NFL Films: The Steel Curtain Steelers

Source:NFL Films- James Harrison's big hit against Indianapolis Colts QB Peyton Manning.

Source:The Daily Post 

"Pittsburgh Steelers - The Steel Curtain Pittsburgh Steelers Biggest Hits of All-time. Some of the best Chaos and Carnage created by the Steelers Some of the biggest hits in steelers history." 

From Sports Violence Studios

Source:NFL Films- Steelers WR Lynn Swann's, great catch against the Dallas Cowboys, in Super Bowl 10.

What made the Pittsburgh Steelers of the late 1970s even better than the Steelers of the mid 1970s, was the rule changes on offense in the NFL in 1978 that improved the blocking and opened up the running and passing games on offense. And opened up the passing game also with the illegal contact rule that allowed for WR’s to be able to get off of the line of scrimmage and run their patterns. 

Before the rule changes, the Steelers were a power run, ball control offense. That would rely on their Steel Curtain defense to set up great field position for them and get them takeaways. And when defenses tried to take their running game away by stacking the line of scrimmage, the Steelers also had deep threats in the passing game with WR’s John Stallworth and Lynn Swann and QB Terry Bradshaw. 

Bradshaw being one of the best deep passing QB’s of all-time, but with the rule changes on offense the Steelers had to find more ways to score and to be able to score more points. As we saw in Super Bowl 13 against the Dallas Cowboys and Super 14 against the Los Angeles Rams. The 1978 rule changes on offense in the NFL opened up the Steelers offense and made them a vertical passing and power running team, to go with their great defense.

Joey Teefizz: MISL 1985-1/13-Cleveland Force @ Pittsburgh Spirit: Highlights

Source:Joey Teefizz- John P. Dellacamera and John Sanders with the call of the game for the Pittsburgh Spirit.

Source:The Daily Post

"Great game in Pittsburgh between Force and Spirit, another tight finish between these two with excellent halftime interviews with Charlie Greene and Bernie James."

From Joey Teefizz

The Force-Spirit rivalry was one of the better rivalries in the MISL. And had the MISL knew anything about marketing then and now, they would’ve done a good job at marketing this rivalry especially in North Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, the areas that the Force and Spirit represented respectfully. 

Indoor soccer is a perfect sport for America and American sports fans, because it is so fast paced and up in down with the rules not really benefiting either the offense or defense. Which is how classic American sports fans like it. 

There is a lot more scoring in arena soccer or futsal than in soccer itself. But that is because the playing fields are smaller and the rules don’t favor either side. Unlike in soccer where the rules are designed to keep scoring down and as a result it is a more defensive game. But for whatever reasons arena soccer has never really caught on in America. Even though it is an American sport designed for American sports fans.