2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season 2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season The 2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 68th season as a professional sports franchise and as a member of the National Football League. The season began with the team trying to improve on their 6–10 record from 1999 in which they failed to qualify for the playoffs. While Pittsburgh did improve to 9–7 and had their first winning season since 1997, it was not enough for the team to qualify for the playoffs. This season also marked the Steelers' last at Three Rivers Stadium. Coach Bill Cowher named Kent Graham as the team's starting quarterback
City of Pirates "City of Pirates" fell short of his previous film "Three Crowns of the Sailor" (1983) which garnered him reputable respect in the international film community. Much of the praise for and criticism of "City of Pirates" was given retrospectively, not upon its initial release. For instance, Paul Hammond wrote of the film that "If Ruiz's film palls in its compulsive retreading of trod ground, in its insistent miracle-working, it is because such desiring fictions are by definition interminable, and autonomous," giving the film itself a quality of agency. "City of Pirates" was screened to an international audience at the New