Mike Greenberg’s Steelers Mount Rushmore: Chuck Noll, Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, and Franco Harris check every box if you’re building a shrine to the 1970s. But leaving Ben Roethlisberger off the list isn’t just a snub. That’s erasing a modern era that defined Pittsburgh football for two decades.
The case for the all-70s list came down to one word: legacy. Greenberg argued on The Russo & Rizzo Show that “pro football is what it is today because of the Steelers and the Cowboys in the 70s.” No one’s disputing that. The league exploded in that decade, and Pittsburgh was at the heart of it.