Watching "America's Team" on 70's Steelers

mcam · Jun 4, 2018

Formerscribe said: ↑

Did you watch that all the way through? It glitched and went back to the beginning early in the second quarter and never got any further in the contest.
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Yep noticed that after posting actually.

There are a number of other games on youtube though for those that want to search for them.

Formerscribe · Jun 6, 2018

rutan74 said: ↑

Yea, old age syndrome here. You are correct. My point still stands as there has been a lot of backlash at the Steeler picks throughout their history, even when those picks turned out to be HOF'ers. Time will tell on this particular draft class.

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While that is true, fans are far more informed regarding the players available in the draft now than they were in 1969. Any fan who pays attention at all would know all about a guy like Greene if he was available today.

Formerscribe · Jun 6, 2018

Kreighoff said: ↑

Swann was a sure first round pick no question.

The story I heard on Lambert was a Steeler scout was at Kent State to look at someone else and their field was unusable from a lot of rain. They were practicing in a parking lot or on a baseball infield and some tall skinny LB'r was still going full speed and diving to make tackles on the gravel.

The lost film on Stallworth is a classic, and could only happen back then and because he was from a smaller school there might have only been one copy of his game film highlights.

Webster in the fifth might have been a need or best available player who knows.

After all these years that draft becomes legendary almost folklore. They took Swann where they wanted , played some games and took a risk to let Stallworth drop to them. They might have accidentally stumbled upon Lambert, and possibly got lucky with the career Webster gave them.

Most of us prefer to remember it as pure Steeler genius that propelled them to 4 titles.

Even today with all the high tech. stuff and huge budgets for scouting the draft is still a crap shoot, you can't judge a draft until yr 3 when you see how many starters you have and if they are any good.
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There was an element of luck as well, but they were ahead of the curve related to the rest of the league at that time.

Diamond · Jun 6, 2018

They had 21 draft picks in that 74 draft but after webby in the 5th round the rest of their picks were busts:

http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/s_621310.html

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