He helped choose the team’s legendary coach Chuck Noll, and ran the Steelers through Super Bowl victories in the 1970s before taking over as the owner when his father died in 1988. At the national level, this charade will continue because he fits perfectly with Bruce Arena’s get-the-band-back-together ethos. A rogue Portland fan still relishing the club’s triumph of 2015 might also have been the guilty party. Receiver Antonio Brown said Rooney was “one of the most genuine and humble human beings I’ve had the pleasure of knowing”.