Part of what makes the Pittsburgh Steelers organization incredibly rare, if not unique, is the fact that they have maintained since their founding in 1933 an immediate lineage from their original, ‘The Chief’, Art Rooney, and have in doing so retained his passion for facilitating an empathetic, familial environment in the way that they go about doing their business.
His son, Dan Rooney, carried the torch, and the team, into their dynasty years all the way through to the late 2000s when he accepted an ambassadorship to Ireland, with his son, Art Rooney II, succeeding him in a role that he maintains today.