No matter how busy he was handling matters with the Steelers or the National Football League, Dan Rooney always managed to find time for his family.
And it was quite a large family.
He was one of five children (all boys), and his wife, Patricia, was one of 10. Together, they had nine children — five girls and four boys.
Each summer, said Art Rooney II, the oldest of the nine kids, his mom and dad would take them on a vacation, sometimes to the beach at Spring Lake, N.J., other times on educational getaways to the Civil War battlefields or Ireland.