Steelers vs. Pirates

The Steelers are in the Superbowl, and the Pirates didn’t did much last season, so it is time to see the differences between these teams and see why Pittsburgh’s football team is far superior than its baseball counterpart.

Let’s start with the leadership. The Rooney’s have owned the Steelers since 1933 when Art Rooney bought the team for a small $2500 and have produced quality players steadily every year since they got the command of the team. On the other side of the street, the Pirates have had a total of 5 owners since 1933, 3 of them since 1996, since then, the team have struggled to get good results at the MLB and their best moments came in the seventies and eighties when the team was in the hands of John Galbreath, who ran the team for forty years.

Now with the coaching. The Steelers prefer to hire young coaches whom can bring energy to the team, and they have had success doing it that way as they have only had 3 head coaches since 1971 and have won 5 Super bowls since then, while the Pirates have had 8 managers since the same year and it seems like 96’ was a terrible year for the baseball franchise as they hadn’t enjoyed of any successes since then.

The Pirates doesn’t have any recognizable players that can serve as models to be followed by kids, they had Jason Bay, but now Bay is playing for the Red Sox after a trade, while the Steelers have Big Ben, one of the most recognizable names in the world of sports these days.

No wonder why Pittsburgh sports fans are more oriented to football than to baseball, if they had a better team, I’m sure the competition to fill stadiums will be bigger.