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Pittsburgh Steelers
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The team has appeared in six Super Bowls and is, with the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys, one of three teams to have won five of them, and
has appeared in thirteen Conference Championship Games, winning six. The
Pittsburgh Steelers are the only team in NFL playoff history to
win a Super Bowl after being seeded sixth in the playoffs, winning three
consecutive games on the road followed by a Super Bowl victory over the
Seattle Seahawks in Detroit on February 5, 2006.
Originally named the Pittsburgh Pirates the team, along with the
Philadelphia Eagles and the now-defunct Cincinnati Reds football team,
joined the NFL as 1933 expansion teams, after Art Rooney, Sr. paid a
$2,500 fee. The team was renamed the Steelers in 1941 after the city's
prominent steel industry to reflect the "blue-collar worker" ethic of the
many Pittsburgh fans. The Pittsburgh NFL team first took to the field on
September 20, 1933, losing 23-2 to the New York Giants. Through the 1930s the Pirates never finished
higher than second place in their division, or with a record better than
.500.
The Pittsburgh Steelers made the playoffs for the first time in
1947, tying for first place in the division at 8-4 with the Philadelphia Eagles. This forced a tie-breaking playoff game
at Forbes Field, which the Steelers lost 21-0. That would be Pittsburgh's
last playoff game for 25 years.
Their luck changed with the hiring of coach Chuck Noll. Noll's most
remarkable talent was in his draft selections, taking Hall of Famers
"Mean" Joe Greene in 1969, Terry Bradshaw and Mel Blount in 1970, Jack
Ham in 1971, Franco Harris in 1972, and finally, in 1974, the best draft
in Steelers history, pulled the incredible feat of selecting four Hall of
Famers in one draft year, Mike Webster, Lynn Swann, John Stallworth and
Jack Lambert. This group of players formed the base of one of the
greatest teams in NFL history, making the playoffs 8 seasons in a row and
winning 4 Super Bowls.
In 1992 Chuck Noll retired and was succeeded by Kansas City Chiefs
defensive coordinator Bill Cowher, a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of
Crafton. Cowher led the Steelers to the playoffs in each of his first six
seasons as coach, a feat that had only previously been accomplished by
legendary coach Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns. Overall, Cowher has taken his team to the
playoffs in 10 out of his 14 seasons, including appearances in Super Bowl
XXX in 1996 and the franchise's record-tying fifth Super Bowl win in
Super Bowl XL in 2006 over the National Football Conference champion Seattle Seahawks.
Don't miss the fight to keep the crown with Pittsburgh Steelers
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