If you're a Steelers fan under 30, you've been living in the greatest era of quarterback stability in Steelers' history -- at least to your memory.
Ben Roethlisberger has been the team's quarterback for as long as you can recall and Kordell Stewart is the guy who you saw as Porsha Williams' husband on "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" a few years ago.
Roethlisberger's stretch of being the unquestioned starter from 2004 to the present has been the longest such stretch of quarterback play in team history, spanning the better part of the past two decades.
But his elbow injury two weeks into this season has left the Steelers in a pinch. Sunday's 16-10 win over the Bengals in Cincinnati marked the first time a Steelers' starter had been pulled from a game because of poor play in nearly 20 years.
Now, Mike Tomlin's decision to go with rookie Devlin Hodges over Mason Rudolph this Sunday marks the first time in his career he's been forced to make a quarterback change in his 13 seasons with the team.
Sure, there have been times when Roethlisberger has been out because of injury or suspension, but Tomlin's choices in those times were pretty cut and dried. This was all about Tomlin doing what was in the best interest of the team.
At 6-5, the Steelers are in the mode of win-or-else, and Tomlin's decision was with that solely in mind.
Let's take a look back at some of the other quarterback controversies and changes that have taken place for the Steelers since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.
1974 (Terry Bradshaw, Joe Gilliam, Terry Hanratty)
Bradshaw, the No. 1-overall pick in the 1970 draft, had split time with Hanratty in his first couple of seasons, but in 1972 had led the Steelers to a playoff win over the Raiders in the "Immaculate Reception" game.
Things were looking up, until the 1974 season. The NFL went through its first players strike and Bradshaw and Hanratty both walked out, leaving Gilliam, an 11th-round pick in 1974, in camp.
Even though Bradshaw was only out a week during the strike, Chuck Noll decided to go with Gilliam as his quarterback, making him the first African-American player to start a regular season opener at quarterback after the 1970 merger.
Gilliam led the Steelers to a 4-1-1 record, but completed just 5 of 18 passes for 78 yards in a 20-16 win over the Browns in Week 6. Noll had seen enough. He went back to Bradshaw.
After two games, in which Bradshaw completed less than 50 percent of his passes, Noll benched Bradshaw again, this time in favor of Hanratty. Hanratty completed just 2 of 15 passes for 63 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions in a 26-16 win over the Browns, getting pulled in favor of Gilliam. Gilliam didn't fare much better, completing just 1 of 4 passes, so Noll finally settled on Bradshaw again.
The Steelers, behind a strong defense and running game, not only made the playoffs that season, they won their first Super Bowl in spite of their three-way quarterback rotation.
Gilliam, Bradshaw and Hanratty combined to complete just 43 percent of their passes for 2,154 yards with 12 touchdowns and 21 interceptions that season, causing Sports Illustrated's Dan Jenkins to write they were "the only team to reach the playoffs without a quarterback."
1984-85 (Mark Malone, David Woodley, Scottie Campbell)
Malone was selected in the first round of the 1980 draft to be the eventual successor to Bradshaw. After Cliff Stoudt bolted for the USFL after one season as the Steelers starter in 1983 and Bradshaw retired, that left things wide open for Malone to be the guy.
Woodley, brought in from Miami, which had drafted Dan Marino in 1983, opened the season as the starter, but he and Malone split time throughout the season as Noll went back and forth between the two during the course of the season before finally settling on Malone midway through the season.
Malone led the Steelers to the AFC Championship game despite throwing 16 touchdown passes and 17 interceptions in 13 games (nine starts). Woodley had 8 touchdowns and 7 interceptions in seven games, all starts.
The following season, Malone started eight games, Woodley six and Campbell two as the team went 7-9. At the end of that season, Noll informed Woodley he would not be the starter in 1986 and Woodley retired despite having a salary of $500,000, the highest on the team.
The Packers acquired Woodley's rights from the Steelers for a draft pick in 1987, but he was cut during training camp and retired again.
1988 (Bubby Brister, Todd Blackledge, Steve Bono)
With Malone being traded to the Chargers in 1988, the Steelers had a choice to make at quarterback. They could go with young Bubby Brister, a third-round pick in 1986, who had started two games because of injuries to Malone that season and came in for two relief appearances in 1987. Or, they could turn things over to Blackledge, a first-round pick of the Chiefs in 1983, or Bono, who joined the team as a strike replacement player in 1987.
Brister was the starter throughout the season, but his performance -- a 4-9 record with 11 touchdowns and 14 interceptions and a completion percentage of 47 percent -- set the stage for the next quarterback battle, with Neil O'Donnell, who was drafted by the team in the third round in 1990.
Bono, by the way, would go on to post a 28-14 record as a starter with San Francisco, Kansas City and Green Bay.
1991-92 (Brister, Neil O'Donnell)
Brister opened the 1991 season as the starter, but after struggling early in the year, Noll had seen enough. He replaced an injured Brister with O'Donnell during a 23-20 loss at home to the Giants after he started the game 6 of 16 for 97 yards and an interception.
Despite entering with the Steelers trailing 20-0, O'Donnell nearly rallied the Steelers to a victory, throwing for 152 yards and two touchdowns.
O'Donnell remained the starter the rest of the way, even after Brister was ready to return, until a blowout loss to the Oilers dropped their record to 5-9. Late in the game, Noll tried to send Brister in to relieve O'Donnell, prompting Brister to refuse, saying, "I don't mop up for anybody."
Noll had seen enough and gave Brister the starting job back in the final two games, both Steelers wins to close out the Noll era.
Bill Cowher took over the next season and after a training camp battle, named O'Donnell the starter.
1996-97 (Jim Miller, Mike Tomczak, Kordell Stewart)
O'Donnell left the Steelers for greener pastures after the 1995 season, signing a five-year, $25-million free agent contract with the Jets.
That left the Steelers with 1994 sixth-round draft pick Jim Miller, veteran Mike Tomczak and Kordell Stewart, a second-round pick in 1995, to vie for the starting job.
After an extended training camp battle, Cowher named Miller the starter.
His reign lasted three quarters. Miller completed 9 of 17 passes for 83 yards in the regular season opener at Jacksonville as the Steelers trailed 17-9.
After losing linebacker Greg Lloyd to a knee injury, Cowher decided to make the switch to Tomczak, whose first pass was intercepted to set up a Jacksonville touchdown.
The Steelers lost the game, 24-9, and Cowher, saying not having Lloyd the rest of the season made his defense less formidable, decided to stick with Tomczak the rest of the way.
"He wants to go with the guy who's been through the battles," Miller said of Cowher's decision. "Mike deserves that. He's been in the league 12 years. There's a reason he's been in the league 12 years."
Stewart, who to that point had been used as a gadget player, took over in 1997, forcing Tomczak to the bench. He threw 21 touchdown passes and rushed for 11, earning a trip to the Pro Bowl.
1999 (Stewart, Tomczak)
After his outstanding 1997 season, Stewart tailed off in 1998, but made all 16 starts with Tomczak relieving him a few times, including a game in Tampa Bay where Stewart was caught by television cameras crying on the sideline after being pulled.
By 1999, Cowher decided on Stewart as the starter.
The Steelers started 5-3, with Stewart throwing for 153 yards and a touchdown and rushing for 49 yards in a rare win at San Francisco to finish off that first half.
First came a stunning 16-15 loss at home to the expansion Cleveland Browns, a team the Steelers had beaten 43-0 in the regular season opener.
A few weeks later, Cowher pulled an ineffective Stewart (5 of 11 for 36 yards and two interceptions) from a loss to the Bengals and Tomczak nearly led the Steelers back from a 24-6 deficit in a 27-24 loss.
Cowher decided to not only bench Stewart, he banished him from the quarterback meeting rooms, making him a receiver.
“I guess Slash is back,” said Stewart, who had 31 career receptions for 528 yards and four touchdowns at the time. “Coach asked me if I wanted to go in as a receiver, and I wasn’t going to be selfish and say no. I decided to give it a try. But I know my time will come again. Sometimes, when you’re trying your hardest, it’s best to just step away.
“I’m not looking at it as me being demoted.”
The benching didn't come as a surprise. In five home games before that, Stewart had led two touchdown drives.
The losing continued under Tomczak's direction, however, and the Steelers lost four of their final five games to finish 6-10.
2000 (Kent Graham, Stewart)
Cowher had seen enough of Tomczak the previous season to know he wasn't the answer. So the Steelers signed former Giants and Cardinals starter Kent Graham in the offseason to compete with Stewart for the job. Graham got a $5.1-million, three-year contract.
He barely lasted a third of the season.
At the end of training camp, Cowher issued a statement saying Graham would start the season opener against the Ravens.
After the Steelers opened the season 0-3, Cowher went back to Stewart to replace an injured Graham and stuck with him. Stewart led the Steelers to a 7-4 record in 11 starts, while Graham got two more starts the rest of the way, with the Steelers finishing 9-7.
The Steelers released Graham that offseason after he competed 44.6 percent of his passes with one touchdown and one interception on 148 pass attempts.
2002 (Stewart, Tommy Maddox)
Stewart was the starter in 2001 and led the Steelers to the AFC Championship game and a 13-3 record, being named the team MVP.
But his success was short lived.
The Steelers opened the 2002 season 0-2, getting drubbed at New England and then at home by the Raiders by a combined score of 60-31.
The Steelers were struggling in Week 3 against the Browns, losing 13-6, when Cowher pulled Stewart in favor of former XFL quarterback Tommy Maddox.
Phil Dawson missed a 45-yard field goal in overtime and Todd Peterson kicked a 31-yarder for the Steelers to lift them to a 16-13 win.
"Let me just say this, first off: I'm in no position right now to make a decision on a starting quarterback," Cowher said at his press conference following the game.
He changed his mind. Maddox took over as the starter and stayed the starter, with Stewart returning only when Maddox suffered a spinal concussion in a loss at Tennessee.
Maddox would lead the Steelers to a 7-3-1 record, while the Steelers would rally to go 3-2 in starts by Stewart.
"I can't control what other people do,'' Stewart said later that year. "I've proven myself time and time again, so to express myself and explain myself again, what would that benefit?
"If this is the direction they want to go, fine, so be it, but everybody else knows, and this organization knows, what I can do''