Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers
1978

Pittsburgh Steelers

"We were a different ball club, we were prepared and ready and anxious to throw the football more than ever had before." - Lynn Swann
Tony Dungy
Jon Hamm
by Tony Dungy Jon Hamm

The 1978 Steelers won their third Super Bowl of the decade with a 14-2 record in which they allowed a league-low 12.2 points per game. In the playoffs, the Chuck Noll-coached team blew out the defending AFC Champion Broncos, 33-10 and the Oilers, 34-5 before winning a 35-31 Super Bowl shootout over Tom Landry’s defending-champion Cowboys. The Steelers' two losses were by a combined 10 points. Its defense averaged three takeaways per game, starring future Hall of Famers Jack Lambert and Jack Ham at linebacker; Mel Blount at cornerback; and Mean Joe Greene at defensive tackle. Safety Donnie Shell and defensive end L.C. Greenwood had Pro Bowl seasons. The Steelers offense boasted Hall of Famers at quarterback (Terry Bradshaw) fullback (Franco Harris) and wide receiver (Lynn Swann and John Stallworth). All four of those players were clutch in the Super Bowl as Bradshaw threw for 318 yards and 4 TDs, Harris scored a touchdown, and Swann and Stallworth combined for 239 yards receiving and 3 TDs.

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Tony Dungy
Tony
Dungy
Tony Dungy, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, won over two-thirds of his regular season games as the head coach of Tampa Bay and Indianapolis from 1996 through 2008. In February 2007, Dungy – whose teams won 10 or more games in 10 of his 13 seasons – became the first African-American coach to win a Super Bowl after his Colts defeated the Bears in Super Bowl XLI. A former NFL defensive back and defensive assistant with the Steelers, Chiefs, and Vikings, Dungy has been an analyst for NBC’s “Football Night in America” since 2009.
Profession:
reporter
Preferred Team:
Indianapolis Colts
Jon Hamm
Jon
Hamm
Jon Hamm is an Emmy Award-winning actor who played Don Draper on the show, “Mad Men.” Hamm, who has also appeared in many movies including “Million Dollar Arm” and “Keeping up with the Joneses,” was born in St. Louis, where he was a talented high school linebacker. Due to the losing ways of his hometown’s football team, the St. Louis Cardinals, in the 1970s Hamm rooted for the Steelers instead. Hamm retained a dual allegiance into adulthood, even after the Cardinals moved to Arizona; when the Steelers and Cardinals met in Super Bowl XLIII, Hamm called it “a dream come true.”
Profession:
actor
Place of Birth:
St. Louis, Missouri
Preferred Team:
Los Angeles Rams