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The 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 42nd in the National Football League (NFL). They improved to a 10–3–1 regular-season record, won the AFC Central division title, sending them to the playoffs for the third consecutive season, and won a Super Bowl championship, the first league title in Steelers' history.
Super Bowl IX was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Minnesota Vikings to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1974 season.
The season ended with Super Bowl IX when the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings. Players held a strike from July 1 until August 10, [1] prior to the regular season beginning; [2] only one preseason game (that year's College All-Star Game) was canceled, and the preseason contests were held with all-rookie rosters.
Super Bowl III in January 1969 was the first such game that carried the "Super Bowl" moniker in official marketing; the names "Super Bowl I" and "Super Bowl II" were retroactively applied to the first two games. [4] A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city or changed their name, have won the Super Bowl. [5]
The NFL awarded Super Bowl VIII to Houston on March 21, 1972, at the owners' meetings held in Honolulu. For the first time, multiple Super Bowl sites were selected at a single meeting, as hosts for both VII and VIII were named. Houston became the first Super Bowl host city provided with more than one year to prepare for the game, and lead time ...
The 49ers won Super Bowl XIX after a 15-1 season in 1984 and beat the Bengals again in Super Bowl XXIII at the end of the 1989 season. Walsh stepped down as the 49ers’ head coach after that game ...
Note: Prior to the 1975 season, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation.Had the 1973 playoffs been seeded, the AFC divisional matchups would have been #3 Oakland at #2 Cincinnati and #4 wild card Pittsburgh at #1 Miami; the NFC matchups would not have changed, although #3 Dallas would have had to travel to #2 Los Angeles, and #1 Minnesota would have had home ...
Reba McEntire pulled off a stunning rendition of the national anthem on Sunday during Super Bowl LVIII, marking a full-circle moment for the singer.Taking to the field wearing a custom Ralph ...