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Photo by Robert J. Pavachuk in the Pittsburgh Press.

Notes from the January 6, 1975 Pittsburgh Press. 

Chuck Noll, coaching in his first Super Bowl as a head coach, wanted his players to keep loose. Noll was defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Colts team that lost Super Bowl III to the New York Jets, led by young, confident Joe Namath at quarterback. Noll believed the Colts were too tight heading into the game, while the Jets were looser, with Namath famously guaranteeing a victory three days before the game. 

From The Ones Who Hit Hardest by Chad Millman and Shawn Coyne:

Here’s what Chuck Noll remembered from his experience with the Colts in Super Bowl III: His team lost to Joe Namath’s Jets because the players were tight. The Colts were huge favorites, the biggest of the three Super Bowls up to that point, and when the game bgan he could see agony on their faces. Namath had been lounging by the pool, sipping drinks and guaranteeing wins, while his guys were too worried about losing to win the game.

Noll told the players there would be no curfew and no bed-check for the first two nights they were in New Orleans, and players were allowed to stay with their wives.

From Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work by Michael MacCambridge:

The team reveled in the lack of a curfew that Sunday and Monday night--Andy Russell somehow managed to lose a rental car somewhere in Fat City. Joe Greene didn’t even unpack, just dropped his luggage in the room and headed out with his line mates, L.C. Greenwood, Dwight White, and Fats Holmes. They wound up sitting by the sidewalk in an open-air restaurant along Bourbon Street. “We had you-peel-it-shrimp,” said Greene. “And we drank Heineken until they had no more.” The night left Dwight White with a case of food poisoning and, eventually, admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, which seemed certain to rule him out of the game. Everyone but White reported for meetings Tuesday morning and prepared as usual.

There was a sense that freedom on the first nights in New Orleans, along with the innate confidence that the team had gained, left them looser for the game itself.

Pittsburgh Steelers DT “Mean Joe” Greene leaps to block a pass by San Diego Chargers QB John Hadl on Oct. 3, 1971. The 1969 NFL Rookie of the Year, 1972 and ‘74 Defensive Player of the Year, Greene made 10 Pro Bowls during his entire 13-year career with Pittsburgh. The Hall of Fame "cornerstone of the Steel Curtain," who helped lead the Steelers to four Super Bowl victories, turned 69 years old on Sept. 24, 2015.​ (Neil Leifer for SI)