The Ones Who Hit The Hardest
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“The same things we were doing when we were 1-13 were the things we were doing in 1975. But with much better players.”
In the 1970s, the city of Pittsburgh was in need of heroes. In that decade the steel industry, long the life-blood of the city, went into massive decline, putting 150,000 steelworkers out of work. And then the unthinkable, the Pittsburgh Steelers, perennial also-rans in the NFL, rose up to become the most feared team in the league, dominating opponents with their famed “Steel Curtain” defense, winning four Super Bowls in six years, and lifting the spirits of a city on the brink.
In The Ones Who Hit The Hardest, Chad Millman and Shawn Coyne trace the rise of the Steelers amidst the backdrop of the fading city they fought for, bring to life characters such as Art Rooney, the owner of the team so beloved by Pittsburgh that he was known simply as “The Chief;” Chuck Noll, the headstrong coach who used the ethos of steelworkers to motivate his players; Terry Bradshaw, the strong-armed and underestimated QB; Joe Green, the defensive tackle whose fighting nature lifted the franchise; and Jack Lambert, the linebacker whose snarling, toothless grin embodied the Pittsburgh defense.
Every story needs a villain, and in this one it’s played by the Dallas Cowboys. As Pittsburgh rusted, the new and glittering metropolis of Dallas, rich from the capital infusion of oil revenue, signaled the future of America. Indeed, the town brimmed with such confidence that the Cowboys felt comfortable nicknaming themselves “America’s Team.” Throughout the 1970s, the teams jostled for control of the NFL—the Cowboys doing it with finesse and the Steelers doing it with brawn—culminating in Super Bowl XIII in 1979, when the aging Steelers attempted to hold off the Cowboys one last time.
Thoroughly researched and grippingly written, The Ones Who Hit The Hardest is a stirring tribute to a city, a team, and an era.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“The same things we were doing when we were 1-13 were the things we were doing in 1975. But with much better players.”
In the 1970s, the city of Pittsburgh was in need of heroes. In that decade the steel industry, long the life-blood of the city, went into massive decline, putting 150,000 steelworkers out of work. And then the unthinkable, the Pittsburgh Steelers, perennial also-rans in the NFL, rose up to become the most feared team in the league, dominating opponents with their famed “Steel Curtain” defense, winning four Super Bowls in six years, and lifting the spirits of a city on the brink.
In The Ones Who Hit The Hardest, Chad Millman and Shawn Coyne trace the rise of the Steelers amidst the backdrop of the fading city they fought for, bring to life characters such as Art Rooney, the owner of the team so beloved by Pittsburgh that he was known simply as “The Chief;” Chuck Noll, the headstrong coach who used the ethos of steelworkers to motivate his players; Terry Bradshaw, the strong-armed and underestimated QB; Joe Green, the defensive tackle whose fighting nature lifted the franchise; and Jack Lambert, the linebacker whose snarling, toothless grin embodied the Pittsburgh defense.
Every story needs a villain, and in this one it’s played by the Dallas Cowboys. As Pittsburgh rusted, the new and glittering metropolis of Dallas, rich from the capital infusion of oil revenue, signaled the future of America. Indeed, the town brimmed with such confidence that the Cowboys felt comfortable nicknaming themselves “America’s Team.” Throughout the 1970s, the teams jostled for control of the NFL—the Cowboys doing it with finesse and the Steelers doing it with brawn—culminating in Super Bowl XIII in 1979, when the aging Steelers attempted to hold off the Cowboys one last time.
Thoroughly researched and grippingly written, The Ones Who Hit The Hardest is a stirring tribute to a city, a team, and an era.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“The same things we were doing when we were 1-13 were the things we were doing in 1975. But with much better players.”
In the 1970s, the city of Pittsburgh was in need of heroes. In that decade the steel industry, long the life-blood of the city, went into massive decline, putting 150,000 steelworkers out of work. And then the unthinkable, the Pittsburgh Steelers, perennial also-rans in the NFL, rose up to become the most feared team in the league, dominating opponents with their famed “Steel Curtain” defense, winning four Super Bowls in six years, and lifting the spirits of a city on the brink.
In The Ones Who Hit The Hardest, Chad Millman and Shawn Coyne trace the rise of the Steelers amidst the backdrop of the fading city they fought for, bring to life characters such as Art Rooney, the owner of the team so beloved by Pittsburgh that he was known simply as “The Chief;” Chuck Noll, the headstrong coach who used the ethos of steelworkers to motivate his players; Terry Bradshaw, the strong-armed and underestimated QB; Joe Green, the defensive tackle whose fighting nature lifted the franchise; and Jack Lambert, the linebacker whose snarling, toothless grin embodied the Pittsburgh defense.
Every story needs a villain, and in this one it’s played by the Dallas Cowboys. As Pittsburgh rusted, the new and glittering metropolis of Dallas, rich from the capital infusion of oil revenue, signaled the future of America. Indeed, the town brimmed with such confidence that the Cowboys felt comfortable nicknaming themselves “America’s Team.” Throughout the 1970s, the teams jostled for control of the NFL—the Cowboys doing it with finesse and the Steelers doing it with brawn—culminating in Super Bowl XIII in 1979, when the aging Steelers attempted to hold off the Cowboys one last time.
Thoroughly researched and grippingly written, The Ones Who Hit The Hardest is a stirring tribute to a city, a team, and an era.
ISBN 978-1-592-40576-3
Chad Millman & Shawn Coyne
2010