The Steelers hired the greatest coach in NFL history and changed the Steelers from the laughingstock of the league to the greatest dynasty in NFL history. Chuck Noll changed not only the Steelers but one could argue the entire city of Pittsburgh. Thank you Mr. Noll
52 Years Ago Today
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I laugh at this!
Actually, the Steelers hired Chuck Noll on January 27, 1969. I know this 1) because it's my birthday (Literally BORN to be a Steelers fan and 2) Google/Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Noll#:~:text=At%20age%2037%2C%20Noll%20was,head%20coach%20in%20the%20NFL.
Also the Steelers say so themselves.
https://www.steelers.com/video/steelershistory-chuck-noll-hired-16735008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Noll#:~:text=At%20age%2037%2C%20Noll%20was,head%20coach%20in%20the%20NFL.
Also the Steelers say so themselves.
https://www.steelers.com/video/steelershistory-chuck-noll-hired-16735008
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what does a few days matter over 52 years?
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To an old fart like me, EVERY day matters!
Not at a flat out "laugh" response yet for me... .....but I did "chuckle" a little myself...
However I do remember delivering the Pittsburgh Press one day and the headline read "Joe Who?"
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ok, who is going to be the first one to say they had to walk up hill both ways to school in a blizzard? 
ok, who is going to be the first one to say they had to walk up hill both ways to school in a blizzard?
Its true!
ok, who is going to be the first one to say they had to walk up hill both ways to school in a blizzard?
it was 10 miles to school, and the blizzards were during summer school...winters were even worse
Not 10 miles but it was 2 each way...
Jackson St/highland park to Sacred Heart Elementary/shadyside every day!
Come hell or high water!
And the worst of it was getting thru East Liberty with your lunch money still in your pocket!
No way these soft kids of the last 10 years or so would do even a tenth of that today!
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ok, who is going to be the first one to say they had to walk up hill both ways to school in a blizzard?
barefoot ............
My dad was born and raised in East Liberty ... quite a few years ago, he told me, "It was a really different place back then." Blue collar, but good neighborhood, mixed races but mainly Irish Catholic and Polish Catholic families.
And 52 years later they have a mediocre coach that is like an untreatable STI.
Italian Americans also!
When I was growing up there in the 70's...East liberty was not a very nice place..
Some cool spots to go like Peabody High (now Obama Academy), Ventos' Pizza, Islay's, Sears, Deluca Lanes....but rough man...
Learned that life was not all peaches and cream in East Liberty...
East Liberty took me "knee high to a man".......one can say..
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ok, who is going to be the first one to say they had to walk up hill both ways to school in a blizzard?
So you're telling me there was a different road to get to school ? and along nice weather..?
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Was going to comment on the best post you've ever submitted but then these next two convinced me not to..............
Some complained about Chuck Noll staying around to long but I can say he was welcomed as long as he wanted to stay due to his amazing everything he brought to change this storied franchise from 40+ years of the bottom to the best dynasty ever.
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ok, who is going to be the first one to say they had to walk up hill both ways to school in a blizzard?
I did for ******* sure. First two years on our farm before we got a jeep with a snowplow for our 1/2 mile private road. I walked that **** in waist deep snow to reach my bus stop.. I don't miss that **** and my pampered son will never know how good he really has it...haha
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Chuck stocked Cowher with a good team before he left. Cowher carried that torch well.