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The 1956 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 24th in the
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a Professional gridiron football, professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National ...
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Offseason
NFL draft
Preseason
Regular season
Schedule
Standings
Game summaries
Week 1 (Sunday September 30, 1956):
Washington Redskins
The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East ...
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Forbes Field
Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland (Pittsburgh), Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to June 28, 1970. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the fir ...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 27,718
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Pittsburgh –
Chandnois 2 run (
Glick kick)
* Washington – FG Baker 42
* Pittsburgh –
Marchibroda 1 run (
Glick kick)
* Washington – FG Baker 41
* Pittsburgh – FG
Glick 27
* Pittsburgh –
Chandnois 17 pass from
Marchibroda (kick blocked)
* Pittsburgh –
Chandnois 5 run (
Glick kick)
* Washington – Meilinger 13 pass from LeBaron (Baker kick)
Week 2 (Saturday October 6, 1956):
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. The Browns compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC North, North division. The team is named after ...
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Forbes Field
Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland (Pittsburgh), Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to June 28, 1970. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the fir ...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 35,398
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Cleveland – Ratterman 1 run (
Groza kick)
* Pittsburgh – FG
Glick 30
* Pittsburgh –
Chandnois 1 run (Glik kick)
* Cleveland – Modzelewski 13 run (
Groza kick)
Week 3 (Sunday October 14, 1956):
Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The team plays its ...
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Forbes Field
Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland (Pittsburgh), Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to June 28, 1970. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the fir ...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 31,375
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Philadelphia – Schaefer 1 run (Walston kick)
* Philadelphia – Walston 51 pass from Thomason (Walston kick)
* Philadelphia – Bell 28 interception (Walston kick)
* Philadelphia – Bredice 40 pass from Thomason (Walston kick)
* Pittsburgh – Perry 15 pass from
Marchibroda (
Glick kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Mathews 64 pass from
Marchibroda (
Glick kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Mathews 20 pass from
Marchibroda (
Glick kick)
* Philadelphia – Keller 51 run (Walston kick)
Week 4 (Sunday October 21, 1956):
New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The ...
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Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in the Bronx in New York City. It is the home field of Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees and New York City FC of Major League Soccer.
The stadium opened in April 2009, replacing the Yankee S ...
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Bronx, New York
The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, West ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 48,108
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Pittsburgh – FG
Glick 35
* New York Giants – MacAfee 14 pass from Conerly (
Agajanian kick)
* New York Giants – Webster 21 pass from Conerly (
Agajanian kick)
* New York Giants – FG
Agajanian 14
* New York Giants – Gifford 1 run (
Agajanian kick)
* New York Giants – Rote 19 pass from Conerly (
Agajanian kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive, but large pieces are slo ...
14 pass from
Marchibroda (
Glick kick)
* New York Giants – Filpski 35 run (
Agajanian kick)
Week 5 (Sunday October 28, 1956):
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. The Browns compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC North, North division. The team is named after ...
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Cleveland Municipal Stadium
Cleveland Stadium, commonly known as Municipal Stadium, Lakefront Stadium or Cleveland Municipal Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. It was one of the early multi-purpose stadiums, built to accommodate both baseball and foot ...
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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–United States border, Canada–U.S. maritime border ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 50,358
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Cleveland – Lavelli 68 pass from Parilli (kick failed)
* Cleveland – Paul 35 interception (
Groza kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive, but large pieces are slo ...
10 pass from
Marchibroda (
Glick kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Chandnois 1 run (
Glick kick)
* Pittsburgh – Perry 75 pass from
Marchibroda (
Glick kick)
* Cleveland – FG
Groza 28
* Pittsburgh – FG
Glick 11
Week 6 (Sunday November 4, 1956):
New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The ...
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Forbes Field
Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland (Pittsburgh), Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to June 28, 1970. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the fir ...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 31,240
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring Drives:
* New York Giants – Webster 1 run (
Agajanian kick)
* New York Giants – FG
Agajanian 32
* Pittsburgh –
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
1 run (
Glick kick)
* New York Giants – Rote 3 pass from Conerly (
Agajanian kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
6 run (
Glick kick)
Week 7 (Sunday November 11, 1956):
Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The team plays its ...
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Connie Mack Stadium
Shibe Park ( , rhymes with "vibe"), known later as Connie Mack Stadium, was a ballpark located in Philadelphia. It was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League (AL) from 1909 to 1954 and the Philadelphia Phillies of the Natio ...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 22,652
* Referee: Jack Glascott
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Pittsburgh –
Marchibroda 1 run (
Glick kick)
* Philadelphia – Burnine 35 pass from Thomason (Walston kick)
* Philadelphia – Keller 1 run (Walston kick)
Week 8 (Sunday November 18, 1956):
Chicago Cardinals
The professional American football team now known as the Arizona Cardinals previously played in Chicago, Illinois, as the Chicago Cardinals from 1898 to 1959 before relocating to St. Louis, Missouri, for the 1960 through 1987 seasons.
Roots ca ...
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Forbes Field
Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland (Pittsburgh), Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to June 28, 1970. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the fir ...
,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 24,086
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Pittsburgh –
Rogel 13 run (
Glick kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Butler
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6 fumble run (
Glick kick)
* Chicago Cardinals – Matson 45 pass from McHan (Summerall kick)
Week 9 (Sunday November 25, 1956):
Chicago Cardinals
The professional American football team now known as the Arizona Cardinals previously played in Chicago, Illinois, as the Chicago Cardinals from 1898 to 1959 before relocating to St. Louis, Missouri, for the 1960 through 1987 seasons.
Roots ca ...
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Comiskey Park
Comiskey Park was a ballpark in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-south side of the city. The stadium served as the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League from 1910 through 1990. Built by Wh ...
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Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...
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Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 17,724
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Chicago Cardinals – Root 3 run (Summerall kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Mathews 29 pass from
Marchibroda (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
* Chicago Cardinals – Matson 1 run (Summerall kick)
* Chicago Cardinals – FG Summerall 27
* Chicago Cardinals – Matson 79 run (Summerall kick)
* Chicago Cardinals – Childress 34 pass from Root (Summerall kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Ford
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* Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford
* Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river
Ford may also refer to:
Ford Motor Company
* Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
* Ford F ...
3 run (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive, but large pieces are slo ...
4 pass from
Marchibroda (kick failed)
* Chicago Cardinals – McHan 1 run (Summerall kick)
* Pittsburgh – Ford 4 run (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
Week 10 (Sunday December 2, 1956):
Los Angeles Rams
The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Greater Los Angeles, Greater Los Angeles area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC West, West ...
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Forbes Field
Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland (Pittsburgh), Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to June 28, 1970. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the fir ...
,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 20,540
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Los Angeles – McFadin 21 fumble run (kick failed)
* Pittsburgh –
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive, but large pieces are slo ...
22 pass from Scarbath (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
* Pittsburgh – FG
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
16
* Los Angeles – Boyd 61 pass from Wade (Richter kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Mathews 6 pass from
Marchibroda (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Rogel 1 run (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive, but large pieces are slo ...
47 pass from Scarbath (kick failed)
Week 11 (Sunday December 9, 1956):
Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. The team plays their home game ...
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Briggs Stadium
Tiger Stadium, previously known as Navin Field and Briggs Stadium, was a multi-use stadium located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The stadium was nicknamed "The Corner" for its location at the intersection of ...
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Detroit
Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United State ...
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Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 52,124
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Detroit – Hart 20 pass from Layne (Layne kick)
* Detroit – Gedman 5 run (Layne kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
1 run (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
* Detroit – Lary 73 interception (Layne kick)
* Detroit – Christiansen 66 punt return (Layne kick)
* Detroit – Christiansen 66 punt return (Layne kick)
* Detroit – FG Layne 13
* Detroit – Reichow 41 pass from Gilmer (Layne kick)
Week 12 (Sunday December 16, 1956):
Washington Redskins
The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East ...
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Griffith Stadium
Griffith Stadium stood in Washington, D.C., from 1911 to 1965, between Georgia Avenue and 5th Street (left field), and between W Street and Florida Avenue NW.
The site was once home to a wooden baseball park. Built in 1891, it was called Bounda ...
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Washington, DC
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and Federal district of the United States, federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from ...
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* Game time:
* Game weather:
* Game attendance: 49,086
* Referee:
* TV announcers:
Scoring drives:
* Pittsburgh –
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
1 run (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Mathews 48 pass from
Marchibroda (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
* Pittsburgh –
Butler
A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments, with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantries, pantr ...
10 pass from
Marchibroda (
Watson
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is an ultraviolet Raman spectrometer that uses fine-scale imaging and an ultraviolet (UV) laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy, and detect orga ...
kick)
* Pittsburgh – Safety, Dorow tackled by
McPeak in end zone
References
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Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC North, North division. Founded in 1933 P ...
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