Posts with players, coaches, and other topics from the Pittsburgh Steelers for The Football History Dude podcast, covering the history of the NFL.
Seemingly every year in pro football, or at least every few years, a couple of teams that meet each other in the regular season, will then go on to meet each other again in the playoffs. In 1973, that occurrence happened three times in the NFL postseason. This first of three segments to this story … Read more
How many Super Bowl repeat winners have there been over the years? Why is it so difficult for teams in this day and age to repeat as Super Bowl Champions? It rarely happens more than once every one and a half to two decades anymore. But in the glorious decade of the 1970s, two different … Read more
Today we have Super Bowl IX, which was held on January 12, 1975, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans between the first-time AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the three-time NFC champion Minnesota Vikings. As always, we have a pop quiz, and then homework at the end of the episode. The pop quiz question for today … Read more
Super Bowl 10 was held on January 18, 1976, at the Orange Bowl in Miami between the back-to-back AFC Champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the three-time NFC Champion Dallas Cowboys. Some refer to this as the greatest Super Bowl ever played. The Steelers were defending Art Rooney’s first Lombardi Trophy in this game (see the article … Read more
There have been many poor-performing teams in NFL history. But the near-impossible question to ask is what is the worst NFL team ever? Some may look to the 2008 Detroit Lions as a prime example of the worst team in NFL history. This is an obvious comparison because the team was the first to go … Read more