Pittsburgh Steelers second place in their division, or with a record better than .500 (). Pittsburgh did make history in by signing Byron White, a future Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to what was at the time the biggest contract in NFL history, but he played only one year with the Pirates before signing with the Detroit Lions. Prior to the 1940 season, the Pirates renamed themselves the Steelers. During World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. They twice merged with other NFL franchises to field a team. During the 1943 season, they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles forming the
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