Word: bowlfuls
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...flourishing mills and the four Super Bowl titles of the 1970s are distant memories in western Pennsylvania. But an energetic blue-collar ethos still engulfs the Steelers. At 6 ft. 5 in. and 241 lbs., the quarterback, 22, is built like a linebacker, or millworker, and fits in with the patrons at Jack's. Veteran running back Jerome Bettis took a $3.5 million pay cut so he could finish his career in Pittsburgh. And at a time when teams are bought and sold like ingots and coaches are fired at the drop of a pass, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney--whose...
That stability is paying off. Despite injuries to several top players, Pittsburgh, at 14-1, entered the last weekend of the regular season with the best record in the NFL. Assured of home-field advantage throughout the AFC play-offs, the Steelers have their best shot at a Super Bowl title since the Steel Curtain era of the '70s. "This team has grown up this season, meeting every challenge every single week," says former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski, now an ESPN analyst. "Pittsburgh is the best team in football, without a doubt...
...didn't want to go somewhere else and have to prove myself all over again." In a league where players seem like replaceable parts, the Steelers have tried to keep a core squad intact. "There are a lot of guys that stay here," says James Farrior, the Steelers' Pro Bowl inside linebacker. "You fight harder for the guys you know better...
...affected his lungs, according to a preliminary autopsy report; in Huntersville, N.C. During 15 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers, the "Minister of Defense" pummeled rival quarterbacks with 198 career sacks (a record broken by Bruce Smith in 2003), was named to the Pro Bowl 13 straight times and helped lead the Packers to two consecutive Super Bowls...
...their careers, but until recently many of the others worked closer to the ground. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, reclines like Venus on her couch. Calatrava's Olympic Stadium in Athens, seen by billions on television during last summer's Games, is a voluptuous, low-slung bowl. But in recent years, even these architects have been moving into the vertical mode, taking their mambo wiggles and thunderbolts with them. The square-shouldered glass-and-steel boxes of Modernism are giving way to silhouettes that once seemed inconceivable but are coming soon to a skyline near...