Chuck Noll has died

[tjack]

Thank you Coach Noll for "The Standard" and the Championships. Rest in peace Coach.

 

[slashsteel]

This makes me sad...

I'm not kidding when I say, "if this thread doesn't deserve 100 pages - none do"...

was thinking this earlier.............. type of thread porsters should try to keep alive................

 

[Drink IRON City]

I'm hearing yaz about the 100+ pages. Remember, he was the ONLY team to ever win a Super Bowl with a 100% farm club team. No free agent / trade / anything player from another team. THAT will never be duplicated ever!!!!


Salute the EMPEROR

 

[Hineswardkickedurpanzyass]

When I told my 11 year old son this morning that Chuck Noll died, he said wasn't he the one that turned the Steelers from crappy to the best team ever? I started to tell him that there were a lot of people involved, but when you get down to it we may have not won a SB until 2005 if it wasn't for coach Noll. My son then asked who was the greatest coach ever? I said well coach Noll has 4 SB rings, and he is the only one. Son said, well that makes it pretty easy to tell who is the best. Sometimes we get too caught up in evaluating stupid **** and just need to realize that results are what matter most. Noll got results for a lot of reasons, his players and bosses respected and trusted him. He put the best men on the field. He knew exactly how to motivate the team, and make everyone of them the best they could be. He got results that no one else has.

 

[Phinnster]

Greatest coach of all time, his teams made me a Steeler fan for life.

RIP Chuck Noll.

 

[slashsteel]

Public viewing tonight.............. for whoever might be interested

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/15/public-viewing-tonight-for-chuck-noll/

 

[steel shinin]

Goodbye to a true legend. Who cares about what the media says about who's the best or who has the most this or that. None of that matters. Noll did it as a Pittsburgh Steeler......and he did it his way and he helped create a culture that has lasted for decades and will continue on. Where else can you say that? On top of that when you hear former players, associates, friends and family talk about him.......the manner in which they regard this man goes way beyond the measure of football. He was larger than life but modest at the same time. Rest in peace Chuck. Your legacy will live on.

 

[steelerscotty]

Rip. Greatest coach ever imp.

 

[south dakota STEEL]

R.I.P.

Thanks for all you have done, Coach.

 

[south dakota STEEL]

R.I.P.

Thanks for all you have done, Coach.

 

[SteelVictory]

Ed B thinking Steelers will wear a patch this season to commemorate Coach Noll

@EdBouchette 2m
“@scottomc7: Will Steelers wear some sort of patch on uniforms this year for Chuck Noll?” ...@EdBouchette Count on it

 

[Ron Burgundy]

http://triblive.com/sports/dejankov...607-74/steelers-noll-pittsburgh#axzz344Wm36re

 

[Max Power]

http://triblive.com/sports/dejankov...607-74/steelers-noll-pittsburgh#axzz344Wm36re

Now there is a great tribute to Noll.

The 70's Decade was some ride.

 

[TriadSteeler]

RIP to the Emperor Chaz.

There is a perception amongst Steeler Nation that Chuck never gets his due in the media. We've heard all the .....Anyone could have won 4 superbowls with that talent...yada....yada....yada.

We as Steeler Fans know exactly his value as the one person who turned the Same old Steelers laughingstock into the greatest organization in the league.
We know that he taught the carefully selected players he drafted how to prepare for games....how to prepare for life.....and most importantly how to win and win big.

We know all of this. We don't need the stat crazy, highlight worshipping sycophants from ESPN to tell us that. We KNOW it. He knew it too....but didn't feel the need to pimp that fact to the world.

I think it is kind of a microcosm of Chuck Noll himself that he is glossed over by the media when talking about the greatest of all time. It is EXACTLY the way he would have wanted it. Keeping it low key and let all of the accolades fall on the players and the organization he carefully crafted in to Champions

 

[Wingman]

It just continues to show that the media never let facts get in the way of their agenda. Chuck was a real class act all the way through the organization.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

We've heard all the .....Anyone could have won 4 superbowls with that talent...yada....yada....yada.

Without Noll we never would have had all that talent.
One of my best memories ever was SB XIII. At that time much of the nation was Cowboys fans. Steeler Nation had not begun. I was in college, holed up in another Burgher's dorm room watching the game with some other yinzers. Steelers fall behind, we're getting all kinds of abuse from outside the door. This is why we didn't watch in the dorm lounge. Then Bradshaw, Stallworth, and Swann connect a few times AND THEN Jackie Smith drops that sure TD pass in the end zone. Cowboys fans go silent. Good times.

 

[Chiba]

Respects to Coach Noll - A wonderful man first - and then a wonderful coach

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

I was just a kid say 6 years old. Fresh out of a orphanage in Germany. A set of Americans brought me to their parents farm in Pennsylvania.

In what was considered Philadelphia country, New Ringgold Pa.

In the cabin the newly acquired grandparents turned on the TV, none of them Steeler fans mind you.

But the Steelers and Chuck Noll was playing some other team.

I don't remember that much about that year. I know for whatever reason I became glued to the Steelers from that day on.

I had to have everything Steelers. I mean everythinggggggg. Was pissed when my lunchbox wasn't Steelers but a grey workman lunchbox that was given to me. Just one example of a childhood disappointment.

The Steelers went on to win the Superbowl that year, 74 / 75.

As they grew as a team I grew as a child, at least my passion for the team did.

Now to the present I still have that Steeler obsession.

Steeler black truck with Steeler gold stripes. Steeler tat, Steeler mask, etc, etc.

Steeler Nation see is made up of many people from all over the world.

I would like to think of Chuck Noll as the architect of this fan base.

He helped build it mold it, a city that needed to latch onto something in hard times.

In me a child that wanted to latch onto something in hard times......

A great man off the field I am sure. but for me I will remember the man who brought winning to Pittsburgh.

And accomplished what no other football coach has. 4 SB victories !

And arguably one of the most dominating teams built in sports history.


Rest in Peace Chuck Noll

Steelers will miss you, Steeler Nation will miss you....

I will miss you..............

This post opened my eyes. Many of us here - not all but many - grew up in the 70s. My parents were divorced and I didn't see my Dad enough. Funny how I turned to the Steelers and Chuck Knoll and those guys as "heroes" in many ways as you refer to. As I grew, the Steelers grew, etc. Football was always more than football to me, the Steelers always larger than life to me, because they served as "something" for me, something at the time I needed. They filled a void and provided me a joy I was missing in other areas. Chuck Knoll led that team, those men - my haven - in many ways.

Thanks for you words Slash.

 

[SteelVictory]

WPXI has some live online coverage

http://www.wpxi.com/videos/news/wpxi-live-news/vsQ2Z/

 

[Ron Burgundy]

People have faulty memories though. If I might make a correction. I keep hearing on the radio, TV, and in the papers that the 70's Steelers were holding the community together when the steel mills shut down. That's not exactly true. I'm 53 and worked in a steel mill in the summer of '79 when I was in college. Except for the '74-'75 recession, the mills were going great in the 70's. Anybody who wanted a decent-paying job could seemingly get one. The Steelers won their last of four 70's SB's in 1980 and later that year is when mills started laying off. Most people didn't regard it as a big deal since it had happened before. Collect a few months of unemployment and go back to work. By 1983 unemployment in Beaver County where I live was 27%, the Mon Valley was worse, and a lot of people got to where, "Hmm, this looks permanent, I'm moving to Charlotte (or Florida, or Texas, wherever) so I can find a job." The Steelers were down for much of the 80's too as the SB players retired and were replaced by the likes of Mark Malone, Walter Abercrombie and Harvey Clayton. Still, the die was cast and expat fandom was born.

 

[Hineswardkickedurpanzyass]

Without Noll we never would have had all that talent.
One of my best memories ever was SB XIII. At that time much of the nation was Cowboys fans. Steeler Nation had not begun. I was in college, holed up in another Burgher's dorm room watching the game with some other yinzers. Steelers fall behind, we're getting all kinds of abuse from outside the door. This is why we didn't watch in the dorm lounge. Then Bradshaw, Stallworth, and Swann connect a few times AND THEN Jackie Smith drops that sure TD pass in the end zone. Cowboys fans go silent. Good times.

AND Cliff Harris got punked.