Jerome Bettis: The hardest hit I ever took

[@KayKayEs]

"Had to be conscious" pun definitely wasn't intended but spot on lol

[@mr.gamechangermaddenjr3934]

KayKayEs yep kay

[@mr.gamechangermaddenjr3934]

KayKayEs im A BIG FAN

[@CoCoPuff-km8os]

KayKayEs I’m a long time subscriber I still can’t believe you pulled 5 golden tickets

[@kevon9824]

Legendary comment

[@888vox]

YO ITS KAY HERE

[@jamescollins1578]

My boy Brian Dawkins layed him down too one time when the Steelers were playingthe Eagles, im an Eagles fan but always had mad respect for Jerome Bettis aka 'The Bus'...

[@mdeez8286]

WeaoponX is a bad man I remember he layed out the one dude with a Goldberg spear lol

[@unfinest]

Bettis was so mad! And B-DAWK was just happy to have a big boi infront of him! Haha🤣

[@chunky9791]

B-Dawk destroyed him. Bus got 2 flats that day. Bettis had a full head of steam too good 5 yard stride till he met B-Dawk & that bus didn't gain one more inch, it didn't roll forward it immediately stopped

[@MilkmanC]

Love Bus, but I literally have Dawk on my wall over the dinner table 😂🤷‍♂

[@FreedomFighter2112]

Ray Lewis got him even better

[@fubarace1027]

On the other hand, Al Smith was an excellent Middle Linebacker in that era. Jerome's rookie season was 1993, which happens to be when Buddy Ryan was in Houston with his 4-6 defense. The Oiler defense was BRUTAL that year.

[@BILLHILL357]

@AAA THAT OFFENSE WAS NO JOKE EITHER.... 4 DAMN GOOD RUNNING BACKS... 4 DAMN GOOD WIDE RECEIVERS....

[@Aburner960]

@@BILLHILL357 damn shame they the oilers and proceeded to choke

[@whataboutrob442]

​@@Aburner960I still live with that pain.

[@croplaya]

Thanks for showing us the hit

[@johnboykin3128]

ha right

[@andresmares6673]

croplaya best comment

[@sew04ss]

lol ikr. that wouldve made the story better

[@MoneyOverFame]

W

[@DivineYoung]

It's called NFL copyright

[@woodyhayes7402]

No worse than looking up and seeing Troy Polamalu in the 'C' gap.

[@jasonyount6036]

That’s Poh-la-ma-lu bruh...🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@nealm6764]

Plot twist: and you're the punter on a fake punt run play.

[@deeramz]

The CTE GAP

[@MisinformationSlayer]

Dawkins > Polamalu

[@bigsavage7014]

Please give me a break Lol a safety, what about someone like a Ray Lewis giving the Bus a flat or Lawrence Taylor snapping Theisman's leg? Polamalu was a total sissy compared to these stronger men...

[@Phoenix-pm2qr]

Love how Graham lets people tell their stories instead of interrupting like most people do

[@danielweatherford3243]

As a diehard Raven fan I have always respected and appreciate this Great human being that just happened to play football

[@wraith1117]

As a Steeler fan I have to agree. and give the same props to quite a few Ravens players as well. Best rivalry in all of sports that era was.

[@joee1213]

Doesn’t matter who you’re a fan of. Your opinion is valid or it’s not

[@pmkrak]

Bettis dished out way more hard hits than he took. He flattened guys so quickly that he made them look like 12 year olds. My memory of him folding Brian Urlacher over backwards as he plowed through the middle to score his last touchdown at Heinz Field, that was classic and it happened right in front of me.

[@nopenope5042]

I only ever attended one game and it was that one. Snow game. He had big run too that game. I was at opposite end with clock necklace guy for the urlacher truck.

[@bradleyboyer9979]

Bears fan and huge Urlacher fan here. I remember that hit as well. The Bears defense looked like they were playing on skis that whole series. Urlacher was phenomenal, but his one weakness was if he collided with someone and didn't have a full head of steam. He was so tall that powerful backs could get under his pads and drive him back if he was standing up and not driving forward. Combine that single weakness with the "Bus," and it looked bad. 😂

[@um52]

There was one play people will never remember..but back in 2001 season, Bettis called Takeo Spikes a better line backer than Ray Lewis..Ray Lewis responded by delivering the most bone crushing hit I ever saw...he hit Jerome head on and it was first time I ever saw Jerome move backwards. Dan Dierdorf called it the hardest hit he ever witnessed also.

[@MrSPIDEY21]

um52 people that never played football at a high level shouldn't speak on this...those hits where you fly back doesn't hurt because there is no opposing force...that ray Lewis hit Jerome was air borne and had no base strength so ray jus was fighting gravity...the bus got right back up because the hit wasn't hard...now if they ran head up equally it would have been different...something gotta give...the difference between throwing a brick in the air and punching it versus punching a brick that is apart of a brick wall mounted on the ground...one is jus a hard piece of rock that is falling and your hand will move it because there is no opposing force...the brick will fly back...now if you punch a brick wall it'll be the force of your punches the force of the wall being mounted in the ground...in this case nothing will move anywhere...your bones might give or crack tho

[@MrKonan83]

um52 he was not better than ray Lewis lmfao!!!he played for buffalo and had like 1 good year !!! C'mon man !

[@archersdreams]

MrKonan83 that's a lie

[@09los]

Umm if you played football at any level you know the faster you get up from a hit the more it hurt ....you just don't wanna show it hurt at all...but it did

[@E3litecompany]

Bettie was already off his feet the tackle wasn't that big it just looked big

[@bruce0767]

Bet a lot of guys have stories like "Jerome ran my ass over like roadkill."

[@MrDatvaguy]

Right lol

[@bonek350]

Having watched nearly every play of his with the Steelers, I can confirm this is true. He trucked many people every single game.

[@leveraged6694]

Exactly!

[@wraith1117]

Even the great Ray Lewis even said something akin to that. 'When you hit JB, you know you've been hit. Hitting JB was like connecting with a tree stump'. or something to that effect. May not be word for word. But the meaning was the same. Respect to both of them.

[@srgetem]

@@wraith1117 funny enuff Ray Lewis actually put a nice hit on Bettis before lol. caught bettis when his feet were in the air but we all kno it really, REALLY aint easy to move a, THE, Bus.

[@robertleewhitt6241]

Jerome Bettis is the nicest guy when you meet him in person so genuinely nice. I hope that his son does extremely well at Notre Dame and his daughter is also going to Notre Dame as well. !

[@mooseandsquirrel9887]

I feel fortunate to have been able to watch him play, especially against my Ravens......Jerome is a good guy, good ball player, and I wish we had him back then....thanks for the memories, Bus....!!!

[@wraith1117]

Agreed. In that time. The Ravens/Steelers rivalry was the best I'd ever seen. And that includes the matchups in the 70's.

[@rogergoodell8825]

Dawkins crushed him too

[@MoneyOverFame]

Roger Goodell hey sad.

[@gabe6281]

Thought he woulda picked that one.

[@Trellizm]

Dawkins laid him out..I remember that

[@Kingg_G]

Ray Lewis too

[@stevenwicks3822]

@@Trellizm when

[@bigfern62]

"Usually u block 'em all..."....was thinking the same thing fam

[@melvinmunson8331]

I used to pull a Tanker out of Detroit.The Guys in the Tank Wash went to school with Jerome.I asked them is he Big.One of them says He'll ya he's Big.One thing I can say is this.To Finish you NFL Career by winning the Superbowl in your hometown.It doesn't get any better than that.I also liked to watch the Bus play

[@mlee81]

I love this guy! Steeler fan. This guy deserves a shrine to the city. Great player and great person!

[@justingarrett2239]

Dude looks good for a retired NFL player

[@JayP-ct8xz]

Looks like Anthony Anderson.

[@uPSIDEdOWN577]

Most people avoided contact with him or went low

[@scoutsaresilentdeath8775]

Yeah, now look at home when he wakes up. Has trouble walking, problems going up and down stairs, and has all kinds of nerve pain. Just because you look good, doesn't mean that the league hasn't had a serious effect on your body

[@stevenbrown6956]

He keeps his hair and beard tight. I'm sure he is in pain these days though.

[@erikpuka2627]

He said it himself he had 3 Back surgeries immediately after he retired cause he couldnt walk wothout having terrorizing pain.His last surgery was on 2007.So yes football fucked him up too

[@_DB.COOPER]

Way to show the hit! It’s my first time on your channel, I’ve seen enough. I know why the comments are so old now.

[@mateo8120]

I remember playing with this guy in the early madden games. Such a legend

[@pdg90]

Do y’all remember Kendrell Bell? He was a LB for the Steelers who won defensive rookie of the year. Anyway, he hit Bettis in a practice and sent him stumbling backwards! I had never seen Bettis fall backwards after getting hit! It’s video out there somewhere I’m sure

[@hulkdaddy71]

I don't know....that Brian Dawkins hit was crazy, too! You could tell he felt some type of way too

[@aodvisions]

I honestly thought he was going to mention that hit lol

[@herogibson]

yeah he jumped up quick as hell like it was nothin.. but it wasn't nothin lol. he felt that the next day.

[@ryanrobertson7218]

I got ear holed. Translation I got a concussion.

[@zigwil153]

bingo. My brain hit the inside of my skull.... hard.

[@WaitAMinute1989]

with snot bubbles or was that just me.

[@LeathafaceTV]

Me too man that shit have you straight dazed after for real. The last last place you wanna get hit at.

[@NoHurriesNoWorries]

After a dip in production his 2nd year with the Rams and being traded to make room for Lawrence Philips, some thought he was a bust not a Bus. But now he is a bust... in Canton. The Steelers were his destiny. A great story. He was my favorite college back and i was an adopted Rams fan because of him. Then of all teams, he gets traded to my team in my hometown. I remember where i was when i found out. My favorite player of all time. Ride The Bus 🚍 !!

[@Brandon-so9fp]

Looks good and still has his intelligence. For all the brutal hits he gave and took. Amazing

[@BMG19FUNNYDIE]

Graham's hair looks like Marv electrocuted on Home Alone 2.

[@nothx962]

Lmfao I thought the EXACT SAME THING!

[@Alixxusa]

Hardest hit i ever took was at a snoop dog ice cube concert 🌿🌿🌿

[@roddeanb8408]

Alixxusa underrated comment

[@camdenkeefer9381]

👊🏻

[@zaggaona]

Twista crucial conflict house of blues!

[@2714shaun]

@@zaggaona That's what's up!!

[@kobelamka5118]

I'm dead 💀

[@mhr5586]

I was never interviewed, but I can tell you the hardest hit I've ever taken happened at. Walmart on Black Friday. I turned the corner minding my own business and the next thing I remembered was sharp pain in my lower back as my feet elevated above my torso. . I had been leveled by a shopping cart driven by a women pushing 4 bills trying to get a 32" flat screen on the end cap. She yelled at me saying her EBT card was expiring that day and she wasn't going to be denied that necessity. To this day it makes no sense at all.

[@duryl]

I got ear holed in high school. Hardest I'd ever been hit too. Craziest thing is you don't even have to get knocked down, i didn't. It rings your bell though lol. It's like taking a right hook from a boxer.

[@TXejas19]

Duryl Cook lol glad you're ok

[@199019852007]

Duryl Cook is it a bit like that right Booker Saul gave to king Khan

[@yeltsin6817]

Probably not the hardest hit. More of like a comcussion

[@SavingSoulsMinistries]

That's like a right hook from brass knuckles

[@TrentNumbers]

Graham Bessinger is lucky dude to talk to all these legends

[@Ghtthomps]

That is why head slapping was outlawed in the NFL RE: DEACON DAVID JONES DE

[@polskipanda8599]

Or a woman haha yikes

[@johncox8938]

I was at that game in Houston. Rams won, Oilers played terrible before getting it together and having a nice run into the playoffs. My group of friends and I went to the mall in Houston the Saturday before this game. We saw Bettis, Troy Drayton, Flipper Anderson, and another Rams player whose name I forgot at Chick-fil-a. Man, they had the food piled up.....I mean like four sandwiches each! They all signed a Chick-fil-a paper menu for us. Nice guys. Left Chick-fil-a and saw Curtis Duncan of the Oilers talking to a young lady friend in Dillards. Got his autograph on my Oilers cap. Cool guy as well. Always been a fan of Bettis after that day.

[@Tesla_ofthe_Skies]

Jerome is such an amazing role model and human being. I hope man children and men look up to him whether they play sports or Not

[@SwayTheBeast]

Graham looks high af at some points of this vid

[@michaelking4578]

AestheticsisLife Yea, I was thinking that too. Crazy.

[@joegrst]

@Chris Paul lmao bettis sounds a bit high

[@robertocruz8429]

I always think that I'm high watching it

[@Hpencer]

“Aliens”

[@broadcast685]

Yeah. he really does!!

[@James-pg7jc]

That boi got timbs on😂💯💯

[@bottomzoe305-4]

Man, that was a great lesson for Jerome Bettis!

[@keithcrook8591]

I remember our QB got hit so hard in high school the next play in the huddle he went into the cadence "down set!!" Lmao 😂 he was knocked the f'k out on his feet

[@KellzieDinero]

Hell nah Brian Dawkins Killed Em

[@WEBBER_]

"What's earholed"?the bus literately took him to school.

[@standupG1]

It's also for those viewers who may not be familiar with the terminology.

[@robertestrada1683]

I like that one

[@beaupayne724]

That’s was a cold line, “every player could change your life with one hit”

[@Hbkgizmo]

Just listening to the ear hole hit, my right ear went deaf throughout the video

[@mikaeladisse8641]

Jerome Bettis and Brian Dawkins has the freshest line up in the game. Brian may have had like a receding hairline but both of em had such a crisp shape up 🤣

[@michaelmorales3097]

As a cowboys fan.. Dawkins was a DAWG 💥

[@rayv882]

Why not show the play after he was finished explaining??? The NFL always has every play recorded.

[@Pkkct]

If you don’t know what ear holed is, then you shouldn’t be doing sports interviews

[@Rob-dp3vr]

I bet he knows what a glory hole is though

[@kevinprendiville9429]

Some interviewers do that so that an audience member can stay informed. But not enough people watch this show to make that a relevent point

[@demetriusbarry9364]

This happened to me one time at football practice dude hit me for side near ear hole. I blacked out for like 2 secs 4real thats crazy i always remembered that too and never knew what really happened until i watched this.

[@thomasdaniels4458]

I've seen a few clips of Jerome getting knocked around like a ragdoll by Brian Dawkins

[@chucknorriss5452]

He's really gonna pretend to forget when Dawkins smashed him while he was running full speed? Shit looked like he literally hit a brick wall and fell a yard backwards. 😂

[@robwes4000]

he probably cant remember it bruh. that hit was crucial

[@phillabadboy05j26]

For real.

[@jamesgoudreau1940]

The hits you see may hurt but the ones you don't see seem to always hurt more.

[@jonasjelich4576]

The ones that look bad arent always the ones that feel the hardest

[@Phoenix-pm2qr]

Likely didn't hurt. If you look at the clip, Jerome jumps right back up and looks pissed at his O-Line for not blocking correctrly

[@terrywbreedlove]

I remember when the Steelers picked up the bus. He said it was like running down hill playing for them. They blocked everyone hell they even had their O line running down the field making blocks 10 yards deep.

[@harrymiram6621]

That earhole hit is an Good, Old-Fashioned BELL RINGER!😜🤪

[@carljacobson7156]

This reminds me of an interview with Walter Payton in the 1990's, who said the hardest he was ever hit was by Denver Broncos linebacker, Rand Gradishar in the mid-1970's

[@jacobhartmann1050]

How is Gradishar not in the Hall?? He totally deserves to be there- that cat put up some impressive numbers!

[@carljacobson7156]

@@jacobhartmann1050 A 'Pro's Pro', but probably too much of a Team Player to create an attention getting 'public image' like a Jack Lambert.

[@ytownsteel4790]

So they didn't have any video of the play back then?

[@nykia31]

"That's odd" lol

[@LebronTraveled24]

Let’s be honest the hit Ray Lewis put on him was arguably number 1

[@nathangerrard9792]

nah brian dawkins

[@christopherleween7478]

Al Smith could really bang, I remember him destroying a Denver fullback 3 times in a row on a goal-line, just flattened the lead blocker.

[@31446963048]

I remember when the Rams came to St. Louis and everyone bought Bettis jerseys. I'm glad Brooks gave him an option to be traded and that he got his Superbowl in the end.

[@sereneburrito0476]

Brian Dawkins you know it

[@g..._anthony27]

Graham looks like the dude from ancient aliens on the history channel.... 😆😅😂

[@TheJasonJackson84]

As he stated, "they can change your life with one hit". I don't know why people don't want to acknowledge that. You can die on the football field if your not prepared for the punishment that's about to come.

[@slanderman3296]

Bettis and allstott, how mand defence would fear that run game :)

[@alextaylor29]

I do agree that the NFL has the best/most insane athletes of any sport anywhere in the world, period. If you make it to the NFL regardless of your position your athleticism is unquestioned. Quick math (could be off a bit here) but 53 players on a team, 32 NFL teams is 1,696 total professional football players. OK again estimating a bit, there are ~800 college football programs out there in the US so (53 x 800 = 42,400) excluding walk ons or players that didn't go to college. So that means that 1,696 / 42,440 = 0.04% chance (less than half of 1 percent) of college football players make it to the NFL which is absolutely incredible.

[@cledesma135]

One of the greatest

[@sixburgh64ss]

That's cool, I have an Al Smith jersey.

[@aaronbergman5919]

The ray Lewis hit on the toss sweep in 2000 was even bigger

[@kennykirkendoll6636]

My boy got timbs on! East coast swag 💯💯😂😂

[@newera5238]

Dawkins "Weapon X"

[@jonscears]

Dawkins hit him in the head weapons x was a bum!

[@birdgangmatt4613]

@@jonscears wtf u just say??Dawkins a bum??

[@joshmacklin2536]

Your a fucking idiot for that comment. Just cause he's not your top player doesn't mean he's not good. You delusional fuck.

[@abrahamjackson6019]

Al Smith was a hellva linebacker..

[@mrbiggs6818]

The Bus is awesome 😂

[@YZdude]

He meant to say when Ray Lewis sent the Bus backwards 😂 Little too much pride for that I guess....

[@dustinflowers1548]

Watch the play the bus was in mid air when ray hit him a high school kid could readjust a man's motion when hes not planted....not hard to do guy

[@YZdude]

@@dustinflowers1548 I would love to see a 150 pound high school kid send a 6 foot 260 pound man backwards after he is running. Neither of you have played a real sport in your life.

[@l.j.jackson3674]

Remember that time he splattered Brian Urlacher!?!😂😭😂

[@musclebone7875]

Yeah

[@1766584]

Yep, that ruin Urlacher reputation too. He was being considered at the time to become one of the best ever until that play happened. Him and Lewis was neck and neck in a lot of people eyes. I remember when the hype started, when he dominated Vick in there rookie season. Ran Vick down on turf for a sack! But people ever thought of him that way again after bus accident. After that game, we went on a losing streak and missed the playoff. I’m a huge Bear fan. That was a horrible day for me lol.

[@l.j.jackson3674]

1766584 as Steelers fan it was a glorious day for me that run sparked the greatest Super Bowl run of all time!

[@1766584]

L.J. Jackson yeah, I forgot about that. Y’all did go on amazing run after that.

[@brandonwilliams2165]

Anybody got a link to the hit?

[@Maal7432]

Bettis seems like he is a great guy.

[@jamesrichards4519]

Interview David Goggins, you wont regret it!

[@johnpoulton9446]

Joe Bowden hit him HARD on a screen pass once. First thing to hit the ground was Bus's back nameplate. You know youre exploding if you hit hard enough to get bif Jeromes feet in the air.

[@charlesfaison5483]

My man bus got dem timbs on 😤💪

[@modernviking6436]

How the hell does this dude not know what "getting ear-holed" means?

[@knowledgeispower3714]

The muthafucking 🚌

[@willysnipes7004]

Why the hell did this pop up when I searched for Bob Sanders highlights? I thought he was gonna be the hit

[@TheDCGuitar13]

We all know Ray hit you the hardest Bus.... Stop being a steeler for a sec and remember that. We all remember the bus getting a flat.

[@LombardiPls]

TheDCGuitar13 Hardly was a "hard hit" just a tackle, the momentum wouldn't have been considered a hard hit as Jerome's body was in the air there was no resistance to Ray's hit so any body weight would have put Bettis down, so in terms of physical hitting, to Jerome he was simply put to the ground, if he was on his feet and was hit just as hard he would definitely claim it to be the hardest, as he would have been giving opposite resistance to the tackle, but he hadn't so the hit wasn't as hard as many make it out to be.

[@msjai31160]

TheDCGuitar13 boi u know u just watched that video of him getting hit by ray lewis

[@TheDCGuitar13]

msjai311 watched that shit live bro. He got ragdolled by a better player. Sorry the truth bothers you so much.

[@jdizzle8751]

You're tripping. lol. Lewis was great, but not even the hardest hitter of his generation. Sounds like some salty ravens fans...

[@TheOGScamDetector]

funny how that vid leads to this vid and its the only time I've ever head someone refer to it as the bus getting a flat on that vid....

[@SuperGuitarDude7]

Later in his career, a lot of defensive players were probably saying that about him. "Wait. That's my guy? You know they call him the Bus!?"

[@massiveaction6217]

Dude said "change your life" so you know he got popped

[@auh2o148]

Everybody mentioning Ray Lewis' hit. He hit him from the side while the bus was off the ground, and the bus popped right back up anyway!

[@tstaten95]

Au H2O so that mean the hit wasn’t hard

[@Josh-go5lu]

"... that's odd" lmaooooo

[@Mr.CoachBeaulieu]

This is how many times "the play" was the play when it was the play. 0:14 0:16 0:20 0:27 0:33 0:58 2:10

[@robboss9098]

Graham with the Kramer hair cut.

[@miken7750]

wheres the damn video

[@realtywithseankemp9704]

Thought He was gonna say the time that Ray Lewis took his head off

[@Blankman_93]

Jerome was trippn he had the outside lb, Barry sanders did that every fuckn play and would take ankles💯💯💯

[@jacoboverton3409]

Wise words

[@jondunson6269]

Bein ear holed and being hit with a rock are two things that hurt

[@tavarusyoung2941]

Ethan Kelly stuck Bettis pretty hard too.

[@michaelmelendez2652]

Brian Dawkins got the Bus too, hit him nasty

[@alkupik]

You mean ray lewis. He hit you so hard you forgot about it

[@armandobenavidez331]

He is not gonna put over his rival of course it was a play that he scored

[@LenOx601]

Sean Taylor hit him good that 1 game.

[@Ishmiester]

That end is pretty deep

[@Whompy420]

Zach Thomas clocked him pretty hard once too

[@papasul29]

I wonder if kendrell bell's hit in mini camp was one that would qualify lol

[@ZEKEtheFreak711]

I thought B Dawkins hit him the hardest LEGALLY. That Al Smith hit was illegal but this was back in the day .

[@edwardtaylor5411]

Al Smith, Tecmo Bowl Sega Genesis 98 Sacks

[@iambored6365]

Bettis needs to fire his barber lol

[@gun12guage36]

Reggie Bush definitely learned that lesson against eagles