The Golden Era of Pennsylvania Sports

Many folks on this blog have Pennsylvania ties, so expect some level of local-ism to show up now and then.

I was thinking about how it's been a nice run for the Steelers, Pens, and Phillies lately --
But how about 1975-1985 in Pennsylvania?





Pro Football:
1975 - Steelers win super bowl
1976 - Steelers win super bowl
1979 - Steelers win super bowl
1980 - Steelers win super bowl
1981 - Eagles win NFC championship; play in their first super bowl

College Football:
1976 - Pitt Panthers are AP and near consensus national champions.
1980 - Pitt Panthers are NY Times and other media national champions (not AP though)
1981 - Pitt wins minor national championship foundation title retroactively; Penn State wins minor dunkel national title
1982 - Penn State is AP and near consensus national champion
1985-86 season - Penn State is AP national champions again.

Pro Hockey:
1975 - Flyers win their second straight Stanley cup
1976 - Flyers reach the finals again
1979 - Flyers reach the finals again
1985 - Flyers reach the finals again

Pro Baseball:
1975 - Pirates in nlcs (Phillies second)
1976 - Phillies in nlcs (Pirates second)
1977 - Phillies in nlcs (Pirates second)
1978 - Phillies in nlcs (Pirates second)
1979 - Pirates win their 5th and most recent world series championship. They also have have the national league mvp, nl championship series mvp, the world series mvp, and the all star game mvp.
1980 - Phillies win their first world series championship.
1981 - Phillies win nl east in strike shortened season
1983 - Phillies "wheeze kids" go to world series, lose.

Pro Basketball:
1975 - Sixers return to the playoffs for the first time in 5 years
1976 - Sixers go to the NBA finals, only to lose to Bill Walton's Trailblazers.
1977 - Lose to Bullets, who win nba title
1980 - Go to NBA finals again, lose to lakers.
1981 - Go to NBA finals again (with Celtics fans chanting "beat LA", in a rare moment of east coast solidarity) and lose to Lakers
1982 - Moses takes over! Sixers go 12-1 in nba playoffs, "fo fi fo", winning it all.
1985 - New look Barkley sixers return to eastern conference finals again.

College Basketball:
1985 - Villanova Wildcats become lowest seeded team to ever win a national title.

Boxing:
1983 - "Easton Assassin" Larry Holmes wins Heavyweight Championship.

MVP's:
1975, 1976 - Bobby Clarke
1978 - Dave Parker
1978 - Terry Bradshaw
1979 - Willie Stargell
1980, 1981 - Mike Schmidt
1981 - Dr. J
1983 - Moses Malone

Sports Movies Filmed in and/or Set in Pennsylvania during this time:
1976 - Rocky
1977 - Slapshot
1979 - The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979 - Rocky 2
1982 - Rocky 3
1983 - All the Right Moves
1985 - Rocky 4

Has any state ever matched this output in a 10 year period?