The '63 Steelers: A Renegade Team's Chase for Glory

How a team of vagabonds made a charge at football history

The year 1963 percolated with dreams-big dreams. Martin Luther King Jr. had one, and he articulated it to an audience of a quarter of a million people assembled in a commitment to civil rights. President John F. Kennedy had his own dreams, one of which involved sending a man to the moon. Prosperity and new technology fostered the belief that in the United States anything was possible. In western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steelers, ...