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The 1981 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 49th in the National Football League.After enduring an injury plagued 9–7 season the previous year and missing the playoffs for the first time since 1971, the Steelers had hoped that the 1980 season was just a small hiatus from contending for championships.
The Pittsburgh Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC; seven franchises in the National Football Conference (NFC) have longer tenures in the NFL. The team struggled to be competitive in its ...
7 1981 Final Standings. ... The 1981 NFL season was the 62nd regular season of the National Football League. ... NFL History 1981–1990 Archived October 6, ...
Largest point differential in a season: 211 Steelers (1975 season), 204 Steelers (1979 season), 168 Steelers (1972 season), 161 Steelers (1978 season), 154 Steelers (1979 season) Largest point deficit overcome in a game : 21 ( Baltimore Ravens Oct. 5 1997), 21 ( Buffalo Bills Dec. 15, 1985), 21 ( Chicago Cardinals Oct. 11, 1953), 18 ...
Since the NFL merger in 1970, the Pittsburgh Steelers have compiled a regular-season record of 444–282–2 (.635) and an overall record of 480–305–2 (.635) including the playoffs, reached the playoffs 30 times, won their division 22 times, played in 16 AFC championship games, and won six of eight Super Bowls.
1967 was the first year where a pre-scheduled playoff (rather than regular season results) determined participation in the championship. It also marked the first year in which if there was a tie for first place in a division, the division champion was determined by a system of tiebreakers, rather than via a playoff game (as detailed in the 1933 ...
The National Football League playoffs for the 1981 season began on December 27, 1981. The postseason tournament concluded with the San Francisco 49ers defeating the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XVI , 26–21, on January 24, 1982, at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan .
The NFL did not use a fixed-bracket playoff system. The three division winners were seeded 1–3 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and received a first-round bye while the wild card teams were seeded 4 and 5, and played in the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend , with the 4 seed hosting.