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DALLAS -- The symbol of success for the Pittsburgh Steelers is the cafeteria in their headquarters. One visit and you can understand why the team calls itself a family.Go there on any weekday during the season at lunchtime and look around: players and coaches here; employees at all levels there; media members relaxing and the bosses sitting with any or all of them at any given time -- Dan Rooney until he became ambassador to Ireland and now his son Art, who's been running the team for a while now.
"That's how Pittsburgh is, just regular people,'' both Rooneys tell you when you ask them about the democratic nature of their operation. When you ask them why, given the Steelers' success, why other teams don't do it, they shrug.
"Ask the other teams,'' Art Rooney said this week.
"I think the organization is what it is for a lot of reasons,'' safety Ryan Clark said as the Steelers prepared for a chance to extend their record of six Super Bowl victories with one more against another historic franchise, the Green Bay Packers.
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/02/03/steelers-continued-success-based-on-family-values/
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