the pittsburgh steelers have 10 super bowl wins.
the pittsburgh steelers have 10 super bowl wins.
how many super bowl wins does the pittsburgh steelers have?
10
pittsburgh and dallas first met in 1960 (the two actually met in the cowboys' first game as a franchise, with the steelers winning 35–28), and have faced each other in the super bowl on three occasions (x (w), xiii (w), xxx (l)) with pittsburgh leading the series 2–1. in the 1970s, pittsburgh and dallas were both renowned for stifling defenses named "the steel curtain" and "the doomsday defense" respectively. pittsburgh became the first team to achieve three super bowl wins when it defeated dallas in super bowl xiii, and the first team to achieve four super bowl victories a year later when they defeated the rams. dallas defeated the steelers in super bowl xxx to become the second team behind san francisco to win five super bowl championships. ten years later, pittsburgh would join dallas and san francisco to become the third team to reach that milestone when they defeated the seattle seahawks in super bowl xl. three years later, the steelers would become the first team to win a sixth super bowl, achieving that milestone in the 2008–09 season. they played against the arizona cardinals in super bowl xliii, with a 27–23 comeback victory.
history of the pittsburgh steelers
because of the team's unofficial policy of always wearing their black jerseys in home games, the team gained some notoriety when, as the designated "home" team for super bowl xl, the team elected to wear their white jerseys, becoming just the third nfl team to elect to wear white as the "home" team in the super bowl (denver would later elect to wear white as the home team in super bowl 50 and new england would elect to wear white as the home team in super bowl lii). but while the other two teams that have elected to wear white as the "home" team in the super bowl (dallas in super bowl xiii and super bowl xxvii, and washington in super bowl xvii) traditionally wear white at home, a variety of reasons were rumored as to why the steelers elected to wear white in super bowl xl. reasons included the fact that the team wore white in all three playoff victories that year (all on the road) to former head coach bill cowher's comments that since it wasn't at heinz field, it was a road game (a statement contradicted by the fact that ten years earlier in super bowl xxx, cowher's squad was the "home team" and chose to wear their black jerseys away from three rivers stadium, where they had played both playoff games–and did so against the cowboys, whose opponents will often wear white at home simply to force them to use their "unlucky" blue jerseys). the game took place in detroit, which is only a five-hour drive from pittsburgh and with the league preferring to have the super bowl in subtropical or mediterranean climates or in domed/retractable roof stadiums due to the winter weather, is likely the closest the steelers would have to a home game in a super bowl in the foreseeable future. (not surprisingly, there were also an overwhelming number of steelers fans at the game compared to the number of supporters of their opponent, the seattle seahawks. one espn.com columnist suggested that steelers fans outnumbered seahawks fans by a ratio of 25 to 1.) having been the cowboys' opponent in xiii, the steelers are the only team to have worn both white jerseys for a "home" super bowl and colored jerseys for an "away" one.
logos and uniforms of the pittsburgh steelers