The 1977 Pittsburgh Steelers were looking to get back on top of the football world. After Super Bowl victories in 1974 and 1975, the Steelers had “slipped” to losing in the AFC Championship Game in 1976. But that loss had been riddled with injuries and Pittsburgh still had the best defense in the league. There […]
The 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers were looking to make history. In 1974 and 1975, they had joined the Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins as the only teams to win consecutive Super Bowls. With the biggest stage in professional sports then only a decade old, those were also the only three teams to have two championships […]
The 1973 Pittsburgh Steelers came into the season looking to build on a breakthrough year from 1972, when they went to the AFC Championship Game. By that standard, the ’73 Steelers came up short. What this team did do, however, was prove that the breakthrough of 1972 was no fluke, establish themselves as a steady […]
To our generation, the city of Pittsburgh is renowned for good professional football. But it wasn’t always that way. In 1972, Art Rooney’s Steeler franchise had never so much as even played for a championship. They had not enjoyed a winning season since 1963. The hiring of Chuck Noll in 1969 was showing progress, but […]
The 2008 Pittsburgh Steelers were all about defense, with coordinator Dick Lebeau overseeing an aggressive 3-4 scheme led by linebackers James Harrison and James Farrior, and strong safety Troy Polamulu. These three players were just the focal point of a unit that included linebacker Lamarr Woodley and would end the season as the best in the NFL.
The early 1980s aren’t a memorable part of Pittsburgh Steelers lore, not in a franchise that has won six Super Bowls. The early 1980s didn’t provide that, but the Steelers produced three respectable teams that made the playoffs in consecutive years. The 1984 Pittsburgh Steelers concluded that three-year run. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today. 1984 […]
The 1983 Pittsburgh Steelers won an AFC Central title and even though they weren’t one of the great playoff teams in franchise history, they provided memorable moments and marked the swan song of a legend, as quarterback Terry Bradshaw played his last game. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today. Following 1979’s Super Bowl win, the fourth […]
The 1980 Pittsburgh Steelers marked the end of one of the great dynasties in NFL history. The Steelers had won the Super Bowl in four of the previous six years, including both 1978 and 1979. Pittsburgh won the old AFC Central division each year from 1972-79 and at least reached the AFC Championship Game six times. In 1980, age caught up with the Steelers and the era came to an end
The previous two seasons had been rough ones for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The proud franchise had collapsed at the end of 1998 and 1999, going a combined 13-19 in those two years. The 2000 Pittsburgh Steelers continued one negative pattern—they missed the playoffs—but in the bigger picture the ’00 Steelers showed some life, got over .500 and set the stage for a renewal.
For much of the season the 1998 Pittsburgh Steelers looked like just another playoff team that Bill Cowher had been rolling off the assembly line every year since his arrival in the Steel City. Then a loss under strange circumstances triggered a collapse that lasted two additional seasons.
The 1997 Pittsburgh Steelers were a team of both change and continuity. The change was some important personnel shifts, including at quarterback for the second straight year and the departure of a franchise legend. The continuity was in the sixth straight playoff appearance in as many seasons under head coach Bill Cowher.
The 1996 Pittsburgh Steelers were a team in transition. The signature players on offense changed, but the success under fifth-year head coach Bill Cowher. Even though Pittsburgh didn’t repeat their AFC title run of 1995, they still continued their streak of qualifying for the playoffs each year under Cowher, and they won a game when they got there.