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February 15, 2006 Lynn Swann's acrobatic catches helped bring
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Enlarge font February 15, 2006  1976 Pittsburgh Makes A Great
Leap Forward  Lynn Swann's acrobatic catches helped bring home a
second title  View CoverRead All Articles  For all of those
gaudy things that happened throughout the afternoon, memories of
the 1976 Super Bowl will keep going back to the Pittsburgh
Steelers' Lynn Swann climbing into the air like the boy in the
Indian rope trick and coming down with the football. He didn't
come down with very many passes, really, only four, but he
caught the ones that truly mattered. That is why it will seem
that he spent the day way up there in the crisp sky, a thousand
feet above Miami's Orange Bowl, where neither the Dallas Cowboys
nor even a squadron of fighter planes could do anything to stop
him. When it was all over, Swann and the Steelers had won 21-17
and had repeated as ch