Card-Pitt

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Card Pitt was the name for the team created by the temporary merger of two National Football League (NFL) teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Chicago Cardinals, during the 1944 season. The teams were forced to merge because both had lost many players to military service due to World War II. After the season the merger was dissolved. The two teams together did not do so well as the combined team with 0-10 record in the Western Division. Sportswriters called the team the "Car-Pitts" (carpets).[1] The Steelers had previously combined with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1943 as the "Steagles".

The teams merged at the request of the League to avoid the scheduling difficulties associated with what would otherwise have been 11 teams. The team was so bad that three players were fined $200 each for “indifferent play.”[2]

  1. ^ Roberts, R. and Welky, D. (Eds.), "The Steelers Reader." University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001, p.61.
  2. ^ Algeo, Matthew, “Last Team Standing: How the Steelers and the Eagles--‘The Steagles’--Saved Pro Football During World War II.” Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006, p. 207-208.


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Culture – Terrible Towel • Art Rooney • Myron Cope
Club Head Coaches

Douds • DiMelio • Bach • McNally • Kiesling • Donelli • Bell • Kiesling • Leonard • Sutherland • Michelosen • Bach • Kiesing • Parker • Nixon • Austin • Noll • Cowher • Tomlin
League Championships (5)
1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 2005
Seasons

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