History of the Pittsburgh Steelers 1940, Rooney decided that he had had enough of the copycat Pirates moniker. He worked with the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" to run a contest to find a new name for the team. Former coach Joe Bach led the panel which selected the name Steelers from amongst the The new name paid homage to the city's largest industry of It is unclear who deserves credit for suggesting the name (which was already being used by at least one local high school team), but it appears there were a total of twenty-one winners, and each received a pair of season tickets to the
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