Jul 7th 2008 11:04PM by JJ Cooper (author feed)
Filed under: Steelers, AFC North, PittsburghThe Steelers are one of the few teams in sports where the owners are actually a bigger deal than the coaches and the players. But if a story is true, that might change.

The says that the Steelers have been secretly shopped around by the Rooneys, largely because some of original owner Art Rooney’s grandkids want to see how much money they could make if the team was put on the open market.

We’ve seen Chuck Noll and Bil Cowher retire, but the thought of anyone but the Rooneys owning the Steelers is worse news than finding out that Terry Bradshaw was retiring and the Steelers’ new quarterbacks were Cliff Stoudt and Mark Malone. Some Steelers fans may have been upset at the Rooney’s supposed stinginess over the years, but the reality is that the Steelers have had as much stability and success as any team in football over the past 40 years, and the credit for that goes to the ownership.Continue Reading