Legendary Steelers coach Chuck Noll dies at 82

[tube517]

Charles Henry Noll, who lifted the Steelers from the depths of the National Football League and coached them to four-time Super Bowl champions by adhering to simple, long-held principles, died Friday in his home in Sewickley.

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RIP Coach Chuck "The Emperor" Noll. A very sad day.

[Hindes204]

Charles Henry Noll, who lifted the Steelers from the depths of the National Football League and coached them to four-time Super Bowl champions by adhering to simple, long-held principles, died Friday in his home in Sewickley.


Noll, who had been under a doctor's care for an undisclosed illness, was 82.


His wife, Marianne, found him unresponsive at 9:45 p.m. and called 911. Paramedics pronounced him dead 10 minutes later.

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[86WARD]

HORRIBLE!!!!

RIP to the coach of the greatest dynasty in NFL History...

[Shoes]

Very sad indeed, RIP Chuck.


"I knew no one like him before him and have never met anybody like him since" ~ Mean Joe

[salamander]

Terrible news. Rest in peace, coach. Thank you for everything you did for this franchise.

[X-Terminator]

I honestly didn't know he lived in the Pittsburgh area - I thought he had moved to the Carolinas. At any rate, a sad day in Pittsburgh. RIP Emperor Chaz.

[86WARD]

Remember when he went after Jerry Glanville? Always loved that...always loved that clip of him running off the field and going after the camera as a joke too...

[tube517]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-RMEPgCk6U

[st33lersguy]

RIP Emperor. Gone but never forgotten

[steelerdude15]

This is extremely sad. By far one of the greatest and most underrated coaches in NFL history. He did so much for the Steelers. Thank you for everything you did. Rest in peace.

[fansince'76]

Very sad news. RIP, Coach Noll. :rip:

[vader29]

Rest in peace coach.

[oneforthetoe]

rip coach

[Count Steeler]

4 years to the day after my Dad passed away.

RIP Mr. Noll and thanks for being who you are.

[Dwinsgames]

what a bummer , RIP Mr. Noll , thoughts and prayers to the Steeler family

[GBMelBlount]

RIP Mr. Noll.

[Drazo85]

Rest in peace Mr. Noll.

[ALLD]

Tough news to wake up to, but it reminds me of all the wonderful childhood memories he helped create. As a transplant to Miami, I was the only Steeler fan in my class in a sea of Dolphin diehards with a few Patriot and Cowboy wannabes. There was never a doubt who would win the Super Bowl in the 1970s when we showed up. Those Monday mornings going back to class were special.

[Devilsdancefloor]

RIP Emperor what a sad sad day

[LLT]

Very sad. Like many of us...a small piece of my childhood died yesterday. Lots of great memories of the man...and the team he orchestrated,

[SteelerFanInStl]

Very sad news. :( RIP Coach. My condolences go out to the Noll family.

[stillers4me]

Ironic that he dies Father's Day weekend. He can certainly be considered the father of Steelers football.....his teams are the standard that all Steelers teams will always measured against. RIP coach.

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[Edman]

The Mastermind behind the Steelers are we know them and essentially the father of Steelers Football. Transformed the Steelers from losers into the greatest dynasty in the modern era.

There is no "Six Pack" or "One for the Thumb" without him winning FOUR. Any and all Steelers teams will be measured up against his fine work.

Rest in Peace, Emporer Chaz.

[Mamaduck43]

This news makes me feel profoundly sad... R.I.P., Coach....

[stillers4me]

It's comforting to know he died peacefully in his sleep, after many years of pain.

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[Bluecoat96]

Rip, Coach. I think a fitting tribute by the current Steelers would be a "throwback" uniform that included a return to the 70's block numbers along with some sort of a patch remembering him.

[stillers4me]

Rip, Coach. I think a fitting tribute by the current Steelers would be a "throwback" uniform that included a return to the 70's block numbers along with some sort of a patch remembering him.

By NFL rules, the Steelers can't switch to another throwback style until after the 2016 season. I bet they wear a patch along with the 40th anniversary superbowl commendatory patch they already decided to wear.

[Bluecoat96]

Uniform rules are so profoundly idiotic. Can they make it part of their regular uniform then?

[stillers4me]

Statements on the passing of Hall of Fame Coach Chuck Noll.Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney:

As for the football end of it, I think he ranks with Halas and Lombardi. There are many other good coaches over the history of the NFL, but I think Chuck Noll ranks up there with those other two guys right at the top. No other coach won four Super Bowls, and the way he did it was with dignity..........

read more @ http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Dan-Rooney-and-Art-Rooney-II-Statements-on-Passing-of-Chuck-Noll/cabf6376-00a0-48ee-942f-16c73336ff5b

[touchdownward]

Sad news. Chuck Noll is the first Steelers coach I can remember as a fan. RIP Coach Noll.

[86WARD]

By NFL rules, the Steelers can't switch to another throwback style until after the 2016 season. I bet they wear a patch along with the 40th anniversary superbowl commendatory patch they already decided to wear.

I believe they can do that...I also believe that they were only wearing that patch for the Saints game?

[Dwinsgames]

http://www.nfl.com/videos/pittsburgh-steelers/0ap2000000358681/Remembering-Chuck-Noll

[tube517]

"It has a little button on the side. Push it and the top flips up. Inside is a miniature tape recorder. Listen... You can hear Tom Landry crying."
-Steelers head coach Chuck Noll, talking about his championship ring

[polamalubeast]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8IHcHT3J-c



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh6SbIUf27c

[fansince'76]

"It has a little button on the side. Push it and the top flips up. Inside is a miniature tape recorder. Listen... You can hear Tom Landry crying."
-Steelers head coach Chuck Noll, talking about his championship ring

...and Charlie Waters whining...

[tihmtahm]

RIP legendary Coach Noll... Still the only coach to win 4 Super Bowls!

[zulater]

RIP coach Noll. Very underrated. A lot of people diminish Noll because he "only won with great talent". Which to some extent was true. But what they leave out is Noll virtually never lost when he had the better team. Something in recent years I've come to appreciate, because quite frankly I've seen recent editions of Steeler teams lose to inferior teams with disturbing regularity.

[stillers4me]

"It has a little button on the side. Push it and the top flips up. Inside is a miniature tape recorder. Listen... You can hear Tom Landry crying."
-Steelers head coach Chuck Noll, talking about his championship ring

:lol: That's awesome!

[stillers4me]

Noll funeral arrangements





Friends will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday and from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at John A. Freyvogel Sons Inc. on Centre Avenue in Shadyside. Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik will officiate a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland.




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I hope they have traffic control ready. It's going to be a big one.

[steelerdiva]

Hey guys...haven't been on in a while but had to log on today.

I feel a real sense of loss. I know I never met Coach Knoll, but I am a Steeler fan today because of the teams he put together.

As far as the greatest coaches in the history of the NFL, there is no doubt Noll should be in the same conversation as the likes of Lombardi and Walsh.

RIP, Coach Noll. Steeler Nation owes you a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid in a million lifetimes.

[X-Terminator]

Noll funeral arrangements





Friends will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday and from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at John A. Freyvogel Sons Inc. on Centre Avenue in Shadyside. Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik will officiate a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland.




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I hope they have traffic control ready. It's going to be a big one.

Traffic shouldn't be TOO big of an issue since it's summer and nearly all of the students are gone. It would be much worse if classes were still in session.

[Hawkman]

Nice 82 year run coach Noll.......RIP!

[86WARD]

1979 - Last team to win a Super Bowl with 100% home-grown talent. Not like he didn't have anything to do with developing that talent...

[polamalubeast]

1979 - Last team to win a Super Bowl with 100% home-grown talent. Not like he didn't have anything to do with developing that talent...

This is now impossible to win a super bowl with 100% home-grown talent,even if Green Bay was close in 2010....

[fansince'76]

RIP coach Noll. Very underrated. A lot of people diminish Noll because he "only won with great talent". Which to some extent was true. But what they leave out is Noll virtually never lost when he had the better team. Something in recent years I've come to appreciate, because quite frankly I've seen recent editions of Steeler teams lose to inferior teams with disturbing regularity.

The league also wasn't watered down like it is now by expansion, the salary cap and free agency. Those Raiders teams were great. Those Cowboys teams were great. The Vikings were great in those days too.

Yet Belichick gets roundly praised as a genius for beating an overconfident (and overrated) Rams team, a Jake Delhomme-led Panthers team that hasn't sniffed a Super Bowl since and an Eagles team led by the ever-choking McNabb by 3 points a piece under highly dubious circumstances (Spygate, cough, cough).

And for all the praise Walsh gets, the 1981 and 1988 Bengals really weren't anything special and the '84 Dolphins and '89 Broncos were essentially one-man teams. And after the Raiders cleaned the Redskins' clocks in SB XVIII, the AFC spent the next 15 years afterward playing weak sister to the NFC in general.

IMO, Noll came out on top more regularly at a time when it really was the most difficult to do so and competition was at its most fierce. And Noll never got the credit he deserved back then, either. But then, he never courted praise for himself either.

[Dwinsgames]

football died a little when Chaz closed his eyes for the last time , without question the greatest coach in the modern era even if the pundits do not agree ...

4 Lombardi's says it all ...

Pundits sole argument against naming Noll as the greatest is the players he had .....

Problem with that argument is he had a large say in obtaining those players , developing them and scheming to fit those players talents , so those players should never be a negative in evaluating Noll they should however be a positive ....

4 SB in 6 years will never be equaled it is a record that will stand the test of time while so many fall by the way side in short order .....

Noll was Pittsburgh , Noll was the Steelers he built the foundation for everything we know and love today about Steeler football ......

an Icon , a Legend , an embodiment of the franchise and the City ....

May God Bless his soul

[polamalubeast]

Zulater has an excellent point about the fact that Noll never lost as favorite.....It's not easy to do!

Belichick has lost a few times as favorite as twice against the Giants in Super Bowl and against the jets of Mark Sanchez in 2010....Bill Walsh was an unbelievable coach, but his team was heavily favored in 1987 against the 8-7 Vikings, but the 49ers have easily lost this game


Noll has never lost as favorite in the playoffs

[Count Steeler]

Noll is head and shoulders above the current knob slobbed Belicheat.

Not only in football, but in life in general. Landry is better than Dirty Bill. Madden is better than Dirty Bill. Grant is better than Dirty Bill.

In fact, the quality of coaches in today's NFL can't even come close to the coaches of the 70s.

[fansince'76]

Noll is head and shoulders above the current knob slobbed Belicheat.

Not only in football, but in life in general. Landry is better than Dirty Bill. Madden is better than Dirty Bill. Grant is better than Dirty Bill.

In fact, the quality of coaches in today's NFL can't even come close to the coaches of the 70s.

Not to mention Don Shula, Hank Stram and George Allen.

[7SteelGal43]

Steeler Nation mourns the loss of one of it's founding fathers.

[Butch]

"Rest in Peace" Coach Noll