Galax Steeler
07-27-2010, 03:39 AM
The 1989 Pittsburgh Steelers began in sheer turmoil. After going 5-11 in 1988, the Steelers opened the 1989 campaign at home and lost 51-0 to the hated Cleveland Browns. The next week another division rival, the Cincinnati Bengals, pasted Pittsburgh 41-10. Losing two games by a composite 92-10, the media pronounced the Steelers dead and officially declared that the modern game had passed by Head Coach Chuck Noll.
Noll would not let his team be swayed by the media, nor would he take personal offense. Slowly but surely, the Steelers of 1989 kept moving two steps forward, one step back, two forward, one back, until Christmas Eve welcomed the final day of the regular season. The Steelers needed to win that last game in Florida against Tampa Bay and they needed help - lots of it. The Raiders, Bengals and Colts, all very good football teams, needed to lose in order for Pittsburgh to slip into the playoffs.
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Noll would not let his team be swayed by the media, nor would he take personal offense. Slowly but surely, the Steelers of 1989 kept moving two steps forward, one step back, two forward, one back, until Christmas Eve welcomed the final day of the regular season. The Steelers needed to win that last game in Florida against Tampa Bay and they needed help - lots of it. The Raiders, Bengals and Colts, all very good football teams, needed to lose in order for Pittsburgh to slip into the playoffs.
read more http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/