Ranking the Steelers Super Bowl wins from bottom to top
By Eric Hassel
The Steelers beat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IX to earn the first of four Super Bowl victories of the decade of the 1970s
Full disclosure: I did not watch Super Bowl IX live as I was a month away from turning six years old. I did; however, watch the game in its entirety years later and I have to say that I don’t think the Minnesota Vikings knew what hit them.
Honestly, this was a particularly good game from a statistical perspective. Franco Harris, who won Super Bowl MVP, literally ran the Steelers into our first Super Bowl victory. Harris finished with 158 yards on the ground and added a TD en route to the aforementioned MVP honors.
The only points the Vikings scored came on a blocked punt. After that, the Steelers offense put the game away to make the final score sixteen for us and six for the Vikings. Defensively, the ‘Steel Curtain’ lived up to its name.
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I think the victory in Super Bowl IX comes in at number one for me because it set the tone for the rest of the decade of the 1970s, a decade that would see us win four Super Bowls in a six-year period. The Steelers of the 1970s were a ‘powerhouse’ that was unrivaled.
I don’t think that would have been the case had we not beaten the Vikings in the Super Bowl IX.