
The Pittsburgh Steelers have been part of the NFL since 1933, when Art Rooney was awarded a franchise and the team took the field as the Pittsburgh Pirates. The name changed to the Steelers before the 1940 season, and the Rooney family has owned the club ever since, making Pittsburgh one of the most stable organizations in professional sports. The Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC and the seventh-oldest in the NFL, and they have played at Acrisure Stadium on Pittsburgh's North Shore since 2001, after three decades at Three Rivers Stadium.
Everything changed for the franchise in 1969 with the hiring of Chuck Noll, who built one of the great dynasties in NFL history through a remarkable run of drafts. Noll's 1974 class alone produced four future Hall of Famers in Lynn Swann, Jack Lambert, John Stallworth, and Mike Webster, a feat no other team has matched. Behind quarterback Terry Bradshaw, running back Franco Harris, and the Steel Curtain defense anchored by Joe Greene and Jack Lambert, Pittsburgh won four Super Bowls in six years, capturing Super Bowls IX, X, XIII, and XIV. The 1972 Immaculate Reception, when Harris turned a deflected pass into a playoff-winning touchdown against the Raiders, remains one of the most famous plays the league has ever produced.
That standard carried into the modern era. Bill Cowher guided the Steelers to the Super Bowl XL title, and Mike Tomlin led them to Super Bowl XLIII, giving the franchise six Super Bowl championships, tied with the New England Patriots for the most in NFL history. The Steelers have cycled through among the fewest head coaches in modern NFL history, and that continuity shows in the product on the field. A game at Acrisure Stadium blends all of it with a loud, gold-and-black home crowd, yellow Terrible Towels waving from every section and the open end of the stadium letting in the Pittsburgh wind.
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