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. Some believe that to prevent injury, you must first predict them. But he will be remembered best at the end of every regular season, when a new batch of coaches and general managers are fired and teams scramble to find their successors. The team hired Noll in 1969 and he promptly went 1-13, somehow fitting for the sad sack Steelers.