Dan Rooney
Dan Rooney
Daniel Milton "Dan" Rooneyis the former United States Ambassador to Ireland, who served from July 3, 2009 until his resignation in 2012. He is chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team in the National Football League, which was founded by his father, Art. Rooney was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000 for his contributions to the game. He is credited with spearheading a requirement that NFL teams with head coach and general manager vacancies interview at...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 July 1932
CityPittsburgh, PA
I think they're meeting and there is some progress. But it's not enough, unfortunately.
I might say a little prayer. You take them as they come.
The amount of the revenue difference was $7, 8 million, you'll have to use that correctly. We're going to operate the way we always do, that's try to take care of our own. The team that took us to the Super Bowl and won are the guys we're looking for. We think it's to their advantage, it's to our advantage to do it that way.
Getting there is good, but we're going there to win.
If anything, since March more people have come to realize it's a bad idea,
I would have hoped there would have been more minority hires right now.
Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.
Pete brought us into the modern times with the television and other things. Paul has really taken us and made us a business entity.
Somebody could change coaches and still win, but doing it the way we do it is us. It's the way we do things, the way our organization puts things together and looks at things. Stability is important.
She put people on a path for success. She just kept you going and made you feel this was the most important thing you had to do at this particular time.
Mike speaks up all the time. I don't see him taking any back seat.
There are 32 teams so I think there are 32 different ways to operate. We just try to do things that fit within a certain philosophy. We want that philosophy to be evident at every level of the organization.
This was the greatest football team that was ever put together.
We're the last people who were here during that time. It's really great to see this new generation come on, this generation of players, generation of coaches, it's really an exciting time. They've done well and they've earned it. I look at this as a separate thing; this is not one for the thumb, it's one for these guys.