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Steelers Throwback Thursday: From disrespect to the doorstep of glory in Oakland

Since we started this most recent reboot of Throwback Thursday in January of this year, the farthest back we ever went was December of 1983 for the original TB12’s final game. So, I decided to dial back the time circuits on my mind’s Delorean and go back to the earlier stages of the glory years of Bradshaw and the Steelers in the 1970s.

This time around, we travel back in time to the day time when Mekhi Phifer entered this world, Gerald Ford was celebrating his first Christmas as president, radio listeners were requesting Angie Baby by Helen Reddy and movie goers were going in droves to see acting stalwarts such as Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, William Holden and O.