Steelers and Steel: Sports Teams and Their Respective Commodities

Overthinking It salutes this year’s Super Bowl champions with some totally unnecessary Excel.

As the series of graphs below demonstrate, the Pittsburgh Steelers perform better when the US produces more steel, but the Denver Nuggets perform worse with increased gold production, as do the Tennessee Titans (formerly the Houston Oilers) with increased oil production.*

Click on any of the graphs for larger versions.

*Yes, I know that extremely weak (i.e., virtually non-existent) correlation does not equal causation.

Go Steelers, and go steel producers.