BS: American football question

Subject: RE: BS: American football question
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 03:42 PM

The real key to the 70's Steelers got very little recognition of his talents at the time but had Mr. Rooney not had Chuck Noll..............Yeah, I know that Paterno turned it down but Noll was still the right guy. He'd played for Paul Brown and coached under Don Schula at Baltimore. The Steelers also must have had some fine scouts that hadn't shone their brilliance before.....or maybe Noll just said they'd have to perform or he'd kick their asses. They found Bradshaw and Harris and then in what may have been the greatest draft selection of all time, drafted Mike Webster, Jack Lambert, John Stalworth, and Lynn Swan all in one draft.

I'm not sure anyone ever assembled a defense quite as fine as the Steel Curtain nor has anyone done a better job writing an offense around the personnel. And even if you hated the Steelers, how could you not love Rocky Bleier? Noll used what he had and great drafting to put together a team for the ages that stands up well against the legends like Lombardi and Brown. Noll was a blue collar guy from Cleveland working in another "shot and a beer" town. To me, he's never gotten the credit that he rightly deserves......but that kinda' goes with the image too. Blue collar guy......Doin' his job.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: American football question
From: PoppaGator
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 03:54 PM

Rocky Blier ~ yessss!

I always thought it was a shame that the Steelers drafted my college classmate Terry Hanratty in the second round in 1969, after taking another quarterback, Bradshaw, as their #1.

With another team, Hanratty would probably have had some kind of career as a player; with Pittsburgh, he put in a lot of years carrying a clipboard. True, he got rings and bonus money as a member of several Super Bowl teams. I wonder if he might not have preferred a few years of starting and playing in actual games on Sundays, even for a less outstanding team. I think I would have...

I suppose management wanted a "safety net" in case Bradshaw didn't work out, or got hurt, or whatever. It's apparent that they were going to make a change at quarterback that year, and that if their first-choice rookie failed to make the grade, they'd have another college star waiting in the wings.

Subject: RE: BS: American football question
From: Ron Davies
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 07:26 AM

I far prefer the Immaculate Contraption, as described by Gamble Rogers.

Subject: RE: BS: American football question
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 03:11 PM

You said it, poppagator.

I didn't want to start a fight over the remark that ""... there are Americans who think that the rest of the planet doesn't exist."

But I ask myself, 'Here's a man (my husband) engaged in affectionate banter with his wife (me), and he's supposed to monitor every word he says because some guy thousands of miles away is ready to take umbrage?'

The heck with that.

Subject: RE: BS: American football question
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 03:13 PM

Thanks for the link, JTS. It has the clearest film I've seen.

Subject: RE: BS: American football question
From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 07:29 AM

New York Giant's head coach quits.