Chuck Noll was named the 14th head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers on January 27, 1969….after Penn State coach Joe Paterno turned down an offer for the position…..as Noll was the youngest coach in NFL history at the time…..when Steelers owner Art Rooney would later credit Don Shula as the person who recommended Noll as a head coach. Noll implemented a defensive system in Pittsburgh that…
DOG COMMENTARY: The 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers season saw the Steelers successfully defend their Super Bowl Championship from the previous year….as they achieved a 12–4 record….and went on to defeat the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV. The Steelers started out to a 4-0 record….when by adding to the previous season….the Steelers had won 12 in a row. They finished…
DOG COMMENTARY: We have posted over 2100 videos here on our ImaSportsphile web page….with many that are absolutely “nuggets of gold” in our treasure chest of vintage memories….but none more than this nine minute NFL Films piece about the NFL’s Best Ever Teams is every bit as good as any of those other treasures….as the teams, the games and…
DOG COMMENTARY: Super Bowl XIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1978 season….as the game was played on January 21, 1979, at the Orange Bowl in Miami….which was the…
DOG ASIDE: In this CBS preview of the upcoming 1979 NFL season…..Irv Cross provides insight into the upcoming 1979 NFL season by covering QB Archie Manning and the New Orleans Saints…..then comes a piece on Oilers running back Earl Campbell…..followed by an inside look at the defending Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers….and finishes with a…
DOG COMMENTARY: This video is awesome because Harry Kalas of NFL Films fame gives the viewer a compilation of highlights from the first Super Bowl game played through the 13th Super Bowl game played….which makes it a treasure in its own right. In the chronology of all things Super Bowl….starting off with the Green Bay…
DOG ASIDE: As NBC gets into their pre-game coverage of Super Bowl XIII between the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburg Steelers…..Bryan Gunble provides the viewer with more highlights of the prior 12 Super Bowl games….which always give any true NFL fan a “blast from the past”….and resparks fond memories of not only these two great…
DOG ASIDE: This NBC production of Super Bowl XIII between the Dallas Cowboys vs Pittsburgh Steelers is hosted by Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen….along with Bryan Gumble, Fran Tarkenton, Mike Adamle and Donna de Varonna each covering pertinant information about the upcoming game….with the best part being when Enberg and Olsen compare the two offenses….which…
DOG COMMENTARY: Throughout the history of sport…..there has quite possibly never been another single play that took place during any sporting event that has ever gained more notoriety than the “Immaculate Reception”….as the nickname given to what is arguably the most famous play in the history of American football….occurring in the AFC divisional playoff game…