The passing of Dan Rooney left a hole in the Pittsburgh Steelers community that will never be filled, but that doesn’t mean that the show suddenly stops. There is still a franchise to run, and it remains in the hands of the Rooney family through his son, Art Rooney II, who has functioned as the team president since 2003.
Art, 64, did not quite spend his life in the world of football entirely as his father had before him, and many have noted—or tried to note—how that results in their approaches differing, even if the Chairman’s touch is still to be found in the Steelers’ business practices.