The Road To The Playoffs In The 1979 NFL Season
It was a little tougher than the previous year, but for the second straight year—and the fourth time in six years—the 1979 NFL season ended with the Pittsburgh Steelers winning the Super Bowl
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1979 Pittsburgh Steelers: The First Team To Four Super Bowl Wins
The 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers were already the greatest dynasty of the still-new Super Bowl era that began thirteen years earlier. The Steelers were the only team with three Super Bowl victories to their credit, and in ’79 they added another.
1979 Sports: Dominant College Champions & Pro Dynasties On Their Last Legs
The year in 1979 sports carries a special place in basketball lore, as Michigan State’s Magic Johnson and Indiana State’s Larry Bird met in the NCAA final that drew the highest TV ratings in the history of that event and set the stage for a new era in the NBA. That’s fair enough as the prime story of the year. There are a few things that we shouldn’t lose sight of though.
Steel City Supreme: The 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates & Steelers
The city of Pittsburgh was already riding high in the early part of 1979. In January of that year the Steelers became the first NFL team to win three Super Bowls, defeating the Dallas Cowboys 35-31. The baseball Pirates had contended to the season’s penultimate day the previous fall and were one of the National League’s model franchises in the 1970s. Little did the good people of Pittsburgh know that even better times were still ahead and it would be the Pirates and Steelers leading the way.