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| Established July 8, 1933[1] First season: 1933 Play in Acrisure Stadium Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Headquartered in UPMC Rooney Sports Complex Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Training camp in Latrobe, Pennsylvania | |||||
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National Football League (1933–present)
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| Team colors | Black, gold[2][3][4] | ||||
| Mascot | Steely McBeam | ||||
| Website | steelers.com | ||||
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| Owner(s) | Rooney Family | ||||
| General manager | Omar Khan | ||||
| President | Art Rooney II[5] | ||||
| Head coach | Mike Tomlin | ||||
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| League championships (6) | |||||
| Conference championships (8) | |||||
| Division championships (24) | |||||
| Playoff appearances (34) | |||||
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Temporary stadiums 1943 due to loss of players during World War II (temporary merger with Philadelphia Eagles):
1944 due to loss of players during World War II (temporary merger with Chicago Cardinals):
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the seventh-oldest franchise in the NFL, and the oldest franchise in the AFC.[6]
In contrast with their status as perennial also-rans in the pre-merger NFL, where they were the oldest team never to have won a league championship, the Steelers of the post-merger (modern) era are among the most successful NFL franchises, especially during their dynasty in the 1970s.[7][8][9] The team is tied with the New England Patriots for the most Super Bowl titles at six, and they have both played in (16 times) and hosted (11 times) more conference championship games than any other team in the NFL. The Steelers have also won eight AFC championships, tied with the Denver Broncos, but behind the Patriots' record 11 AFC championships. The team is tied with the Broncos, Dallas Cowboys, and San Francisco 49ers for the second-most Super Bowl appearances with eight.
The Steelers, whose history may be traced to a regional pro team that was established in the early 1920s, joined the NFL as the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 8, 1933. The team was owned by Art Rooney and took its original name from the baseball team of the same name, as was common practice for NFL teams at the time.[6] To distinguish them from the baseball team, local media took to calling the football team the Rooneymen, an unofficial nickname that persisted for decades after the team had adopted its current nickname. The ownership of the Steelers has remained within the Rooney family since the organization's founding.[10] Art Rooney's son, Dan Rooney, owned the team from 1988 until his death in 2017. Much control of the franchise has been given to Dan Rooney's son, Art Rooney II.
The Steelers enjoy a large, widespread fanbase nicknamed Steeler Nation.[11] They currently play their home games at Acrisure Stadium on Pittsburgh's North Side in the North Shore neighborhood, which also hosts the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. Built in 2001 as Heinz Field, the stadium replaced Three Rivers Stadium, which had hosted the Steelers for 31 seasons. Prior to Three Rivers, the Steelers had played their games in Pitt Stadium and at Forbes Field.
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- ^ a b "Pittsburgh Steelers Team History". ProFootballHOF.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
- ^ Burton, Jack (October 20, 2009). "The NFL's Greatest Franchise: The Pittsburgh Steelers' Way". Bleacher Report. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ DeArdo, Bryan (July 6, 2020). "Steelers all-time 53-man roster: T.J. Watt, two other current Pittsburgh players make the cut". CBSSports.com. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ Jenkins, TJ (November 6, 2009). "A Pittsburgh Steelers History Lesson: A Decade of Defensive Domination". Bleacher Report. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ "The Best: Owner". ESPN.com. June 8, 2007. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
- ^ Mosley, Matt (August 29, 2008). "NFL's best fans? We gotta hand it to Steelers (barely)". ESPN.com. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved December 4, 2021.