US football sports season
The 1996 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 64th season as a professional sports franchise and as a member of the National Football League.
This was Bill Cowher's fifth season as head coach of the Steelers, which resulted in yet another trip to the playoffs for the team, as Pittsburgh won the AFC Central championship for the fourth time under Cowher.
The team's 10–6 record was not enough to earn the Steelers a first-round bye. In their first playoff game, a rematch of the previous year's AFC Championship Game, the Steelers defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 42–14. The following their season would come to a halt as the Steelers lost to the New England Patriots, 28–3.
This would be the final season that the team wore block numerals, the next year they would switch to rounded numerals where it has remained ever since.
Personnel
Staff
Notable additions include Jerome Bettis, Earl Holmes and Carlos Emmons.
Roster
Preseason
Schedule
Regular season
Schedule
Game summaries
at Alltel Stadium, Jacksonville, Florida
- Game time: 1:00 pm EDT
- Game weather:
- Game attendance: 70,210
- Referee: Bob McElwee
- TV announcers: (NBC) Marv Albert (play by play), Sam Wyche (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Game time: 1:00 pm EDT
- Game weather: 75 °F (24 °C) (Partly Sunny)
- Game attendance: 57,241
- Referee: Gerry Austin
- TV announcers: (NBC) Marv Albert (play by play), Sam Wyche (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Scoring drives:
Week 4 (Sunday September 22, 1996): Bye Week
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Game time: 1:00 pm EDT
- Game weather: 59 °F (15 °C) (Mostly Sunny)
- Game attendance: 58,608
- Referee: Tom White
- TV announcers: (NBC) Don Criqui (play by play), Beasley Reece (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri
Scoring drives:
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Game time: 1:00 pm EDT
- Game weather: 64 °F (18 °C) (Partly Sunny)
- Game attendance: 58,875
- Referee: Gary Lane
- TV announcers: (NBC) Charlie Jones (play by play), Randy Cross (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
at Astrodome, Houston, Texas
Scoring drives:
at Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia
- Game time: 1:00 pm EST
- Game weather: Dome
- Game attendance: 58,760
- Referee: Ron Blum
- TV announcers: (NBC) Dan Hicks (play by play), Bob Trumpy (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Game time: 1:00 pm EST
- Game weather: 38 °F (3 °C) (Partly Sunny)
- Game attendance: 58,148
- Referee: Jerry Markbreit
- TV announcers: (FOX) Joe Buck (play by play), Bill Maas (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
at Cinergy Field, Cincinnati, Ohio
Scoring drives:
- Cincinnati – FG Pelfrey 32
- Pittsburgh- FG Johnson 46
- Pittsburgh – Bettis 6 run (Johnson kick)
- Cincinnati – Carter 1 run (Pelfrey kick)
- Pittsburgh – Stewart 1 run (Johnson kick)
- Cincinnati – Dunn 90 kickoff return (Pelfrey kick)
- Pittsburgh – Bettis 1 run (Johnson kick)
- Cincinnati – Bieniemy 33 run (Pelfrey kick)
- Cincinnati – Carter 12 pass from Blake (Pelfrey kick)
- Cincinnati – FG Pelfrey 34
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Game time: 1:00 pm EST
- Game weather: 50 °F (10 °C) (Cloudy)
- Game attendance: 58,879
- Referee: Bernie Kukar
- TV announcers: (NBC) Jim Lampley (play by play), Bob Golic (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
at Pro Player Stadium, Miami, Florida
Scoring drives:
at Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland
- Game time: 1:00 pm EST
- Game weather:
- Game attendance: 51,882
- Referee: Red Cashion
- TV announcers: (NBC) Jim Lampley (play by play), Bob Golic (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Game time: 1:00 pm EST
- Game weather: 40 °F (4 °C) (Partly Sunny)
- Game attendance: 56,368
- Referee: Gerry Austin
- TV announcers: (NBC) Tom Hammond (play by play), Bob Trumpy (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Game time: 1:00 pm EST
- Game weather: 38 °F (3 °C) (Partly Sunny)
- Game attendance: 59,823
- Referee: Bob McElwee
- TV announcers: (FOX) Pat Summerall (play by play), John Madden (color commentator)
Scoring drives:
- San Francisco – Rice 4 pass from S. Young (Wilkins kick)
- San Francisco – Safety, B. Young sacked Tomczak in end zone
- San Francisco – Rice 4 pass from S. Young (Wilkins kick)
- San Francisco – Owens 20 pass from S. Young (kick failed)
- Pittsburgh – Bettis 1 run (C. Johnson pass from Tomczak)
- San Francisco – FG Wilkins 22
- Pittsburgh – Stewart 42 pass from Tomczak (Johnson kick)
at Ericsson Stadium, Charlotte, North Carolina
Scoring drives:
Standings
Playoffs
Game summaries
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Scoring drives:
- Pittsburgh – FG Johnson 29
- Pittsburgh – Stewart 1 run (Johnson kick)
- Pittsburgh – FG Johnson 50
- Indianapolis – Daniel 59 interception return (Blanchard kick)
- Indianapolis – Bailey 9 pass from Harbaugh (Blanchard kick)
- Pittsburgh – Bettis 1 run (Farquhar pass from Stewart)
- Pittsburgh- Bettis 1 run (Johnson kick)
- Pittsburgh – Witman 31 run (Johnson kick)
- Pittsburgh – Stewart 3 run (Johnson kick)
at Foxboro Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts
Scoring drives:
Honors and awards
Pro Bowl Representatives
References
- ^ a b 1996 Pittsburgh Steelers Media Guide.
- ^ 1997 Pittsburgh Steelers Media Guide.
- ^ "1996 Pittsburgh Steelers". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
External links
- 1996 Pittsburgh Steelers season at Pro Football Reference
- 1996 Pittsburgh Steelers season statistics at jt-sw.com