Steelers Win A Ring For The Other Hand

Let's go ahead and say it. Since the Super Bowl era began in the NFL in 1970, the Pittsburgh Steelers have become the model franchise in the league. The Steelers have 6 Lombardi trophies in their possession, the most in the Super Bowl era.

Pittsburgh does it with basic football, running over and by you on offense and tough, hard nosed defense though the passing game got them Super Bowl title #6.

Consistency helps to. The Steelers have only had 3 head coaches since 1969: Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher and now Mike Tomlin. Can you name the head coach in 1968?

Here is coverage from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. More from the Post - Gazette right here. A story on Ben Roethlisberger's game winning drive is right here. And let's not forget the latest Pittsburgh receiving legend, Santonio Holmes. You can read more about Holmes super night here.

Here's some highlights for you Steeler fans, first James Harrison's 100 yard interception return for a touchdown right before halftime is below.



And next, Santonio Holmes Lynn Swann-esque touchdown catch to win Super Bowl title #6 for the Steelers.

Live Coverage of That Game In Florida

Since it worked so well during the professional baseball championships, we're going to see if it works for the football championship in Florida this weekend...

We know that covering the Super Bowl is no fun, really... you're trying to create something out of nothing and fight the journalistic traffic jam for satellite space and making slot for an entire 8-day period...

Not fun...
But we decided to give you a look at how things are down in the Gulf...
Enjoy... watch for FOSG Angela Jacobs all week as she does her normal stellar work...
((HT: WTSP-TV))

Card-Pitt: A Marriage That Went To Hell

65 years ago the 2 teams battling for the Super Bowl championship were one team.

Back in 1944, World War II was still raging and many NFL players were dodging bombs rather than catching them in the European and Asian theater. Wartime sacrifice was greatly effecting the NFL as teams could not even field a team. Some franchises folded while others merged.

The year before, the Pittsburgh Steelers were down to 6 players so owner Art Rooney got permission from then NFL commissioner Elmer Layden to merge with the Philadelphia Eagles, who were also down in numbers. That year the Steagles as they were known had moderate success.

In 1944 the Steelers merged with the Chicago Cardinals to form Card-Pitt. Now the Cardinals were in the middle of a 29 game losing streak so they were bad. Combined with the Steelers it became god awful.

The Card-Pitts were a team of no talent, no chemistry and no clue and finished 0-10.

It got so bad that 3 players on the team were fined for "indifferent play" following a 34-7 loss against the Chicago Bears. In today's terms, they were fined for playing like crap. The players were ticked off and fought with the coaching staff. So much for team chemistry.

Steelers owner Art Rooney called Card-Pitts “the worst team in NFL history.” That they were.

So when you watch Super Bowl XLIII lets hope the game doesn't go down the toilet like there combined efforts did in 1944.