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- The 1978 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 46th season in the National Football League (NFL). The season concluded with the team winning Super Bowl XIII to become the first franchise in the NFL to win three Super Bowl titles. The championship run was led by quarterback Terry Bradshaw and the team's vaunted Steel Curtain defense. This team is regarded as one of the greatest defensive teams of all time and one of the greatest teams in NFL history. Bradshaw put together the best year of his career to that point, becoming only the second Steeler to win the NFL MVP award. Ten Steelers players were named to the Pro Bowl team, and four were judged as first-team All-Pros by the AP. Head coach Chuck Noll returned for his tenth season—moving him ahead of Walt Kiesling as the longest tenured head coach in the team's history to that point. The Steelers entered the season as defending champions of the AFC Central Division, coming off a 9–5 record in 1977. Their two losses were by a combined 10 points. Despite winning their division, the previous season was a difficult one for the team (both on and off the field) which culminated in a division round playoff loss to the Denver Broncos on Christmas Eve. The team began the 1978 season with seven straight victories, a franchise-best start to a season that stood for 42 years, before losing to the Houston Oilers in prime time on Monday Night Football. They finished the season with a league-best 14–2 record, including a 5-game winning streak to close the season. This record assured them they would play at home throughout the 1978 playoffs. It was also the best record compiled in the team's history (since surpassed only by a 15–1 mark in 2004). The 1978 Steelers team was rated the thirty-fifth best team in the history of the NFL (to September 2015) by FiveThirtyEight, a polling aggregation and statistical service. The rating is based upon FiveThirtyEight's proprietary Elo rating system algorithm. Only two Steelers teams were rated higher: the 1975 team at twelfth and the 2005 team one slot ahead of the 1978 team at thirty-fourth. In 2007, the 1978 Steelers were ranked as the 3rd greatest Super Bowl champions on the NFL Network's documentary series America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions, with team commentary from Rocky Bleier, Mel Blount, Randy Grossman and Joe Greene, and narrated by Bruce Willis. They also were #3 on the 100 greatest teams of all time presented by the NFL on its 100th anniversary. For that, commentary was provided by actor Jon Hamm, radio personality Jon Hein, and players Tony Dungy, Franco Harris, Ed "Too Tall" Jones and Lynn Swann. (en)
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- Terry Bradshaw (en)
- Jack Ham (en)
- Lynn Swann (en)
- Mel Blount (en)
- Mike Webster (en)
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- * Defensive coordinator – George Perles
* Defensive assistant – Dick Walker
*Linebackers & Secondary – Woody Widenhofer (en)
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- * Chairman of the board – Arthur J. Rooney
* President – Daniel M. Rooney
* Vice president – John R. McGinley
* Vice president – Arthur J. Rooney, Jr.
* Public relations director – Ed Kiely
* Traveling secretary – James A. Boston
* Publicity director – Joe Gordon
* Controller – Dennis P. Thimons
* Assistant controller – James S. Maund
* Director of ticket sales – Geraldine Glenn
* Director of player personnel – Dick Haley
* Assistant director of player personnel – Bill Nunn
* Director of professional scouting – V. Timothy Rooney
* Talent scout – West Coast – Bob Schmitz (en)
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- * Head coach – Chuck Noll (en)
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- Bills (en)
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- * Offensive line – Rollie Dotsch
* Offensive backfield – Dick Hoak
* Receivers – Tom Moore (en)
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- Won AFC Championship 34–5 (en)
- Won Divisional Playoffs 33–10 (en)
- Won Super Bowl XIII 35–31 (en)
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- DT Joe Greene (en)
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- C Mike Webster (en)
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- S Donnie Shell (en)
- WR John Stallworth (en)
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- "That story had no news value whatsoever. The thing that made it very bad was that the story was of no news to the people of Pittsburgh. So I have to assume that he [referring to John Clayton] is working for the competition. He certainly wasn't working in the interest of the paper or the fans. As far as I'm concerned he was working for the other people. The only way I can read it is espionage. I know for a fact that other people use other media for their interests, to spy." (en)
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- Falcons (en)
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- – Head coach Chuck Noll's reaction to the "Shouldergate" story. (en)
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- * Strength – Louis Riecke
* Flexibility – Paul Uram
*Physician, M.D. – Dr. David S. Huber
*Physician, M.D. – Dr. Anthony P. Yates
* Physician, orthopedic – Dr. Paul B. Steele, Jr.
* Dentist – Dr. George P. Boucek
* Trainer – Ralph Berlin
* Assistant trainer – Robert Milie
* Equipment manager – Anthony Parisi
* Field manager – Jack Hart
* Film director – Bob McCartney
* Photographer – Harry Homa (en)
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- The 1978 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 46th season in the National Football League (NFL). The season concluded with the team winning Super Bowl XIII to become the first franchise in the NFL to win three Super Bowl titles. The championship run was led by quarterback Terry Bradshaw and the team's vaunted Steel Curtain defense. This team is regarded as one of the greatest defensive teams of all time and one of the greatest teams in NFL history. Bradshaw put together the best year of his career to that point, becoming only the second Steeler to win the NFL MVP award. Ten Steelers players were named to the Pro Bowl team, and four were judged as first-team All-Pros by the AP. Head coach Chuck Noll returned for his tenth season—moving him ahead of Walt Kiesling as the longest ten (en)
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- 1978 Pittsburgh Steelers season (en)
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