A Steelers Depot each day section. A fast hit of some Pittsburgh Steelers-related tales that will not require an entire article however nuggets price mentioning and passing on to you guys.
Your Depot After Darkish for Feb. 8.
LAST TIME STEELERS PLAYED IN IRELAND
With the announcement that the Steelers will host a sport in Eire in 2025 at Croke Park producing fairly a bit of pleasure Friday, the Steelers Eire Twitter/X web page flashed again to the final time there was an NFL sport performed on the Emerald Isle. That may be in July of 1997 during which the Steelers confronted off towards the Chicago Bears within the American Bowl at Croke Park.
On that July day at Croke Park, the Steelers rolled to a 30-17 win within the preseason matchup over the Bears as quarterback Kordell Stewart and operating again Jerome Bettis led the Steelers to a win that day, which occurred to be a homecoming for the Rooney household within the first sport performed in Eire.
In the end, the Steelers went 11-5 that season and reached the AFC Championship Sport, so hopefully one other journey to Eire can result in a particular season as soon as once more for the Black and Gold.
LONGTIME NFL PLAYER AND COACH DICK JAURON DEAD AT 74
The NFL world misplaced one other large title forward of Tremendous Bowl LIX. Simply sooner or later after Chicago Bears’ principal proprietor Virginia Halas McCaskey died, former NFL participant and longtime coach Dick Jauron died at 74, the Bears introduced Saturday morning.
In a profession that spanned eight seasons on the sector with the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengals, and a training profession that coated one other 32 seasons, Jauron spent a lifetime within the NFL. Following his stint within the league as a participant, Jauron moved into the teaching ranks in 1985, beginning out as a defensive backs coach with the Buffalo Payments, the place he spent one season.
In 1986, Jauron joined the Inexperienced Bay Packers as a defensive backs coach and spent eight seasons there earlier than departing after the 1994 season, resulting in the defensive coordinator job with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995. Jauron was the defensive coordinator for the Jaguars for 4 seasons earlier than being employed as head coach of the Bears for the 1999 season.
He was later fired through the 2003 season, however did lead the Bears to the NFC Divisional Spherical in 2001. Following his tenure in Chicago, Jauron landed with the Lions in 2004 as defensive coordinator, and was promoted to interim head coach in 2005. Then, he went on to be the pinnacle coach of the Payments from 2006-09, earlier than closing out his profession as defensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns in 2011 and 2012.
In his head teaching profession, Jauron completed with a 60-82 report and one playoff berth over elements of 10 seasons as a head coach. In these 10 seasons, Jauron went 0-2 towards the Steelers as a head coach, dropping in 2005 as interim head coach with the Lions, and in 2007 whereas with the Payments.
FORMER STEELERS CB STEVEN NELSON ELEVATED FOR SUPER BOWL LIX
After popping out of retirement on December 9 to signal to the apply squad for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, former Pittsburgh Steelers’ cornerback Steven Nelson was elevated from the apply squad to the Lively/Inactive Roster Saturday afternoon forward of Tremendous Bowl LIX towards the Philadelphia Eagles.
Nelson was elevated together with linebacker Swayze Bozeman, placing him in line to play within the Tremendous Bowl. Nelson was drafted by the Chiefs in 2015 as a third-round choose and spent 4 years there earlier than signing with the Steelers as a free agent in 2019. Nelson then spent two seasons with the Steelers earlier than being launched in a cap financial savings, to which Nelson then criticized the Steelers and their means of doing enterprise.
Nelson then bounced round with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Houston Texans after his time in Pittsburgh, after which retired in June of 2024, earlier than then popping out of retirement to land with the Chiefs.
