The Steelers return to the training field this week with a promising season before them – fresh new talent, the return of proven players (including theunderrated Ike Taylor) and fans who’d be more than willing to go to Lucas Oil in February to see their team have another chance at the Super Bowl.
The Steelers’ future wasn’t always so sunny. In 1969, the Steelers were on a 36-season losing streak in the middle of an economically depressed city. They were a sharp contrast with the confident, well-funded Dallas Cowboys, the self-proclaimed “America’s Team.” But the Steelers players (aVietnam vet, a country-boy QB, a toothless linebacker) worked hard and played with heart – and then started winning.
(Gotham Books, in paperback August 30, $16.00) by Chad Millman, a journalist at ESPN The Magazine, and Shawn Coyne, an editor and publisher of Western Pennsylvania stock, is the story of a team and their city. During the Steelers’ decade long-rivalry with the Cowboys, they gave a struggling Pittsburgh something to cheer for, and during Super Bowl XIII, gave their city the triumph they needed.My Take on the Book
I have been impressed with the Steelers in the past. I cannot say that I am a fanatic, I was impressed with the depth in which this book goes into coaching as well as managing the team as well as the history of the team. The book also allows you to get a perspective on the culture that surrounds the team.
Overall this book gives you such an amazing insight into all of the players that you know especially if you are a fan or if you have watched the team from afar.
I thought that this book would give me a great understanding of NFL History and it does give you some of this, but it also gives you a much better perspective on the economic and industrial struggles of the 1970's. I was not expecting this, but it did make you think hard about the world of the 1970's and the effect of the NFL in the cities in which were explored in the text itself.
Overall, this was a great book that truly did make you think and learn while you were reading!
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