I actually understand the story of the monks! 😂👍 It's a lesson about dwelling on your past, and to not carry anything with you that would cause you to lose focus on the present.
I tend to go with the '75 squad simply because they played a tougher schedule, both in the regular season and the playoffs, but the '78 team was certainly up there.
I personally think Pittsburgh best team in this era was a team that didn’t win the Super Bowl and I believe the 1976 Steelers was their strongest team : look at the numbers
@@faviovega6040 ..yeah, the number of injuries and the fact that the Raiders destroyed the 76 Steelers 24-7 in the AFC Championship, the 78 Steelers didn't play that sh#t at all...#SimplyTheBest
@@henrypollock7987 prior to the rule change, a defensive player could jam the receiver throughout the entirety of his route. After the rule change, the defensive player could only jam the receiver for five yards. Past five yards would result in an Illegal Contact penalty (which is now I believe a five yard penalty and an automatic first down, but I’m not 100 percent on that part).
Quarterbacks of today absolutely have it made. Put Brady, Mahomes, Rodgers, Burrow, Stafford, or whoever up against that Steelers defense of the 70s and see what would happen. I promise you the Steel Curtain would put the fear of God into any of them.
The Steelers Defense of The 1970s was so great that they almost never made substitutions or added an extra player to the front four, to the linebackers, or to the secondary. They did it with 4 down lineman rushing the quarterback, the 3 linebackers dropping back into pass coverage and rarely blitzing. The defensive backs were perennials who were very physical and who adapted to the rule changes rapidly. A few years later in 1983 Jack Lambert was Defensive Player of The Year and declared that there may never again be defenses again like Pittsburgh had in the 1970s.
If you put them back then and they played the way they do now, they’d struggle, and they certainly wouldn’t last as long. But if they were born in the 50’s, and came up and hit their primes in the 70’s, they might perform well, because they’d be more used to the rules, and the tendancies that come from them. I will say however, that there is no way that they could play long enough to accumulate the raw statistical records that we see from quarterbacks now, let alone the single season marks we’ve seen.
It's easy to disparage an athlete's potential to impact a game based upon past eras...given that player, obviously, never had any opportunity to play in that era. I would suggest it is just as viable to suggest that many star players from past eras might struggle if teleported to play during any future era.
I don't think fans today fathom how dominant Bradshaw was in 1978. It was like he could throw the ball and complete passes for 30 or 40 yards downfield almost at will. Defenses were terrified of him.
An FYI for you. Mel Blount was considered to be a Bust early in his career. Then shortly after Rocky's Magical Recovery, the former Bust put on about 25 pounds of muscle and suddenly (like many other Steelers) became physically dominant . Skinny TE Larry Brown who caught a TD pass in SB IX was later converted to OT because he got Too Big.
I've watched all of the super bowls except GB in 1 &2. I just can't see any team in NFL history beating these Steeler teams of the 70s. Obviously, with free agency a team with this much talent could not exist today. You couldn't afford to pay that many pro-bowlers and HOFers.
This is a great, great team. I think there have been teams with a lot of talent but no team came through as consistently in the biggest games going up against all time opponents like the Raiders and Dallas of the 70s. I think it is the opponents the Steelers beat that tells the real story and sets them apart.
Joe Greene is the most dominant defensive lineman I've ever seen. He did things to offensive linemen that will NEVER been seen again. His early years were a collection of non stop destruction. It's a shame that so much of his career was humstrung by his bad shoulder. He's one of a few players i wish would've had access to modern medicine.
In the 70s, we had no repeat winners in the NBA. Baseball we had three-time champions the Oakland A's. But football we had the four-time Pittsburgh Steelers
My family originated in a town outside Pittsburgh and my grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles bled Black and Gold. I was born on the west coast, SoCal in 1967 and raised on Steelers football. I was the luckiest kid in the world because my Steelers became the dynasty during my childhood. I adopted the Seahawks as a secondary team because they were the underdog but all I knew was 70s Steelers and these videos are like yesterday to me. I remember everything about it and I was fortunate to have witnessed these Steeler teams.
Good point. But I think when they did this series back in 2006, both Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana wanted too much money. If you watch the 49ers episodes, Montana is also noticeably absent. Bradshaw and Montana are good friends by the way., a lot of mutual respect. But in retrospect, it's probably good that Bradshaw didn't get involved because he might have overshadowed the episodes, and also it gives great players like Rocky Bleier, Randy Grossman and Mel Blount the chance to tell their stories. And those stories, as we can see, were equally important to the Steelers' success.
Not only did Randy Grossman fill in for Benny Cunningham, he basically played every meaningful for snap on offense after Benny got injured. They got Jim Mandich the former Dolphin as insurance, but all he did was play special teams. He probably didn't see 20 snaps on offense the rest of that season except for when Bradshaw was kneeling on the football.
They REALLY glossed over the AFC championship game. Houston had NINE turnovers - Pittsburgh had five. FIVE Pastorini picks, SIX fumbles, four lost. What a disaster of a game :) Pastorini's rating was 16.3.
"As a leader, you have to lead with your own personality." -- Vince Lombardi Regarding the story of the two monks, I think the reason why Randy Grossman and the other players were mystified was not because they didn't get the tale of the two monks. The moral of that story is clear to a 12 year old. They were mystified because Chuck Noll was no great philosopher. They were like, "Who are you and what have you done with Chuck Noll?" And after that, they got back to playing Steeler football. Thanks to Chuck, the right people were in place to do just that.
When I see Donnie Shell nail Earl Campbell, that saved the playoffs right there. Mike Wagner was my preferred Safety,for his instinct,and intelligent play, but I think Earl would have slowed, then fell forward. Donnie Shell shut him down in his tracks. And if any Oiler Fans want to Bitch....Franco routinely ran 35 to 40 carries a game.....he was just a little more durable over his career.
If anyone knows the name of the music track that begins at 5:13 please reply. I've tried over and over again to find it on the America's Game soundtracks as well as trying to find it on RUclips and I can't find it.
As the New York football Giants proved twice, if there is one thing Tom Brady doesn't like, it is pressure from the front four and a collapsing pocket. The Steelers specialized in putting pressure with their front four and I see them sacking him quite a bit and forcing bad throws. Consider the fact, that against the Cowboys of the 70s, they'd get to the highly mobile Roger Staubach half a dozen times per game and eventually end his career, and I like their chances against Brady even with today's rules. If Brady played in the 70s with those rules he'd have zero chance and would like be force to retire early.
@@fortynights1513 Well based on they all won more and lost fewer, and they all (even the 72 fins) won the super bowl by more than the steelers did (and in the case of the 9ers and bears, by ALOT more). And statistically they all had a much bigger winning margin in the regular season. And it seems NFL's Americas game agrees with me, placing this steelers team lower than any of those others.
@@rawn4203 I could see that. I will also say that by your criteria, the 75 Steelers would be their best championship, and probably around fifth (better overall point differential and team stats against a harder schedule than 78, in addition to having more pro bowls and all pros than 78).
Franco had a superior offensive line, quarterback and Swann and Stallworth, who were underrated run blockers. The Tyler Rose had Dan Pastorini (not very good), a good offensive line. His receivers were good (Kenny Burrough, Rick Caster, the former Jet, and Mike Renfro) but in 1978, Campbell was asked to do more than Franco, and I'm a Steelers fan. I just give credit where it's due.
I’d take Blount over sanders any day give me an intimidating cornerback who will take a wide receivers head off over a finesse cover cb who’s afraid to tackle a ball carrier. I guarantee a wide receiver such as Jerry rice would rather face Deion sanders instead of Mel Blount
Meh I don’t know about your Jerry Rice preference take. It really depends on which set of rules they’re playing by. If 90s rules Rice would much prefer Blount. Had nowhere near the speed Sanders had. Sanders could play 15 yards off and make up that difference in seconds if the QB targeted that WR on a hitch route
@@KDubb-ws9zc You might be right about that, but Blount would probably have ended Rice's career early if he had ever gotten his hands on him. Jack Tatum definitely would have haha
Not to harp on Mel Blount's conspiracy theories, but there was far more reasons than just the Steelers the League made their rule changes in 78. In 1977, the season had the lowest points per game value since *1942.* Not a single receiver in the League got more than 900 yards within that season. Defense had free reigns to mug receivers all over the field and the offensive line was hilariously handicapped as they couldn't do much more than stick their forearms out as they couldn't even extend their hands out for pass protection. Something needed to change.
In my opinion 1969-1977 should be considered the absolute dead ball era as far as defense goes, and the worst time in the history of the game to try and pass efficiently (only four or five times did someone reach 25 passing touchdowns in those nine years). There were a lot of great players and defenses in those years; Steel Curtain included. I totally get why the rules were changed, but I do wonder what kind of numbers some of the defenses that followed could have put up if no rule changes after the early 70’s were made.
@@fortynights1513 the rule changes were for casual fans; glad you enjoyed them i had absolutely NO PROBLEM with the way the game was played (i absolutely loved it) so when you say "something had to be done" thats a casual fan talking why didnt i feel that anything had to be done then? and there were plemty of efficient passers BY THE STANDARDS OF THE GAME THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED; just not by TODAYS standard of 55 passes per game for every qb and no it was not a dead ball era; i remember TOO many exciting moments of offense so i have no idea what made you say that and it wasn't a a conspiracy theory from blount; pittsburghs defense was the BEST of the great defenses of the 1970s they were THE STANDARD
As a native Texan, TX sports homer & die-hard Cowboys fan. I have the upmost respect for the Steelers and their organization. However I have an issue with people saying "u can't go around calling yourself America's Team"....a sports reporter from NFL films gave them that title. Hollywood Henderson talked too much, just like Joey Porter. Don't act like good NFL players all act like Barry Sanders. You guys are just making up reasons to hate Dallas and in my opinion Texas as a whole. Steelers are great but they were lucky, got all the breaks, including getting this notion that they are these humble, hard working, stand up MEN, and the Cowboys & their fans are a bunch of whiny cry babies, who don't work hard, want everything given to them, cheated for everything that they have which is Bullshit
cowboys had to sign off on "americas team" ; it was arrogance and they got what they deserved for being arrogant thats what made me a cowboy hater ---after the steelers had beaten them in the 1976 sb that next summer i saw an nfl film entitled "the dallas cowboys: americas team" and i was shocked since the steelers were the champs thats what made me a cowboy -hater and it never has gone away the steelers were just a better team; losers talk about the other side being "lucky" they beat the cowboy ALL 5 TIMES they -played them when bradshaw was there including the the 2 superbowls
They had 5 Penalties. Yes, they Cowboys had 9, but the Cowboys also forced 3 Turnovers and also had 3 themselves. Plus. Jackie Smith can't catch a pass. Keep crying cause the Steelers won fair and square.
Dallas would have won if Smith catches that TD pass (yes, throw could have been better) and if the referee wasn't in Cliff Harris' path to tackle Franco Harris on his TD run.
Randy Grossman just said why I hate Tomlin so much. He's a rah rah cheerleader loser. He can't evaluate talent or use the talent he has. He has gotten less out of more, more than any Steelers HC. Mike Tomlin is a cheerleader.
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Joe Greene telling that story about Rocky running with his hair blowing in the wind brought a tear to my eye.
Blier came to speak at my school. One of the best speakers we ever had.
I met Rocky at the grocery store across from my apartment. He made me feel like the celebrity. What a gentleman!
Rocky the fictional boxer?..
Rocky Bleier. He and Franco Harris were the starting running backs for the Steelers.
@@hardshiponthepathwaytopeac2371 Eye of the tiger!
You paid for a autograph of course you were the celebrity 😂
@@bayarea3850It wasn't an appearance. We were in the checkout line. I should have mentioned that in my comment.
I actually understand the story of the monks! 😂👍
It's a lesson about dwelling on your past, and to not carry anything with you that would cause you to lose focus on the present.
yeah but those guys were dumb
Probably would've taken years for them to realize it.
I became a Steelers fan because my Father was, and my Father always said that the 1978 Steelers was the Best Steeler team ever assemble. 😁
I'm a Giant's fan...And the 78 Steelers is considered the best team of all-time.
Was it because Tony Dungy was on that team?
I tend to go with the '75 squad simply because they played a tougher schedule, both in the regular season and the playoffs, but the '78 team was certainly up there.
I personally think Pittsburgh best team in this era was a team that didn’t win the Super Bowl and I believe the 1976 Steelers was their strongest team : look at the numbers
@@faviovega6040 ..yeah, the number of injuries and the fact that the Raiders destroyed the 76 Steelers 24-7 in the AFC Championship, the 78 Steelers didn't play that sh#t at all...#SimplyTheBest
The 70’s Steelers was an all-star team
IN THE WORDS OF MY MAN CHUCK D: GODDAMN RIGHT!
They had 10 hall of fame payers of the 22 starters that’s insane!!!!!!!!
@@djlee202 The only one who may have had more is Green Bay in the 60’s.
All draft picks...
All draft picks they we're all developed by Chuck Noll.
The 1978 Steelers had to be that good to beat the Cowboys. Still one of the best Super Bowls ever.
Nah
Quit acting like the Cowboys were the better team!
@@billycausgrove9657 your reading comprehension skills are pretty bad. Show me where I said the Cowboys were the better team.
Defending Superbowl Champions!
Steelers crushed the cryboys every time from 75 until about 1992.
Terry Bradshaw (207/368, 2,915 YDS, 28 TD, 20 INT), Franco Harris (1,082 YDS, 8 TD), Rocky Bleier (633 YDS, 5 TD), Lynn Swann (61 REC, 880 YDS, 11 TD), John Stallworth (41 REC, 798 YDS, 9 TD), Randy Grossman (37 REC, 448 YDS, 1 TD). What a loaded offense. Not to mention Mike Webster and John Kolb.
Very good offensive team.
3:13 "football's a physical game...well it used to be anyway" How true is that statement?!!!
He's a 100% right too.
It still is. Just not as much.
I keep seeing these comments im not american so dont know shit obliviously, what were the rule changes?
@@henrypollock7987 prior to the rule change, a defensive player could jam the receiver throughout the entirety of his route. After the rule change, the defensive player could only jam the receiver for five yards. Past five yards would result in an Illegal Contact penalty (which is now I believe a five yard penalty and an automatic first down, but I’m not 100 percent on that part).
Shots fired
Quarterbacks of today absolutely have it made. Put Brady, Mahomes, Rodgers, Burrow, Stafford, or whoever up against that Steelers defense of the 70s and see what would happen. I promise you the Steel Curtain would put the fear of God into any of them.
The Steelers Defense of The 1970s was so great that they almost never made substitutions or added an extra player to the front four, to the linebackers, or to the secondary. They did it with 4 down lineman rushing the quarterback, the 3 linebackers dropping back into pass coverage and rarely blitzing. The defensive backs were perennials who were very physical and who adapted to the rule changes rapidly. A few years later in 1983 Jack Lambert was Defensive Player of The Year and declared that there may never again be defenses again like Pittsburgh had in the 1970s.
If you put them back then and they played the way they do now, they’d struggle, and they certainly wouldn’t last as long.
But if they were born in the 50’s, and came up and hit their primes in the 70’s, they might perform well, because they’d be more used to the rules, and the tendancies that come from them.
I will say however, that there is no way that they could play long enough to accumulate the raw statistical records that we see from quarterbacks now, let alone the single season marks we’ve seen.
It's easy to disparage an athlete's potential to impact a game based upon past eras...given that player, obviously, never had any opportunity to play in that era. I would suggest it is just as viable to suggest that many star players from past eras might struggle if teleported to play during any future era.
@@ThomasFromTN quarterbacks from the past would NOT struggle in todays nfl nor would receivers; its the n.f.l. (nerf football league) now
Number one would be the most accurate! No Super Bowl had this many hall of fame members and it isn't even close!
More like #15.
I don't think fans today fathom how dominant Bradshaw was in 1978. It was like he could throw the ball and complete passes for 30 or 40 yards downfield almost at will. Defenses were terrified of him.
An FYI for you. Mel Blount was considered to be a Bust early in his career. Then shortly after Rocky's Magical Recovery, the former Bust put on about 25 pounds of muscle and suddenly (like many other Steelers) became physically dominant . Skinny TE Larry Brown who caught a TD pass in SB IX was later converted to OT because he got Too Big.
Football is a physical sport,well it used to be and I feel Lambert said it best,we should put skirts on QBs
Met chuck in 85 on Hilton head island and shoot hoops with Franco back in 77. He’ll be missed!
God bless rocky bleir.served in the military and played with pain 🙏
Rocky is the baddest man to ever play the game
@@martinwakefield8138 I don't know about baddest? I think Bleir was/is the most dedicated player of all time!
I've watched all of the super bowls except GB in 1 &2. I just can't see any team in NFL history beating these Steeler teams of the 70s. Obviously, with free agency a team with this much talent could not exist today. You couldn't afford to pay that many pro-bowlers and HOFers.
This is the greatest nfl team ever in my opinion
Not even top5.
@rawn4203 you're clueless
@@rawn420310 pro bowlers, 14-2, hall of famers everywhere, and absolutely dominate
This is a great, great team. I think there have been teams with a lot of talent but no team came through as consistently in the biggest games going up against all time opponents like the Raiders and Dallas of the 70s. I think it is the opponents the Steelers beat that tells the real story and sets them apart.
Joe Greene is the most dominant defensive lineman I've ever seen. He did things to offensive linemen that will NEVER been seen again. His early years were a collection of non stop destruction. It's a shame that so much of his career was humstrung by his bad shoulder. He's one of a few players i wish would've had access to modern medicine.
"He was one of a few players I wish would've had access to modern medicine" ?😶
@@p.j.4738He’s talking about now num nuts
I would say Deacon Jones, with Greene, Randy White, and Reggie White close behind
In the 70s, we had no repeat winners in the NBA. Baseball we had three-time champions the Oakland A's.
But football we had the four-time Pittsburgh Steelers
My family originated in a town outside Pittsburgh and my grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles bled Black and Gold. I was born on the west coast, SoCal in 1967 and raised on Steelers football. I was the luckiest kid in the world because my Steelers became the dynasty during my childhood. I adopted the Seahawks as a secondary team because they were the underdog but all I knew was 70s Steelers and these videos are like yesterday to me. I remember everything about it and I was fortunate to have witnessed these Steeler teams.
Aaa
Was the town squirrel hill
Never forget #32.
RIP Franco.
RIP Steve Courson, Mike Webster, Dwight White, L.C. Greenwood, Ernie Holmes, and Chuck Noll
I wish Terry would have been casted for one of these shows. Wouldve been great to see.
Good point. But I think when they did this series back in 2006, both Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana wanted too much money. If you watch the 49ers episodes, Montana is also noticeably absent. Bradshaw and Montana are good friends by the way., a lot of mutual respect. But in retrospect, it's probably good that Bradshaw didn't get involved because he might have overshadowed the episodes, and also it gives great players like Rocky Bleier, Randy Grossman and Mel Blount the chance to tell their stories. And those stories, as we can see, were equally important to the Steelers' success.
Cowboy fans are still crying over this Super Bowl loss
Billy Causgrove I was only 3 months old then so no lol
Meh. If it wasn't for this game, the Cowboys wouldn't have had the America's Team moniker.
What a way for Jackie Smith to end a brilliant career.
RIP 2 FRANCO HARRIS CHUCK NOLL AKA THE EMPEROR ERNIE HOLMES DWIGHT WHITE L.C. GREENWOOD!
Refs helped us. What would you say? What do you say about brady or the cheatriots now?
Chuck Noll's stories at 20:03 & 21:43? Priceless!!😂🤣😁😆😅
After the stories, I bet the players were like, "What in the world??"
The Best Super Bowl of all time!
How do these films not have more views
I love Americas game
As a die hard Houston Oiler fan it was a Classic Rivalry when these teams played each other.
Id Only.
Have to give them their respect they were the better team
13:05 Rocky looks like he's 45 years old, but is 32 and still played another 2 years.
Not only did Randy Grossman fill in for Benny Cunningham, he basically played every meaningful for snap on offense after Benny got injured. They got Jim Mandich the former Dolphin as insurance, but all he did was play special teams. He probably didn't see 20 snaps on offense the rest of that season except for when Bradshaw was kneeling on the football.
Best Football Team in History, NO TEAM has won 4 Super Bowls in 6 years BEFORE or SINCE the 1970s STEELERS
mel blount said it all in the very beginning: "football is a physical game; well it USED to be anyway ..."
"Football is physical game, well it used to be anyway!" 😂😂😂Dude was tough!!
Ah Tony Dungey. we still love him in Tampa
The only player since at least 1950 to catch an interception and throw one in the same game
i just ordered the Nintendo Tecmo Super Bowl version for this year...excited to be playing with my favorite team of all time
Best Steelers team ever
I remember every minute so well. I believe I'm about to cry. LOL
Greatest teams of all time ,,, the 1978 Steelers and the 1989 49ers
Mel Blount:
"Football is a physical game. Well, it used to be, anyway."
So true.
I absolutely love hearing Myron Cope in these clips, RIP Myron the inventer of the terrible towel.
Rocky Bliar..
You're catch helped secure a Steelers victory in XIII.
Mel blount made 3 of his 5 pro bowls after the mel blount rule. Sheer dominance
They REALLY glossed over the AFC championship game. Houston had NINE turnovers - Pittsburgh had five. FIVE Pastorini picks, SIX fumbles, four lost. What a disaster of a game :) Pastorini's rating was 16.3.
Love this man! HERE WE GO STEELERS HERE WE GO
"As a leader, you have to lead with your own personality." -- Vince Lombardi
Regarding the story of the two monks, I think the reason why Randy Grossman and the other players were mystified was not because they didn't get the tale of the two monks. The moral of that story is clear to a 12 year old. They were mystified because Chuck Noll was no great philosopher. They were like, "Who are you and what have you done with Chuck Noll?" And after that, they got back to playing Steeler football. Thanks to Chuck, the right people were in place to do just that.
James Tressler well said
And there's also the "Hines Ward rule" nowadays 😊
"Wind in his hair" run is from 1979.
I immediately understood Chuck Noll's story about the two monks. I think I've missed my calling.
When I see Donnie Shell nail Earl Campbell, that saved the playoffs right there.
Mike Wagner was my preferred Safety,for his instinct,and intelligent play, but I think Earl would have slowed, then fell forward. Donnie Shell shut him down in his tracks.
And if any Oiler Fans want to Bitch....Franco routinely ran 35 to 40 carries a game.....he was just a little more durable over his career.
Frank O'Harris was light years better than earl campbells.
Nice block by the ref on the Harris td..
If anyone knows the name of the music track that begins at 5:13 please reply. I've tried over and over again to find it on the America's Game soundtracks as well as trying to find it on RUclips and I can't find it.
As a Houston oilers fan respect y’all kicked our asses but I’m glad y’all beat Dallas.
How do Cowboy fans celebrate after winning a Super Bowl game?? Drum roll please🥁,,, a They turn off their Playstations😜✌
5 Touchdowns in the first half!
What’s the music at 3:20?
30:13
The Great Myron Cope!
I think the 70's Steelers won about 100 straight games in a row by about 30 points a game.
That seems… kind of impossible. 😂
Squirrels are vicious animals in the wild, but the monk story was pretty much a waste of time. No wonder Noll lost so much in the 80's.
The Steelers record should have been 13-3 instead of 14-2 that year. They really lost to the Browns but got a big break.
Lake Eerie is filled with the tears of Browns fans
True, but 13-3 was still better than anyone else.
1978 team could beat any team in any age ! That’s including you Tom Brady ! The team of all ages !
As the New York football Giants proved twice, if there is one thing Tom Brady doesn't like, it is pressure from the front four and a collapsing pocket. The Steelers specialized in putting pressure with their front four and I see them sacking him quite a bit and forcing bad throws. Consider the fact, that against the Cowboys of the 70s, they'd get to the highly mobile Roger Staubach half a dozen times per game and eventually end his career, and I like their chances against Brady even with today's rules. If Brady played in the 70s with those rules he'd have zero chance and would like be force to retire early.
72 fins, 84 9ers, 85 bears and 89 9ers would all open a can of whoop ass on this team. Well maybe not the 72 fins.
@@rawn4203 In your opinion why?
@@fortynights1513 Well based on they all won more and lost fewer, and they all (even the 72 fins) won the super bowl by more than the steelers did (and in the case of the 9ers and bears, by ALOT more). And statistically they all had a much bigger winning margin in the regular season. And it seems NFL's Americas game agrees with me, placing this steelers team lower than any of those others.
@@rawn4203 I could see that.
I will also say that by your criteria, the 75 Steelers would be their best championship, and probably around fifth (better overall point differential and team stats against a harder schedule than 78, in addition to having more pro bowls and all pros than 78).
@35:45.. that Cowboy cheerleader was eyeing Swann 😂
first down new york jets hang on go Pittsburgh
I hate the Steelers but I would've been a fan going into this game cuz of the smack Hollywood talked
Winning 4 Superbowls is probably easy compared to working out the meaning of a Chuck Noll story.
Young Tony Dungy
I would love to see Deion Sanders try to play offense and let Mel Blount cover him...the old-fashioned way!
Few years later, i believe he was on cannon ball run and smokey and the bandit
The Ram/Steelers was suppose to be the match up in SB XIII.
Joe Greene said it Earl Campbell was A BAD man dude was a beast much better than Franco Harris and Tony Dorsett.
Totally all three had different running styles.
Franco had 4 S.B. Rings! How many Cambell got? Franco was MVP Super Bowel 9! Campbell? Oh yeah, he was never in a Superbowl!
Franco had a superior offensive line, quarterback and Swann and Stallworth, who were underrated run blockers. The Tyler Rose had Dan Pastorini (not very good), a good offensive line. His receivers were good (Kenny Burrough, Rick Caster, the former Jet, and Mike Renfro) but in 1978, Campbell was asked to do more than Franco, and I'm a Steelers fan. I just give credit where it's due.
I still want to know about the two squirrels.
I’d take Blount over sanders any day give me an intimidating cornerback who will take a wide receivers head off over a finesse cover cb who’s afraid to tackle a ball carrier. I guarantee a wide receiver such as Jerry rice would rather face Deion sanders instead of Mel Blount
Meh I don’t know about your Jerry Rice preference take. It really depends on which set of rules they’re playing by. If 90s rules Rice would much prefer Blount. Had nowhere near the speed Sanders had. Sanders could play 15 yards off and make up that difference in seconds if the QB targeted that WR on a hitch route
@@KDubb-ws9zc 💯
@@KDubb-ws9zc You might be right about that, but Blount would probably have ended Rice's career early if he had ever gotten his hands on him. Jack Tatum definitely would have haha
the monk carried her and put her down the other thought about her all the way through the walk.
The monk story. Think Chuck was just telling them not to dwell on the losses and the poor offensive execution.
3:18
Not to harp on Mel Blount's conspiracy theories, but there was far more reasons than just the Steelers the League made their rule changes in 78.
In 1977, the season had the lowest points per game value since *1942.* Not a single receiver in the League got more than 900 yards within that season. Defense had free reigns to mug receivers all over the field and the offensive line was hilariously handicapped as they couldn't do much more than stick their forearms out as they couldn't even extend their hands out for pass protection. Something needed to change.
In my opinion 1969-1977 should be considered the absolute dead ball era as far as defense goes, and the worst time in the history of the game to try and pass efficiently (only four or five times did someone reach 25 passing touchdowns in those nine years).
There were a lot of great players and defenses in those years; Steel Curtain included.
I totally get why the rules were changed, but I do wonder what kind of numbers some of the defenses that followed could have put up if no rule changes after the early 70’s were made.
the rules changes were for casual fans
@@fortynights1513 the rule changes were for casual fans; glad you enjoyed them
i had absolutely NO PROBLEM with the way the game was played (i absolutely loved it) so when you say "something had to be done" thats a casual fan talking
why didnt i feel that anything had to be done then?
and there were plemty of efficient passers BY THE STANDARDS OF THE GAME THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED; just not by TODAYS standard of 55 passes per game for every qb
and no it was not a dead ball era; i remember TOO many exciting moments of offense so i have no idea what made you say that
and it wasn't a a conspiracy theory from blount; pittsburghs defense was the BEST of the great defenses of the 1970s
they were THE STANDARD
Frank O'Harris was the greatest runnerman of all times.
As a native Texan, TX sports homer & die-hard Cowboys fan. I have the upmost respect for the Steelers and their organization. However I have an issue with people saying "u can't go around calling yourself America's Team"....a sports reporter from NFL films gave them that title. Hollywood Henderson talked too much, just like Joey Porter. Don't act like good NFL players all act like Barry Sanders. You guys are just making up reasons to hate Dallas and in my opinion Texas as a whole. Steelers are great but they were lucky, got all the breaks, including getting this notion that they are these humble, hard working, stand up MEN, and the Cowboys & their fans are a bunch of whiny cry babies, who don't work hard, want everything given to them, cheated for everything that they have which is Bullshit
Lifelong Steelers fan here. But Coach Landry, what a great man he was.
@@Dave-ti2ue wat did coach Landry do wrong?
Nothing. I'm saying he was a great person, as well as a great coach.
cowboys had to sign off on "americas team" ; it was arrogance and they got what they deserved for being arrogant
thats what made me a cowboy hater ---after the steelers had beaten them in the 1976 sb that next summer i saw an nfl film entitled "the dallas cowboys: americas team" and i was shocked since the steelers were the champs
thats what made me a cowboy -hater and it never has gone away
the steelers were just a better team; losers talk about the other side being "lucky"
they beat the cowboy ALL 5 TIMES they -played them when bradshaw was there including the the 2 superbowls
Steelers were flagged for no penalties in sb x. And only 1 penalty in sbxiii.
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They had 5 Penalties. Yes, they Cowboys had 9, but the Cowboys also forced 3 Turnovers and also had 3 themselves. Plus. Jackie Smith can't catch a pass. Keep crying cause the Steelers won fair and square.
Wide receivers should of been able to fight back
This team you so great with all these perfect pieces 👍🇺🇸
If the Patriots hadn't imploded late in the season, the Steelers would have had a tighter AFC Championship Game, but they still would have won it.
It's a bad habit for a squirrel to live at the bottom of a tree, he'll keep getting hit in the head by the other squirrel's nuts.
Imagine changing rules because your were too good . Steelers got handicapped
Yeah, but it also opened up the opportunity to throw to Swann and Stallworth. This game was Bradshaw's very first 300 yard game.
Dallas would have won if Smith catches that TD pass (yes, throw could have been better) and if the referee wasn't in Cliff Harris' path to tackle Franco Harris on his TD run.
Highly disrespectful calling Dallas America's team our military is America's team
I heard most of the 92 oilers were gays, probably why they lost soo much.
Biggest fraud in sports history - SteAlers SB titles. This one tops the list easily.
Not true though.
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Mel Blount WAS SCARED TO DEATH OF CLIFF BRANCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sure he was,he knocked the shit out of cliff
Randy Grossman just said why I hate Tomlin so much.
He's a rah rah cheerleader loser. He can't evaluate talent or use the talent he has. He has gotten less out of more, more than any Steelers HC.
Mike Tomlin is a cheerleader.
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