Pittsburgh Steelers: Three Rivers Stadium (1980)

Source:Pittsburgh Steelers- preparing to take on the Kansas City Chiefs, at Pittsburgh Three Rivers Stadium, in 1980.

"Here is some on field video of Rocky Bleier and the formidable 1980 Pittsburgh Steelers. The date is Dec. 14, 1980. The scene is Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh Pa.  The day is the last home game for Steelers' favorite Rocky Bleier. The Steelers won 21-16 with  Rocky scoring the final touchdown in the last moments of the game." 

From Brampete

Pittsburgh Three Rivers Stadium was known as a cookie-cutter stadium, because it was circular all around the stadium, with upper decks in both end zones and in the outfield for baseball. As well as being one of the other so-called cookie-cutter stadiums that were built in the 1960s and 70s. Like Philadelphia Veterans Stadium, which is just a few hours east of Pittsburgh. Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium, just a few hours west of Pittsburgh, RFK Stadium, 4-5 south from Pittsburgh in Washington, and Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. 

But I don't think the label cookie-cutter gives Three Rivers the credit that it deserves. This was a great place for NFL football, especially in the 1970s, when the Steelers were dominant. 55-60,000 fans at every Steeler game, they were very loud, they were on top of the action with excellent seats. It might have not been a great place to play even for the Steelers, as far as the concrete hard field, but it was a great place for the Steelers to play as far as fan atmosphere. If Three Rivers was a cookie-cutter stadium, it was a football first, baseball second cookie-cutter, because of how well-suited for football that it was.

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