1968 Pittsburgh Steelers season The 1968 Pittsburgh Steelers continued the team ' s descent in the NFL ' s basement , finishing with a league - worst 2 – 11 – 1 record and the dismissal of head coach Bill Austin at the end of the season , leading to the eventual hiring of Chuck Noll . The season is notable in that the Steelers had their last tied game before the NFL adopted the overtime rule in regular season games in 1974 in Week 9 against the St . Louis Cardinals in a 28 – 28 stalemate ; that game actually was the deciding game in the NFL Century Division that season , as the Cardinals had swept the Cleveland Browns but ended up finishing the season 9 – 4 – 1 , 1 / 2 game behind the 10 – 4 Browns . Since that game , the Steelers have only had two tied games , both happening after the overtime rule took effect . In addition , the Steelers lost to the Baltimore Colts at home 41 – 7 in Week 3 , as the Colts would go on to play in Super Bowl III , in which they were upset by the AFL ' s New York Jets . After that loss , the Steelers would go another 40 years before losing to the Colts at home again , winning 12 straight ( including three postseason meetings , among them the now - famous as well as the that saw the introduction of the Terrible Towel ) before losing to the now - Indianapolis Colts 24 – 20 on November 10 , 2008 . Offseason . No major player transactions happened in the offseason , although the team would draft Notre Dame running back Rocky Bleier with their last pick ( 16th round ) in the 1968 draft . Bleier ' s drafting by the team was mainly at the insistence of Steelers owner Art Rooney , who thought Bleier was Catholic for attending Notre Dame , even though Bleier was actually Presbyterian . Bleier would play ten games for the Steelers before being drafted again — this time by the military to fight in Vietnam . Despite being wounded the following summer , Bleier would go on to be a major contributor to the Steelers ' success in the 1970s . The most notable offseason change happened with the team ' s uniforms . After just two seasons , the team ditched the so - called " Batman " - themed uniforms and adopted a modified version of their pre - 1966 black design for both jerseys . The team brought back the Northwestern - style stripes on the sleeves , but put a white stripe in between each gold stripe on the black jerseys and black trim on each of the stripes on the white jerseys . The team also adopted white numbers on the home jerseys ( the lone carryover from the " Batman " jerseys ) , while the team retained the gold pants from the " Batman " uniforms as well as the team ' s helmet , which was adopted in 1963 . Save for briefly wearing white pants with the white jerseys in the early 1970s as well as some minor modifications in 1997 , these uniforms remain in use as of 2009 . Regular season . Game summaries . Week 1 ( Sunday September 15 , 1968 ) : New York Giants . " at Pitt Stadium , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania " Scoring Drives : Week 2 ( Sunday September 22 , 1968 ) : Los Angeles Rams . " at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , Los Angeles , California " Scoring Drives : Week 3 ( Sunday September 29 , 1968 ) : Baltimore Colts . " at Pitt Stadium , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania " Scoring Drives : Week 4 ( Saturday October 5 , 1968 ) : Cleveland Browns . " at Cleveland Municipal Stadium , Cleveland , Ohio " Scoring Drives : Week 5 ( Sunday October 13 , 1968 ) : Washington Redskins . " at D . C . Stadium , Washington , DC " Scoring Drives : Week 6 ( Sunday October 20 , 1968 ) : New Orleans Saints . " at Pitt Stadium , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania " Scoring Drives : Week 7 ( Sunday October 27 , 1968 ) : Philadelphia Eagles . " at Pitt Stadium , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania " Scoring Drives : Week 8 ( Sunday November 3 , 1968 ) : Atlanta Falcons . " at Atlanta Stadium , Atlanta , Georgia " Scoring Drives : Week 9 ( Sunday November 10 , 1968 ) : St . Louis Cardinals . " at Busch Memorial Stadium , St . Louis , Missouri " Scoring Drives : Week 10 ( Sunday November 17 , 1968 ) : Cleveland Browns . " at Pitt Stadium , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania " Scoring Drives : Week 11 ( Sunday November 24 , 1968 ) : San Francisco 49ers . " at Pitt Stadium , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania " Scoring Drives : Week 12 ( Sunday December 1 , 1968 ) : St . Louis Cardinals . " at Pitt Stadium , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania " Scoring Drives : Week 13 ( Sunday December 8 , 1968 ) : Dallas Cowboys . " at Pitt Stadium , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania " Scoring Drives : Week 14 ( Sunday December 15 , 1968 ) : New Orleans Saints . " at Tulane Stadium , New Orleans , Louisiana " Scoring Drives :