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Can the Steelers avoid the road to Mamby-Pamby Land in 2018?

We were really lucky and fortunate in the ‘70s because we got a group of not only good football players, but good people — a group that wanted to be together and wanted to be the best. (Chuck Noll)

What exactly spells the difference between a championship NFL season and one that’s best forgotten? In reality, there’s not much separating the league’s 32 teams these days strictly in terms of player recruitment, overall athletic ability or coaching. So why are there still 12 NFL teams — comprising 37.5 percent of the league — that have never won a Lombardi Trophy?