More Pittsburgh Steelers’ Notes

The Pittsburgh Steelers begin their quest for a seventh Super Bowl crown at Cincinnati, vs the Bengals in a Saturday night road wild card game.

One of three teams to win the Super Bowl with 3 road wins, the Steelers turned that trick in 2005 beginning the post season, as they do the upcoming one, in Cincinnati.

Their coach that season  was Bill Cowher.

Current coach Mike Tomlin guided the Steelers to the 2008 season title, despite a horrible, cowardly decision to kick a field goal and not go for a touchdown at the Arizona Cardinals’ one yard line early in the Super Bowl game.

By the way, one of the two other coaches to guide a team to a Super Bowl title with 3 road wins is Tom Coughlin. (2007 with the New York Giants.) He made far too many cowardly decisions this season, is vastly over rated but was a stellar coach, who likely will end up in the Hall of Fame.

Stay tuned for an upcoming post regarding a prediction regarding Tom Coughlin’s status made before the decision.

Two great quarterbacks, Terry Bradshaw, who did so 4 times and Ben Roethlisberger pictured above (twice) have guided the Steelers to their 6 NFL crowns, all won in Super Bowl games beginning in 1974. That year was their 42nd season in which the NFL had a title game of some kind.