Jeff George taunts fans in Atlanta 1997

Oakland Raider Jeff George does the victory lap after win against former team

[@DireHammer]

And yet his former teammates want to bro out with him after the game. The talk of George being a locker room cancer was all hype.

[@mijreed]

Not true. Everyone hated the guy. He had blowups with every coach he had in the NFL. He whined incessantly in Indianapolis and was ran out of town there because his teammates absolutely hated the guy.

[@marcbasil]

@@mijreedLol wat…? Everyone loved to party, do coke & go to str!p clubs with JG. Moss said that JG was his favourite qb ever to work with

[@bobby33x97]

Jeff George might be the greatest "pure Thrower" 0f the football I've ever seen!

[@marcbasil]

It’s Elway, JG, & LaMonica

[@robertwest9567]

I remember this 1997 team. It was a damn good team if it could've ever played defense. #1 ranked offense and #30 ranked defense at the time.

[@raidersacdc4892]

I was at this game. We drove to Atlanta from Tampa. Jeff had a talented arm but they wouldn’t have won this game without Nap Kaufman’s 2 50+ yrd TD sprints

[@marcbasil]

A talented arm is an understatement

[@hennyoldman8068]

even as a young guy he looks like a middle aged man.

[@spinner9057]

Ik right, he was only like 29 here, but he looks about 45 lol.

[@0nfiRe]

i use to think he looked like a thinner tom arnold

[@MichaelGreen57320]

Hes always looked older than his age he looked like a 40 year old man in college lol

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

1:51...Ironically, he was talking about the team he was with, at its most dysfunctional point of the 1997...the Joe Bugel Error. Gruden would come in and get things more stable, but Rich Gannon was the real difference in how that team performed starting in 1999.

[@TalkMyShiit]

+Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot George put up the stats... but we were snake bitten that year... we lost more than handful of games that were really close! That Jets game in NY was example of 'Murphy's Law" and also the MNF against KC when the Chiefs came back to win the game at the end.

[@KTF0]

Gannon was a way better leader, too. Look how much of an immature prick he was doing a victory lap and I'm a guy who doesn't mind showboating.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

Hollow stats my man. Most of the losses after October were blowouts (Carolina, Miami, KC and Denver rematches, Jacksonville). He put up a good chunk of those numbers in the first 6-7 games. Then when the offense stagnated, as a high pressure offense is bound to do, they stopped being competitive. And that's something Al Davis never really understood. The game evolved in to one of control and balance. He still thought you could go deep whenever.

[@loyal2thesoil412]

You gotta understand George ran most of the time while his time in Oakland , meaning the offense back then wasn’t a lockdown offense ,he had no pass protection unlike GANNON , he had a better offense of line and chucky grooming Gannon to be more lethal , made him a more fierce QB . To play against .

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

@@loyal2thesoil412 Gannon got sacked 49 times his first year in 1999. So that's not true about the oline. Yet despite Tyrone Wheatley being the only addition, the offense scored 109 more points. George was a one trick pony...a low budget Dan Marino. Gannon could beat you in so many different ways because he could run, improvise a throw, etc.

[@cschoen100]

Classic! I hadn't seen this. I was front row behind their bench in the LA Coliseum when he was a Falcon and they played the Raiders. Never saw a stronger arm than his. Amazing! We were screaming at him trying to get under his skin and he was just as cool as could be. Andre Rison on the other hand we did. Lisa Lopes had just set fire to his mansion in Atlanta a couple days prior and we ribbed him pretty good yelling that there was a Motel 6 right up the road.

[@eddieg.aoe-4482]

Motel 6 right up the road! TRUE 😂

[@jpmnky]

Man I really miss this guy. No way he’d survive today’s political climate.

[@KMC5240]

He wouldn't survive because he had a mouth/attitude that his play wasn't backing up. George going back and beating the Falcons was a nice little moment for him, but the man just wasn't a winner. Dude had an absolute gun for an arm though. And I'd argue that based on arm talent alone, nobody was better.

[@Fireyninjadog]

I'm suprised nobody mooned him lol

[@DiddyKatt]

Heck an arm talent..

[@dougmaclennan8654]

Closest thing to Bobby Heenan WWE stuff there has ever been in NFL.

[@jackkitchen737]

This would be a really fun game to watch.

[@captainnutsack8151]

That is legendary troll

[@smoothALOE]

I actually don’t blame Jeff George on this one.

[@spinner9057]

"We deserve the boos, goodness gracious, I'm booing us" -Legendary quote by Jamal Anderson

[@brianmcghee4684]

Jeff George had more swagg back then with the falcons than Matt Ryan will ever have...

[@bigglilwayne7050]

He definitely had waaaaay more arm strength lol

[@spinner9057]

Unfortunately, today's Falcons have no swag whatsoever

[@btone310]

Yet Matt Ryan has the HOF career

[@michaelheppe218]

And this is why the Falcons have the worst fans. They would rather have Jeff George going 3-13 with "Swag" than Matt Ryan going 13-3. Or they talk about the Mike Vick era" when he could not have back to back winning seasons..

[@marcbasil]

@@bigglilwayne7050is this irony…? sarcasm?

[@blackdavidfrostnDesMoines]

Possibly the greatest arm football has ever seen. His 60-yard laser shot to Raiders wide receiver Jett I have yet to see equaled. Too bad he had to be a cancer to the teams he played for.

[@marcbasil]

It’s Elway & George, they’re on a tier all their own. They had alien limbs. After those two, probably the Mad Bomber Daryl LaMonica.

[@brandonhill1673]

GOOD 4 HIM !!!!!!!!!!! He really was a good QB cannon of an arm I loved JEFF G

[@hartm-the-man4387]

My favorite QB hands down

[@draenelson5580]

Jeff George reminds me so much of Jay Cutler.

[@SJM6791]

Drae Nelson- I couldn’t agree with you more.

[@Giratina1999]

Drae Nelson jay cutler wasn’t this much of a dick

[@oracle808]

Cutler had defenses.

[@SingleTax]

Jeff George is easily one of the greatest wastes in raw quarterbacking talent in NFL history -- and his spoiled brat attitude is the primary reason why.

[@johnmongani5223]

true but his lack of mobility hurt him as well. That's why Gruden got rid of him for Rich Gannon who was a career backup compared to George who always started and took the Falcons to the playoffs.

[@nikosuavesworldofsportsmusic]

John Mongani Rich Gannon was overrated so is Gruden. Al Davis rued the day he got rid of Jeff George the closest he ever came to having another big play explosive quarterback like Daryle (The Mad Bomber) Lamonica.

[@SingleTax]

John Mongani, George was no less mobile than Hall of Famer, Dan Marino. The main problem, again, was his *attitude.* If you act like a punk even when you don't have to, it's because you *are* one. Simple as that.

[@delljr2769]

I was born in '85 and I remember when Raiders returned home to Oakland in '95. I didnt mind George at QB I liked his quick release and he seemed quick in the pocket at times. Anytime the Raiders score over 35 the NFL is a better product.

[@marknewberry8521]

I’m from ATL. He was a jerk, but I kinda liked him. I like guys that know they’re a jerk and don’t try to prove otherwise. The victory lap was classic!

[@joeygana8864]

ALWAYS LIKED JEFF, UNDERATED

[@Dommy11]

I remember watching this game live as a kid. I didn’t realize all of the context. Kind of a hoe move to wave off your teammates so you can do a victory lap by yourself, especially when it was one of just four wins that year.

[@jasongCLJ]

Yea the Raiders Defense was like last in the league. His Atlanta teams also had bittom of the barrel defenses. Cant win games without decent defense.

[@vicbuenrostro704]

shoutout to Cornelius Bennett as a Falcon :o

[@michaelfiordimondo3591]

I wouldnt have booed him while he played for atl. I was a huge george fan. And i despised june jones. Unfortunately we had no choice but to drop him. Sucks

[@pennyandwoody]

He can say all he wants about not being able to win in non stable organizations. But the bottom line is every single time things turned bad, he quit on the team.

[@60BloodyChamp60]

Lol and look at all the OC/QB confrontations we have now. Also him shooting the bird on live TV to the guy who injured him as he walked off, and his victory lap after beating Indy beats all that was shown here.

[@dougmaclennan8654]

Great WWE moment.

[@andrewoolman6317]

Jeff George was a quarterback tease

[@vanni9283]

GIVE ME A LITTLE LOVE ATLANTA! : P

[@andan04]

If you think that was bad, you should have heard what he said to the Falcons fans after he led the Raiders to a Super Bowl victory. Oh, wait . . .

[@SteveSmith-bv6rz]

That's one cool white boy with the hat to da back😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@louisbailey4900]

Went to junior high and high school with Jeff. SMH...if people only knew.

[@johnmongani5223]

comon man don't leave us hanging. Was he the best athlete those years? was he a problem then as he was in the pros?

[@louisbailey4900]

@@johnmongani5223 arrogance. College recruiting bonuses. Ferrari repod by a certain college.

[@johnmongani5223]

@@louisbailey4900 wow no wonder he turned out the way he did. his ego was bigger than his arm which was really big. what a waste...

[@louisbailey4900]

@@johnmongani5223 google "Ryan Murphy". He created "Glee" ,"American Horror Story" "Nip/Tuck" and a ton of other shows. He went to school with us at Warren Central. His wiki page ,he mentions "dating" a bunch of football players in high school. SMH... As for his football talent....he had a better arm in high school than most pros at the time. Scary thing....his son was the QB at Warren Central too....and has a better arm than his dad. That kid is a freaking beast of a QB

[@Yeomannn]

@@louisbailey4900 Jeff George is gay?

[@willdrucker4291]

Tom Hammond and Jim Kelly with the call for NBC

[@alexburky9124]

i love a taunt, i love a fuck you look what i do now celebration, but he dragged it on for so long it was lame.

[@jpk2nd049]

He never grew up. Never changed, he was all talk.

[@jasonwalker9091]

JPk 2nd04 In Indy he had problems and got to Atlanta he had problems with authority when he got to Oakland he got in. The James Dean of NFL "A rebel without a cause.

[@pennyandwoody]

Coach Wyche was absolutely right when he said Jeff george wasn't fully grown up.

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

Awesome

[@ddiesel1836]

Biggest QB Failure ever. Only Ryan Leaf was worse

[@johnmongani5223]

George's career never took off but he did take the Falcons to the playoffs and had a great arm.

[@jasonwalker9091]

And the Colts in 1992

[@Official_Kings_Versus]

D DIESEL True.

[@hezamachine]

Jeff's best run was with the Vikings in 1999. He was 8-2 as a starter and 1-1 in playoffs.

[@DKN808]

Nah....JaMarcus Russell would get that vote.

[@shrapnel77]

This guy had shit for mechanics, but he had a rare right arm. He would constantly throw off his back foot, yet rocket the ball 25 yards downfield. It takes a lot more than just talent to win.

[@jasongCLJ]

Both his Falcons aNd those Raiders had bottom of the league defenses ...........

[@nigabastard1268]

He had great mechanics you dolt 😂😂😂

[@generatorx]

@@nigabastard1268 Yes, George had excellent mechanics. He was strong, but unlike many QBs George put it all together -legs, hips, back, arm. This is why he makes it look easy.

[@Joesfosterdogs]

Inspired Terrel Owens...who hacked George. If JG has 20% of Tom Brady's personality he would be one of the greats. Hopefully his son will learn from his father's failures.

[@ddiesel1836]

Biggest QB draft Bust ever. the difference between him and Ryan Leaf is that George did not quit even if he knew he can't win