more to it? Before the game<\/a>, the Steelers had a priest bless the\u00a0Acrisure Stadium field with holy water. The holy water was sprayed in the same end zone where, hours later, Loop’s kick sailed wide right.<\/p>\n

As would be expected, this revelation drew some strong reactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Steelers blasting the end line where Tyler Loop missed his game-winning field goal with holy water pre-game confirms one thing and one thing only. God hates the Baltimore Ravens,” NFL writer\u00a0Christian D’Andrea said on X, formerly Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“A priest throws holy water on the Steelers logo and they win by the kicker missing a chipshot field goal, and people still believe God ain\u2019t real,” one fan said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Coincidence? You tell me,” the NFL Talk X account said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The holy water worked,” said Andrew Fillipponi<\/a>, an understandably excited Pittsburgh radio host.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We’ll never know exactly what caused the field goal attempt to miss. But don’t be surprised if teams hosting playoff games try this tactic. The NFL is a copycat league, after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did the Pittsburgh Steelers benefit from divine intervention in Week 18’s win over the Baltimore Ravens? It’s being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-389042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}