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Originally Posted by Fballguy
Wondering if anyone has any information on this Steelers pennant? It's not particularly rare but it's curious to me because it has "Championship - American Conference" on it. The graphic is an old style and Egner's book places it in the 1950's. The Steelers were in the NFL's old American Conference from 1950-52 but never played in even a playoff game during this time. Conference's didnt have championship games back then anyway. They were just called playoffs with the championship pitting the winner from the respective conferences.
Of course, the Steelers played in many American Conference Championship games in the 70's but this pennant obviously isn't from that time period.
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Same thing happened with Browns pennant....My guess is they weren't prepared for playoffs/championship, so they grabbed some old stock pennants and printed them up with the championship lettering
This is an old Browns pennant from the 40s.....
When the Browns won championship in 1964, that pennant reappeared as a 1964 Championship pennant
I think the same thing happened with your pennant