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"NFL America's Game Super Bowl 9 Champions 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers"
From David Stronach
"Joe Greene, Pro Football Hall of Famer and arguably the greatest player in Steelers franchise history, was born this day in 1946.
Greene was the team’s first-round selection with the No. 4 overall pick in the 1969 NFL Draft out of North Texas, the first pick with Chuck Noll as the team’s head coach. Noll and Greene helped turn the Steelers into the greatest dynasty in NFL history, winning four Super Bowls."
"The Steelers were losing in the waning moments of their 1972 AFC Divisional playoff game against the Raiders, facing a 4th-and-10. Quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw a pass, which was deflected by an Oakland defender. Game over? Hardly. Running back Franco Harris caught the deflection and ran it in for a touchdown, giving the Steelers a 13-7 victory."
"Mel Blount was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 1989. Blount was also an inaugural member of the Steelers Hall of Honor as a member of the Class of 2017.
There aren't many players who cause the NFL to change the rules because of their play, but there also weren't many players like Blount.
Blount, the Steelers third round draft pick in 1970 out of Southern University, came into the NFL with everything a coach would want…size, speed, quickness, mental and physical toughness and a work ethic that came from growing up working on a farm in Valdosta, Georgia.
"Growing up in the South, the youngest of 11 kids, growing up on a farm, my parents were farmers and that is how we made our living," said Blount recently while recalling his road to the Hall of Fame. "We worked the fields, went to school, and this little thing called a football we threw around. We started playing and the next thing you know I get a scholarship to Southern University and I get drafted in the National Football League and came to a great organization like the Steelers."
The 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers were obviously not a bad team, I mean just look at their roster, record, and coaching staff. But if the 4 Super Champions that the Steelers had in the 1970s, the 1974 Steelers were number 4.
It took the Steelers 3 months to figure out who they were on offense and who their QB should be. Joe Gilliam gets the start to start the season, but then struggles halfway through the season and the Steelers start losing. And then they go to Terry Bradshaw to finish the season and that's where they come together offensively.
Towards the end of the season is where Bradshaw wakes up as an NFL QB and puts it together and that's where their offense comes together. And the Steelers are now not just a great defensive team, with a great RB in Franco Harris, but now they can not just throw the ball, but throw it deep with Bradshaw. And you see the Steelers become a great complete team that they took to the AFC Playoffs and dominate there, including the Oakland Raiders at Oakland and dominate the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl 9.
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