he most in the NFL since 2011 despite playing just seven games in 2015 and being retired all last season. In the money-first world of professional sports owners, Rooney, who died Thursday at 84, showed courage many others might have avoided. 38?BSTDan Rooney, the powerful and popular Pittsburgh Steelers chairman whose name is attached to the NFL’s landmark initiative in minority hiring, died Thursday. The Celtics are the sixth franchise to grab the No1 seed in the East in the past six seasons – Chicago did in 2012, followed by Miami, Indiana, Atlanta, Cleveland and now Boston.