Even though the Pittsburgh Steelers haven’t been to the playoffs in now two years, haven’t been to a Super Bowl since 2010, it’s impossible to deny that they were still among the best teams in the NFL over the course of the past decade, which has now just concluded days ago.
The question is where exactly to rank them. You would have a tendency to want to favor teams who have won the Super Bowl, and that naturally vaults the New England Patriots to the very top. They are the team of the decade for the second consecutive decade, and it was unfortunately not close.