Pittsburgh Steelers - Top Three Teams Leading in Super Bowl Wins

Every football team in America wishes to compete in the Super Bowl at the end of the football season. It is not only considered as the main event but this is the championship round. It is where the best team of the year is named, as well as where the Most Valuable Player is recognized. Not many teams have a chance to grab a title in this most awaited event. Some teams though get a chance to be repeat champions while others just plainly wait for their break to make it again to this very important match.

The most numbers of wins for Super Bowl is only five. In addition, there were only three teams, who got a chance to be called repeat champions five times. Below are some of them:

1. Dallas Cowboys- this team was the Champs for Super Bowl VI, XII, XVII, XVIII and XXX. These were the seasons led by Tom Landry as their head coach as well as the defense coordinator of the team. He popularized a defense that has been one of the basics for every football team today. He led 2 Super Bowl titles for this team and was known to be the 3rd in rank for the coaches with most wins. However, their owner fired him after the team lost their home game. Johnson who led the team two consecutive Super Bowl Matches then replaced him.

2. Pittsburgh Steelers- This team won the title for Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV and XL. This team was not doing that good until Chuck Knoll. He made a dynasty for this team by winning four championship games within 6 years. He popularized a defense for the team called Steel Curtain. When he retired, Bill Cowher replaced him in 1992 and he led the team to their 5th Super Bowl Title in 2006. He used the Blitzburgh defense as a key to wining this title.

3. San Fransisco 49ers- Yes, the team of the famous quarterback Joe Montana. This team owned the Super Bowl Titles XXIX, XXIV, XXIII, XIX and XVI. This was the only team in NFL who won all titles in Super Bowl only. This team never made a sound not until 1982 where they grabbed their first title in NFL. Bill Walsh was the one who turned the tables for this team as he led them to win. This team is not only popular for their three-time MVP awardee, Joe Montana, but also known for the best players of all time like Jerry Rice, Steve Young and Ronnie Lott. They also have a lot of hall of famers.

Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers and San Fransisco 49ers are the team hailed for the most number of Super bowls won. It is no doubt that these teams were worthy to be called Champions, not only for their coaches and for players, but how they gave the crowd many memorable and great moments in the history of football. Even though they are not the latest champions, they are still teams to watch out for in this league.

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Pittsburgh Steelers Rivals of All Times

The Pittsburgh Steelers is an NFL franchise who found themselves having three primary rivals with all three playing in the same division as theirs. The team's rivals are the Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, and Baltimore Ravens. Further, the team also have other rivals in the post season games namely the Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots, and the Dallas Cowboys. An intrastate rivalry between the Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles also arose but they play against each other only once every four years as per scheduling regulations.

The rivalry between the Cleveland Browns and the Steelers started way back 1950 when they first played against each other. At the start of the rivalry, the Browns had the advantage over the Steelers who had a 9-31 record at that time. The Steelers continued to lose for 16 straight years. It was only recently that the Steelers took over the rivalry for the first time ever with a 17-3 record. It was during this time that the team won ten straight games. To intensify the rivalry, former head coach of the Steelers had actually coached the Browns earlier in his career.

On the other hand, the Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens have a really bitten division rivalry evidenced by countless memorable match-ups between the two teams. Both teams caused each other's first loss in the home fields. The Pittsburgh Steelers won their first game at the M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore and three years later, the Ravens crushed the Steelers in a game at the Heinz field. The rivalry between the Ravens and the Steelers is like a seesaw winning and losing against each other and serve as a great complement by showing their fans how they can field really strong defenses against each other.

The Cincinnati Bengals dates the rivalry with the Steelers from the 1970 season when the merger was completed. The most memorable game of their rivalry happened in the 2005 AFC Wildcard playoff game when the Steelers made a come from behind win over the Bengals to compete for a Super Bowl title. This particular win was partly due to the knee injury the Bengal's quarterback experienced and thus was forced to leave the game.

Rivalry between the Steelers and the New England Patriots started when the latter upset the Steelers in 2001 at the Heinz Field. Later, in 2008, the Patriots were accused of videotaping hand signals of the opposing team's coaches which added to more controversy. The rivalry between the Oakland Raiders and Steelers was most heated during the 1970's. While that of the Cowboys started with the team's first game as a franchise in the 1960's.

As a team, the Pittsburgh Steelers will still have a lot to challenges to face, not just with their current rivals but with the new and upcoming teams of the NFL. Although the team have made their mark as one of the most competitive teams in the NFL, they still have to perform at their best to balance out every competitor they play against.

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