The Pittsburgh Steelers and steroids

When it is announced that the Pittsburgh Steelers intend to play, reporters seem to have responsibility to write about their relations with steroids. They put efforts to create a steroid scandal and to find any probable links of this team with it.
Mike Fish of ESPN displayed the same attitude, when the Pittsburgh Steelers played in the 2009 Super Bowl.  This reporter turned to have luck in writing news related to the Steelers and steroids.
However sportswriters are not always lucky, when it comes to connections of a team or a sportsperson with performance-enhancing drugs before a competition, the situation is changed, if it is spoken about the Pittsburgh Steelers. Sportswriters like writing about their history, about the lesson related to anabolic steroids that took place in 1970s.
David Fleming wrote about historical lessons of the Steelers before a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers. This sportswriter mentioned about time, when the NFL hadn’t yet prohibited application of steroids. Thus, according to certain sources, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ players administrated steroids in the late 1970s. It is noticed in the 1991 book “False Glory: The Steve Courson Story” that more than 70 % of the offensive linemen of the Steelers  administrated steroids.
It must have been true but it is necessary to understand that administration of steroids was not prohibited. Why are the Steelers blamed, if application of steroids was permitted?
Jim Haslett told the New Orleans Saints that the Pittsburgh Steelers had won numerous times in 1970s and in 1980s because of steroids. According to this coach, the football players of the team became much stronger due to intake of steroids.
But it is important to be cautious here. The Steelers were not the first football team that administrated steroids and other preparations which have performance-enhancing effects. There were other professional football teams that utilized steroids even in well-organized way.
Matt Chaneygives the better explanation connected with application of steroids in football. He noted in his book “The Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American football” that the Steelers hadn’t to be blamed for the steroid revolution in football. There was another team which had to be condemned for this factor. The San Diego Charges administrated steroids before the Steelers in 1960s.  
Although the Pittsburgh Steelers administrated steroids in 1970s, it is impossible to claim that they won due to steroids. There were also players of other teams that took these preparations as well. Nonetheless, the Steelers were successful!