Pittsburgh Sports

Pittsburgh is the City of Champions, 
Title Town, & Quarterback Country

There's a rich sports tradition in the Pittsburgh area that began over 100 years ago with sports including college football. In fact, local college football teams were the first to wear numbered jerseys and play indoor games.
    
A famous man by the name of John Heisman walked local sidelines in search of football victories and found them while coaching at W&J College in the early 1900's. Local small colleges played and prevailed on a national level with today's who's who of college football greats.
  

FIRST PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL GAME
This historical marker on North Shore Drive tells of the
first Pro football game on November 12, 1892

This early sports greatness carried over into professional Pittsburgh sports teams, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pirates and Penguins. Super Bowl and World Series trophies, as well as Stanley Cups, have graced Pittsburgh on multiple occasions. 
    
High school sports teams have also shared in these winning traditions, with championships in various sports at different levels. Today's Pittsburgh fans grew up watching sports and are multi-generational sports fans. Steelers fans have been mentioned in songs and the 'Steelers Nation' extends around the globe.

Pittsburgh will always be the City of Champions!

Steelers' first 4 Super Bowl Rings

Exclusive photos of the Steelers Super Bowl XL Victory Parade

Some football memorabilia on display at the
Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum
Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Franco's Italian Army
Franco Harris #32

Steelers Car

Pitt Coach John Majors

'Steel Curtain'
Greene #75
White #78

THE CRADLE OF QUARTERBACKS
  By: Roy McHugh, New York Times, 1991

September 1, 2006
Ringgold High School dedicated Joe Montana Stadium

   
The high school "football factories" of Western Pennsylvania have turned out legions of college and pro stars, but they are perhaps best known for producing great quarterbacks. These on-field leaders benefited from the knowledge imparted by skilled coaches and from the example set by the quarterbacks who went before them.

Dan Marino game ball
October 7, 1984

Quarterbacks became the most visible manifestation of a culture that valued football and recognized that it provided a means to escape the mill, receive an education, and achieve success. This region has been a cradle for quarterbacks but it also has been an incubator of football excellence. 

Joe Namath's home turf
Joe's high school in Beaver Falls still shares this
football field with Geneva College
   

PITTSBURGH PIRATES

THREE RIVERS STADIUM
1970-2000
Home of the World Champion Pirates 
in 1971 and 1979
   
   

PNC PARK
2001-Present
Home of the Pittsburgh Pirates

Milo Hamilton's final broadcast on the road
at PNC PARK on September 22, 2005
  

Pittsburgh - The City of Champions!

  
Birthplace of College Basketball

The first college basketball game was organized intramurally by students at Geneva College in February 1892 under the coaching of Professor Charles O. Bemics, Geneva's first Athletic Director. He was a protégé of Dr. James Naismith, who is credited with inventing the sport in 1891 at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass. Geneva first played in collegiate competition on April 8, 1893 using peach baskets as goals, defeating the New Brighton YMCA 3-0.
  
(Note: This historical marker is within 100 yards of where Joe Namath
played his high school football)
   

  
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