Sports in Pittsburgh National Football League. The Stars were suspected of being financed by Barney Dreyfuss and William Chase Temple, the owners of baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates. The team featured baseball players in the line-up including Christy Mathewson, a future Hall of Fame pitcher with the New York Giants and Fred Crolius, and outfielder with Pirates. The team won the league's only championship in 1902. In 1933, as the oldest of nine children Art Rooney, who had been raised on the North Side of Pittsburgh, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers. Originally nicknamed the Pirates, the team later changed their name to the Steelers, to represent
Logos and uniforms of the Pittsburgh Steelers Dallas when the team was playing the Cowboys on October 30, 1966 if the team was wearing the uniforms for Halloween. The uniforms were retired after two seasons. The team has mentioned publicly as recently as 2007 that they will never wear them in a game again. However, in 2008, the team began to sell customized versions of the jerseys on their official Web site. Fittingly, several Steelers players appear in the 2012 Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in a scene which was filmed in Heinz Field. After just two years with the "Batman" uniforms, the current uniform designs