So, reportedly, said Raymond (Buddy) Parker to Art Rooney when he resigned his post as their Head Coach on September 5, 1965, two weeks prior to the season opener.

To the extent that Parker had a "bunch of stiffs" though, it was largely his own doing. Known to eschew the draft, and cut player in piques of anger during flights home from road venues, after he'd had a few, other reports had Parker resigning in a power struggle with Dan Rooney, who required Parker to cease his giving...

The 1969 season for the Pittsburgh Steelers was one of endings and beginnings. I’m inclined to borrow a phrase from one of my personal favorites, Charles Dickens and claim, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times,” but no best times were to be experienced during this final year of the ‘60s. It was to be the last campaign of the “Rooney U” at Pitt Stadium, an aging edifice sitting atop Oakland’s DeSoto Street. Better known as “Cardiac Hill,” so trying was the walk around the Stadium...