NFL Top 10 Dynasties: '70s Pittsburgh Steelers 

4 rings in six years. Greatest Dynasty of all time.

There was no free agency then though

@@mansam15 correct so all the great teams they faced remained stacked too.

@@pricepittsburgh wow, you came back after 5 years to reply to that dude?

@@Kingkam_77 I still get notifications lol. A couple months ago on a different thread I got one from someone who responded to something I posted 10 years ago. I responded to them and they responded back and we joked about how long ago they original comment was. I have a couple accts on here that are pretty old. This one I think is 2007. I had another one from 2006 but it got deleted because I didn't link it to Google on time. It sucked cause RU-vid is like 05.

+Curtis Rupp 60s Packers 15 world championships one more than the Steelers did. Yes the NFL championships which was the Super Bowl before the Super Bowl count. At the Super Bowl started a year earlier the Packers would've been the first and only team to this day that would have 3 Straight Titles. Which there's no question they would've won against the AFL team and 65. No team in the NFL since the Super Bowl fully emerged in 1970 has been able to win three straight titles only the 60s Green Bay Packers with the 65 NFL title to the 66 Super Bowl title to the 67 Super Bowl title. The 60s Packers for that alone deserves to be number one.

TheSSUltimateGoku An era of more limited competition...

Matthew Beazley The Steelers also had to battle other dynasties within their era (i.e., Cowboys, Dolphins, Raiders). I like the 49ers as well, but (to generalize) the Bears arguably were a one hit wonder, the Cowboys were at the end of their rope (early 80s), and they got beat by Bill Parcels Giants. And a valid argument can also now be made for the Belichick-Brady led Patriots...

+Don Quixote Not really the Baltimore Colts with Johnny Unitasin the 60s the Rams of the 60s were very competitive. The Giants in the early 60s were competitive. The Cleveland Browns with Jim Brown of the 60s were competitive. Do I have to keep going on???

TheSSUltimateGoku Yeah, actually you do need to keep going... There of course was competition is the point you are making, but not the volume of it as post merger... You're merely trying to argue a point I was not making, and no one would try to argue there's less competition post merger.

Michel Smiffi yah the 80s niners

you're so stupid we all know the #1 Dynasty... The 2008 Lions, it's so obvious!

Joey Mullaney I completely forgot #BestTeamEver they had so many good players

Yeah 60s packers

Tom W WHOA WHOA WHOA NO JUST NOOOOO

thats mathematical true

Word.

Pats

Agreed, 💯 percent!!! God rest Franco soul 🙏!!!! Terry was great as well, people have to realize, he didn't have to put up gaudy numbers, they didn't throw the ball 40 or 50 times a game like now days? It was a very different Era and when Bradshaw needed to make a huge throw to Swann or Stallworth he could, and Franco Harris was a beast!!!!! And, to have a defense like that to lean on, unbelievable!!!!!!

@@kevinchandler179 Bradshaw at his best--no other QB could touch him, before or since. People who were there to witness it know that. People who weren't there don't know that because all they have to go on is his stats, which doesn't tell the whole story.

Where does he get 6 years? They went to the AFC championship in 72 and 83.

B S

Jealously

I said the same thing should of be number one I'm a Steeler fan

Exactly was was ahead of them

If Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier weren't injured for the 1976 AFC Championship Game, the Steelers could have easily won their 5th Super Bowl that year instead of the Raiders. The 1976 Steelers had their finest defensive year that season only allowing 28 points in their final 9 games that season.

Sorry for asking but the ‘60 packers won 5 nfl championships in a row and 2 super bowls also in a row also they lose the 60 and 61 championship and if they won them it could be 7 nfl championships in a row also they beat the giants,colts in their stadium Then in the lambeu field they beat by 25 blowout points the browns then they do the same in 1966 they beat the cowboys allowing only 10 points And in 1967 the Packers won the best conference championships game in nfl history winning 2 super bowls in a row and how do you dare to say that they are above the Steelers?!

Thank u absolutley they beat great teams on their way to the Super Bowl and they beat great teams in the Super Bowl not taking nothing away from what the Patriots accomplished but I just think they'll never be another team as talented as strong you're talkin about 9 Hall of Famers on that team

@@davester1970 I agree it would have been the first team to win 5 but they had no Franco and no Rocky Bleier that year 76 was actually the most dominant defense statistically

@@davester1970 not to take nothing away from the Raiders but we were just that good the Raiders of the 70s in one of the great teams in NFL history but when we were that good but we had no Franco and no Rocky in that AFC Championship tall order and the game was played at Oakland on top of that

I bet he did! Tarkenton was a great scrambler but he probably feared for his life every time he faced the Steel Curtain.

With that 1976 team that lost Franco and Rocky they ran the table after starting 1-4 with SIX shutouts and destroyed Baltimore, went up against the Raiders with only one running back, they would and should have won 5 out of 6. That was THE greatest Steelers team of all of them...

Donegal513 exactly. played in 2 other afc championship games and lost by only 4 points to the perfect dolphins. the fact the steelers won the afc championship 4 times in the 70s with how great of a conference it was with the dolphins, raiders, colts, oilers, chargers, etc fielding some excellent teams is a great accomplishment in itself, let alone the fact they won all 4 super bowl appearances which enhances that even more. they beat some of the greatest teams ever assembled. that dallas team was amazing, making it to 5 super bowls. madden always had great teams in oakland. the late 70s oilers were among the best teams to never reach the super bowl and just had the unfortunate problem of playing in the same era of those steelers.

Donegal513 - Agreed. But one could argue that the Packers of the 60's had an easier route to a championship due to fewer teams and no Super Bowls to play in until the final 2 years of the dynasty. And the opponents in those 2 SBs were probably not the best of competition at the time. But I'm a Steelers fan and consider those 3 teams equally great and equally deserving.

Donegal513 ..I agree... in fact the '76 Steelers defense had a few SHUTOUTS.. where is this guy looking at stats.. a moron... the Steelers basic foundation of defense started in the early 70's..even though they didn't win in 72,73,76 & 77.. the defense ranked in the top 5 of those years as well.. if injuries didn't hit them in 76... you're looking at a threepeat... but injuries are part of the history as well... nevertheless, any team duplicating 4 titles in 6 years would be extremely difficult today... Steelers were the Dynasty of the 70's

Andrew Hoang... Not sure exactly what you missed in my comment. It seemed to be pretty straight forward to me. You took what I commented and made it something it was clearly not. No where was I trying to make an argument in support of the 70s Steelers greatness by using "change of fortunes." As you stated correctly that is a stupid argument. If I was applying that argument solely to try and bolster that Steelers legacy it would be idiotic. However, I was not. I was responding to the moron that was denigrating the 70s Steelers by stating that somehow they were only capable of winning titles for 6 years. That NFL analyst demonstrated that he had no knowledge of what he was talking about. Those 70s Steelers teams made multiple runs in years where they did not win a title. Getting as close as the AFC Championship game in 2 other seasons. In getting to those AFC Championship games, they were only a "change of fortune" away from more Super Bowl appearances, and possible victories. So, that analyst's statement of it being hard to come up with a scenario where they could have won more than 4 is just down right stupid. It is clear that you could easily find a scenario where that team wins more than the 4 they won.

Thank you Joe YOU are obviously an EDUCATED RAN

It’s so funny that the Steel Curtain was so dominant they had to nerf it

Check out what the Steelers defense did in 1976 and I am pretty sure they didn't even go to the SB that year.

Ditkas was from Pittsburgh

Apparently not for that fool. Those seasons back in the 70's were WAR. In the playoffs they had to get past the Dolphins, Raiders and the Oilers with Earl Campbell. There was no concussion protocol; I remember Bradshaw going back INTO a game after suffering one. Four in six years back then was AMAZING.

Still a dynasty

@@Sirharryflash82so true! Just look at replays from the 70s so much more physical than today.

Zach no the 80s niners should be #1

Zach The 62 Packers nearly quadrupled their opponents in ppg vs ppga. They dominated an entire decade and the name of that pretty silver colored trophy is named after their coach. HOFers across the board. During a time of no salary caps, the smallest marjet team in North American professional sports was the undisputed greatest dynasty ever.

Slotten by far it's not even close back to back then 2 years later a 3 peat. I wonder why no one else has 3 peated before or since except for of course you gb early team. Don't let ignored fans that only been watching since 2001. Try to tell anyone anything they are the dumbest fan base in the league.

Slotten George Halas did more for football than there coach the trophy should be named after him

@@tomw3886 Montana was from Pittsburgh so..... yeah you're welcome

+JOE CooL the only defense is that the football the packers played in the 60's was better. the steelers beat the 3 best teams of that decade head to head. only one lose to the raiders of that era but that was IT! honestly, 60's packers and 70's steelers are 1a and 1b

CMartin6688 Dude, you have no balls... You must have a packers fan as a roomie, yer pappie, or something...

Its the packers....not the patriots

With the most cheating scandals, seriously the Steelers won 4 titles in 6 years, they won back to back titles, twice and put their coach, owner and 9 starters in the Hall of Fame, end of discussion

@@cityofchamps66 ... tell 'em AGAIN!!!

@Chris steelers got there rings and didnt need to spy on teams in practice just crash mouth football.

jordan sheppard didn’t really spy. Steelers lasted what 6 years pats have lasted what 18 years 6 titles 9 conference titles Steelers went to just 4

I wanna see all those teams during those era's go against each other.

Correct!!! Chuck Noll said the 76 Steelers were the best team he ever had. And they lost. Shows you how fortunate you have to be to avoid injuries. Franco and Bleier got hurt in the Divisional round. Which meant, they were done when they went to Oakland.

@@bigpapasmurfz6252 yup I believe that was the year when the Steel Curtain shutout 5 teams on their schedule. Imagine handing 5 teams the big goose egg in one season!

Guarantee it

+Solomon Kessington Don't forget Mike Webster, the greatest center in NFL history (with all due respect to Jim Otto and Chuck Bednarik).

Yes that is correct they went up against much tougher competition then the Patriots did

You talkin about the Raiders of the seventies the dolphins of the 70s the Cowboys of the 70s the Vikings these were very physical very very good teams but they had to get through not to mention the division rivalries they had with the Browns in the Oilers especially even though the Browns back then never won anything but every time we played them it was like we were playing the Cowboys in the Super Bowl the Rivalry with the Browns back then was unbelievable they just went through I believe much tougher competition and you talkin about a team again with 9 Hall of Famers

454ss chevelle This tough 70's Steelers team couldn't get past the tough Dolphins team of early 70's. Dolphin team dominated super Steelers. Csonka, Kiick, Warfield departed after 74 season. O-line handled Greene, Greenwood, Shavers, Hamm, and Russell. Dolphins offense line one of the best in NFL history

Ham - PSU

Why do you hate us :(

The videotaping practices of spygate were not banned by the NFL until 2006. Every Patriots Superbowl (ALL 6 NOW) from 2001 to present is legitimate whether you like it or not.

Patriots had to play in the salary cap era which honestly makes their dynasty more impressive.

Chiefs pay refs

Steelers are the best 49ers only have 5 ring Steelers have 6 ring

Ever heard of the 1960's Packers?

+Sonja Rossey that means nothing what so ever

Broncos13 Fan They chose the 1989 49ers. But the 1978 Steelers would beat the 1989 49ers because that team would hit and hurt their opponents

@Harry Engel: The 1989 49ers beat both of those Steelers Teams. The 1989 49ers have what is probably among the most underrated defenses of all time.

@you're right: "Cheating Scandals", yet from the 1970s through late 80s, whole teams were juiced up on roids, and the whole "spygate" thing wasn't banned by the NFL until 2006.

I'd say the Packers.

Steelers