the decline of Pennsylvania

doh... it never occurred to me that PA has 2 football teams. eagles and steelers. for some reason I never made the connection.

Somehow the Pittsburgh Pirates came up with one of the jewels in baseball when they had Roberto Clemente.

doh... it never occurred to me that PA has 2 football teams. eagles and steelers. for some reason I never made the connection. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

There's more - in 1943, the NFL pro football season was trimmed due to WW2. Pittsburgh and Philly pooled their available players into a single team called the "Steagles".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steagl...rld%20War%20II.

I knew california, NY, Florida have multiple teams, not PA go figure.


California was the first state to have 3 teams, now reduced to two. NY has 2 (technically its 1 since one of the teams play in new joisey), Texas has 2 and Florida has 3.

There's more - in 1943, the NFL pro football season was trimmed due to WW2. Pittsburgh and Philly pooled their available players into a single team called the "Steagles".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steagl...rld%20War%20II. Originally Posted by lustylad

very interesting historical info.