High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sports in Pittsburgh have been played dating back to the American Civil War. Baseball, hockey, and the first professional american football game had been played in the city by 1895. Pittsburgh was first known as the "City of Champions" when the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Panthers, and Pittsburgh Steelers won multiple championships in the 1970s. Today, the city has three major professional sports franchises, the Pirates, Steelers, and Penguins; while the University of Pittsburgh Panthers compete in a Division 1 BCS conference, the highest level of collegiate athletics in the United States, in both football and basketball. City universities Duquesne and Robert Morris also field Division I teams in basketball and Division 1 FCS teams in football, with Robert Morris additionally fielding a Division I hockey team.