The WORST Game of Terry Bradshaw's Career | Steelers @ Bills (1982)
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Terry Bradshaw is one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But in 1982, in the middle of what was looking like an MVP season, he had an absolutely atrocious game against the Buffalo Bills, with his worst stat-line by a mile. This is the story of the worst game of Bradshaw's career
NOTE: Because the NFL does not understand how fair use works, 30 seconds had to be removed around the 2:30 mark to prevent the video from getting blocked. This part talked about Bradshaw's performance prior to the game, and put the numbers into perspective
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Somewhere out there, a certain Yinzer was losing his mind in anger.
And he hasn’t been born yet.......
*Tree's screaming is heard in the distance*
This channel is quickly becoming a favorite of mine.
It's my favorite channel too
Likewise
Same.. let's keep showing this jaguar guy some love... views to the moon
You should do a video on the 1982 Baltimore-Buffalo game where the Colts' offense failed to cross the 50-yard line all game.
LOL.....that's hilarious
Worse than if they had just spiked the ball on every play
That's become his trademark, I love when he says that!
When I saw the title, I clicked just to hear that line.
I remember very well seeing this game in 1982 even when I was only 11 years old. Bradshaw was DISASTER during the game and Cliff Stoudt made a very good game coming in as a replacement. Stoudt led the Pittsburgh offense twice into the Buffalo red zone and may well have won the game, but some steelers caught Bradshaw's lack of confidence and fumbled the football twice to secure the win and shutout for the Bills.
Video idea. My favorite teams were the 70's Steelers. My favorite player was Dick Butkus. In one of Butkus' final games, he did not practice all week, due to horrific knee problems. When the played the Steelers, Butkus suited up. Bradshaw tried to take advantage of him and got picked off by #51 3 times. 1 was called back due to penalty. Butkus made crucial stops and also forced a fumble late in the game to secure a victory. He was a crippled old bear, but still had enough in the tank to show a young Bradshaw up.
I've only read about the game. I'd love to see some footage and some commentary.
I sense a theme from these last two videos, Bad Games by Great Quarterbacks.
It wasn’t said, but I’m going to assume that Bradshaw would’ve been better off just spiking the ball to the ground on every play. Am I right?
🤣😉
This may have been his worst game, but people forget how bade he was until 1974
Bradshaw’s passing yards in this game was actually minus 2, not three yards. He had two awful games in awful weather in that 1982 season. The kind of weather fans would complain about today but was embraced in those days.
And he didn’t falter down the stretch of the season. The final two games that season Bradshaw posted 37 points versus both NE and CLE; then was 28-39-325 yards versus the Chargers, but had two crucial INTs. Bradshaw was going to play three or four more years but had surgery after Noll and the doctors told him it wouldn’t fix anything. The elbow just needed rest. Gabe Rivera would have been a hell of a player for the Steelers.
This Bills game and the Chargers playoff game were reasons for the Rivera selection: the Steelers got shredded via the run late in the year. Joe Cribbs rushed for 143 yards and Chuck Muncie for 126 yards that shifted the draft toward defense.
I know bad games happen to good QBs, but I didn't know he had one THIS bad.
UrinatingTree is angry, somewhere in Pittsburgh, right now.
Bradshaw said that he hurt his elbow in training camp and relied on cortisone shots to get through the season. I am betting that something went wrong with the shot or the elbow pain did not subside after the shot.
Bradshaw would have elbow surgery after this season and then retired the next year after an elbow injury during a game ended his career. I'd say it was very likely that Bradshaw was experiencing some serious pain in the 1982 season
2 completions, 3 yards, 2 INT... WOW!!!!!
@@matthewdaley746 Yes, the Steelers definitely should have drafted Dan Marino, but they felt very confident that Cliff Stoudt would be their future quarterback, but that future only lasted through the 1983 season, in which Stoudt had a mediocre, ups and downs season, which reached for the PlayOffs only to be slaughtered by the Raiders. Stoudt ended up going to the USFL and his career was a failure, as the Steelers made up for their mistake of not drafting Marino with a losing decade in the 1980s. Art Rooney himself acknowledged that it was one of his biggest mistakes.
Yep, "The Hawk" is infamous in Orchard Park, NY (I'm from near that area), and that wind, along with other inclement weather conditions in Western New York can make any QB look bad (Joe Namath had a really bad game there as well, and Joe Montana had trouble in the 1993 AFC title game), but I did hear about this particular performance by Bradshaw, just not in detail.
Come on guys he had a hangover
Terry got paid-off to have that kind of performance.
Bradshaw had many statistically terrible games in his first couple of seasons. I was a kid when the Steelers drafted him; a lot of Pittsburgh fans hated him and wanted Hanratty.
I like to think about that now with the QB change coming. Wait it out.
He missed most of the following season with an elbow injury which ended his career. It could be that he was feeling the effects of it here.
At a time when Terry Bradshaw was at the height of the Downfall in his NFL Career.
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In 1982, Dan Marino was A Senior at the University of Pittsburgh. That’s why I ask Dolphins Fans would they have beaten the Redskins in Super Bowl XVII if they had Marino at the time.
Are you really telling me that the Pittsburgh Steelers picked ahead of the Miami Dolphins in the 1983 NFL Draft and actually passed up on Dan Marino?
Considering that Marino went to school at Pittsburgh, SHAME ON THEM!
@@matthewdaley746
You know what? In researching The 1983 NFL Draft, I found it shocking that not only the fact that Dan Marino was not only drafted 27th Overall by Miami, but also FIVE QUARTERBACKS were drafted ahead of him. Number 1 Drafted Overall John Elway and Jim Kelly was reasonable, but the other 3 Nobodies named Todd Blackledge, Tony Eason and Ken O’Brien actually picked ahead of Marino I find to be absurd.
Pittsburgh picked 21th(6 spots ahead of the Dolphins) and chose someone named Gabe Rivera. Who the Hell was he? They had a chance to get Marino but passed on him like the rest of the NFL did in the First Round. Considering that Marino was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and had his schooling there all the way up to College, you would think the Steelers would have an inside track on that Hall of Fame Quarterback. But unfortunately that was not the case, someone in the Steelers Front Office just didn’t do their homework(No pun intended).
@@Jiltedin2007 Fun fact about Ken O Brien though, as Jets QB he almost always beat Marino and wasn’t a bad QB by any means. They had one of the greatest Qb duels of all time. He and Vinny Testaverde are the best Jets Qb’s not named Namath. But obviously he was no Dan Marino but then again few were.
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Instead of Running Backs, Miami had “Mark I(Mark Clayton) and Mark II(Mark Duper)” because Dan Marino was A Far Better Passer than John Elway and Fran Tarkenton put together. So no, Coach Don Shula used Marino’s talent to the best of his ability by loading the Dolphins with Wide Receivers similar to the Denver Broncos and “The Three Amigos” catching Elway’s Bullets.
Catching a Football from John Elway was like Catching a Baseball from A Pitching Machine.
@@matthewdaley746
Epic fail, more like gigantic fail. If only the Steelers would have gone past the childish rumors and seen for themselves before passing up on Dan Marino. I’m sure he would have taken the Steelers farther in 1984 than Mark Malone did and David Woodley would’ve stayed in Miami.
Fred smerlas should be in the hall of fame. He was the bills best nose tackle ever
Watching old QB drop backs is so weird lol
Bradshaw hurt his elbow in 1981. It hurt him in 1982. He went to an Alabama surgeon and his elbow never healed properly.
The Steelers drafting went bad after 1974, for the most part. Not just Noll's fault, but Art Rooney II, who was fired by Dan Rooney.
Lots of teams passed Marino. There were rumors about Marino that I will not repeat.
Drug rumors, and led a “party” lifestyle. The rumors were most likely to explain his fall off in. Play from junior to senior year.
And the drug was the super evil and deadly marijuana.
@@TempleofAmon666 that's not why he was called "Snowman" Dan.
@@TempleofAmon666 Soyboys just gotta soy
Great channel...but its Canton not cannon. Lol
He broke the Cowboys home winning streak.
At least his worst game still isn’t as bad as Ryan Leaf’s worst game…….
😕🙄😕
Sorry, Leaf
Bradshaw looked like he was not gripping the ball properly. I’m curious to know if he had banged his hand prior to the game and did not say anything to anyone about it. Bradshaw threw with good tight spirals but three none in this game.
I was a fan during these years and wrote this above: What wasn't said in the video is that Bradshaw had elbow surgery after this season. That was basically botched because Bradshaw didn't follow the recovery process and was back to throwing just a few weeks later. He only played in one game the following season late in the year and tore his elbow again and that effectively ended his career as he retired after the 1983 season.
Most Steeler fans believe he got the elbow injury sometime during the season that was shown here since his effectiveness dropped so badly after that hot start. He just wasn't the same guy throwing the ball.
@@joeterzio7175 That makes sense. That has to be it because there are not one tight spiral on any pass.
Ever play football in bad weather in Buffalo? You'd understand why Bradshaw had a bad game.
@ 4:02 Harris had his back to Bradshaw.
The D blew the Charger game, Terry did his job.
Man, for Bradshaw to have a game worse than any he had during his HORRIBLE rookie year...that really is saying a lot lol.
1982 absolutely would have been his last year, were it, not, for, The, Strike, but, he returned, for, the first Game of 1983, before, he exited, and, all that it cost the Steelers, was, Dan Marino.
@@matthewdaley746 "Ahhhh, we'll be fiiiiinnneeee, we got Gabe Rivera! We may not have drafted the QB who literally played in our city, but at least our choice was sound and will definitely work out!" -Steelers in 1983
@@SteelerFanInRI Yeah, the Steelers have only, themselves, their senile owner, and, their gutless coach, to blame, for, 1980-2004, hilarious, how, they still keep pretending that didn't happen.
@@matthewdaley746 I see you leaving these on literally every comment btw lol; I take it you're a fan of a division rival or something? Because I can't imagine anyone else putting this much energy into this; no offense.
@@SteelerFanInRI None taken, it's just that I've never seen him put out a video that fits this narrative, so, perfectly, and, I won't dare pass it up.
If you put a bath towel on each of the walls in the room you record this audio, it would take care of the reverb/echo.
Lol, yeah, it sounds like he’s recording in a bathroom with all the echo.
Lol, stop
I swear I hear him flush, I'm unsubbing
I'm having some retro-schadenfreude, 'cuz I've always hated Bradshaw's GUTS. Didn't like him as a player, truly despise him as a game-day host. On a day like this, they shoulda replaced him with George Plimpton.
Yeah, his one redeeming quality was that he totally ruined the Steelers, for, over two decades by being unexpectedly greedy, if he retires, after, 1982, (like, he should have), they draft Dan Marino, luckily, he's greedy.
Possibly he didn't want the MVP award... and decided to have a "bad game".
Who knows....
Yeah, no, he was clearly showing his age, and, if, The, Strike, hadn't happened, he, likely, doesn't make it through the season, and, retires, instead, of, later, costing the Steelers Dan Marino.
Man Terry’s hair was already balding when he was playing.
He came in the league balding
By this point he was just straight up bald
@@fredleeland2464 Yeah you can see his hairline start to recede as early as the early '70s; came into the league with a full head of hair but that didn't last long lol.
@@SteelerFanInRI chuck noll's hard coaching did that to him
Bradshaw was balding when he was drafted out of college. :\
@@fredleeland2464 lol The two didn't get along for sure. Just way too different personalities.
I suspect the point of the ubiquitous 'need to first have some context' is actually the need to pad the time and make these videos longer.
Buffalo needs to go back to the blue facemasks. Nothing makes you look broke as hell like gray facemasks Unless you are the Cowboys, Cardinals, Notre Dame or Alabama and have never switched away from them so they have always been a part of your look.
Gray face guards on a white helmet... are just tacky!!
@@BIG-D-STAR Unless your helmet is Silver gray looks tacky. Stop trying to make people think it is an old school look, especially if you've changed your look several times.
Someone must have paid him off!!
I blame Mike Tomlin!!! Lmao
So, no stories about Dan Fouts?
I'm about 100% sure that Terry should've just spiked the ball on every single down,their chances of winning and his QB rating would've skyrocketed,damn,what a missed opportunity,aw shucks.
Screw the snow-Bills kicked Bradshaws ASS!
Cover the Eli Herring story
Well THIS is a VIDEO for ALL Buffalo Bills fans to CHERISH. Anytime we can PROVE that Terry Bradshaw was CLEARLY OVERRATED, we MUST take ADVANTAGE of it.
Bradshaw was a lot of things. Overrated was not one of them.
How come he didn't play 200 games instead of 185?
What wasn't said in the video is that Bradshaw had elbow surgery after this season. That was basically botched because Bradshaw didn't follow the recovery process and was back to throwing just a few weeks later. He only played in one game the following season late in the year and tore his elbow again and that effectively ended his career as he retired after the 1983 season.
Most Steeler fans believe he got the elbow injury sometime during the season that was shown here since his effectiveness dropped so badly after that hot start. He just wasn't the same guy throwing the ball.
Terry Bradshaw was totally shameless, he really should have retired after 1982, and, the Steelers should have drafted Dan Marino, but, he didn't, and, they didn't.
This guy hating on Aaron Rodgers about being too old is so hypocritical.
I remember this season-1982--it was a strike-shortened season and the Bills coach Chuck Knox left after this season for Seattle--the Bills demented owner Ralph Wilson wouldn't renegotiate Knox's contract (despite the fact the Bills had made the playoffs twice during his time there)--after this the Bills hired probably the most useless coach in NFL history (Kay Stephenson)-and during his time the Bills had two 2-14 seasons---it was those seasons that led to draft picks that included Bruce Smith, Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas by GM Bill Polian
@@matthewdaley746 even without Kelly--the nucleus Bill Polian built would have been a very successful team--the story goes that the Raiders owner Al Davis offered Wilson a pile of draft picks (including a first-round pick) for the rights to Kelly---in one of the very few things Wilson ever did right he refused
@@bufnyfan1 I seriously doubt Frank "Mr. 15 minutes of fame, "Mr. 1 Hit wonder" Mr. Greatest Comeback in postseason history Reich was leading the Bills to 4 consecutive SB defeats.
@@BIG-D-STAR Baltimore won the 2000 Super Bowl with a strong defense and running game--they had a less than mediocre QB (Trent Dilfer)-so your QB doesn't have to be another Tom Brady/Aaron Rogers to be successful
In 1985, Kay Stephenson said the Bills should not trade the #1 overall pick, and rebuild the team. Yes, he was a terrible HC. But, his unselfishness helped the Bills build the team that would go to four straight SB's!
@@Lawomenshoops He helped build the team by being completely incompetent--that's how they got the #1 pick (back to back 2-14 seasons are Stephenson's legacy)--and it was known that Stephenson and QB Joe Ferguson were partly behind that idiot owner Ralph Wilson not resigning Chuck Knox and he subsequently left for Seattle
39 Years Ago
Guess that rockhead Terry Bradshaw is human, after all. 😕
Steelers made Bradshaw play hurt.
Cliff Stoudt was 2 for 10 for 29 yards when he came into the game. Buffalo's defense dominated with pressure and coverage. Bradshaw was terrible. But I'm not sure anyone would have looked good that day. There was lots of bad football after the strike.
@@matthewdaley746 I don't disagree on Dan Marino. But Bradshaw wasn't terrible after 1978. They won SB XIV and he was MVP. The defense got old, Franco got old. The team was no longer elite.
@@bernieankney9979 If you watch Bradshaw's football life, he even admitted he should've retired after Super Bowl XIV. He said at that point, he just wasn't feeling it anymore and wasn't sure how long he could continue.
@@matthewdaley746 they must have been really lucky. They went 15-4 and won a SB lol.
@@matthewdaley746 so the lead the league in turnovers, points allowed...and still won the SB lol. Chargers could not beat a Houston team without Earl Campbell and Ken Burrows. Their best RB and WR. Steelers got rolled in SD courtesy of 6 turnovers..but only gave up 160 total yards. SD proved they were a fluke and would have did what they did that year and the next two....choke.
@@matthewdaley746 the Steelers definitely had the worst TO ratio for a SB champ. But it wasn’t the first time. The 75 team won the SB despite being -6 in TO ratio during the playoffs. The 79 team played well when they had to. Injuries due to age started to creep up on this team which made them inconsistent. They dominated Dallas 14-3, rolled Denver 42-7. Beat Houston by two TDs or more twice, Beat Miami 34-10. They had some stinkers as well. Barely beat a mediocre St. Louis team, struggled the beat a weak colts team. Lost to a two win bengals team and got blown out in San Diego. But Houston was the second best team in the AFC and the Steelers dominated them twice. The oilers only TD in a 27-13 AFCC loss was a pick six.
Yes, this was most certainly about as bad a game as Terry B. could ever have had. Sometimes, everyone just has a bad game...even he called it the worst game he ever played. The following week's game wasn't much better either. It's just something that happens to everyone, I guess. You were spot on, in 185 games, this one had to be the worst, completing 2 passes for 3 yards and getting benched. Even HOF QBs have a bad bad day.
Terry Bradshaw was, a, HOF, QB, because, of his, teammates, and, his jewelry collection, he threw exactly, two, more, TDs, than, TOs, simply, put, he, was, the worst, "great," QB, ever, unquestionably.
@@matthewdaley746 Damn straight. As little help as he got with the Lions, Greg FREAKING Landry has a better career QB rating. Bradshaw's so damned overrated it's downright disgusting.
@@richardadams4928 Yeah, in 1976, he, was, screwed when his, RBs, went down, in 1977, he, lost, to a, flash-in-the-pan, Broncos, team, that tells you everything you need to know, at all.
@@matthewdaley746 I read that his teammates got so disgusted with his stupidity and indecisiveness in the huddle during his rookie season, that they almost unanimously preferred Terry Hanratty as the starter. And Hanratty couldn't even stick with the woeful Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his career stats are epically awful. Bradshaw struggled to beat out THAT guy.
(Worth a quick side note: Those Steelers teams, and their archrival Raiders, were some of the most reprehensible cheap-shot artists of ALL TIME.) Your comment about the 77 playoffs reminded me of the cheap shot solar plexus uppercut Joe Greene delivered to a Broncos offensive lineman in that game.
All I can say is, #BillsMafia baby! hehehe
Seriously though, those Steelers teams saw a rather precipitous decline and this was the height of Bradshaw's sad swansong.
Yeah, but, if they'd, somehow, drafted Dan Marino, (like, they should have), they'd have immediately kept on, winning, but, they didn't, and, they didn't.
@@matthewdaley746 Agreed, but even so I don't know if Noll would've been as receptive to totally changing his coaching style. Shula was a lot like him with running the ball but after seeing what Marino could do he shifted to more of a passing attack.
@SPTO The, team, was, still, good, enough, that, it, would, have, worked, at, least, in, the, beginning, instead, the, Steelers, totally, tailed, off, for, over, two, decades.
@@matthewdaley746 Definitely, they still had a pretty decent defense and perhaps just being around Marino and seeing him up close could get Noll to modernize his offense. It'd take longer than it did for Shula for sure but it could've happened.
@@SPTO Yeah, instead, Don Shula, had, won, two, SBs, with, average, (at best), QB, play, and, good, RBs, he thought he could achieve the opposite, too bad he was, Dead Wrong.
To tell you the truth, when you look at the footage from this game against the Bills, Bradshaw looked out of it any time he popped up onto the screen. It looked like he didn't even care.
The fact that he came back the next season, purely, for, a paycheck, and, cost the Steelers Dan Marino, proves that, beyond doubt, unquestionably.
He didn’t. He talked about this game in his book and stated it was so cold and miserable he didn’t feel like playing.
@@Biggdoom344 Yeah, the Steelers would have had no, let-up, but, Terry Bradshaw, simply, had to get paid, one, last, time, pathetic.
@@matthewdaley746 ARE YOU AN IDIOT OR JUST STUPID, THEY PASSED ON DAN MARINO IN FAVOR OF GABE RIVERA!!!
@@matthewdaley746 Steelers got old fast. That combined with draft late and bad picks set them up for a bad 80s run. Bradshaw actually played well in 82 and made the pro bowl.
When you have led your team to 4 SB, titles , in the grand scheme of things a bad game even as bad as this, is irrelevant. But it should have been a huge red flag that the great man was on downside. And Dan Marino, was there,right on their doorstep. Go Hawks
Yeah, but, a combination of, a senile owner, a gutless coach, and, a greedy player, derailed those plans, the Steelers did this to themselves.
There is no way in hell Dan Marino has the same career [at least statistically] in Pittsburgh that he had in Miami given the Steelers were stuck in their ground-n-pound smashmouth philosophy and please spare us all the bullshit claims that the Steelers maintained an elite caliber defense that they possessed in the STEEL CURTAIN ERA OF THE 70s or that they had anything close to Swann, Stallworth, Harris at the receiver/running back position, etc. The dynasty as you knew it was over under the Noll regime. REVISE THE HISTORY ALL YOU WANT IN FANTASY LAND WITH DAN MARINO AS YOUR QB, BUT I'M NOT BUYING IT!
@@BIG-D-STAR Perhaps, but, the Steelers were a more complete team, and, I think they do better, than, they did, and, I'm sure he'd have traded numbers, for, Playoff success, no doubt, you're in a, Fantasyland.
Anyone could have qb'ed that team
The guy that Terry Bradshaw replaced, wound up a homeless, drug-addict, he sadly, recently, died, a sad event, truly was.
Swap tb for ben in 2021
Every great quarterback has games where they looked like they shouldn't have been on the field at all. This was Terry's. Not a big deal when it's stacked up against all of his other accolades. BTW Bradshaw did lead the league in touchdowns that year, but he shared the lead with Joe Montana and Dan Fouts.
Was this a sign of his elbow issues?
Yes, and he was getting pain killer shots in his elbow every game, but that game they must have hit a nerve or something with the shot. He was having trouble just feeling the ball in his hand according to one of his books.
Something else. Not sure if this is much of a story, or if it would make an interesting video, but you might want to consider profiling Bengals QB Boomer Esiason and how he never won a game against the Houston Oilers in Houston. Even when he became a Jet, he couldn't win in Houston. I'm not sure if there is another QB that played as many games as a starter, and didn't win an away game against a divisional opponent.
Can this guy stick more commercials on his videos, or what?
At least you can fast forward around them without adblockers necessary.
I attended this game. As a VERY young Bills fan, I kept asking my dad, "Why do people keep saying that Terry Bradshaw is great?" Older fans just looked at me like, "kid you have no idea".
Terry bRadshaw record and stats sucked
Terry Bradshaw was NOT one of the greatest qbs of all time. He road the cottails of the steel curtain, lynn swann, John Stallworth, franco Harris, and rocky blair. He wouldn't have made the playoffs on an average team. One of the most overrated players ever.
"Terry Bradshaw is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time"
lol no, what a clown shoes statement 🤡
Easily the most overrated QB in NFL history
4 rings will never be overrated