I've had a Mark Malone card since the 90s and saw that 90 yr TD stat line on the back of the card. I'd always wondered how that happened! Thanks for this story.
This channel is totally slept on by the TH-cam community that's into NFL history and things of the sort.... keep hitting that like button for Jaguar guys!!!! His videos are so f'n cool!!! I want this channel to blow cuz the content is phenomenal!!!
On the one hand I'd like for him to make a decent living off the channel... on the other hand, I'm worried that if he gets a healthy sub count, short sighted copyright owners will demonetize and copyright strike everything.
Christopher Pennetta I don't sleep on this person.I knew about Malone's blazing speed if he was black I think he would have been forced to switch to WR.
This was the first NFL game I ever attended. I was a Steelers fan then (now Seahawks) and my Browns fan father really enjoyed that missed kick. Great memory. Go Hawks! Go Browns!
I was a little kid when UNLV happened to play Colorado State (My dad had season tickets). I don't remember much from that game except the punts were booming higher than I had ever seen before. The punter? Randall Cunningham.
As much as it pains me, you need to do one on Steve Bono's 76 yard bootleg run on my beloved Cardinals. What made that run great was that it was against Buddy Ryan's vaunted 46 defense and it pretty much personified his run as Cardinals head coach. Ryan was so convinced on a run up the middle that by the time Bono scored(he did the 50 in about 3 weeks he was so slow) there wasn't a Cardinal around for 50 yards.
We don't say the K word here in Pittsburgh.... call it superstition, but there's no reason to anger the football gods and have them punish us like they did from '98- '00
Thank you!! I've been looking for this video for a long time. I remember being a kid and watching this game in frustration with that shanked field goal. Never realized the receiver here was our QB or probably forgot.
Jim Smith's pro football was pretty interesting. Won two SB rings backing up Stallworth and Swann, was very productive as a WR #3/sometime WR#2 (i.e., from 80-82 caught 83-1689-20) and then had a great 3 seasons in the USFL. He came back to the NFL in 1985 with the Raiders at just age 30, but I guess didn't have anything left.
He had a 98 yard touchdown run against Utah State for Arizona State in 1979. You can see it in the movie ' Used Cars' with Kurt Russell from 1980. The NFL games they hacked in to to show their commercial was actually ASU vs Utah State from 1979. They show his td run.
Not true, even the year before when he was the league MVP he threw 20 ints. He would throw the ball down the field and go for the big play. He was still as dangerous as ever in '79. The Steelers led the league in giveaways with 52 and still had the #1 offense in the NFL.
The unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will encourage people to watch another video featuring David Trout’s missed field goal from this game.
I thought this was from the same game. I think I watched this at my grandparents' house. I totally forgot about the Stoudt injury after the game. That was the beginning of the end for him here.
As kids playing backyard football, if you threw a bad pass everybody called you Mark Malone- this was even years after he was gone from Pittsburgh, until Tomczak came along, then the shitty passes- especially high ones- got you called Tomczak.... also, Mark Malone was a masonry laborer on one of the houses my dad built in the early 90's until he got the ESPN gig, if memory serves
I never knew that happend i was only 10 at the time but they still didnt show how he got opened i wish they would of showed how the Seahawks covered him they only show him running down the field catching it and show TB throwing it
He had knee problems it was mentioned in the video....and Chuck did pretty well with what he had.....he took a laughing stock and turned them into greatness
There’s been some long QB scoring runs, but QB scoring catches?...not so much, I can’t think of any that come even close to this play where a QB scores on a pass reception of over 75 yards.
Mark Malone's sportscasting career was a weird one as well--he primarily called football but you never really would have known he was a former NFL QB, since he mostly did play-by-play and not color and also even filled in as an ESPNEWS/SportsCenter anchor. I don't think I've ever seen another pro athlete do basic anchor work for ESPN like that.
I believe you're thinking of Cliff Stoudt. Malone threw 88 passes in '81 (his second year) and started 3 games when Bradshaw broke his arm against the Raiders on Monday Night Football.
I don’t know if Malone was above or below the OJG9 Line (or Nine Line for short) as a quarterback, but if receivers had ratings he’d be at 158.3. And since this is a video about the Early 1980s Steelers I anticipate hearing from our favorite Steelers fan, who believes their owner to be brilliant, and believes they absolutely made the right move drafting Gabriel Rivera in 1983!
They did, they, "might," have, beaten, the, 49ers, in, the, SB, with, Dan Marino, shame, most, people remember Mark Malone as host of, The, Dream League.
@@leogetz3570 To be fair, the stadium, was, blanketed, with, "Three, More, Yards," banners, (which, are, now, illegal), the, only, way they, were, winning, was, a total rout.
Ah, yes, the "one for the thumb" era of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oddly enough, they wouldn't get there until Big Ben - by which time, the previously unremarkable San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys beat them to it.
It does make one wonder, but then when Don Shula pops up in your mind, you finally understand why! He knew a great QB when he saw one. That pick Miami had was all Shula, plain, and simple! I went to high school with a player for Shula, played in the Super bowl with Marino. Shula knew what real talent was. I'm not saying Noll didn't, but most would agree that Shula had the edge on talented players who had the heart to win. If the Fins had a defense in the mid 80's, they could have dominated a few years, instead of the NFC blowing away the AFC for a decade or more. Shula was no dummy. He probably knew how dangerous Namath was in SB #3 I'm sure he was very aware of those Pittsburgh, Beaver Falls QBs' that played there. So he didn't hesitate when one was available.
Heroics ? He was a decoy with 1 chance to make a good play and came through. And end up being the beginning of a long stretch of garbage teams the Steelers put out on the field.
Malone was truly awful at QB, not really sure exactly why. He was awesome on Edge NFL Matchup later. So, great athleticism, seemed to have at least good knowledge of the game. Puzzling as to why he ultimately didn't succeed....
good athlete ran for a bunch of TDs in college. Its hard to eval QBs from that era where QBs usually only completed 50% of their passes and often threw more INTs than TDs.
Not even close. I know everybody blames O'Donnell for the SB loss, but they never even sniff getting there that year without him. That was the year they introduced the 5 wides package to the NFL and it was their passing game that carried them. He had a nice run in the burgh, SB XXX notwithstanding.
I've had a Mark Malone card since the 90s and saw that 90 yr TD stat line on the back of the card. I'd always wondered how that happened! Thanks for this story.
This channel is totally slept on by the TH-cam community that's into NFL history and things of the sort.... keep hitting that like button for Jaguar guys!!!! His videos are so f'n cool!!! I want this channel to blow cuz the content is phenomenal!!!
The same music puts me to sleep
On the one hand I'd like for him to make a decent living off the channel... on the other hand, I'm worried that if he gets a healthy sub count, short sighted copyright owners will demonetize and copyright strike everything.
Christopher Pennetta I don't sleep on this person.I knew about Malone's blazing speed if he was black I think he would have been forced to switch to WR.
This channel will one day become bigger and jaggator will be able to stop recording content from his bathroom.
Great content!
This was the first NFL game I ever attended. I was a Steelers fan then (now Seahawks) and my Browns fan father really enjoyed that missed kick. Great memory. Go Hawks! Go Browns!
You caught me by surprise. I thought this was going to be a trick play where the RB or WR throws ball to the QB.
I was at this game. It was a blown coverage. The Highlight of Malone's career.
There is nothing like this channel! Keep these stories coming, man!
Like Randall Cunningham's 91-yard punt, I thought this record was a misprint the first time I read it.
I was a little kid when UNLV happened to play Colorado State (My dad had season tickets). I don't remember much from that game except the punts were booming higher than I had ever seen before. The punter? Randall Cunningham.
I'm a huge Eagles fan and I was a young teenager when Cunningham shocked everyone in my family with that punt.
As much as it pains me, you need to do one on Steve Bono's 76 yard bootleg run on my beloved Cardinals. What made that run great was that it was against Buddy Ryan's vaunted 46 defense and it pretty much personified his run as Cardinals head coach. Ryan was so convinced on a run up the middle that by the time Bono scored(he did the 50 in about 3 weeks he was so slow) there wasn't a Cardinal around for 50 yards.
Great story--Never saw this one coming. Mark Malone? Wow--Definitely the "strangest reception" in Steelers' history. Very interesting story, for sure
Funny how it was his first and last catch ever, too...and he was wide open :)
Stranger than the Immaculate Reception?
At 4:55, don’t forget we also had a qb play kicker
So basically Kordell Stewart before Kordell Stewart?
We don't say the K word here in Pittsburgh.... call it superstition, but there's no reason to anger the football gods and have them punish us like they did from '98- '00
Thank you!!
I've been looking for this video for a long time.
I remember being a kid and watching this game in frustration with that shanked field goal.
Never realized the receiver here was our QB or probably forgot.
Jim Smith's pro football was pretty interesting. Won two SB rings backing up Stallworth and Swann, was very productive as a WR #3/sometime WR#2 (i.e., from 80-82 caught 83-1689-20) and then had a great 3 seasons in the USFL. He came back to the NFL in 1985 with the Raiders at just age 30, but I guess didn't have anything left.
He had a 98 yard touchdown run against Utah State for Arizona State in 1979. You can see it in the movie ' Used Cars' with Kurt Russell from 1980. The NFL games they hacked in to to show their commercial was actually ASU vs Utah State from 1979. They show his td run.
Wow what a story, never heard of this and I’ve been a Steelers fan for over 30 years
Nice video, this channel has an impressive archive of NFL if they can pull up a Steelers/Giants preseason game from the early 80s.
Forgot to mention that Bradshaw threw 25ints in 1979. He was definitely on his way down the ladder.
Not true, even the year before when he was the league MVP he threw 20 ints. He would throw the ball down the field and go for the big play. He was still as dangerous as ever in '79. The Steelers led the league in giveaways with 52 and still had the #1 offense in the NFL.
I thought the pass was against the Falcons in 1981. I learned something today.
You can call these the longest catches , but there will never be one any stranger than the immaculate reception or deception depending on your take .
I remember reading this in the old Steelers media guides and thinking it was a misprint.
I remember the stat on the back of Mark Malones Rookie card, I never saw or even heard anyone talk about the play, thanks for the video
Excellent Chanel! I’m always blown away by your videos! Keep up the great work!!
Malone was surprisingly an absolute monster of an athlete.
I suffered with my Seahawks even way back then. The hungry years.
Although they won here
I miss listening to his radio show on NBC Sports.
This is a great channel!
7:07 "the greatest and strangest moment......."
Bengals up on Chargers 31-7 at the half in SD? Predicted the AFCCG
I was always a fan of Mark Malone the commentator
That was really good 👍!!
I remember watching this game. Screamed my head off -- while wearing my #16 Malone jersey !!
They also had a 85 yard swing pass touchdown to Franco Harris wiped out because of a penalty on Craig Wolfley.
Wow at 3:55 4.42 that was flying!!!!!!
The unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will encourage people to watch another video featuring David Trout’s missed field goal from this game.
I thought this was from the same game. I think I watched this at my grandparents' house. I totally forgot about the Stoudt injury after the game. That was the beginning of the end for him here.
Chuck Noll basically gave Mark Malone the Kordell Stewart treatment before making him the quarterback.
As kids playing backyard football, if you threw a bad pass everybody called you Mark Malone- this was even years after he was gone from Pittsburgh, until Tomczak came along, then the shitty passes- especially high ones- got you called Tomczak.... also, Mark Malone was a masonry laborer on one of the houses my dad built in the early 90's until he got the ESPN gig, if memory serves
90 yards per reception is pretty good.
40 Years Ago
there was for sure some film in there where #16 was catching the ball
I watched it live!!
Stranger than The Immaculate Reception?
what a career
I never knew that happend i was only 10 at the time but they still didnt show how he got opened i wish they would of showed how the Seahawks covered him they only show him running down the field catching it and show TB throwing it
I had no idea Malone was athletic...why didn't he run the ball more as a Steeler then? Chuck Noll was messing up
He had knee problems it was mentioned in the video....and Chuck did pretty well with what he had.....he took a laughing stock and turned them into greatness
As a Steeler fan I'm shocked I didn't know about this play... I'm embarrassed! 7:10
Could you do a video on the 9:00 mark? I bet it's an interesting story.
There’s been some long QB scoring runs, but QB scoring catches?...not so much, I can’t think of any that come even close to this play where a QB scores on a pass reception of over 75 yards.
That may be John Brodie territory....
Dude. How do you find these stories? Awesome.
Even the sainted Mel of the kelper
Thanks.
Mark Malone's sportscasting career was a weird one as well--he primarily called football but you never really would have known he was a former NFL QB, since he mostly did play-by-play and not color and also even filled in as an ESPNEWS/SportsCenter anchor. I don't think I've ever seen another pro athlete do basic anchor work for ESPN like that.
He was also the sports director and an anchor at the Chicago CBS affiliate. Won some local Emmy awards to. No, I'm not his agent.
Pat Summerall did play by play for football, college/NBA basketball, and golf. Malone was a terrible QB but good in front the camera.
Another oddity with Malone.
He was on the team so long before he threw a pass that he qualified to collect a pension if he retired early.
I believe you're thinking of Cliff Stoudt. Malone threw 88 passes in '81 (his second year) and started 3 games when Bradshaw broke his arm against the Raiders on Monday Night Football.
Quiet as its kept Malone was the fastest QB of his era he clocked a 4.40 in the 40 he ran that at the combine
I don’t know if Malone was above or below the OJG9 Line (or Nine Line for short) as a quarterback, but if receivers had ratings he’d be at 158.3.
And since this is a video about the Early 1980s Steelers I anticipate hearing from our favorite Steelers fan, who believes their owner to be brilliant, and believes they absolutely made the right move drafting Gabriel Rivera in 1983!
They did, they, "might," have, beaten, the, 49ers, in, the, SB, with, Dan Marino, shame, most, people remember Mark Malone as host of, The, Dream League.
mark malone should be hall fame.
Didn’t Mark Malone host a game show?
Nice Statline to have
No mention of Slash? It’s like Kordell Stewart never played??
You ask, most, fans of the Steelers, his, best, moment, was, his, TD, in the 1995 AFC Championship Game, that should, never, have counted.
@@matthewdaley746 uugghh....as a Colts fan, don't get me started on that "catch"... lol
@@leogetz3570 To be fair, the stadium, was, blanketed, with, "Three, More, Yards," banners, (which, are, now, illegal), the, only, way they, were, winning, was, a total rout.
A philosophy that was repeated when the Steelers drafted Cordell "Slash" Stewart from Colorado.
Kordell Stewart before Kordell Stewart
7:10 for the actual play
Prelude to Super Bowl 40
Malone was not a lot of things for Pittsburgh. You have to admit he was fast.
No comparison to Magnum PI?
I remember that!!!!
Dwight Stone 1990 90 yard TD pass from Bubby Brister.
I'm pretty sure Dwight Stone's catch wasn't a touchdown.
David Trout = Martin Gramatica
Malone was so fast that he was just jogging the last 50 yards of that catch.
Ah, yes, the "one for the thumb" era of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oddly enough, they wouldn't get there until Big Ben - by which time, the previously unremarkable San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys beat them to it.
I still don't understand y they passed on Dan Marino after doing this
It does make one wonder, but then when Don Shula pops up in your mind,
you finally understand why! He knew a great QB when he saw one. That
pick Miami had was all Shula, plain, and simple! I went to high school with
a player for Shula, played in the Super bowl with Marino. Shula knew what
real talent was. I'm not saying Noll didn't, but most would agree that Shula
had the edge on talented players who had the heart to win. If the Fins had
a defense in the mid 80's, they could have dominated a few years, instead of
the NFC blowing away the AFC for a decade or more. Shula was no dummy.
He probably knew how dangerous Namath was in SB #3 I'm sure he was
very aware of those Pittsburgh, Beaver Falls QBs' that played there. So he
didn't hesitate when one was available.
Mark Malone is STILL ... your daddy.
Fear the Stash!
#MarkMaloneIsStillYourDaddy
#MarkMalone2021Comeback!
:P
6:50 Ah, I see the Steelers and being gifted touchdowns they were a yard short on against the Seahawks doesn't just happen in the Super Bowl.
This was back when the Seahawks were in the AFC West.
This is post Malones daddy
Mark Malone was Slash before Slash.
Malone should've stuck to wide receiver because he sucked as a QB.
Still better than Kenny Pickett.
Heroics ? He was a decoy with 1 chance to make a good play and came through. And end up being the beginning of a long stretch of garbage teams the Steelers put out on the field.
He was not A QB in that game he was a wide receiver so nothing special
Week 10
Malone was truly awful at QB, not really sure exactly why. He was awesome on Edge NFL Matchup later. So, great athleticism, seemed to have at least good knowledge of the game. Puzzling as to why he ultimately didn't succeed....
good athlete ran for a bunch of TDs in college. Its hard to eval QBs from that era where QBs usually only completed 50% of their passes and often threw more INTs than TDs.
"First team in the Suuuueol era..." Dude, slow down.
F*** the Seahawks. lol
Heee-heee-hee!
Malone was a better qb compared to some weve had, mentioning no names, looking at you odonnal
Not even close. I know everybody blames O'Donnell for the SB loss, but they never even sniff getting there that year without him. That was the year they introduced the 5 wides package to the NFL and it was their passing game that carried them. He had a nice run in the burgh, SB XXX notwithstanding.
Neil O’Donnell is like Joe Montana compared to Kenny Pickett.
I think this channel would be much better if you don't show modern NFL clips when talking about something 35 years prior.
You need some context
You still do the Trivia on Twitch?!
Yep! Every Wednesday night at 9 PM ET