Super Bowl XIII featured the 2 darling franchises of the NFL as the Pittsburgh Steelers faced the Dallas Cowboys.
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It may be hard to remember this now, but just 16 months ago, he had led the Denver Broncos to a victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL playoffs, the high water mark of a season in which Tebow, playing some gutsy old-school football, energized the NFL. As many have pointed out, he did what his replacement, Peyton Manning, did not by winning a playoff game for the Broncos.
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When a game is going to be played in a large stadium like the upcoming NFL game between the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers at the Meadowlands in the middle of gas shortages, traffic jams, sparse train service, and neighborhoods drowning in fetid sewage, then it probably ought to be rescheduled.
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Remember that last year, a regular season NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and the Pittsburgh Steelers drew 3 million more TV viewers than Game 4 of the Fall Classic between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers.
Both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers are old NFL teams, meaning they were part of the NFL before the league merged with the AFL. Super Bowl victories by old NFL teams lead to full-year gains for stocks nearly 80% of the time.
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Among other things, Wooten's group worked in conjunction with NFL officials in 2003 to form the Rooney Rule, which is named after Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney.
And thanks to the efforts of Dan Rooney, an older white owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers with a good heart, the Rooney Rule that he authored while NFL chair of diversity, and its progeny in the name of Tony Dungy, the ideal has had application in professional football.
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Judy Battista, the excellent New York Times football writer, just tweeted that Pittsburgh Steelers owner, Dan Rooney, just spoke out against the proposed 18-game NFL season.
One of my arguments stemmed from the fact that the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers have two of the most avid fanbases in the NFL. This claim is bolstered by looking at how each team ranked (Packers 3rd and Steelers 4th) in the most recent 2010 Harris Poll comparing team popularity among NFL cities.
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