The Steelers will host their first playoff game on a Monday night when the Houston Texans come to Acrisure Stadium for a Wild Card round playoff game.

It will be the eighth Wild Card round game in Pittsburgh, and the Steelers hope it ranks with the following three games as one of the more memorable in team history.

Here they are, in chronological order:

December 29, 1996 -- Steelers 42, Indianapolis Colts 14

The previous meeting with the Colts was the AFC Championship Game a season prior, in which the Steelers' Randy Fuller brushed away a potential "Hail Mary" completion in the final seconds to send the Steelers to the Super Bowl.

But quarterback Neil O'Donnell left Bill Cowher with a three-man competition for the starting job in 1996. Jim Miller won, and started the opening-day loss, but Mike Tomczak stepped in and guided the Steelers to 9 wins in his first 11 games.

The Steelers entered the playoffs 10-6 against the 9-7 wild card Colts led by quarterback Jim Harbaugh and running back Marshall Faulk.

The Steelers were determined not to let this season's playoff game against the Colts go to the wire by jumping out to a 13-0 lead, courtesy of two Norm Johnson field goals and a 1-yard touchdown run by "Slash," quarterback Kordell Stewart.

But the Colts rallied to take a 14-13 lead on a 59-yard interception return for a touchdown by Eugene Daniel and Harbaugh's 9-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Bailey in the final seconds of the half.

The second half was all Steelers. Jerome Bettis – who would finish with 102 yards rushing – scored on a pair of 1-yard touchdowns, followed by fullback Jon Witman's 31-yard touchdown bolt with 7:29 left to give the Steelers an insurmountable 35-14 lead. Stewart added a late touchdown on a 3-yard run around right end to complete the win.

Chad Brown paced the defensive effort with 3 sacks while Levon Kirkland had an interception.

January 5, 2003 – Steelers 36, Cleveland Browns 33

Quarterback Kelly Holcomb followed new Browns offensive coordinator Bruce Arians to Cleveland and was named the starter in 2002. Injured in Week 2, Holcomb was replaced by Tim Couch, who guided the Browns to a 9-7 finish, which included a pair of 3-point losses to the division-champion Steelers.

But Couch broke his fibula in the regular-season finale and was replaced once again by Holcomb for this playoff game. And the Browns had a potent offense.

In Holcomb's fourth career start, he passed for 447 yards and guided the Browns to 33 points.

But it wasn't enough against the Steelers, who rallied from a 24-7 third-quarter deficit thanks to the hot passing of Tommy Maddox.

Maddox completed 22 of his final 30 passes for 233 yards and touchdown passes to Plaxico Burress, Jerame Tuman, and Hines Ward.

After the 5-yard touchdown by Ward, the Steelers still trailed 33-28, and the Browns had a chance to ice the game. But a third-and-12 drop by Dennis Northcutt with 2:42 remaining forced a punt and Maddox got the ball back. He threw 10 yards to Ward, 17 to Burress, and 7 more to Ward to set up Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala's 3-yard touchdown run. Antwaan Randle El's conversion pass to Tuman gave the Steelers a three-point lead as the Browns took possession with 54 seconds left.

Holcomb guided the Browns into Steelers territory with 0:08 remaining, but Andra King was tackled by Deshea Townsend and Brett Alexander at the Pittsburgh 29 as time expired.

January 8, 2017 – Steelers 30, Miami Dolphins 12

The Dolphins started the season 1-4 but began a six-game winning streak by beating the Steelers 30-15 in Miami. The Dolphins finished on a 9-2 run to grab second place in the AFC East.

The Steelers won their final seven games to finish 11-5 and finish first in the AFC North.

In the playoffs, the Dolphins were without starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who tore his ACL three weeks earlier and was replaced by 32-year-old veteran Matt Moore – who never had a chance against the Steelers.

Ben Roethlisberger didn't waste any time getting the offense rolling. On the game's first series, he threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Antonio Brown, and on the Steelers' second possession Roethlisberger threw a short pass to Brown, who turned it into a 62-yard touchdown and 14-0 Steelers lead.

The Dolphins responded with a field goal, but running back Le'Veon Bell carried on all nine plays of the ensuing 83-yard drive, which he ended with Bell's 1-yard plunge into the end zone to give the Steelers a 20-3 lead.

The Dolphins added another field goal to cut the halftime deficit to 20-6, but the Steelers' Mike Mitchell opened the second half with a strip sack of Moore on a safety blitz. L.T. Walton recovered to set up a Chris Boswell field goal.

The next Dolphins play was intercepted by Ryan Shazier, and the turnover set up Bell's 8-yard touchdown run to put the game away at 30-6.

All that remained was a late Dolphins touchdown to set the final score.

Roethlisberger had a 105.3 passer rating, Bell gained 167 yards on the ground, and Brown gained 124 through the air.

The linebackers led the defense. Lawrence Timmons and James Harrison combined for 3.5 sacks, Shazier had an interception, and Bud Dupree laid out Moore with one of the most physical and memorable quarterback hits in Steelers playoff history.