Dan Rooney

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dan Rooney’s priorities were always clear. Family. Football. Faith. Ireland. It’s the order they came in for the longtime Pittsburgh Steelers president and chairman, however, that occasionally became blurry. Often in the best way possible. The evidence could be found in the pews at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday, a cross section […]

Dan Rooney, the powerful and popular Pittsburgh Steelers chairman whose name is attached to the NFL’s landmark initiative in minority hiring, died Thursday. He was 84. The team announced his death but details were not immediately available. Rooney took over operation of the team in the 1960s from his father, Art, who founded the franchise. From […]