What was your earliest best Steeler moment?

I bring this up cause my son is 9 and was a huge Bengals fan up until this season. I believe I have converted him fully now after the Steelers win over the Ravens. Most of the season he would get more excited as the weeks went on for the upcoming Steelers game. Telling his friends that he would have to cut his visits short cause he wanted to be home in time for the game. So much that his one friend tried convincing him the Steelers stink cause he wanted him to stay. I picked my son up that day and his friend was crying on the front porch cause he was leaving in time to watch the game. We watched the Steelers win together.

Well, The Steelers Ravens game he was completely into it. I mean who couldn't be. That game was insane! Back and forth it went. Momentum shifts all game for each team. Intensity rising as the clock ticked. Looked bad, looked good, looked bad again and then the Steelers showed what they are all about and with 9 seconds left, the pass I believe that he will never forget. AB stretches for the final go ahead TD! AFC North Champs! My son wearing his Brown jersey and both of us screaming at the top of our lungs!

That reminds me of my first Steelers moment. I was a little younger, it was 1972 Western PA, 20 minutes from dawntawn. The family and friends were all gathered at our house. Too many people so the kids had to play outside. I remember it like it was yesterday. We were throwing the nerf ball around pretending to be big time players and all of a sudden the Immaculate reception! You could hear screaming from all of the households in the neighborhood. Franco Harris scores and we all go running back in wondering what was happening. All the parents were going nuts.

I feel as though my son and I now have shared a special moment together and it takes me to that moment I really became a Steelers fan myself.

These moments you have to cherish forever.

 

One of my earliest Steelers memories that stands out was back in 1976 when some nut crashed a plane into the Memorial Stadium stands in Baltimore. Fortunately, the game was a blowout and the stands were mostly empty.

 

For me it's just watching the Steelers in the late 70s and talking about them with my friends. My whole family were Browns fans, but my real introduction to football was through some friends at church who were Steelers fans. I loved talking Steelers with them, and making up songs about how horrible we thought Dallas and the Houston Oilers were.

 

Lynn Swann going off on the Cowboys in Super Bowl X. I began following the Steelers that season (1975) and had a quarter bet with my best friend in elementary school who was a Cowboys fan. Thanks to Swann and his acrobatics, I collected first thing Monday morning in the cafeteria before breakfast.

Good idea for a thread, 86.

 

I became a fan during the 1975 season.

 

A bee stung me when I was watching at old Pitt stadium. Not my best memory, but my earliest.

 

Too many to recall, one was when we lost to the Dolphins on a fake punt.
circa 72? I knew we had arrived, I was about 12 at the time. It was only a matter of time.
The Emperor was in control. By the way, Steeler games were blacked out in this day
friends and family would drive to YGSTOWN about an hour away to watch games on tv.

 

my mother use to go visit her great aunt in Maryville tn. she was friends with some of lynn swanns family or friends I cant remember. I can remember seeing all these pictures of him at usc and with Pittsburgh. I never liked usc but that is the first exposure I had to the steelers and that done it. we watched them play the cowboys in a super bowl there. I was 4.

just so some know because it isn't well know. swann was born in Alcoa tn but moved when he was 2

 

Yeah Alcoa is a breeding ground for football players. Randall Cobb is from there too. When I pastored in Blount County, which is where Alcoa and Maryville are, I came to realize that high school football is basically like a religion unto itself down there. My favorite earliest Steeler memories are of Kordell Stewart going out wide and then getting under center. I thought that was awesome. The whole mid 90's team and beating the Colts in the playoffs and watching a Harbaugh cry. Also watching old NFL Films and thinking how cool the Steel Curtain was. Made me obsessed basically.

 

i remember going to the old pitt stadium for a few games and we would get some on tv at my grand fathers. my first game at 3 rivers when it opened and joe nameth was playing for the jets. he was really a big name back then. probably the first super star athlete known by everyone at the time. he did tv ads and that was huge. that stadium was like the greatest thing i had ever seen in my life at that time. that never went away, i loved that stadium.

 

Mine was also the IR game. Watching in a house full of Raider fans. At the end, I was the only one cheering! My oldest brother was livid, claiming that the Steelers cheated, the refs were on our side, the ball hit the ground, the ball came off of Frenchy...............He still claims all of that!

 

Earliest "best" was when Franco caught the immaculate reception right in front of where I was sitting. Peanut heaven, but about the same yard line.

 

I'm sure I watched the Steelers a lot as a very little kid, but once I started paying attention I think I was 8 years old. 1993 playoffs. Steelers were playing the Chiefs, and I remember that the lost in OT to Joe Montana, in a game at Arrowhead that they should have won, and the really blew it in the final minutes. One of my earliest Steelers memories. I was hooked from that point on with every game.

 

Super Bowl XIV vs. Rams in 1980..... the first Super Bowl I remember and the day I became a Steelers fan.

 

Going to my first game in '70 or '71.
New stadium, lousy team.

But it was the Steelers!

 

My absolute favorite Superbowl ever.

 

It was a long ago dark wintry blizzardy Christmas Day and the Steelers beat a dreaded rival in a seesaw game with only 9 seconds left on the clock. Seems like it was only days ago.......................oh wait...............it was. Everything before that is a giant blur.

Putting all seriousness aside - it was attending my very first Steeler game at old Forbes field in 1963 against the Eagles. The Pastor of our Church scored tickets for all of us Altar Boys - I think he was on a first name basis with Mr Rooney at the time. Bobby Layne at QB and JH Johnson at FB and Dick Hoak at HB. The FB was the primary runner back then.

 

Joe Greene, 1970 football card. I was in fifth grade when I watched Franco Harris score on the immaculate reception. A classmate was a Raiders fan and boy did I have a good week of school after Christmas break. If only the Steelers had beat the Dolphins. The next year I had about every football card, except Terry Bradshaw. My Raiders buddy had four Bradshaw cards, but he would not trade me one because all the smack talk I gave him about the immaculate reception.

 

Went to a Steelers-clowns game at Three Rivers Stadium with my dad when I was real young. Nothings changed, because that was a spanking too!

 

As noted on other threads, my earliest Steelers memory is Super Bowl X. I was five years old at the time, with a #12 jersey from Sears.

The cool thing about my early childhood is that it seemed like we were always Super Bowl Champs.

 

I was at that Superbowl at the Rose bowl, what a great time. Bradshaw threw a great pass and Stallworth ran
right under it. Steelers win. End of Dynasty years.