Ben Roethlisberger and Mike Wallace set a team record for the longest touchdown pass reception (95 yards) in Steeler history, on Sunday. The touchdown helped to lead the Steelers to a 32-20 victory over the Arizona Cardinals.

"You know Mike Wallace can run by you," Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said, "but he still finds a way to do it."

Arizona Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt had studied tape of Wallace outracing one defender after another. "We knew that was coming," he said. "We did everything we could to work to prevent that."

"You put it out there for a guy like that, and you start smiling," Roethlisberger said, "because you know he is not going to get caught."

Ben Roethlisberger also connected on touchdown passes to Heath Miller and Emmanuel Sanders in the first game between the two teams since Super Bowl XLIII.

Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb also threw a pair of touchdown passes but continually missed open receivers. In the second half LaMarr Woodley's pass rush drew an intentional grounding call on Kolb. The play resulted in a safety since Kolb was in the Cardinals' end zone.

The Steelers improved to 5-2 and improved to 2-2 on the road. Shaun Suisham kicked field goals of 41, 42 and 39 yards for the Steelers. The big play from Roethlisberger to Wallace, cheered on by a crowd that included a generous and boisterous bunch of Steelers fans, came in the second quarter after an Arizona drive stalled at the Steelers 39 and Dave Zastudil's 30-yard punt pinned Pittsburgh on its 9-yard line. A false-start penalty pushed it back to the Steelers 5.On the next play,

Ben Roethlisberger dropped back into the end zone and lofted a pass down the sideline toward Mike Wallace, who had beaten cornerback Richard Marshall. Wallace caught the ball in stride and raced to the end zone for the score that made it 14-0 with 8:09 left in the half.

"Their cornerback jumped outside and let me get inside," Wallace said. "The safety was in the middle of the field, so I just threw my hand up. A play like that kind of deflates them I would hope. I hope it takes a lot of out them but they kept playing"

The previous longest pass play was 90 yards, first set by Terry Bradshaw to Mark Malone against Seattle in 1981, then matched by Bubby Brister to Dwight Stone against Denver in 1990 and Kordell Stewart to Bobby Shaw against Baltimore in 2001.

It was the second-longest play from scrimmage in Steeler history. Only Bobby Gage's 97-yard run against Chicago in 1949 was longer. Trailing 17-7 at halftime, Arizona cut the lead to 17-14 when Kolb threw short over the middle to LaRod Stephens-Howling on a 73-yard touchdown play.

"I still don't think we are there," Roethlisberger said. "I think we are getting closer. There are still some things we can do to get better, but that is good. It is early in the year still, and we need to make those improvements. We don't want to be just clicking at 100% now. We want to be winning games and moving forward."

Beanie Wells led the Cardinals with 42 yards on the ground before exiting the game with a sprained right knee. Pittsburgh wide receiver Hines Ward was carted off in the second half with an ankle injury.

Game Notes: Heath Miller caught four passes to move ahead of Franco Harris for sixth in Steelers career receptions with 308.