The Pittsburgh Steelers

23rd December 2008 | Category: Sports | Tags:

The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the oldest football teams in the AFC, having been established in 1933. Their beginnings were, shall we say, somewhat less than glorious, with their first game lost to the Giants with a score of 23 to just 2 points.

They never made it to the playoffs until fifteen years later in 1947, and then didn’t win.
In the mid sixties Pittsburgh was, in reality, something of an embarrassment to Pennsylvania, even having a record horrible year in there, with a 2 and 12 year. Thankfully television wasn’t yet a household item, so we didn’t have to watch their ignominious defeats.

In all honesty, it wasn’t until the seventies when the Steelers became a household word, and one of the most loved teams of all time and a lot of that, the team owes to a man who wasn’t even a Pennsylvania native.

Terry Bradshaw, a Louisiana boy got drafted when Pa won a coin toss. Bradshaw turned the Steelers into something the state,(as a Pennsylvania native I can attest to that) and in fact the country was excited about, and they, along with Chuck Noll, set about earning themselves the “Steel Curtain” commentary that was now being applied to them.

Noll latched on to some of the best and brightest, including Mean Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Lynn Swan, and a few other names you’d all recognize for the Steelers.

The Steelers decade was definitely the seventies, with four Super Bowls belonging to them in that time span. 1974 and 1975, 1978 and 1979 were all Super Bowl wins for the Steelers.
Another followed about twenty years later in 2005, and Pittsburgh had arrived.

The Steelers of 2008, with a striking record and having won four of their last five games, look to be what the old Steel Curtain Steelers used to be.

Get your Steeler fix with tickets to watch them play against the Browns Sunday December 28 2008.

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