The city served, as one later historian describes it, as "both court and emporium", ringed by a double curtain of defensive walls, "square for cosmic order".
Ben Roethlisberger tied the Steelers' single-game record with five touchdown passes in the first half as Bradshaw stood nearby cheering him on, and Pittsburgh put on a Steel Curtain-like defensive show by forcing four turnovers before halftime in a 38-7 victory.
Curtain walls were defensive walls enclosing a bailey.
On June 6, Dwight White, a defensive end on the Steel Curtain died from a blood clot.
Except for the western part of the curtain wall, the defensive works of the citadel that are still standing are primarily of Ayyubid date, with extensive Mamluk restorations.
Defensive architecture acts as the airplane curtain that separates economy from business and business from first class, protecting those further forward from the envious eyes of those behind.
"Winning this championship puts us in the class with many other great defenses, like the Purple People Eaters and the Steel Curtain," Sapp said of the renowned defensive units of the Minnesota Vikings and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
L.C. Greenwood, the relentless defensive end who made up one-quarter of the Pittsburgh Steelers' "Steel Curtain" defense of the 1970s, died Sunday at a Pittsburgh hospital.
The Anglo-Norman lord William de Chesney acquired the castle in the 12th century and rebuilt it in stone, raising a stone curtain wall around a new inner bailey, complete with a defensive tower, gatehouse and domestic buildings.
It comprises three defensive fronts, each one with two bastions, two half bastions and three curtains.
