It was March 2005, just a little more than a year ago, that wide receiver Cedrick Wilson stood in the Steelers media room for the first time and talked about why he decided to leave the San Francisco 49ers and sign with the Steelers as an unrestricted free agent.

"I know that we are going to rock and I know that we are going to win and that is one of the reasons why I'm here," said Wilson a year ago of his new team. "I'm very happy to be here. I'm proud to be here. And I'm just ecstatic to get around the guys and blend in and win a Super Bowl. That's our number-one goal."

Fast-forward to May of 2006. Wilson is taking part in the team's coaching sessions, getting ready for a new season. And he is doing it as a Super Bowl Champion, something that amazes him even though that's the reason he came to Pittsburgh.

"You don't expect it," said Wilson, thinking back to the comments that he made that day. "You always hope, but you don't expect it."

There was a time during last season when Wilson was thinking maybe I won't reach that goal this year. The team had just lost three consecutive games, to the Ravens, Colts and Bengals, and the playoffs seemed light years away.

"For me at the point where it was looking like we weren't going to get into the playoffs, I was saying to myself I came here to win that Super Bowl and things just didn't happen right for me," said Wilson. "Then Coach (Bill) Cowher had a meeting with us at the pivotal point. He came in and said I checked all of your backgrounds and I know everything about you. He said I am going to find out who is going to leave it all out there and who is going to throw in the towel. He said I am going to find out.

"At that point we weren't giving up. Everybody stepped up their game even more. Everyone was focused and doing the little things. That's what got us over the hump."

The rest, as they say, is history. The Steelers finished the regular season winning their final four games and earned a wild card playoff spot. They were forced to go on the road for the playoffs, winning three more games, before defeating the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL.

"I don't know of any other team in the NFL that won in the fashion we displayed," said Wilson. "Throughout the course of the season we had guys going down here, guys going down there, losing games and things of that nature. It was at a point where we could have given up, thrown in the towel and got ready for next year. But we stuck in there, kept fighting and ended up in the playoffs. Just the way we got it accomplished, it was awesome; it was phenomenal."

Had he been elsewhere, Wilson might have had doubts that the team could have reached that pinnacle with the odds so stacked against them. But he knew when he looked around the locker room that the men that stood beside him could get it done.

"This is the best group of guys I have been around," said Wilson. "I am not saying that just because we won the Super Bowl. I don't have to say that. This is the best group of guys I have been around in my lifetime, not just on the football field. These guys like one another, they work together and they compete against one another. It's fun. It's like, if you beat me out, it means you worked harder than me. I am not upset with you, I am upset with myself."

That competition is starting again now as the team starts it's preparation for the 2006 season. There isn't a quiet feeling of being content among the players. It's far from that. The players don't want to stop at winning one Super Bowl. They want more.

"Everybody here is fired up about being back," said Wilson.  "We are still hungry. We want to win more championships. It's back to business. We won one, but it's not the feeling. Those guys back in the days won four of them. If we can get past that mark we can be the best team in Steelers history.

"You see what it does for the city. Everybody is happy and smiling now. Everybody is friendly. You want people to stay that way so we want to win some more."