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
We're so proud to bring it back to Pittsburgh.
We're going to the Super Bowl to win it, not to just be there. This is one of the great moments in the whole history of the league and I've been around a long time.
We're going to operate the way we always do, and that is try and take care of our own. The team that took us to the Super Bowl and won are the guys that we're looking for. We think it's to their advantage and to our advantage to do it that way.
What made him was his strength. This was a time players didn't have strength. I remember we were playing the Giants at Forbes Field one time and it was a very close game, and they were moving the ball. He sacked the quarterback three times in a row.
Uh, well I guess it's you and me.
Yeah, every team has to look to maximize their revenue.
Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.
I said from the very beginning that I was looking for the best person, I had no doubt it was Roger Goodell.
I think the potential for us having that kind of rivalry is good, but you have to play them, ... I was asked by a writer in Houston about what I thought of the rivalry of Houston (Texans) and Pittsburgh, and I laughed and said, 'We've only played them once.'
We do have a certain way we do things. We do lose some players to free agency, but maybe we want to lose some of those. It's very easy for people to say 'you need to do it this way' or 'you need to change.' That's when you have to stand up and stick with the way you do things.
We basically had the same core team through that period. But that was a really good Raiders team we lost to, and without Franco it was just too tough.
Over my dead body. That's not something we need.
They really did have a lot of confidence, which was great.
This is real good for the game. I always said it in the '70s: What we need as a league is one good, dominant team, and then let everybody else fight it out.