Pittsburgh Steelers vs. the NFL

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All-time record Games W L T Pct. Streak Pittsburgh Steelers 1099 556 522 21 .5155 W 4 Includes all games through the end of the 2008 NFL season.

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The Steelers have a winning record overall, but that was not so until recently.  In their first four decades, the Steelers had only nine winning seasons.  But since 1972, the Steelers have had only nine non-winning seasons.  When they won a Wild Card game against the Browns in 2003, the Steelers reached .500 all-time for the first time since 1933.

You can see this reversal of fortune in the Steelers' records against their opponents.  The Steelers still have losing records against many of their old NFL opponents (now in the NFC), but they have winning records against many teams in the AFC, which the Steelers joined in 1970.

In 2008, the Cincinnati Bengals overtook the Philadelphia Eagles as the team the Steelers have played the second most games against.  The Eagles were division rivals of the Steelers for most of the years between 1933 and 1966.

With Super Bowl XLIII, the Steelers passed the Washington Redskins in the category of total games played.  The Redskins were founded in 1932, one year before the Steelers, but Pittsburgh's appearances in the postseason have resulted in a greater games total.

Steelers vs. current NFL teams   Click on a heading below to sort the table.
Opponent	Games	W	L	T	Pct.	Streak
Arizona Cardinals	58	32	23	3	.5776	W 1
Atlanta Falcons	14	11	2	1	.8214	L 1
Baltimore Ravens	28	18	10	-	.6429	W 3
Buffalo Bills	22	13	9	-	.5909	W 3
Carolina Panthers	4	3	1	-	.7500	W 3
Chicago Bears	24	7	16	1	.3125	W 3
Cincinnati Bengals	78	48	30	-	.6154	W 5
Cleveland Browns	114	59	55	-	.5175	W 11
Dallas Cowboys	30	15	15	-	.5000	W 2
Denver Broncos	26	9	16	1	.3654	L 2
Detroit Lions	30	14	15	1	.4833	W 2
Green Bay Packers	31	13	18	-	.4194	W 2
Houston Texans	3	2	1	-	.6667	W 2
Indianapolis Colts	24	18	6	-	.7500	L 1
Jacksonville Jaguars	21	9	12	-	.4286	W 1
Kansas City Chiefs	26	17	9	-	.6538	W 1
Miami Dolphins	22	11	11	-	.5000	W 3
Minnesota Vikings	15	7	8	-	.4667	W 2
New England Patriots	24	14	10	-	.5833	W 1
New Orleans Saints	13	7	6	-	.5385	W 1
New York Giants	75	28	44	3	.3933	L 1
New York Jets	19	16	3	-	.8421	L 1
Oakland Raiders	23	11	12	-	.4783	L 1
Philadelphia Eagles	77	27	47	3	.3701	L 1
San Diego Chargers	29	21	8	-	.7241	W 2
San Francisco 49ers	19	9	10	-	.4737	W 1
Seattle Seahawks	16	8	8	-	.5000	W 2
St. Louis Rams	24	7	15	2	.3333	W 1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	8	7	1	-	.8750	W 3
Tennessee Titans	71	41	30	-	.5775	L 1
Washington Redskins	76	31	42	3	.4276	W 4
Includes all games through the end of the 2008 NFL season.

Note:  The records on this page count the Steelers' 17-10 loss to Detroit in the 1962 Playoff Bowl, a postseason exhibition that decided the NFL's third-place team during the 1960s. In general, the NFL does not count the Playoff Bowl in its official records, but it appears the Steelers count this game, perhaps because of its significance in the team's history.

Steelers vs. former NFL teams   Click on a heading below to sort the table.
Opponent	Games	W	L	T	Pct.
Baltimore Colts I	1	1	0	-	1.000
Boston Yanks	8	5	3	-	.6250
Brooklyn Dodgers	20	8	11	1	.4250
Cin. Reds / StL. Gunners	4	2	1	1	.6250
New York Bulldogs	2	2	0	-	1.000

Combined teams   Click on a heading below to sort the table.
Team	Games	W	L	T	Pct.
1943 Phil-Pitt Steagles	10	5	4	1	.5500
1944 Card-Pitt "Carpets"	10	0	10	-	.0000

Note:  Due to the shortage of available players during World War II, the Steelers combined with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1943 and with the Chicago Cardinals in 1944. The NFL counts the games played by these teams toward the all-time records of the franchises that combined to form them, but it does not count them in head-to-head series totals vs. their opponents.

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