The WORST Moment of Terry Bradshaw's ROOKIE SEASON | 1970 Steelers

During one week of October 1970, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw had just about the worst week possible. In the span of seven days, he was fined twice by head coach Chuck Noll for two separate incidents, was publicly criticized by his coach, then played an abysmal game against the Oakland Raiders where he got injured and benched and put up career-worst numbers. This is the story of Terry Bradshaw's rookie season, and the worst part of a disastrous campaign.
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Members of the 1970 Steelers:
Jon Staggers
Terry Hanratty
Terry Bradshaw
Allan Watson
Gene Mingo
Kenny Graham
Ron Shanklin
Preston Pearson
Clancy Oliver
Ocie Austin
Fred Barry
Terry Cole
Carl Crennel
Hubie Bryant
John Fuqua
Andy Russell
Chuck Beatty
Bobby Walden
Dick Hoak
Lee Calland
Warren Bankston
Mel Blount
John Rowser
John Sodaski
Henry Davis
Doug Fisher
Jon Kolb
Ray Mansfield
Sam Davis
Chuck Allen
Ben McGee
Brian Stenger
Ralph Wenzel
Chuck Hinton
Lloyd Voss
Bruce Van Dyke
Clarence Washington
LC Greenwood
Jerry Hillebrand
Dick Arndt
Rick Sharp
John Brown
Joe Greene
Mike Haggerty
Dennis Hughes
Dave Kalina
Bob Adams
JR Wilburn
Dave Smith
Chuck Noll (head coach)
Dan Rooney (general manager)
Art Rooney (owner)

[@randyjames693]

Bradshaw actually a lower SAT score than if he just spiked every question into the ground.

[@scottfarmer8758]

Terry Bradshaw's rookie year was worse than Ryan Leaf's.

[@classicsports5057]

In today's NFL there is probably no way Bradshaw makes it to 1974 when he eventually took over the team and led them to a Super Bowl. But to start that year he was on the bench. Nobody would have though he was a future Hall of Fame QB at that point in his career.

[@levikatriel]

This isn’t the first time Official Jaguar Gator 9 made a video about an embarrassing mistake by a Steelers, as he made a video about Barry Foster’s worst moment in 1990.

[@Rockhound6165]

That's Barry "Bananas" Foster

[@82dorrin]

4:06 The moment you all came for

[@kyle1910]

Bradshaw was sacked in the end zone for a safety in each of his first 3 games

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

Stuff like this should be a reminder to some teams that they should stick with their draft picks sometimes even if they aren't great out of the gate. Changing from the college game where most of the players will end up like working in construction or in an office to the NFL where it is straight up the best of the best of the best is stupidly hard and yet some guys get like half a dozen games before being dropped forever even though there's a chance they could have become a star if they were given the time to grow

[@RamenReignss]

That’s what I don’t like about today’s game. Most players these days don’t wanna be franchise players.

[@nasetvideos]

Great video--I knew it was a bad start to his career, just didn't know it was that bad. Wow, that defines a really bad week. Another fantastic job at telling a story. Really well done

[@richardadams4928]

I remember reading a book, "One brick shy of a load" or something like that, about that season, written by a local sportswriter, that documented that his offensive teammates strongly preferred Terry Hanratty as the starter, bad as Hanratty was, due to Bradshaw's very poor playbook knowledge and maddening indecisiveness, especially in the huddle. I always hearken back to that when I hear his obnoxious and insufferable boasting about how he called his own plays. Franco left, Franco right, throw to Swann, throw to Stallworth. I remain unconvinced as to how much genius that required.

[@Fireyninjadog]

Terry bradshaw may have had the worst rookie season for a qb in nfl history

[@bubbafug00gle51]

Na, his stats look worse than they were because of when he played. Off the top of my head, Ryan Leaf had 2 TD's and 15 picks and had a lower YP/A... in a much friendlier offensive environment. Alex Smith had 1 TD and 11 INTs and a lower YP/A as well in an even better QB environment. At least since the merger, the Smith season is probably the worst of any QB who had a lot of attempts. If you adjust for TDs and picks he was 47% worse than average that year, Leaf was 39% and Bradshaw 31%. Bradshaw also added some value buy running for like 230 yards (and his life).

[@jeremybiewer5465]

@@bubbafug00gle51 Excellent point. Always have to factor in the Era in which they played.

[@markbrian7179]

I remember Bradshaw stepped out of his own end zone trying to escape a Houston Oiler pass rush in His first game ever.

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

Playing 4D chess. He knew that the Oilers would expect him to stay inbounds so he threw them off by going out

[@JohnAnderson-qn2wo]

I love your vids. You're knowledge is top shelf.

[@darreljones8645]

Someone (I don't know who) once said of Bradshaw, that he was "the only Super Bowl-winning quarterback in history who couldn't spell "cat" even if you spotted him the 'C' and the 'A'."

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Hollywood Henderson

[@RalphReagan]

And he gave Elway a hard time!!

[@CTubeMan]

You mentioned that Bradshaw was allowed to go back to Shreveport after road games that year. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about then-Giants Kicker Don Chandler wanting to sign a contract that allowed him to stay in his home in Oklahoma during the week and join the Giants on game day.

[@ShiggyMiyamo]

This shows how impatient people are today. Tua gets shit on for going 6-3 with 1870yds 11TD to 5INTs, and 3 rushing TDs in his rookie year. After a stunted camp, and coming off a major injury. This is how a hall of fame QB played in his rookie season. People need to calm down and be more patient. Josh Allen looked worse than Tua in his rookie campaign. Now he's considered a top QB going into this season. End of rant haha

[@eugenedenbrook322]

No, I agree 100%. Elway had a 7 to 14 td/int ratio as a rookie. But he finished the season much better than he started. Len Dawson was an NFL afterthought, then went to the AFL, and ended up in the Hall of Fame . And you're right about Josh Allen; people were burying him all of his rookie season. Look at him now.

[@kaybevang536]

Because people are retarted lol

[@Mistertbones]

Terry Bradshaw is one of the all-time greats at QB, but as shown in this video, his early career was quite rough.

[@67marlins81]

A testament to his character that he stayed with it, and succeeded.

[@darryljorden9177]

And a testament to the Steelers for sticking with him. Today, he would be "Rosen-ed".

[@teen_laqueefa]

@@darryljorden9177 9 mistakes Rosen😛😛😛😛😛

[@stevenbauer4799]

Bradshaw was still making rookie mistakes and getting benched even in year six. If not for that great talent steelers drafted and surrounded him with bradshaw goes down as another bust of a top pick of the draft '70's qb with an arm. Somewhere in between plunkett who got a late career revival and archie manning who was lost on lousy saints teams never having a winning season or seeing the playoffs. Noll didn't hesitate to yank Bradshaw out when making bone head plays or calling plays for him.

[@stevenbauer4799]

@@matthewdaley746 Yep. Gilliam should have stayed away from the c0ke.

[@stevenbauer4799]

@@matthewdaley746 Wow. Sad. I believe his brother was a vikes receiver with fran as his qb.

[@SteelerFanInRI]

@@stevenbauer4799 Ah, were Joe and John Gilliam related?

[@TheAlfrulz]

@@SteelerFanInRI - No. They were not related.

[@edpinkerton7947]

A lot like Favre threw a ton of picks but always played lights out in the big games 2 time Super Bowl MVP. also called his own plays

[@mhlaw229]

Bradshaw was a country boy who had great difficulty adjusting to the NFL. The team was pretty bad his rookie year and he always seemed to be trying to do too much. I think Noll really wanted to find another QB, but Bradshaw was too talented to play behind Terry Hanratty and their other quarterbacks

[@scottconner7930]

51 Years Ago

[@danheilman7729]

In week 12 against Green Bay, he went 3-20-110-1-4. Take away a fluke TD, and it's 2-19-23-0-4. He went on to become a legend, of course, but he was AWFUL as a rookie.

[@karlcooper8460]

He hated Chuck knoll in fact he says that to this day.

[@karlcooper8460]

@Matt Joseph Now thats really profound.

[@Rockhound6165]

Bradshaw struggled greatly early in his career. Even in the Super Bowl years. Knoll once started Joe Gilliam over Bradshaw at the start of the 1974 season. He went 4-1-1 although he wasn't overly impressive.

[@eagebeazthawk290]

He has 4 - 0 in the preseason

[@eugenedenbrook322]

I remember "Broad Street Joe" Gilliam. Wish things had turned out better for him, r.i.p.

[@darryljorden9177]

@@eugenedenbrook322 "Jefferson Street".

[@davidcobb2693]

He started the first 6 games of the 1974 season at QB and he had 348 yards passing against the Broncos in the first ever regular season overtime game in NFL history, a 35-35 tie. He completed 31 of 50 passes for 348 yards, one TD and 2 Int.'s His TD pass was a 61 yarder to the seldom used RB Steve Davis.

[@abcall-timesboxingchanneln7076]

I remember NBC announcers in the middle of a game in Pre 1972 would say Terry Brdashaw has the lowest IQ of any quarterback in the NFL. I remember being about 13 years old thinking how mean that was,but funny. If i had to guess it would be Al DeRogatis that would say it.

[@bubbafug00gle51]

"He beat out Dick Shiner.": I heard he did so single-handedly and it was a real spanking. Dick was no rookie, he was polished... but TB really flogged him.

[@teen_laqueefa]

Lofl

[@karlcooper8460]

When you look at him now he's a parity and thats sad because he turned into one hell of a quarterback but he seems to have fun with it.

[@Phan-Xu]

Please do one on Lynn Swann And John Stallworth

[@stealthbomber2127]

I noticed in these clips that Terry was running for his life for the first three years of his career. When the offensive line got better his problems began to become less evident. But he was always around fifty percent as a passer and threw a lot of interceptions. In 1973 the great Steel Curtain Defense was just about completed and they bailed out Terry's mistakes the majority of the time. But as Terry became more relaxed and trusted Coach Noll he became the quarterback the he is famous for. But I'll always believe Roger Staubach, Ken Stabler, Bert Jones, Fran Tarkenton, and Bob Griese were better at their peaks than Terry. If Roger Staubach is quarterbacking the Steelers they probably are NFL Champs in 73 and 76 as well.

[@steelvenom8479]

What would the passer rating be if you did nothing but running plays for the entire game?

[@tygrkhat4087]

0.0 technically; but "not applicable" would be better, as you need to throw a pass to get a passer rating. There was at least one game in the last 75 years of the NFL with no passes by one team. The second meeting of the Eagles and Browns in the 1950 season, the Browns only attempted one pass, but it was called back on a penalty.

[@chrisrifkin3670]

39.6

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

Bradshaw won more games in his rookie year than Troy Aikman

[@markgraham2312]

And he persevered and became one of the greatest quarterbacks ever in the NFL. His Super Bowl passer rating is 112.80, better than all these quarterbacks who have played in the Super Bowl, Troy Aikman, Ken Stabler, Aaron Rodgers, Bart Starr, Jim McMahon, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Kurt Warner, Eli Manning, Mark, Rypien, Matthew Stafford, Rodger Staubach, Len Dawson, Joe Namath, Patrick Mahomes, Peyton Manning, Ben Rothelesburger, Bob Greise, Dan Marino, John Elway, Joe Theisman, Jim Kelly, Fran Tarkenton, Johnny Unitas, and Earl Morral. He is 4-0 in Super Bowls, tied with Joe Montana.

[@pariacanyon]

I like your videos. I don't know if you read these comments, but the sound is really low. I use headphones, so it's not too bad, but it would help if you could improve on the sound quality of your videos.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Thanks for making me drink the spike.

[@rosseganjr9402]

terry is still one of the greatest quarterbacks and sports anchors!

[@johnkrolczyk2241]

No doubt Bradshaw had an awful rookie year and played like crap. Looking at the videos, though, it seems like he had zero pass protection from his OL.

[@slarsp2]

Was it that Terry was bad or the line was just making “look out blocks” all season long 👀

[@robertallen8542]

Enough with “worse than spiking the ball on every single play.”

[@SteelerFanInRI]

Back when he had hair!

[@rwboa22]

And at the time he sold used cars during the off-season, until he signed his second contract that made enough for him to live off of year round.

[@loveangel6350]

he had no OL

[@chrisrifkin3670]

I don't even need to watch to know there were a lot of games where he would have been better off spiking the ball into the ground on every play

[@NillyNilly546]

Just goes to show you that not every QB is a Patrick Mahomes when they start, gotta have patience sometimes.

[@cjcolzie826]

Naaaa In those days they ain’t have a choice really nor what terry was doing was the normal nowadays he’s cut immediately maybe traded

[@denisceballos9745]

Fortunately for him, he was a big, strong kid, with a hard head, because he sure took his lumps in those early years of his career. The sack by Turkey Jones in Cleveland, for example, and he survived.

[@Boomhower89]

A horrible QB. Noll knew it but he had a great running game a top 3 offensive line in the league and receivers that could go up and get the ball. Two things make a NFL QB accuracy and knowledge. Bradshaw had neither plus he was a mama’s boy.

[@richardadams4928]

Word. Look at his career QB rating and he trails luminaries like Billy Wade and Greg Landry. Swap him for Archie Manning straight up and Manning is in the HOF and Bradshaw's just another wasted NO QB bust. And he's a completely unbearable chucklehead as a sports commentator.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

Agreed he’s the worst “great” qb of all time.

[@2cool4fluoride]

Wonder if he wanted to move to Australia after that week.

[@erickennedy5993]

Trevor Lawrence with offense line that Jags have , it's going be long season for him.

[@anthonybatulis6516]

I think Noll deserves some blame here and luckily for the Steelers Bradshaw did not give up. In this day a quarterback has a season like that and they are gone.

[@mcarlkv53]

the old adgae, its not how you start its how you finish...if you start great, you fizzle out...if you start poor, you end great!....bradshaw looked bad in his first year, but he tried and never quit...but, when the offense line improved, bradshaw really excelled....when griese, staubach, stabler, tarketon came up and played with their teams, the offensive lines for the doplhins, cowboys, raiders, and vikings were already established...when the steelers offensive line got better players and came toghtther as a cohesive unit, then bradshaw really excelled and came into his own...

[@luisreyes1963]

After all that happened to him, no wonder Terry Bradshaw has such an avuncular personality on NFL on Fox. 😁

[@selfdiscardedkingofruin7291]

As a 1970s baby and a Steelers fan all my life Terry Bradshaw was my hero and like a god when I was growing up LOL.

[@karlcooper8460]

Football is also a team sport and he was on a bad team people forget this.