The Pittsburgh Steelers are going to their NFL record-tying eighth Super Bowl.
Jets QB Mark Sanchez threw for 233 yards and two touchdowns as New York scored 19 unanswered points but ran out of time in its effort to come back.
With a victory, the Steelers will up their record number of Super Bowl titles to seven.
The New York Jets couldn’t run the ball. The Steelers will seek their seventh Super Bowl title — and third in the last six years — when they meet the Packers in Super Bowl XLV on Feb. 6 in Dallas. The Steelers prevailed largely because the defense suffocated the Jets for most of the game, and also because they peppered the New York defense with a running game led by Rashard Mendenhall (27 carries for 121 yards
