The Pittsburgh Steelers remain to be associated with steroid use

When it is proclaimed that the Pittsburgh Steelers intend to play, sportswriters seem to be responsible to write about their connections with steroids. They try to create a steroid scandal and to define any possible relations of this team with it.
Mike Fish of ESPN displayed the same attitude, when the Steelers played in the 2009 Super Bowl. This reporter turned to have luck in writing news connected with the Steelers and steroids.
Although sportswriters are not always lucky, when it comes to allegations of a team or an individual with performance-enhancing drugs before a competition, the situation is altered, if it is said about the Pittsburgh Steelers. Journalists like writing about their history, about the lesson related to anabolic steroids that took place in 1970s.
David Fleming wrote about historical lessons of the Pittsburgh Steelers before a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers. This sportswriter reported about time, when the NFL hadn’t yet forbidden usage of steroids. Thus, according to several sources, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ players administrated steroids in the late 1970s. It is mentioned in the 1991 book “False Glory: The Steve Courson Story” that over 70 % of the offensive linemen of the Pittsburgh Steelers used steroids.
It must have been true but it is necessary to understand that application of steroids wasn’t forbidden. Why are the Steelers condemned, if application of steroids was allowed?
Jim Haslett told the New Orleans Saints that the Pittsburgh Steelers had won many times in 1970s and in 1980s due to steroids. According to this coach, the players of the team became much stronger due to steroids.
But it is important to be careful here. The Steelers were not the first football team that administrated steroids and other medicines which possess performance-enhancing effects. There were other professional football teams that administrated steroids even in well-organized way.
Matt Chaneygives the better explanation related to intake of steroids by football players. He noticed in his book “The Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American football” that the Steelers were not responsible for the steroid revolution in football. There was another team which was responsible for this aspect. The San Diego Charges applied steroids before the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1960s.
However the Pittsburgh Steelers administrated steroids in 1970s, it is impossible to consider that they won due to steroids. There were also players of other teams who applied these products as well. Nevertheless, the Steelers were successful!