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...Charles Henry Noll. He's the guy who keeps it going. He's the man who does...
Walking with the Steelers was a sturdy man in a black shirt who seemed strangely subdued. Not a hair or an emotion was out of place. There was about him an air of quiet satisfaction-nothing more. Chuck Noll, 48, had just become the first coach to win four Super Bowls, but he knew that in a few short hours he would feel the sadness that touches him after every game. "You throw so much into preparation, and then afterward there's nothing left, it's all over," he says. "The thrill isn't in the winning...
...winning-is-everything world of professional football, Noll is an anomaly, an unassuming craftsman among tough-talking generals. Quietly, efficiently, he performs. When the Steelers rallied to defeat the Los Angeles Rams, 31-19, in Super Bowl XIV, they established themselves as the finest team ever, better than Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers of the 1960s, Paul Brown's Cleveland Browns of the 1950s and George Halas' Chicago Bears of the 1940s. The Packers may have won five N.F.L. championships in seven years, including Super Bowls I and II, but the Steelers, reflecting the rapid evolution...
...Noll came to the Steelers in 1969 with good bloodlines, as Owner Art Rooney, a noted horse fancier, likes to point out: he had become a football fundamentalist while playing guard and linebacker for the old Browns, and he coached under Sid Gillman in San Diego and Don Shula in Baltimore. When Noll arrived, the Steelers were the pushovers of the N.F.L.; they had won just 18 games in the previous five seasons. Noll had no choice but to rebuild the team through the annual college player draft. His very first pick: Defensive Tackle Joe Greene. The following year Noll...
...Rosenbloom's determination will be pitted in the Super Bowl against a carefully constructed football team coached by Chuck Noll that may be the finest in the history of the game. The family franchise in Pittsburgh is as peaceful as the Rams' is stormy. Owner Art Rooney Sr., 78, has turned over the operation of the Steelers to his two sons. Dan, 46, team president, runs the business side. Art Jr., 43, is a vice president and the man who has assembled a marvelously balanced team led by Quarterback Terry Bradshaw, 32, who survived his trial by fire...