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.
The 1992 Pittsburgh Steelers came into the year ready for a fresh start. Chuck Noll, the head coach who had led the franchise to four Super Bowls in a six-year period from 1974-79 had stepped aside and was replaced by Bill Cowher, a young coach hungry to prove myself. The franchise needed just such a shot in the arm
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.