Pittsburgh Steelers (16) and hosted more conference championship games (11) than any other NFL team. The Steelers have won 8 AFC championships, tied with the Denver Broncos, but behind the New England Patriots' record 10 AFC championships. The Steelers share the record for second most Super Bowl appearances with the Broncos, and Dallas Cowboys (8). The Steelers lost their most recent championship appearance, Super Bowl XLV, on February 6, 2011. The Steelers, whose history traces to a regional pro team that was established in the early 1920s, joined the NFL as the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 8, 1933, owned by Art Rooney
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