Spending your entire career or most of your career with one franchise ties you permanently to that team, that city, and your fellow players who spent most of their careers with you. A team lauded for its consistency, the Pittsburgh Steelers and many of their star players are examples of that, and so is the Hall of Fame class about to receive induction to Canton.
With both the 2020 and 2021 classes going in this year, five Steelers will receive induction: players Troy Polamalu, Alan Faneca, and Donnie Shell, coach Bill Cowher, and scout Bill Nunn. Shell and Nunn were part of the first group of Steelers tied together as a family, from the Steel Curtain days of the 1970s.