When the league changed its rules regarding ownership stipulations around a decade ago, it kicked into motion a series of moves that reshaped the ownership structure of the Pittsburgh Steelers. For the longest time, ownership of the team was contained entirety within the extended Rooney clan, with the Rooney family owning 80 percent and the related McGinley family owning the other 20 percent.
That changed in 2009 when the team was forced to take on new investors with the brothers of Dan Rooney tasked with making the decision of whether and how much to sell their stake in the team.