There are so many great memories and so many proud moments. Thanks for adding to the list!

The way Bradshaw gripped the football.
Lambert running in place before the snap.
Swann's acrobatics.
The dominance of the 70's front four.
The 1976 season.
Bradshaw's throwing motion.
That TRS and Heinz Field were/are where 3 rivers meet.
Ben's scrambling early in the SB43 game winning drive.

Moments in that season have made both the love and the hate thread for me.

More to love:
- Winning 10 in a row (including the Colts playoff win) after starting the season 1-4. Steelers opponents' winning pct that year was .528.
- Only 28 points surrendered in the last nine games including only two TD's. Only TWO TD's given up in nine games.
- Eight defensive players making the Pro-Bowl.
- Mike Kruczek's game management skills for a rookie going 6-0. It took Ben to break his record for consecutive wins.
- Franco and Rocky both rushing for 1,000 yards.
- Destroying the Colts in their house for the first playoff game.

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As I always like to point out, not only did the Steelers destroy the Colts to get another playoff win, they probably saved lives doing so...for minutes after the game ended, this happened:



If the game had been close, there probably would have still been people up there.

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I know this, your ability to think concisely, your ability to make good judgments is much easier on Thursday night than during the heat of the game. -Bill Walsh

That was so weird. If I remember the original broadcast correctly, they had gone to a commercial break after wrapping up the game, and when they came back on they were announcing some of the sponsors with the image of the crashed plane in the background. Then they went to the NBC tools in New York who then explained what had just happened.

You're right Jeemie, there could have been some serious loss of life that day. Thank God there wasn't.

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ust two things in this list:

1. The 1970s Steelers and Pirates City of Champions -- We are Family and Steel Curtain. Bradshaw and Pops; and
2. Myron Cope

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“White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.”
Jimi Hendrix

The signs at TRS and some carried over to Heinz:
- Amazing Steelers
- The Steel Curtain (MJG, Fats, Mad Dog, LC)
- Lambert's Lunatics
- Franco's Italian Army
- Dobre Shunka
- The Banaszak Bunch
- Psycho Ward
- 12+88=6
- Gerela's Gorillas
- Rocky's Flying Squirrels

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Avoid Lloyd, You're In Steeler Country

I remember a game where Lloyd sacked the QB and the camera went to the Avoid Lloyd sign with the announcer saying "He didn't".

Joey Porter - "I laughed at the sorrows."

http://vimeo.com/2742411

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"I'm tired of kicking all yo' asses.

It's makin' me tired!"

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I know this, your ability to think concisely, your ability to make good judgments is much easier on Thursday night than during the heat of the game. -Bill Walsh