A rookie died in a car accident during training camp. Things started poorly and ended badly, and when it was time for the epilogue the 1977 Pittsburgh Steelers were written off as a bunch of washed-up ...

SIDNEY THORTON, A SECOND ROUND DRAFT CHOICE IN 1977, PLAYED SIX NFL ... a running back on two of Pittsburgh's Super Bowl teams, has died, the Steelers announced Wednesday. He was 68.A cause ...

The win gave Pittsburgh a 14-2 regular season ... But that generation of Broncos players will always have that 1977 season, while that era of Steelers will always have place among the greatest ...