Revolution

The Transformation of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL

De: Steve Massey

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

What team offered a deal for Terry Bradshaw so good that the Steelers considered it minutes after drafting the Hall of Famer? Which NFL team waited for but never received footage of a young receiver named John Stallworth? Why did Chuck Noll not want to draft Franco Harris? When did Joe Greene draw a “line in the sand?” What divisional rival did the Steelers admire most?

The answers are in this book.

From 1969 to 1974, the Pittsburgh Steelers perfected or created components for a championship football dynasty: specified weight training, the Cover 2 Defense, the Stunt 4-3, the draft combine (BLESTO), and the mining of Historically Black College football programs. The Steelers developed Hall of Fame and All-Pro players, coaches, and scouts. One player even changed the rules of the game because of his peerless performance.

The team became a revolutionary football organization, a multi-championship superpower, reshaping the NFL. The construction of the team was coordinated and organized. The Steelers were built steadily, through the infusion of player talent shaped by coaching genius.

Drawing from interviews with players and front office personnel from the NFL in the 1970s and 1980s, dozens of newspapers stretching from the 1930s to now, and a library of NFL biographies, memoirs, and insider accounts, Steve Massey has collected more than 1400 reference notes that explain the game-by-game roadmap the Steelers took to reach the Super Bowl.

To understand the eventual success of the Steelers, it is necessary to see the process of building it.

This is the story.