Welcome to this website’s off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world’s top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let’s stick to the basics.

#31

Pittsburgh Steelers

The list continues with our 3rd NFL team as the Pittsburgh Steelers come in at no. 31 overall. Iowa, please take your uniforms and go sit in the corner, you’re not making this list.

In recent years the Steelers have made headlines with some of their throwbacks. In the NFL, there’s no doubt that Pittsburgh has some of the most memorable and wild old-timey uniforms. As a franchise, they’ve been around since 1933 making them the joint 7th oldest football team still playing in the NFL. That’s a lot of uniforms over the years.

Beyond a 1943 brief merge with Philadelphia when the “Steagles” wore green uniforms, the Pittsburgh Steelers have always wore black and gold. Colors that now define an entire city.

What we know now as the classic Steelers uniforms made their debut in the 1968 season and they’ve stayed fairly consistent throughout the years, a common theme in the NFL.

With their home black jerseys, the stripes on the arms were tweaked in the early 1970’s but survive to this day even in the era with shorter sleeves. The infamous rounded numbers debuted for the 1997 season, along with the addition of the Steelers’ logo patch to the front left of the jersey.

That iconic team logo with the colors representing coal, iron ore, and scrap steel was placed on the right side of the helmets late in the 1962 season (then on yellow helmets) and the team switched to black helmets for that season’s “Playoff Bowl” for 3rd place (a thing that happened!) and have remained with black with no logo on the left side ever since.