Just over a week to go and the new NFL season will begin. With a change at quarterback, this season will prove to be another interesting and exciting one for Pittsburgh Steelers fans. It will also see the organization celebrate a unique piece of their history. They will mark fifty years since the pivotal point in their past when they changed from the ‘Same Old Steelers’ into the winners that Steelers Nation now revere.
After Chuck Noll settled in as the Steelers’ new head coach in 1969, he knew the difficult task ahead. In his second season following the merger of the AFL and NFL, his team became part of the AFC with all the additional challenges that this change presented.