Team Overview : Pittsburgh Steelers
By Kris Lazaro (9/21/2006)
Team Overview Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team that is based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are a part of the National Football League's Northern Division. The Steelers have been a part of six Super Bowl games and they are only one of three teams to have won five Super Bowls. The other two teams are the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys. The Steelers have also been in thirteen Championship Games and won six of them. They are the only NFL team who has won a Super Bowl after being seeded number sixth in the playoffs. They start the 2006 season as the current Super Bowl Champions.
The Steelers started as an expansion team in 1933 as the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1941 the team was renamed the Steelers in honor of the city's large steel industry workers as well as in an effort to avoid being confused with the baseball team. Their summer training camps are held at Saint Vincent College in the nearby town of Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Black and gold have always been the Steelers colors since the teams start. Except in 1943 during the teams brief merger with the Philadelphia Eagles in which they wore the green and white colors of the Eagles and became known as the Steagles. In the beginning the team wore solid gold helmets and black jerseys. They are the only city where these colors are also used by the cities baseball and hockey teams.
The team's current uniform design consists of gold pants with either a black or white jersey. Their helmets are solid black with a gold stripe down the center. They are the only team in the NFL who has their logo on only one side of the helmet.
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