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stillers4me
08-30-2011, 04:35 PM
NFL dynasties were supposed to end with the arrival of free agency and the salary cap.
Supposedly, teams would never be able to afford all the stars they’d need to keep a dynasty together, so instead we’d see a never-ending revolving door of Super Bowl champs. As one team was gutted by free agency, the next team on the rise would step up, only to repeat the process.

During the 1990s, that argument seemed to make some sense as the Cowboys and 49ers went for broke, then went bust as the ran up against the salary cap. The Steelers couldn’t be called a dynasty, but they followed a similar pattern as quarterback Neil O’Donnell, linebackers Kevin Greene, Greg Lloyd and Chad Brown and wide receiver Yancey Thigpen all left in free agency. The result? The team dipped to its worst stretch of the past 20 years in the late 1990s.

But as we know now, that’s not really what ended up happening..........

Read more @ http://www.steelerslounge.com/2011/08/steelers-salary-cap-dynasties/