Pittsburgh Steelers Sports Illustrated

America's Team? These days it's the Pittsburgh Steelers. Want to argue? The six-time Super Bowl champions are the favorites of network television programmers, have the broadest and most impassioned fan base-the Steelers outsell all other NFL teams in merchandise, and at some stadiums Steel City fans outnumber the home team's faithful-and embody a winning spirit that have made them the model franchise in the most popular sport in the U.S. Founded in 1933 by the beloved Rooney family in the gritty heartland of industrial America, the team suffered through nearly four decades of futility until the arrival of brilliant, laconic coach Chuck Noll in 1969, followed by a host of players who would etch their names in the history of the game. Behind future Hall of Famers Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, Mean Joe Greene, Jack Lambert and Mel Blount, the Steelers teams of the '70s won four Super Bowls in six years and captured the imagination of a nation with their style-dashing on offense, devastating on defense. The love affair has endured ever since, through the hard-nosed era of Bill Cowher and Jerome Bettis to today's team, with crossover stars such as Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu. This book from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED tells the extraordinary story of the Steelers through the eyes of SI's renowned writers and the world's most accomplished sports photographers. As the Steelers embark on their 80th anniversary, there's no better way to celebrate football's best.

You won't find any staid player statistics, by-the-numbers game summaries or tedious team histories here. This Steelers book teems with the passion and pride Pittsburgh has for its football team. It’s told through a multitude of intimate fan portraits that put a face on Steelers Nation.Journalist John Luciew, a life-long Steelers fan and twenty-year season ticket holder, takes to the streets of Pittsburgh’s Strip District and scales the heights of Heinz Field’s 700-level nose-bleed section to uncover the personal connections that have forged an unbreakable bond between town and team.You'll visit a university art exhibit that explores Pittsburgh’s football obsession in all its glory. How do Steelers fans entwine themselves with the team? This exhibit archives the ways. There are colossal collages of Steelers tattoos, a Troy Polamalu-groomed poodle, a scale model of Heinz Field that overtakes a fan’s basement and an exact replica of a black-and-gold Steelers’ man-cave.Luciew makes the rounds with Pittsburgh historians who recount the Steel City’s manufacturing fall and its football ascension. Laid off steel workers who could no longer wear their hardhats to work donned them instead for football games. And an army of migrating Pittsburghers fanned out across the country looking for work and gave birth to Steelers Nation. Today, there's a coast-to-coast collection of Steelers’ fan clubs and bars that all point to Pittsburgh as its Mecca.UPMC psychologists recount how humans harbor a natural drive to connect with something larger then themselves. In Pittsburgh, that human need is in overdrive, resulting in an epidemic outbreak of Steelers mania. Newborns are swaddled in Terrible Towels in Pittsburgh maternity wards. Football party hosts insist upon strict seating charts so as not to alter anything from one game to the next, lest they jinx the team. Children grow up forever equating Steelers football with food, fun, family and a burning desire to be great.One proud product of Pittsburgh’s African-American neighborhoods and its rough-and-tumble public schools recounts how the pursuit of excellence embodied by the Steelers helped elevate his own goals. This Pittsburgher now commands the lofty heights of high finance from atop a PNC banking tower. His story shows how the team that borrowed its name from Pittsburgh’s old economy helped fuel the pride and effort necessary for Pittsburgh to forge its own renaissance.And while the steel mills might have closed; the furnace fires all but extinguished; the ingots all grown cold, they still mass-produce one thing in Pittsburgh -- Steelers fans. These are must-read tales of the team, the town and the towel-waving fans who love them both!This e-book contains approx. 16,200 words.

Up for your review is the Pittsburgh Steelers Sports Illustrated Cover Collection Poster. These covers have all been reproduced from actual Sports Illustrated magazines and present nicely. You will be able to see all of the detail from the original SI's as all of these individual images are 600 dpi and 15 MB - 35 MB in size. The issues and images used for this collection are: 1 1/6/75 It's the Steelers & the Vikings - Franco Harris - Signed 2 1/20/75 Super Bowl IX Champs - Terry Bradshaw - Signed 3 9/22/75 Pro Football Preview - Mean Joe Green - Signed 4 1/26/76 Super Bowl X Champs - Lynn Swann 5 1/29/79 Super Bowl XIII Champs - Rocky Bleier - Signed 6 1/28/80 Super Bowl XIV Champs - John Stallworth - Signed 7 11/14/05 Crunch Time - Troy Polamalu - Signed 8 6/28/05 Super Bowl XL Champs - Hines Ward - Signed 9 1/23/06 Pressure - Ben Roethlisberger - Signed 10 1/30/06 Rollin' On - Jerome Bettis - Signed 11 1/19/09 Living Large - Santonio Holmes/Nate Washington - Signed 12 7/1/05 Super Bowl XLIII Champs Commemorative - Roethlisberger 13 2/9/09 Steelers - That's Six for the Sixth - Holmes Please realize that anything listed as signed above will contain a facsimile signature.

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With a tradition that goes back more than 75 years and a history of success unmatched in professional football, the Pittsburgh Steelers stand out as an elite sports franchise. Six Super Bowl victories and 26 playoff appearances place the Steelers among the best of the best in NFL history. The roster of players who have donned the black and gold reads like an all-star team, and the 1970s dynasty alone featured nine players currently enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Through the highs and the lows, fans from throughout western Pennsylvania and the nation have cheered passionately for their team for decades.Updated to include the team's run to the Super Bowl in 2010, Pittsburgh Steelers: The Complete Illustrated History presents all the great moments, the great players, and the great teams, exploring both the on-field and off-field exploits of this iconic franchise. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white images from throughout the team's history, it is the ultimate celebration for fans of all ages.