Whats Better Than Being a Pittsburgh Steelers Fan?
As a Steeler fan, I’ll be the first to admit that life is good. I’m a child of the 1970s, which means that I watched the Steelers win their first Super Bowl when I was two. They won another the next year and were striving for one for the thumb before I was 10. It took another 25 years for Pittsburgh to get that fifth Super Bowl title, but here we are just four years later and they’re working on the other hand. All of that got me thinking: is there any franchise in U.S. pro sports over the past 20, 30, or 40 years that has been more fun to be a fan of than the Steelers? If you’ve been a fan of the Steelers, you’ve been rooting for a consistent winner (only seven losing seasons in the past 35 years) that has had plenty of highs (five Super Bowl titles, six Super Bowl appearances and 14 AFC Championship game appearances) and very few lows. Pittsburgh did have a drought in the 1980s, as the Steelers missed the playoffs for four straight years from 1985-1988, but even that, the worst stretc
