The Pittsburgh Steelers have the NFL’s fourth-most championships of any team with six, and the most Super Bowl victories with the same number. But they weren’t always that successful. In fact, for the franchise’s first 40-years, they were always at the bottom of the league standings year-after-year. When other NFL team’s players acted up or came to a stalemate in contract negotiations, the threat was always that they would be traded to Pittsburgh. And several were.
The Steelers usually had a high draft pick in the annual college draft, and picked horrible players. Or they picked Hall of Fame players and then got rid of them.