Two more wins to challenge the Super Steelers of the 70s Legacy?

The Steelers have to win two very tough games in the next 3 weeks for this to even be a conversation, but if they do, where do they stand in history relative to the greatest teams? The Steelers of the 70's won 4 Super Bowls in 6 years and boasted a stable lineup, much of which is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Ohio. IF, and that is a big IF they could win this year's Super Bowl that would be 3 in 6 years. I would argue that in the current era of free agency, that accomplishment would rival and even exceed the accomplishments of the Super Steelers of the '70's due to the volatility of the personnel. To me, this current team should keep that in mind as extra motiviation for what figures to be one, and if lucky two hard fought wars chasing Lombardi's trophy. The only other team that could rival this accomplishment in the current era is the New England Patriots who have appeared in four Super Bowls since 2000, winning Super Bowls 36, 38, 39, and losing Super Bowl 42 to the New York Giants. A trip to, and victory in Super Bowl 45 would give the Steelers the same number of Super Bowl wins as New England in a comparable time frame. That is pretty heady stuff. It would be Big Ben's third win, matching the number of wins by the supposedly immortal Tom Brady. It would also put Mike Tomlin at an early age in elite company as a head coach with multiple Super Bowl wins. For those of you who think that there should be an asterisk next to ANY of the these games due to the fact that Pittsburgh has not had to face New England during these successful runs........well daddy should have put it somewhere else. If New England was not good enough during those years to make the AFC Championship to challenge the Steelers, that is on New England. We beat who we had to beat to get there. For those of you who think that Big Ben and Mike Tomlin will have plenty more chances to make history and wear rings, see Dan Marino, one of the NFL all time great quarterbacks who played in and lost the Super Bowl as a rookie in Miami. The pundits downplayed the loss, assuming he would be back and win a few during his career. Well, Marino never got a sniff again. The next two games could put this Steelers team in a very solid position as one of the elite in NFL history, giving the franchise two such runs, and seven trophies overall. As part of the Super Bowl talk, let's not forget that if you go back 40 years from today's game, this will be the 15th of the 40 AFC Championship games played, that included the Steelers, 11 of those in Pittsburgh! They currently stand 7-7 in those 14 that have played, and 2-2 in the games played in this decade. Today's game will make them above or below .500 in both categories. A VERY VERY big game for this franchise and this city indeed. I am going to catalog this run below, using the dates of the game, not the season.
1972 Pittsburgh/Miami-loss
1975 Pittsburgh/Oakland-win-wins Super Bowl IX
1976 Pittsburgh/Oakland-win-wins Super Bowl X
1977 Pittsburgh/Oakland-loss
1979 Pittsburgh/Houston-win-wins Super Bowl XIII
1980 Pittsburgh/Houston-win-wins Super Bowl XIV
1985 Pittsburgh/Miami-loss
1995 Pittsburgh/San Diego-loss
1996 Pittsburgh/Indianapolis-win-lose Super Bowl XXX
1998 Pittsburgh/Denver-loss
2002 Pittsburgh/New England-loss
2005 Pittsburgh/New England-loss
2006 Pittsburgh/Denver-win-wins Super Bowl XL
2009 Pittsburgh/Baltimore-win-wins Super Bowl XLIII
2011 Pittsburgh/New York Jets-???????????????????

This was a season that I thought would wind up 9-7, and out of the playoffs based on the injuries up front, and Big Ben's suspension. Instead, history awaits, godspeed Steelers!