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'' is an official name for the fan-base of the
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's
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. The term was coined by
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narrator
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in the team's 1978 highlights film. Steelers Country is often used for the
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, area where the fan base originates or for areas with a large Steelers fan base.


History


Early years

The Steelers have had a following in
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since 1933. That year,
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relaxed its
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s allowing sporting events in the commonwealth on Sundays, paving the way for the Steelers and the
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to begin play for the
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. Previously, the state had teams in Pottsville and Frankford, but both had already folded, due to both the
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and their inability to play on Sunday, when most NFL games took place. Much like the league itself in the early years, the Steelers had to compete with baseball and
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teams in the city, making the team third in the hierarchy to the
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and the
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. Despite the team's early struggles, it had a small but loyal fan base in the city due to the popularity of
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at all levels, dating back to the 1800s, when Pittsburgh hosted the first wholly professional football game in 1895.


Rise of the Steelers

By the 1950s, the Steelers had gained some popularity in the city and were on par with Pitt, but they were still a distant second behind the Pirates in the city. In the early 1970s, the Steelers began to rise in popularity. In 1969, there was the hiring of head coach
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and the drafting of future
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"Mean Joe" Greene. By 1972, the Steelers were a playoff contender and began a sellout streak in
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that carried over to
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and still stands to this day. The team is second to the
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for the longest active consecutive sellout streak in league history. The team's four Super Bowl victories in the 1970s coincided with a
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that struck the United States, and the city in particular, that would lead to the closure of several steel mills in the early 1980s. The team's success was credited with giving people in the city hope and leading to the increased fan base. Due to economic uncertainty in the area, many Steelers fans relocated to other areas but retained their identification with the Steelers as a reflection of their former hometown's steel industrial base. During the lead up to Super Bowl XIII between the Steelers and the
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, Phil Musick contrasted the Dallas and Pittsburgh fans by saying that "Dallas is superfan Whistling Ray and a hat that sprays the unsuspecting with water; Pittsburgh is a guy in a
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who'll stove five of your ribs if you laugh at him." Jack Lambert said of Steeler Nation during his Hall of Fame induction speech: "How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players."


Player fan clubs

In the 1970s many fans organized fan clubs for their favorite players. Some of these fan clubs included Franco's Italian Army, Frenchy's Foreign Legion, Gerela's Gorillas, Bradshaw's Brigade, Lambert's Lunatics, Dobre Shunka (Good Ham, for
Jack Ham Jack Raphael Ham Jr. (born December 23, 1948) is an American former professional football player who played as an outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1971 to 1982. He is considered one of th ...
), Rocky and the Flying Squirrels, Shell's Bombers, and Russell's Raiders.


Today

Since the 1970s, the Steelers have enjoyed a large fan base and have eclipsed the
Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Founded as part of the American Associati ...
as the most popular sports team in Pittsburgh. While the team's success gained it a large fan base nationally, many consider the collapse of the city's steel industry to have been a cause for the strong fan base in other cities, demonstrated when teams whose home turnout would otherwise require a local blackout on television end up selling out when hosting the Steelers. An instance of the team's large fan base was at
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, where an ESPN.com columnist suggested that Steelers fans outnumbered
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fans more than 25–1 though that may have to do with the geographical closeness of
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to Pittsburgh. In November 2007, a study by Turnkey Sports found that the Steelers brand was the strongest in its local market of any team in the
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,
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,
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or NFL. Many regional communities not officially associated with the "Pittsburgh" market have overwhelming numbers of Steeler fans who regularly flood local stations in both
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and
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with requests to show the technically "out of market" Steeler games.
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's victory on ''
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'' could also be seen as a sign of the national reach of the Steelers' fan base. In November 2007,
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president and co-founder Steve Sabol speaking at the team's 75th anniversary gala at the
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stated: "The Steelers don't need a mascot. Their fans are their mascot...There were Gerela's Gorillas, Franco's Italian Army, Lambert's Lunatics, people dressed up like a bumble bee. You don't need a mascot when you have fans like that. When we'd go to Pittsburgh to do the game for NFL Films we never brought enough cameras." Human resources recruiters from the
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industry, particularly those in the
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where Pittsburgh is located, began targeting Steeler bars nationwide for possible employees.


Comparison to other NFL fan bases

Attempts at quantifying the loyalty of Steeler Nation relative to other NFL fan bases have shown mixed results. A 2006 study by the
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placed the team's fans 21st out of 32 teams in the league, behind all three of its division rivals in the
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. The study found that although the team had been selling out games for years, some fans were not actually attending the games, and Pittsburgh's weekly turnout percentage for home games was 16th in the league. That ranking was down seven slots from the publication's survey conducted in 1997, which ranked Steelers Nation 14th out of 30 teams, partly due to fans leaving nearly 10% of the seats in the stadium empty. On the other hand, a 2008 study from
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ranked Steelers fans 8th overall, citing among other things a long season-ticket waiting list. A 2008 article for ESPN.com ranked Steelers fans as the best in the NFL, citing their "unbelievable" sellout streak of 299 consecutive games.


Response from other teams

Anti–Steeler Nation sentiment has grown strong enough that in some cases,
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s for other teams have taken steps to keep Pittsburgh fans out of games in their cities. Instead of being permitted to buy tickets to a
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-Steelers game in San Diego, for instance, they were required to pay for tickets to two other games, as well. In other cases, teams refused to sell tickets to fans calling from Pittsburgh's 412
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, and they encouraged fans who were selling their own tickets to do the same. Steelers President
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complained to the NFL about the situation, but his grievance was not acted upon.


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See also

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Myron Cope Myron Sidney Kopelman (January 23, 1929 – February 27, 2008), known professionally as Myron Cope, was an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster. He is best known for being "the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers". Cope ...
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Raider Nation The Raider Nation is the official name for the fans of the National Football League (NFL)'s Las Vegas Raiders (formerly the Oakland Raiders and the Los Angeles Raiders). Fan Jim Hudson coined the term in the 1990s when the Raiders returned to Oa ...
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Red Sox Nation Red Sox Nation is a term used for fans of the Boston Red Sox. The phrase was coined by ''Boston Globe'' feature writer Nathan Cobb in an October 20, 1986, article about split allegiances among fans in Connecticut during the 1986 World Series between ...
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Cardinal Nation Cardinal Nation, or Redbird Nation, is a term commonly used to describe, in aggregate, the fans of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball franchise. Cardinal Nation encompasses not just the area around St. Louis, but also a large portion of the Midwest ...
* Yankees Universe


References


External links


Official Steeler Nation page"ESPN ArticleFacebook survey on team fandom by countyESPN article on Steelers Nation out of Houston, Texas
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