GO STEELERS!!!!

We did not get to watch as much of the game as we hoped, (3 boys can keep a person busy) but none the less were super excited about the Steelers going to the Super Bowl.
Just going places in our Steelers shirts we have found so many other fans.
In case someone has forgotten Stealers History here it is:

IX January 12, 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers 16 Minnesota Vikings 6

X January 18, 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers 21 Dallas Cowboys 17

XIII January 21, 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers 35 Dallas Cowboys 31

XIV January 20, 1980 Pittsburgh Steelers 31 Los Angeles Rams 19

XL February 5, 2006 Pittsburgh Steelers 21 Seattle Seahawks 10

Yeah I think well take this one too!

Here is a little fact about that Steelers Symbol

Here's the surprise: the Steelers' symbol isn't theirs, and never was. Instead, it belongs to the country's steel industry and originally had nothing to do with football, Pittsburgh or the Steelers.

But you probably knew that.

An even bigger surprise: the idea for the Steelers to wear it came from, of all cities, Cleveland.

Now that you probably didn't know.

Before 1962, the Steelers' most-used logo was a punter booming a kick while balanced on a steel beam -- a fitting symbol given how often they punted in those days. Before that season, executives of Cleveland-based Republic Steel suggested the Steelers wear a new emblem called the Steelmark, originally designed for U.S. Steel.

The Steelmark contained the word "steel" and the trio of four-pointed stars, known as hypocycloids, in yellow, orange and blue.

Initially, the colors were to represent the attributes of steel but, that proved confusing and were quickly changed to stand for the three materials used in steelmaking (yellow for coal, orange for iron ore, blue for scrap steel).

Here's the original symbol.

So, why was the logo only put on one side of the helmet? Was it a novelty thing or was it a cost-savings thing?

"I thought it was a good idea, but I wasn't sure how it would be received," said Dan Rooney, now the team's chairman. "That's why it's only on one side of the helmet. Then we took it from there, and we had everybody asking questions and I said, `Let's keep it that way. It's really a novelty."'

Hence why the logo, to this day, is on only one side of the helmet (it's also been rumored the team's longtime equipment manager, Jack Hart, wasn't happy with slapping the logo on so many helmets and refused to do both sides).

It sounds like it was a risk-management and cost-savings thing that turned into a novelty. Here's a picture of a miniature version of the 1962 helmet:

And when a good thing works, you keep it

The Steelers had a surprisingly good record (9-5) in 1962, so they chose to keep the logo, with two changes. One, the helmets were switched from gold to black. Second, the Steelers were given permission to change the word "Steel" in the logo to "Steelers."