With the Pittsburgh Steelers BYE week following their successful adventure in Dublin, it is still another opportunity to look at the team’s history.
Chuck Noll is rightfully giving the credit for building the Same Old Steelers into the Super Bowl champions of the seventies. Art Rooney Jr. also deserves acknowledgment for his role in those championship teams. Rooney Jr. played a key role in the Steelers drafting process from 1965 until he moved over to personnel director in 1974.
Halfway through the 1971 NFL draft, a mild mutiny developed among the Steelers coaches. Some of them disagreed with Art Rooney Jr.