As recently as 1969 the team had posted a 1-13 record, thus securing the first draft choice in the subsequent NFL draft ( in which the Steelers chose Terry Bradshaw ) and seeding their remarkable turnaround.

Before becoming a teacher, his father had been a Little All-American fullback in 1940 at Milligan College, and had considered a career in the National Football League with the Pittsburgh Steelers, but chose to become a high school coach and teacher instead.

Art Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, chose Byron " Whizzer " White in the first round of the 1938 draft despite White's known public declaration that he would not play professional football and would instead begin work on his Rhodes scholarship.

The Steelers chose him in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft, he was a member of two of the Steelers ' Super Bowl championship teams, and has been selected for the Pro Bowl seven times.

The Steelers chose not to re-sign him after his 2003, 6-year, $ 26 million contract lapsed in the 2009 offseason.

In 1997, the Pittsburgh Steelers ( an American Football team ) switched to rounded numbers on the jersey to match the number font ( Futura Condensed ) on their helmets.

On January 8, 2012, Sports Authority Field at Mile High hosted its third NFL Playoff game, an AFC Wild Card Weekend match against the Pittsburgh Steelers ( now known as the 3: 16 game ).

Attendance records were set in 1997 when 17, 425 people watched Manchester Storm play Sheffield Steelers, a record for an ice hockey match in Europe.

In 1977 he suffered from badly damaged strained ligaments in his knee that he injured in a week 5 match up against the Steelers when he was hit low in the knee.

It happened during a week six match up against the Steelers.

In that event, Estudiantes won their semifinal match against Pohang Steelers 2 – 1, and lost the final against FC Barcelona 2 – 1 in extra time, after a 1 – 1 tie in regulation time.

In Adelaide's first match of the campaign played on 24 February against Pohang Steelers, Adelaide secured an important victory at Hindmarsh Stadium winning 1 – 0 courtesy of a fantastic individual effort by youngster Mathew Leckie on the stroke of half-time.

* Pittsburgh Steelers – New font style numbers to match those on the helmets ; Steelers logo patch on uniform.

In pool play, the Knights easily dispatched the Boston Ironsides ( 50 – 0 ) and San Francisco Fog ’ s B-Side ( 39 – 0 ), but lost a close match to the Kings Cross Steelers ' A-side, which placed second overall ( 8-16 ).

In December 2004 Urumov lifted the K-League championship trophy, scoring the final Suwon goal in the penalty shootout at the end of their playoff final match against Pohang Steelers in what turned out to be his last match for the club.

New York won 44-14 over Washington, but at 10-3-0, New York was trailed by Pittsburgh, which had an unusual 7-3-3 record, and the final game of the season would match the Steelers and Giants at Yankee Stadium.

* Dom Capers-defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers former defensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers, also the first head coach of the NFL Houston Texans and first head coach of the NFL Carolina Panthers

For instance, the San Diego Chargers always wear their popular powder blue third jerseys at home against the Oakland Raiders, while the Houston Texans are known to wear their " Battle Red " third uniforms at home against the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Pittsburgh Steelers are known to wear their throwbacks at home against the archrival Baltimore Ravens.

The Kansas City Chiefs, Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos, Houston Texans, Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals and Indianapolis Colts are all teams who have recently received a significant amount of public financing to either construct or upgrade the stadiums in which they currently play.

** In 2012, the Giants will host the Cleveland Browns on week 5 when the Jets host the Houston Texans on Monday night and the Pittsburgh Steelers on week 9 during the Jets ' bye week.

Neil O ' Donnell left the Steelers in the offseason and signed a long-term free agent contract with the New York Jets, accepting New York's more lucrative offer.

For example, only the Charlotte Hornets had the right to offer contracts to players from the Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Colts, and Detroit Lions, and only the Chicago Winds could offer contracts to players from the Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets, and Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.

Burress agreed to a one-year contract worth approximately $ 3. 017 million guaranteed with the New York Jets on July 31, 2011 after turning down a 2-Year deal from the Pittsburgh Steelers that was rumored to be valued at a little more than the Jets offer without as much guaranteed money.

In 1952, rather than accept a trade to the Pittsburgh Steelers to become a player / coach, he accepted an offer from University of Florida Coach Bob Woodruff to join his staff in Gainesville.

" Upon his retirement, the Steelers did not replace Cope, opting instead to downsize to a two-man broadcast team.

Steelers fullback Franco Harris, after initially blocking on the play, had run downfield in case Bradshaw needed another eligible receiver.

Steelers president Dan Rooney had initially considered wearing a throwback uniform for the game, but decided against it because the merged team wore the Eagles uniforms, and the Steelers didn't want to wear the Eagles ' colors.

Brown was initially drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round, and became an important part of the " Blitzburgh " defense.

The move to initially sign Batch was not a surprise, given that Batch was from Pittsburgh and the Steelers ' current Director of Football Operations Kevin Colbert initially drafted Batch in Detroit.

The Colts won their first postseason game as the Indianapolis Colts in 1995 and would go onto the AFC Championship Game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, coming Hail Mary pass reception away from a trip to the Super Bowl XXX.

Indianapolis finished the season with a 14 – 2 record, the best record in the league that year and the best in a 16 games season for the franchise, but would go onto lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers in divisional round, a disappointing end to the season.

It was the first Super Bowl with a true heavyweight title-fight feel, given the Steelers ' and Cowboys ' unquestioned status as the two best teams in the NFL, and the honor of the first three-time Super Bowl champion that would go to the winner.

Greene responded by saying the Steelers didn't need to say they were the best, they would just go out on the field and " get the job done.

The Steelers would go on to win in overtime, the third overtime in a row for the Jets.

Polamalu would go on to play for the Cincinnati Bengals ' division rival, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Cassel, first backing up New England Patriots QB Tom brady, later traded for the Oakland Raiders ' division rival, the Kansas City Chiefs.

Burress's best season with the Steelers came in 2002, when he set his career highs for receptions ( 78 ) and yards ( 1, 325 ), to go along with seven touchdowns.

The incident occurred when Matt Spaeth ( Pittsburgh Steelers TE ) was cited for urinating in public, and Reed refused to comply with police orders to go back inside his SUV.

But the Steelers ' ensuing extra point was missed, and with the score 16-7, the Raiders found themselves at the Pittsburgh 24-yard line, third down and 2 yards to go, with 18 seconds left in the game.

In Super Bowl XLIII the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Cardinals in Tampa, although the Cardinals valiantly overcame a 17-point fourth quarter deficit to take a lead for two minutes with 2: 30 to go but fell on a TD with 30 seconds to play.

Gros decided to go to the NFL, where he played three seasons with the Green Bay Packers ( 1962 – 1964 ), two seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles ( 1964 – 1965 ), and three seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers ( 1967 – 1969 ).

coaches and when Gottfried was let go by Pitt, Fox got his first NFL coaching gig with the Steelers.

On April 26, 2011, NFL. com reported that the Virginia Destroyers claimed Parker, along with many other free agent NFL players, though Parker has recently made comments about wanting to go back to the Steelers.

They improved slightly in 1968, putting up a 4-9-1 record as they competed in the Century Division against the Cleveland Browns, St. Louis Cardinals, and Pittsburgh Steelers ; in 1969 they returned to the Capitol Division ( featuring the same opponents as 1967 ) and managed to go 5-9.