After all these years, I swear to God, I thought it was just a dream I had when I was a kid. I Knew I'd seen the Steelers play a college team on tv. I just gave it up as a dream until now, Wow.
I loved watching the game every year. It was actually a Charities game played every year except 74 bc of the Strike. 41 and just over a half games....as the 42 game ended in that torrential rain storm....plus the fans decided to take over the field! I miss those games and, the thought of such a game today would be laughed at. I would love to see a return to that game, played under the same rules as the Hall of Fame Game...but I'm in a minority for that return lol.
Mike Bridges well they don’t play the game because of college draft picks having the potential to get hurt and my dad said that some did and they couldn’t play in the pros.
@@robminmonaca one of those injuries occurred here at 6:51 to WR Pat McInally. He went on to have good 10 year career with the Bengels as a punter and wide receiver but missed his rookie year due to the broken leg he suffered in this game.
Virgil Livers, Russ Francis, Pat Mcinally, Steve Bartkowski, Robert Braziel (HOF), among many of the great players on the All Star team, who went on to have great careers.
too much money is at stake for this game. money that concerns players contracts. that for a for all intents and purpose is a meaningless game. not saying this is not interesting, it's just not economically feasible. what about the old 'playoff bowl' the so called consillation bowl?
@@baerhomburg6447 you talk about money being the reason the game was discontinued. But money was the reason it was played. All proceeds from the game went to charity.
This was always the first exhibition game of the season. The defending NFL champions against the college all stars. Can you imagine NFL teams letting their prize draft picks play in a meaningless exhibition game against an NFL team these days?
Probably the two best announcers ever, anybody notice? Kieth Jackson working with Howard cossell. Never remember them together. I started watching football in 79
It's understandable why they no longer play this game. Still, if they did it might give me a reason to actually sit own & watch a game involving an NFL team.
Never see this type of exhibition today. NFL players would not risk an injury as they do not have guaranteed contracts. College players waiting for the draft would not risk injury as it would lower their draft status (big bucks), or ruin a career. Even top level picks are refusing to now play in bowl games for fear if injury.
@@dustylover100 the last one they played before moving to Hawaii was in a half empty LA Coliseum in 1979. Cosell kept saying what an awful game it was.
He also said the guy from duck Dynasty was better then he was to and a lot of folks say Terry is overrated but I know the defense was intact when he left for the most part and offense for that matter but I didn't see anyone step up and win a ring for about 25 years from his last one
Really, prime Steelers let a college team score on them... so this was like a pre-season game with the backups. It is crazy they played this game but back then College was very popular and guess they stopped when NFL took over.
Yes this was a preseason game. It was one of the opening two games of the preseason. Besides the hall of fame game, the defending Super Bowl champions(or NFL champs before the Super Bowl) played a team of college all stars from the previous season who would be NFL rookies that season. The game slowly became less competitive over time and stopped drawing as well as it used to. In addition NFL teams were becoming more reluctant to let high draft picks play in the game where they may be injured before playing for the NFL team that held there rights. This in addition to higher insurance costs led to the game being discontinued after the 1976 season.
Wow this is super cool. Too bad they didn't do this anymore. Seeing guys like Walter Peyton, Randy White and other college All-Stars (some of who, like Peyton and White turned out to be exceptionally great players) take on a Pro team before they played an NFL game. I'm guessing the game was very similar to a preseason game, where the starters (at least for the Pro team) don't play for much more than a quarter. It's a shame they don't do this today. It would very cool to see, especially if it happened sometime between the Super Bowl and the Draft instead of after the draft. Sadly the money dominates the game today and guys don't want to risk any with an injury.
It was a preseason game. It was one of the two games that opened the NFL preseason when the defending Super Bowl Champions(NFL Champions pre super bowl days) would play a team of college all stars from the previous season.
11:11. That shot of Charley Taylor getting flipped ass over teakettle used to be as ubiquitous in the seventies as the Norweigian ski jumper from Wide World Of Sports.
how well i remember watching these games it's too bad they stopped having them they were fun to watch it was always super bowl champions against the college all stars.
I remember these games as a kid...I don't remember which game it was but the coach who was coaching the college all-stars in one game said if you give me these kids as a team in the NFL we'd win the super bowl in 3 years...the college kids always gave the NFL team all they could handle, but then the NFL team wasn't very motivated other than to not lose to a bunch of amateurs.
i also remember back in the day when each year the college all-Americans would appear on the bob hope show. i do not remember if it was a special or just his show.
I wish instead of the pro-bowl, they would have the National Champions vs the last Place NFL team, that way the, "Ohio State would beat the Browns" argument could be finally put to rest.
After the draft, lets get all the NFLs top draft picks and have them play against the Steelers and the Steel curtain defense for the hell of it... oh the good old days
This game was memorable for a non-football reason. Sometime during the broadcast (might've been halftime), it was announced via "Special Report" that Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, was reported missing". I remember my Mom saying he's finished, he'll never be seen or heard from again. She was correct, women's intuition.
Pat McInally broke his leg on the touchdown catch you see him make and that was one of the reasons this series was discontinued. The Bengals were enraged when he received no medical attention, but was put out on the street with just a pair crutches. The next year the game was halted in the third quarter by a driving rain/electrical storm. Shortly thereafter this game was no more.
he broke his leg? damn- I didn't remember that. Sure remember watching this game, and the following year when the thunderstorm hit. McInally had a good career with Cincy, didn't he?
this was one of the better games. I remember seeing the all-stars defeat one of vince Lombardi's packer teams. 63, I think? the score was either 13-10 or 20-17..... sorry, was along time ago. another great game was when the all-stars lost by 2 points late to the joe Namath led new York jets. generally though, the pros were just too good and the stars too unorganized, especially on pass defense.
Never knew Virgil Livers returned a punt for a TD against the Steelers in this game. A funny fact about Virgil (Not for him though) was he had a bad groin injury in a game and lost one gonad. So from there on out he was called "One Nut Virgil" by the fans.
Thanks for posting this. I attended the game. Steelers trailed 7-0 and 14-7, but rallied in the second half with Gilliam at quarterback. The All-Star offense was no match for the Steel Curtain. Walter Payton never had a chance to show what he could (and did) do as a ball carrier. But the All-Star defense did a great job all night. Robert Brazile was built like a Sherman tank.
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Tru that shafted fdenver coach screamed. He may be the best ive ever seen responsible for 6 dbs in the nfl. They an brad shaw pressured the coach to bench 17 even with a winning record superior qb crushed. After gilliams clinic an such his underlig won4 super bowls.
1 extra d back was protection against a good. Passing game would not work. Against joe gilliam. Could have been. Astronomical wins an numbers. Als shout out to middle linebacker 53 henry davis an schoolmate 29 ron johnsos folks
Note Keith Jackson mentioned that it had started to rain at the end of this clip. This was actually the second bout of precipitation that hit Chicago that day. I should know. Visited the Freedom Train at Navy Pier with my brothers & sisters earlier that day. We got caught in a thunderstorm on our way home late that afternoon. Note the standing puddles beyond both sidelines. Yep, remnants from that storm.
I used to like Jackson up until he inferred that black people can't swim, on The Superstars(?) later in the year. He should've seen some of the kids at the Boy's Club, like I did growing up. I'm glad he didn't loose his job over it, but what a stupid thing to say with kids watching their idols competing in an all around athlete competition.
The last game was a blowout, 24-0 in 1976, but the College All-Stars got really close in this game, 21-14, which is why I think the NFL is over-rated. There weren't that many blowouts for the N.F.L. and the All-Stars were at a disadvantage because they never played as a team.
The Steelers, like other NFL champs, treated this game as an exhibition. That's why Joe Gilliam and Terry Hanratty saw playing time, among other reserves. For the NFL champs, it was more about avoiding injury in a meaningless game. Had the Steelers been playing at full strength with regular season intensity, this game would have been over in the first quarter.
As was said, the Steelers weren't playing their first team nor were they playing at their best. Make no mistake, the worst NFL team can beat the best college team every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
This game was the Brain child of George Halas. Mr. Halas talked to General Eisenhower at the end of WWII and explained that they could play this game with all the money being donated to the Arm Forces Hospitals to help all the Vet's from the war. The game was held every year at the start of the Pre-Season for a long time. The idea was the NFL Champs from last year would play the Collage All Star's in a game for FUN and of course money.
The game was the idea of Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward; the first game was played in the thirties, it was well established by the end of WWII. Check your history.
McInally broke his leg in this game and missed the 1975 season for the Bengals.............The Steelers have been a thorn in the side of that organization for a long time.
if you are referring to the Gorilla in the commercial, a Gorilla was a mascot for one of the white players, Roy Gerela who was the kicker for the Steelers during their championship years. The fan club of Gerela had a banner that read, "Gerela's Gorilla's ", and the guy in the commercial would wear the Gorilla suit at home games. So there was basically nothing racial implied there. But I see your point, probably would be a problem today. Gorilla suits were used a lot in movies and TV back in the 70's for comedic reasons but seem to be not used anymore quite a while ago.
The injury that occurs early in this game might have been one the reasons. Free agency was just beginning in pro sports so the players and teams didn't want to take the risk of losing players in an exhibition game when a lot of money was at stake. The series was ended the year after this.
Randy White was considered by many, as the best defensive tackle in the game, during his career. He was definitely the best defensive player in college football, and a true All-Star on the field that night. If you watch the whole game, the Steelers had a terrible time trying to block him that night.
Except they need to have the team who earns the number 1 draft pick to play, if a SB champion team played against a team of college all stars these days, it would be murder
The college all star game rocked. It messed up the college guys because they reported late to NFL camps and sometimes got injured. The money involved just ended this game. The ultimate embaressment would be to lose to the college guys.
Here's some of the roster from 1975. The All-Stars included California QB Steve Bartkowski, HB Walter Payton from Jackson State, and Oregon TE Russ Francis on offense and, on defense, DT Randy White from Maryland, Jackson State LB Robert Brazile, and Ohio State CB Neal Colzie.
I remember these games..it was like little lambs being offered up for slaughter..lol..this was in the era of6 preseason games..two a day padded practices, two month long training camps, the players worked off season jobs, hence no year round conditioning, the product on the field was way way way more entertaining than the rigged over officiated farce that Goodell, the owners, players and TV networks churn out today..every game has to have the miracle unbelievable finish... gotta churn out those beer and truck commercials..lol...any body paying money to watch modern football college or pro, or even high school is a sucker. It's a waste of time
Team owners had to be sweating bullets watching their first round draft picks line up across players like Greene, Lambert and Blount. Of course this series got nixed for obvious reasons. Btw, I have one of those iron city beer commemorative cans to this day.
@@slewofdamascus + Relax !! I am just saying that I am burnt out on the Mandela effect stories. Especially when I saw Nelson Mandela at a government function after 9/11/2001, so its impossible that he died in prison in the 90s.
@@PerpetualArt it's cool - but the whole idea of the mandela effect is that there are multiple time lines and one time line has different outcomes the others, so in one timeline Mandela actually died in a SA prison, which is not the craziest of thoughts, the SAs were notorious for killing blacks in prison
@@slewofdamascus + I know what it means, but the people with the alternate timeline are really pushy with their ideas! Too many movies for these people I guess.
After all these years, I swear to God, I thought it was just a dream I had when I was a kid. I Knew I'd seen the Steelers play a college team on tv. I just gave it up as a dream until now, Wow.
PaulGreen11 the college team seemed to be doing well at the beginning. Glad that you got to see this again.
I loved watching the game every year. It was actually a Charities game played every year except 74 bc of the Strike. 41 and just over a half games....as the 42 game ended in that torrential rain storm....plus the fans decided to take over the field! I miss those games and, the thought of such a game today would be laughed at. I would love to see a return to that game, played under the same rules as the Hall of Fame Game...but I'm in a minority for that return lol.
Mike Bridges well they don’t play the game because of college draft picks having the potential to get hurt and my dad said that some did and they couldn’t play in the pros.
@@robminmonaca one of those injuries occurred here at 6:51 to WR Pat McInally. He went on to have good 10 year career with the Bengels as a punter and wide receiver but missed his rookie year due to the broken leg he suffered in this game.
@@johnmongani5223 I was watching this game and remember that injury. Compound fracture I believe
No way would this game ever be played today. The risks involved.
Pat" McInally broke his leg first quarter TD catch. Cost him 1975 season
you mean the risk of playing walter payton. lol what do you think nfl teams are? all star college teams with some years..
Wow iron city beer and 75 steelers forgotten
McInally...An All-American in Football from HARVARD?!??!!! Crazy.
This game is in the same league as the Pro Bowl, Playoff Bowl and the Hall of Fame Game. Unnecessary.
This is ridiculous, what were they thinking? They weren't I guess. Can you imagine this today?
Virgil Livers, Russ Francis, Pat Mcinally, Steve Bartkowski, Robert Braziel (HOF), among many of the great players on the All Star team, who went on to have great careers.
How about Walter Payton …think he was pretty good
@@tomdellaflora6098 Of course, was mentioning the non obvious players.
Now this have me thinking..weren't there use to be divisional all -star squads in the nfl ?
rip sweetness rip franco.
between the 40's and 60's, there were also exhibition games between nfl teams and cfl teams.
i cant beleive they ever did this.....
I use to love watching the champs play the collage allstars. They should start this again.
too much money is at stake for this game. money that concerns players contracts.
that for a for all intents and purpose is a meaningless game.
not saying this is not interesting, it's just not economically feasible.
what about the old 'playoff bowl' the so called consillation bowl?
@@baerhomburg6447 you talk about money being the reason the game was discontinued. But money was the reason it was played. All proceeds from the game went to charity.
If its a flag football game yes! if not no! Injuries made this game stop in the first place
This was always the first exhibition game of the season. The defending NFL champions against the college all stars. Can you imagine NFL teams letting their prize draft picks play in a meaningless exhibition game against an NFL team these days?
It was a fantastic format.....greatly anticipated. The college all-stars usually acquitted themselves well but rarely won. Money killed this one!
I had no idea!!!
Probably the two best announcers ever, anybody notice? Kieth Jackson working with Howard cossell. Never remember them together. I started watching football in 79
They were both a part of the inaugural Monday Night Football season- 1970.
Bud Wilkinson is on this telecast also.
Keith and Cosell did baseball together for a few years. And yes, way better than ESPNs current SNB crew.
It's understandable why they no longer play this game. Still, if they did it might give me a reason to actually sit own & watch a game involving an NFL team.
Never see this type of exhibition today. NFL players would not risk an injury as they do not have guaranteed contracts. College players waiting for the draft would not risk injury as it would lower their draft status (big bucks), or ruin a career. Even top level picks are refusing to now play in bowl games for fear if injury.
Greenwood should be in the HOF and i'm not even a Steelers fan.
So should Drew Pearson. I don't understand why those two aren't in.
You can thank the Fat Fuck Peter King for this - what a jagoff that guy is.
This is insane. The NFL has gone to great lengths to bury this game.
$$$$ injuries
Just a pointless exhibition with too much downside. The pro bowl has pretty much headed to extinction too.
@@jamesfields2916, it was okay to watch in Hawaii.
@@danholm4952and the usual blowout by the NFL team.
@@dustylover100 the last one they played before moving to Hawaii was in a half empty LA Coliseum in 1979. Cosell kept saying what an awful game it was.
Joe Gilliam sure threw a beautiful ball...damn too bad he got hung-up with partying so much. He good timed himself right out of the NFL...RIP
Terry Bradshaw say's that Jefferson Street was a better QB than he was.
He also said the guy from duck Dynasty was better then he was to and a lot of folks say Terry is overrated but I know the defense was intact when he left for the most part and offense for that matter but I didn't see anyone step up and win a ring for about 25 years from his last one
So many of these Steelers have passed away.
@@jamesfields2916 Our ultimate destiny but the soul is eternal James.
Steroids are a killer.
Did anyone catch Terry Bradshaw's 1974 stats? 148 attempts, 67 completions for 785 yards and 7 td's. Yikes!
Which of these college all-stars had notable pro careers?
Prior to the NFL lifting the blackout in 1973 WGN TV used to air this because the local ABC station in Chicago couldn't air it.
No way owners would risk their draft studs today like this. College stars barely play in their own bowl games now days..
Should have let them wear their college helmets.
Really, prime Steelers let a college team score on them... so this was like a pre-season game with the backups.
It is crazy they played this game but back then College was very popular and guess they stopped when NFL took over.
Yes this was a preseason game. It was one of the opening two games of the preseason. Besides the hall of fame game, the defending Super Bowl champions(or NFL champs before the Super Bowl) played a team of college all stars from the previous season who would be NFL rookies that season. The game slowly became less competitive over time and stopped drawing as well as it used to. In addition NFL teams were becoming more reluctant to let high draft picks play in the game where they may be injured before playing for the NFL team that held there rights. This in addition to higher insurance costs led to the game being discontinued after the 1976 season.
Wow this is super cool. Too bad they didn't do this anymore. Seeing guys like Walter Peyton, Randy White and other college All-Stars (some of who, like Peyton and White turned out to be exceptionally great players) take on a Pro team before they played an NFL game. I'm guessing the game was very similar to a preseason game, where the starters (at least for the Pro team) don't play for much more than a quarter. It's a shame they don't do this today. It would very cool to see, especially if it happened sometime between the Super Bowl and the Draft instead of after the draft. Sadly the money dominates the game today and guys don't want to risk any with an injury.
It was a preseason game. It was one of the two games that opened the NFL preseason when the defending Super Bowl Champions(NFL Champions pre super bowl days) would play a team of college all stars from the previous season.
Walter! Rip sweetness!
11:11. That shot of Charley Taylor getting flipped ass over teakettle used to be as ubiquitous in the seventies as the Norweigian ski jumper from Wide World Of Sports.
how well i remember watching these games it's too bad they stopped having them they were fun to watch it was always super bowl champions against the college all stars.
I remember these games as a kid...I don't remember which game it was but the coach who was coaching the college all-stars in one game said if you give me these kids as a team in the NFL we'd win the super bowl in 3 years...the college kids always gave the NFL team all they could handle, but then the NFL team wasn't very motivated other than to not lose to a bunch of amateurs.
These are memories. I saw Robert Brazille and Walter Payton Homecoming at SU 74
i also remember back in the day when each year the college all-Americans would appear on the bob hope show. i do not remember if it was a special or just his show.
It was always on his Christmas special.
I wish instead of the pro-bowl, they would have the National Champions vs the last Place NFL team, that way the, "Ohio State would beat the Browns" argument could be finally put to rest.
Silly Goose would never happen the talent level in the NFL is far superior to college.
The Browns would beat the National Champs by 28 points if the game was taken seriously. Maybe more....
Silly Goose The Browns would demolish any college team. The Browns are professionals
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1990s were amazing! But could the Browns beat the best college football players?
I WAS THERE
Getting old, I remember watching this game. Elvis was still alive for crying out loud.
I watched this with my Stepfather between grades 7 and 8
me too.
I remember as a kid of 11
keith green was this the last one ? This one got stopped because of a T Storm as well. ?
I’m young but I’m into the nfl and college history. I found this out about a month ago and this is cool
After the draft, lets get all the NFLs top draft picks and have them play against the Steelers and the Steel curtain defense for the hell of it... oh the good old days
That theme is so groovy. LOL :P
Damn I was 10 years old and remember watching this game.
12:10 Robert Brazile and Randy White mentioned both NFL HOFers
I bet they wiped out the whole draft class
busts, hannah was one of the best, francis, payton, bout it on O
This game was memorable for a non-football reason. Sometime during the broadcast (might've been halftime), it was announced via "Special Report" that Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, was reported missing". I remember my Mom saying he's finished, he'll never be seen or heard from again. She was correct, women's intuition.
Pat McInally broke his leg on the touchdown catch you see him make and that was one of the reasons this series was discontinued. The Bengals were enraged when he received no medical attention, but was put out on the street with just a pair crutches. The next year the game was halted in the third quarter by a driving rain/electrical storm. Shortly thereafter this game was no more.
That's some news
Where was that game?
he broke his leg? damn- I didn't remember that. Sure remember watching this game, and the following year when the thunderstorm hit. McInally had a good career with Cincy, didn't he?
@@gilbertgiles ...yes he did have a solid career...punted as well.
SPacy sam aku holT Soldier Field.
That can has to be worth some money.
1976 NFL vs. College All-stars game last of the series ruclips.net/video/W0lkHGKV44U/видео.html
Great post! Thanks.
this was one of the better games. I remember seeing the all-stars defeat one of vince Lombardi's packer teams. 63, I think? the score was either 13-10 or 20-17..... sorry, was along time ago. another great game was when the all-stars lost by 2 points late to the joe Namath led new York jets. generally though, the pros were just too good and the stars too unorganized, especially on pass defense.
In the 1963 game, the All Stars beat the best Green Bay team ever, 20-17, led by Rose Bowl hero Ron Vander Kellen. Lombardi hated this game.
I wish they sill played I used to watch back in the day
Wow Walter Payton playing against the Steel Curtain
Rest easy Sweetness.
And Randy White!
Fun fact he missed only one game in his NFL career in 1975….. at Pittsburg
Cool clip.
Pat McInally (from the college all-stars) was the guy who created the old Starting Lineup figures. Good player and toy designer..
I thought I imagined these All Star games. They really happened.
Never knew Virgil Livers returned a punt for a TD against the Steelers in this game. A funny fact about Virgil (Not for him though) was he had a bad groin injury in a game and lost one gonad. So from there on out he was called "One Nut Virgil" by the fans.
Thanks for posting this. I attended the game. Steelers trailed 7-0 and 14-7, but rallied in the second half with Gilliam at quarterback.
The All-Star offense was no match for the Steel Curtain. Walter Payton never had a chance to show what he could (and did) do as a ball carrier. But the All-Star defense did a great job all night. Robert Brazile was built like a Sherman tank.
A reporter asked Brazile why he was called Dr Doom, He responded [I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere, I'm the doctor]
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Sears got shipped overseas. lol
Thinking Clearly thats funny because I was walking my dog today and found an old Sears shopping cart. Lol
Russ Francis was also on that list, so does Steve Bartkowski.
Side note on Francis in the off season he was a All Star Wrestler
First drive the WR blows out his knee... this is insane! No wonder this game was discontinued
Jerry Leyva He could've did that in his first game as a pro in the NFL in a few weeks
@@elhombrenegro4999 You make a good point...🤔
Imagine if that All Star team had stayed together for a few years in the NFL. That would have become a playoff team for sure.
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Tru that shafted fdenver coach screamed. He may be the best ive ever seen responsible for 6 dbs in the nfl. They an brad shaw pressured the coach to bench 17 even with a winning record superior qb crushed. After gilliams clinic an such his underlig won4 super bowls.
1 extra d back was protection against a good. Passing game would not work. Against joe gilliam. Could have been. Astronomical wins an numbers. Als shout out to middle linebacker 53 henry davis an schoolmate 29 ron johnsos folks
Anyone on here still have any of those '75 Steeler beer cans!?
Dan Wacker my uncle has a bunch of them
Antawn Winton awesome!
I still have a couple of the 1975 cans. Also had a couple of '76 cans, but lost them due to several moves.
Pat McInally was the only player ever to score a perfect 50 on the Wonderlic Test.
Note Keith Jackson mentioned that it had started to rain at the end of this clip. This was actually the second bout of precipitation that hit Chicago that day. I should know. Visited the Freedom Train at Navy Pier with my brothers & sisters earlier that day. We got caught in a thunderstorm on our way home late that afternoon. Note the standing puddles beyond both sidelines. Yep, remnants from that storm.
hate keith jackson...hate him...hate gifford worse...hate cow-sell more than any...hate them all....
I used to like Jackson up until he inferred that black people can't swim, on The Superstars(?) later in the year.
He should've seen some of the kids at the Boy's Club, like I did growing up.
I'm glad he didn't loose his job over it, but what a stupid thing to say with kids watching their idols competing in an all around athlete competition.
Wow, undoubtedly the best put together team in history against college players.
The concept of this is awesome but will never EVER happen today because of $$$. College players won't risk injury and NFL players make to much
Richardson Jones the college to pro gap is bigger now too so it would be interesting.
Richardson Jones it could work, remember, the college all stars were draftees...
The last game was a blowout, 24-0 in 1976, but the College All-Stars got really close in this game, 21-14, which is why I think the NFL is over-rated. There weren't that many blowouts for the N.F.L. and the All-Stars were at a disadvantage because they never played as a team.
The Steelers, like other NFL champs, treated this game as an exhibition. That's why Joe Gilliam and Terry Hanratty saw playing time, among other reserves. For the NFL champs, it was more about avoiding injury in a meaningless game. Had the Steelers been playing at full strength with regular season intensity, this game would have been over in the first quarter.
But, the Steelers came alive, after Gilliam stepped in.
Joe was exciting to watch...
As was said, the Steelers weren't playing their first team nor were they playing at their best. Make no mistake, the worst NFL team can beat the best college team every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Does anyone know the name of the theme music behind Keith Jackson's intro? I always liked it as a kid, and they often used it at NFL Films.
It's called "Documentary Department" by Keith Mansfield
Thank you!
It rained like a monsoon that last game
Chuck Knoll got those starters out pretty quick... God you forget how awful that turf was back then...
Awesome punt return.
Wow never thought they had this back then
The video shuts off with 04:15 left in the 4th quarter and the score 21 to 14
Who in the H-E double hockey sticks won!?
21-14 was the final score......Steelers won 24-0 the next year as well which was the last of the series that began in 1934.
thank you John for the reply... I was to lazy to Google it
This game was the Brain child of George Halas. Mr. Halas talked to General Eisenhower at the end of WWII and explained that they could play this game with all the money being donated to the Arm Forces Hospitals to help all the Vet's from the war. The game was held every year at the start of the Pre-Season for a long time. The idea was the NFL Champs from last year would play the Collage All Star's in a game for FUN and of course money.
The game was the idea of Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward; the first game was played in the thirties, it was well established by the end of WWII. Check your history.
McInally broke his leg in this game and missed the 1975 season for the Bengals.............The Steelers have been a thorn in the side of that organization for a long time.
Stadium lighting was dim!?
If that commercial was played today there would be a riot 😂
if you are referring to the Gorilla in the commercial, a Gorilla was a mascot for one of the white players, Roy Gerela who was the kicker for the Steelers during their championship years. The fan club of Gerela had a banner that read, "Gerela's Gorilla's ", and the guy in the commercial would wear the Gorilla suit at home games. So there was basically nothing racial implied there. But I see your point, probably would be a problem today. Gorilla suits were used a lot in movies and TV back in the 70's for comedic reasons but seem to be not used anymore quite a while ago.
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Wow I never knew the Pros played the college All stars I wonder why they stopped
The injury that occurs early in this game might have been one the reasons. Free agency was just beginning in pro sports so the players and teams didn't want to take the risk of losing players in an exhibition game when a lot of money was at stake. The series was ended the year after this.
Walter Payton..... The only true "All-Star" on the field for the College All-Stars :-)
DRock6906 .. Steve Bartkowski was a great QB for Atlanta when they finally got some talent around him!
Randy White was considered by many, as the best defensive tackle in the game, during his career. He was definitely the best defensive player in college football, and a true All-Star on the field that night. If you watch the whole game, the Steelers had a terrible time trying to block him that night.
Russ Francis was a 4 time All-Pro TE for the New England Patriots
Yes to all three of the comments.
Robert Brazille just made the HOF this past year
Cool video! Thanks for posting!
They need to bring these games back
Except they need to have the team who earns the number 1 draft pick to play, if a SB champion team played against a team of college all stars these days, it would be murder
cant....too much money involved today.
Exactly, that's what I was thinking. But then again, too much bullshit these days, it wouldn't be the same.
They're afraid of guys getting hurt during what amounts to a stunt. At today's salaries, forget it. It'll never, ever happen.
Chris Daniels this is like an exhibition game, so why would they risk injuries and their season with this ridiculous stunt?
The college all star game rocked. It messed up the college guys because they reported late to NFL camps and sometimes got injured. The money involved just ended this game. The ultimate embaressment would be to lose to the college guys.
How was this footage recorded?
most likely began as reel to reel tape and then transferred to VHS.
John Mongani these games were transferred from beta masters to VHS, but in SLP mode. I'm the source of these games.
how did you get the beta masters?
would love to find the complete rosters of the '75 and '76 college teams.
Here's some of the roster from 1975. The All-Stars included California QB Steve Bartkowski, HB Walter Payton from Jackson State, and Oregon TE Russ Francis on offense and, on defense, DT Randy White from Maryland, Jackson State LB Robert Brazile, and Ohio State CB Neal Colzie.
@@johnmongani5223 some very good future NFL Stars.
amazing concept, looked like #84 got hurt,so much for you #1draft pick,huh?-Thanks 4 posting 🏈🍻 & sharks,wait,what?😃
Pat McInally who have scored a perfect score on the Wonderlic Test.
Back in the day when NFLers had to have part time jobs in the off season
all athletes in every sport had part time jobs back then during the off season because most were making less than $100,000.
6:52 just the Benglas luck - I bet Paul Brown was so pissed
I remember these games..it was like little lambs being offered up for slaughter..lol..this was in the era of6 preseason games..two a day padded practices, two month long training camps, the players worked off season jobs, hence no year round conditioning, the product on the field was way way way more entertaining than the rigged over officiated farce that Goodell, the owners, players and TV networks churn out today..every game has to have the miracle unbelievable finish... gotta churn out those beer and truck commercials..lol...any body paying money to watch modern football college or pro, or even high school is a sucker. It's a waste of time
I played in exhibition charity basketball games vs the Steelers and Patriots back in the 90s.. even those games are a thing of the past.
Deja Voodoo Actually the Steelers just had one.
lol...I luv the PBR Great White shark commercial...that was golden.
I had no idea...
Imagine being an offensive college prospect or a draft pick and having to play against Mean Joe Greene in a game that did not matter... yeah.
I watched that game on TV. Thought the all-stars had them.
The All-Stars almost won!
Have a beer with the Steelers kids! Lol the 70s rocked.
We need a Browns vs college all stars
That old Steelers run game though
WTF was that.
Team owners had to be sweating bullets watching their first round draft picks line up across players like Greene, Lambert and Blount. Of course this series got nixed for obvious reasons. Btw, I have one of those iron city beer commemorative cans to this day.
This is the mandela effect - this never happened in my timeline
Really? Were you born after the game took place. Any NFL stat book you purchase has the scores. Mandela effect! Give me a break!
@@PerpetualArt I was born before but please shut up, it was a joke.
@@slewofdamascus + Relax !! I am just saying that I am burnt out on the Mandela effect stories. Especially when I saw Nelson Mandela at a government function after 9/11/2001, so its impossible that he died in prison in the 90s.
@@PerpetualArt it's cool - but the whole idea of the mandela effect is that there are multiple time lines and one time line has different outcomes the others, so in one timeline Mandela actually died in a SA prison, which is not the craziest of thoughts, the SAs were notorious for killing blacks in prison
@@slewofdamascus + I know what it means, but the people with the alternate timeline are really pushy with their ideas! Too many movies for these people I guess.