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Facts About The Pittsburgh Steelers You May Not Know

The Pittsburgh Steelers were founded in 1933 and are the oldest franchise in the AFC.
-Pittsburgh has won 6 Super Bowl titles, won more 7 AFC Championship Games and hosted 10 conference championship games. Which is more than any other AFC or NFC team.
-The Steelers got to more AFC conference championship games than any other team and are tied with the Dallas Cowboys with 14 championship game appearances.
-The Steelers have appeared in at least one Super Bowl in every decade of the contest.
-The Steelers won most recent super bowl win was on February 1, 2009. Super Bowl XLIII.
-The fifth-oldest franchise in the NFL, the Steelers were founded as the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 8, 1933, by Art Rooney, taking its original name from the National League baseball team of the same name, which at the time was a common practice.
-The Steelers have used black and gold as their colors since the club's inception, the lone exception being the 1943 season when they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and formed the "Steagles".
-The Steelers are the only NFL team that puts its logo on only one side of the helmet (the right side).
-The current football jerseys were introduced in 1968. The design consists of gold pants and either black jerseys or white jerseys, except for the 1970 and 1971 seasons when the Steelers wore white pants with their white jerseys. In 1997, the team switched to rounded numbers on the jersey to match the number font on the helmets Amazines_Chicago Bulls Jerseyafsaeswe_254, and a Steelers logo was added to the left side of the jersey.
Steelers playoff appearances- (25) 1947, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982 Article Dashboard_Shopping For Chicago Cubs Jerseys_424, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994 Jared Allen Youth Jersey, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002 matt forte jersey, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008,
Steelers division championships- (19)
AFC Central: 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983 New Jared Allen Jersey, 1984, 1992, 1994 Darrelle Revis Jersey 2012, 1995 Demarcus Ware womens jersey, 1996, 1997, 2001
AFC North: 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008
Steelers conference championships- (7)
1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1995, 2005, 2008
Steelers Super bowl championships- (6) 1974 (IX) Article Blast_The First Pennant_495, 1975 (X), 1978 (XIII), 1979 (XIV), 2005 (XL), 2008 (XLIII)