When the clock reached triple zeroes at the end of Super Bowl XL on February 5, 2006 at Ford Field in Detroit, the 21-10 win by the Pittsburgh Steelers over the Seattle Seahawks gave one of the stalwart franchises in professional football their first Lombardi Trophy in more than a quarter century.
Not only did the win in Super Bowl XL give the Steelers five Super Bowl championships in franchise history, tying the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers for the most in NFL history, it allowed former Steelers’ head coach, Hall of Famer and CBS Sports analyst Bill Cowher to fulfill his goal as the head coach of his hometown team, while also proving naysayers wrong, getting over the hump to win the big game.