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Why was the 1972 game between Pittsburgh and Miami played in Pittsburgh?

Football- Miami Dolphins against Pittsburgh Steelers. Since Miami was un-defeated, why was it held in Pittsburgh?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    At that time, the NFL did not award the conference championship game to the team with the better record. The site of the conference title games rotated from year to year depending on who made the game. So for instance, one year the order of precedence may have been West Division champ, then Central, then East, whereas the next year it was Central, East, West, and the year after could have been East, West, Central (also remember there was only one wild card team, and only three rounds of the playoffs).

    As it turns out, that year the Central had precedence over the East, so the Steelers hosted the title game that year.

  • 2 decades ago

    So that the gayness of Miami wouldn't rub off on Pittsburgh's players, lmao. Real men wear black and gold, not teal green, lmao.

    GO STEELERS!

    The Dolphags didn't do much after that compared to the Steelers of the 70's if I remember correctly. My Steelers went on to win 4 Super Bowls while they sulked in the Miami heat in their queer looking uniforms, lmao! If it hadn't have been for injuries Pittsburgh could have won 6 Super Bowls in the 70's. They were that good.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    because miami was so much better they wanted to give those homos from pittsburgh a fighnting chance. but it didn't matter, did it? miami still spanked their sorry a**'s and went on to the only perfect season in NFL history. and history is going to repeat itself sept. 7th. the fish are going to go up to that cesspool of a city and beat their a**'s again!

  • 2 decades ago

    hurricane was in florida?

    i hear ya kevin the great

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  • 2 decades ago

    because pittsburg is in the frickin ghetto....... it think GO KNIBB HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL im not even in middle school yet

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