The Steelers Made the Dumbest Roster Move You've Never Heard Of
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- The risk did not outweigh the reward on this one, I can tell you that much. In 1970, the Pittsburgh Steelers decided to take a chance by bringing their running back, Don McCall, off of injured reserve in a rather meaningless game. The consequence for doing so was insane
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Wow! A steelers fan since the mid-late 70's and never heard this story. The league was still fairly young then, not the juggernaut a a pro sport it is today. THat decision would never fly today! Thanks!
As a Steelers fan, I thought this was JG9 News and was starting to panic 😂
Right?! I was like please don't be a current event...
"TJ Watt cut."
Dumbest I never heard of before, maybe, but not even close to the worst roster move the Steelers ever made. They cut some 9th-round pick out of the University of Louisville in 1955 without ever letting him play. He ended up trading steel for crabcakes and horseshoes on his way to Canton...
Yeah the dumbest one that most people heard of was cutting Johnny Unitas and Len Dawson
The Steelers didn’t get a Hall or Fame QB until the 70’s. Bradshaw.
@@lamontbradford4630 No, they drafted Johnny Unitas and cut him without giving him a chance to play.
Not shocked that something like this happened. I mean, the Steelers cut Len Dawson and Johnny Unitas. What more could you have expected?
They also chose the corpse of Terry Bradshaw over Dan Marino, the, Cowboys/Raiders, won fewer SBs, but, their ability to transition from one QB to the next, meant, that they both had far greater consistency, unfortunately, luck's truly unquantifiable, period.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made videos about the following:
1. Terry Bradshaw’s bad week that season.
2. How the Injured Reserve/Waivers rule cost the Buccaneers Gerald Carter in 1980 and Curtis Jordan in 1981 (separate videos).
On the flipside, they landed on their feet, picking up Preston Pearson
Too bad they didn't keep him, in 1976, he, "might," have ensured the, three-peat, as it is, he's one of the precious few players on the Cowboys lucky enough to capture a second SB, not very many, simple as that.
It's strange to see the Steelers playing in white pants.
Other ways to get the player you want is to help out the next worst team. In the case of the Montreal Canadiens, they had a first overall draft pick a few months after this in 1971. What did they do? Send a quality player to the LA Kings in order to ensure the Oakland Seals, (who they had traded players to get this pick) finished dead last. The Canadiens got their man, Guy Lafleur.
Guy Lafleur had a rather strange career arc, he won five, Cups, and, was just about the only great player that didn't retire after 1979, unfortunately, the Canadiens swiftly went into decline, the year following his retirement, they won the, Cup, again with their great rookie goaltender Patrick Roy, oh, so, close.
One way the league could help keep late season games competitive when teams have been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs would be to make the top three draft spots awarded by lottery, and make the lottery entries based on the win/loss records of the bottom five or six teams with a better record earning more lottery entries. In other words, say the bottom six teams go into the lottery for the top three draft spots. The team with the best record out of the six might get 24 balls in the basket that will be drawn to determine who gets the top three picks, the team with the second-best record gets 20 balls in the basket, third-best gets 16, fourth gets 14, fifth and sixth get 12 each. That's just one example, the lottery could be set up with many different ratios to give the best of the worst teams more or less statistical advantage, and the rest of the draft order would shake out as it does now, with the better teams picking later. It wouldn't be a panacea, but it would at least eliminate the current guaranteed correlation between the worst team getting the #1 pick and would provide some incentive for front offices to not totally give up on winning in one season because they were focused on the next. I don't think it would be a good idea to do more than a few draft picks by lottery though--the really shitty teams need to have the chance to draft out of the basement, not that that has done the Lions or Browns or Chicago or Washington much good for decades on end (recent successes of the first two not withstanding). But I guess there's only so much help that can be given to teams run by dumb asses.
Well, The Steelers ended up with Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier. Worked out I guess.
When you posited the old IR/waivers rules against a hypothetical of Trevor Lawrence getting hurt until late in the season with a possibility of returning to play this year, I thought of another QB in that same exact position back in yesteryear.
At the beginning of the American Football League (AFL), Jack Kemp -- a native Californian from LA who attended Occidental College -- was a QB for the LA/San Diego Chargers. One season in the early 1960s (I "think" it was 1962, or possibly as late as 1963 [it was before my time following football]), Kemp broke his passing hand and was placed on IR. Later in the season after Kemp's broken hand had sufficiently healed and the Chargers needed him, Head Coach Sid Gillman tried to sneak Kemp back onto the Chargers' active roster -- BUT he had to clear waivers first before Kemp could play for San Diego. The Buffalo Bills -- who desperately needed a quality starting QB -- saw Kemp's name on the waiver wire (actually a sportswriter gave the Bills' then-GM a tip about it), and the Bills claimed Kemp off waivers for the $100 waiver claim fee. That's how Jack Kemp became the Buffalo Bills' starting QB for the rest of the 1960s ... and when he retired from football in 1970, Kemp ran for Congress from Buffalo and won (and was re-elected for many terms). Jack Kemp led the Bills to back-to-back AFL Championships in 1964 and 1965 ... and the Bills actually almost three-peated in 1966 but lost the AFL title game to the KC Chiefs (who then went on to face the GB Pa Packers in Super Bowl I). Who did the Bills defeat for the American Football League championship in successive seasons? You guessed it -- the San Diego Chargers !!!! The great Sid Gillman no doubt must have considered it his biggest blunder.
I forgot to add that Jack Kemp was such a good QB that he was named the league MVP in 1965. I'll bet that burned Gillman too :)
That was pretty dumb for the Steelers in 1970! 😮😮😮😅
Any chance the GM didn't know about the rule? What an insane risk!
If they were taking their orders straight from Art Rooney entirely out of fear, 100%, he couldn't operate a hot dog cart until he lucked into Chuck Noll, it's largely understood that, the, Steelers', Dynasty, occurred, in, spite, of him.
The Steelers were irrelevant until Franco Harris and the great defense took control and won 2 super bowls
In the long term it didn't matter
This epitomizes the 1970 Steelers.
Yeah, which is why, despite, being a, Dynasty, the, Steelers', run, lasted from, 1972-1979, before ending basically overnight, their legendary 1974 draft was followed by a series of misfires, meanwhile, the Cowboys drafted terrificly until 1977, and, the Raiders until 1983, for his part, Chuck Noll knew that the great times absolutely couldn't last, but, the quickness of their downfall, likely, shocked even him.
Are there any “meaningless games”? Most coaches would say no.
Don’t forget they also cut Al Bundy! Quite possibly the best high school football player to ever play the game!
This is a little of over-hype. Preston Pearson and John Fuqua led the team in rushing. McCall played a couple of games for the Saints, then 1 more year and was done.
No wonder the Steelers were so bad around the time the merger happened. The Steelers had to know there was no way McCall was gonna clear waivers.
Like taking candy from a baby
Why are you talking about a game played before you were born?