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The Pittsburgh Steelers have been around since 1933. They are the most championed franchise and the oldest franchise in the AFC. A professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they are a member of the North division of the American Football Conference. They have been in 6 Super Bowls and are one of only three teams to have won the Super Bowl five times. They have also been in 13 conference Championship Games and have been host to more conference championship games than any other team in the NFL. The Steelers are the first team to win four Super Bowl titles in only six seasons. This happened in the years 1974 to 1979. No other teams have yet to best this feat. In 2005, they pulled off the almost impossible. They were the sixth-seeded team and they advanced to a conference championship game that they went on to win. They then proceeded to win a Super Bowl victory on the 6th of February, 2006.
There have been seventeen Steelers coaches and players inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They are the fifth-oldest franchise of the NFL. They started out as the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1933 by owner Art Rooney. They have been a member of the Rooney family since their inception and this has been attributed to the Rooney's family members as being exceptional with the handling and understanding of what it takes to be pro football team owners. The ownership reins have been handed from son to son for generations and hopefully that will continue to happen. The team also enjoys an almost overly-rabid national wide fan base that no other team (other than maybe the Dallas Cowboys) can lay claim to.
Heinz Field is where the team plays their home games and the place is over-packed on game days. They say that someone has to become deceased in order for season tickets to become available. Also rumor has it that season tickets have been passed down from generation to generation and even fought over in court as to who will actually be inheriting the much sought after football season pass.
Their home stadium was built in 2001 and replaced the famous Three Rivers Stadium which was home to the Steelers for 31 years. Before the Three Rivers Stadium, the Steelers played their home field advantage games in Pitt stadium and Forbes Field.
The first game for the Steelers took place in 1933 when they were called the Pittsburgh Pirates. They lost to the New York Giants 23-2 and through the 1930's the Pirates never finished higher than a second place in the division they were in. They signed the biggest NFL contract in history to date in 1938 when they signed future U.S. Supreme Court justice Byron White.
During the Second World War, the Steelers were a lot like the other NFL teams and suffered a shortage of players. They had to twice merge with other teams to make up a complete roster in order to play a game.
In 1947 the Steelers made history for the first time by tying for first with the Philadelphia Eagles in their division with an 8-4 record. The tie forced a playoff game at Forbes field and the Steelers lost 21-0. The Steelers would not see another play-off game for 25 years.
Their bad-luck losing streak broke in 1969 when they hired Chuck Noll. He had some pick draft selections over the next few years that drastically changed the Steelers role of luck. The most notable of these players were Hall of famers "Mean" Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Mel Blount, Jack Ham in 1971, and Franco Harris in 1972. But the big draft year was in 1974 when he got the selection of 4 future hall of famers with Mike Webster, Lynn Swann, John Stallworth, and Jack Lambert.
Yes, the Steelers are quite the team and will likely be that way for the foreseeable future.
Writer and editor, Freddie Brister, is a former high school football coach of 25 years. His love of the game of football is reflected in his words and memories of growing up in the South and playing football in the back yard with his brother, cousins and neighborhood friends. His biggest thrill is watching former high school players he has coached play at the college level. His favorite pastime is watching NFL football on tv and attending the games in person every chance he gets. Freddie Brister is a huge fan of the NFL and the Pittisburgh Steelers. Check out his Pittisburgh Steelers Blanket or his Washington Redskins Watch.