When the GOAT WR says he idolized you idk what else needs to be said dude retired holding every record for his position Steve Largent is a top 5 WR all time
This guy isnt just a man for what he accomplished in the field. Hes a man for obvious trepidations he had about children at first but still not letting them deter him becuase hed never had the experience. All the while raising said kids with obvious care and love. Steve Largent isnt just a hall of fame football player. Hes a hall of fame human.
It’s about damn time they made “A Football Life” documentary about Steve Largent who I believe more of the forgotten names amongst wide receivers. In basketball we call Jason Williams “White Chocolate” hell Steve Largent was “White Chocolate” of the NFL. Give him his flowers.
Steve is a true American , Heart and Soul 🇺🇸 sublime , my favorite WR in NFL history , I’m still in awe every time I watch His highlights 💫✨, Steve and Jim Zorn America’s blue collar Heroes
I'll admit I'm the polar opposite of Steve Largent (never played football, Democrat, etc.) but he is one of the greatest WRs ever and his commitment to community and family is an inspiration for us all.
I love this docufilm on Steve Largent! The Zorn to Largent connection on & off the field is extremely special & for all of us that grew up in the Northwest watching the young Seahawks franchise, this is it! And quite touching to see a bond of friendship like theirs! It's heartwarming honestly
How fortunate and fitting that Largent's former coach from Tulsa was on that Seahawks staff, who was the impetus to the Zorn to Largent on-field connection, and eventual off-field close friendship. And athough Steve missed out on his father's presence in his life, he was sure blessed to find such an impressive woman in his wife.
You can actually see one of Steves bloody teeth get brushed out of his hair while med staff was attending to him. That was a dirty hit, but it was sooo gratifying to see Steve get his humbling revenge hit! One of my favorites as a kid! So glad i got to see him play in his prime!
Steve has always been my favorite player. I am originally from Ohio, but his grit and toughness inspired me. I have always wanted to meet him in person. Hopefully some day I will get that chance. Thank you for your inspiring story, sir. You are an all timer, for sure!
Steve was one amazing receiving machine Redskins fan and loved Art Monk, who could catch anything but watching Largent play was frankly jaw dropping and he frequently made some brilliant catches Definitely one of the best and he’d go on my all-NFL team
My dad showed me this guys highlights with Jerry Rice, when I was 11, I had later gone on to see Jerry rice and Tim Brown play for the Raiders.. but never Largeant.. he inspired me to want to play receiver
I grew up watching him play and wanted to catch the ball like him. That's how I learned to catch by watching him. I used to dive for every ball wether on grass or cement. It's weird cause at a early age I was a Patriots fan but loved and respected all the other stars.
I'm a lifelong New England Patriots fan. I went to my first game in 1977. Steve Largent was and still is my favorite player. I think he always will be. I was watching the game when Harden knocked him out AND the game when Largent drilled him and recovered the fumble. It's still my favorite play in NFL history. I just looked and I still have 4 of his rookie cards. What a great player and person.
Steve played in a tougher time at 5’9 180 pounds. He was smaller than chad ocho. Making it look easy to set the tone of what a receiver should look like when playing receiver. He’s right there behind rice and moss in terms of greatness and just pure receiver talent.
It is great to hear stories about defensive backs who thought they planned for Steve Largent's every move just to have Steve destroy everything they thought they knew on the field. Even guys like Ronnie Lott said he was uncoverable
Yep. Notice how they outlawed stickum after the 1980 season and then shortly thereafter every receiver was wearing the sticky receiver gloves...except Largent. Largent was pure skill.
This provided a nice flashback to the early years of the Seattle Seahawks, when they were in the AFC West with the Broncos, Raiders, Chargers, and Chiefs. Their identity was in the left-handed quarterback Jim Zorn and the undersized receiver Steve Largent. Those Seahawks were never great but they always exhibited a competitive work ethic that led to them winning just enough games or keeping games just close enough to make things entertaining and interesting.
I grew up in Canada. Had the pleasure of watching Warren Moon play in Edmonton. As luck would have it, Edmonton got Brian Kelley from Washington State in 1979. You can look up the stats of that! To this day, my two favorite receivers are Kelly, and Largent. Go look at highlights….and see how the ball is supposed to be caught. Too many receivers of today don’t understand the basket catch. It drives me nuts when I watch dropped balls because of poor technique! Largent was the master of proper technique.
@@earlybird9679 They weren't blazing fast or crazy athletic I think he means. They were great athletes though as you said, mental game is a huge part of that too and work ethic and they had both of that and then some.
Imagine if this man played with even 16 game seasons let alone the 17 game seasons we have today... he'd give Jerry a run for his money on some of those records.
As a kid back then it seemed to me that wide receivers would be very toughest players on the field to go across the middle against someone like Donnie shell or Jack Tatum or any of the other safeties in the league was insanely dangerous. The receivers running full speed the DBs running full speed the f****** collisions were far far more violent than a quarterback getting hit by a defensive end or RB by a linebacker
Having grown up out in the Olympic peninsula. Steve Largent was the Only thing that kept the Seahawks watchable. Then Curt Warner showed up. It was those two Alone.
Instead of spending Sunday morning in bed with my wife...it was putting on my Largent jersey and sweatpants, before I sit in front of the TV to watch him play. I still have his rookie card.
@@1223baddad Most people don't realize how freakishly great he really was. Far more athletic, talented, consistent and spectacular than Largent,.Rice or any other receiver I've seen even to this day. Alworth is the GOAT.
Hell of a human being! It could have gone completely opposite for this guy, he chose to lift himself up and make something of himself. Heck of a story.
What a great story with a ton of great lessons ... the last and most important being ... CHURCH and STATE are separate ... and If he had just been a Democrat he would have won easily.
The 70s to mid-80s wide receivers have been blacked out of the Hall of Fame unfairly. Less games to put up numbers defensive backs that would try to break your neck going over the middle, no tacky gloves, and QB play where a rating of 85.0 for the year was league leading They had the deck was so severely tacked against them.its amazing they did what they did. For Stanley Morgan and Isaac Curtis and Harold Jackson to be outside the HOF is ridiculous. Wesley Walker and Ahmad Rashad also has a stronger case, Sammy White to a lesser degree. as does Roy Green and perhaps Drew Hill. Then there's Sterling Sharpe and the shortened career, but John Jefferson was the absolute best for four years or so. Ditto Wes Chandler Cris Collinsworth or Henry Ellard Then there's TEs like Ben Coats, Russ Francis, Todd Christensen, Billy Joe Dupree, Raymond Chester Then maybe borderlines in Jimmie Giles, David Hill, Riley Odom's, & Rich Caster Hell blockers like Mike Barber, Russ Francis and Don Hasselbeck worst huge leaky in setting up some of the best rushing attacks of the era, but blocking skill for a TE is a long forgotten skill. Looking for the phrase Rob gronkowski gets for his catching when he is one of the best blocking tight ends to play in the last several decades
A couple of the things that I don't like about today's modern game: --The continual tilting of the rulebook TOWARD offenses (particularly the passing game). It used to be more challenging and rewarding to score (as it should be). --The 'look at me celebrate' arrogance by players. Way too much egotistical, self-promoting, cockiness in sports culture in general.
Steve didn’t wear gloves he didn’t naturally. If Steve played with Tom Brady in the Patriots’ offense Steve would of put up unreachable numbers. He put up numbers as is but I am just saying.
When the GOAT WR says he idolized you idk what else needs to be said dude retired holding every record for his position Steve Largent is a top 5 WR all time
NO question. And he did it without gloves.
And without size/speed according to some.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Top 2.
Couldn’t say it better my self.
The hit on Mike Harden is still to this day my favorite moment in Seahawk history.
Largent said that hit on Harden was his favorite play, over any catch he ever made.
@@awprc He paid that monkey back!
mine too.
My favorite football player and a God fearing man. He could catch the heck outta that ball... and could do it without wearing gloves.
He retired as the all time leading recieiver. First Ballot Hall of Famer and member of the 100th anniversary team.
This guy isnt just a man for what he accomplished in the field. Hes a man for obvious trepidations he had about children at first but still not letting them deter him becuase hed never had the experience. All the while raising said kids with obvious care and love. Steve Largent isnt just a hall of fame football player. Hes a hall of fame human.
It’s about damn time they made “A Football Life” documentary about Steve Largent who I believe more of the forgotten names amongst wide receivers. In basketball we call Jason Williams “White Chocolate” hell Steve Largent was “White Chocolate” of the NFL. Give him his flowers.
This documentary came out in 2015
That's damn right SEAHAWKS 😝😝😝💙🏈💚
The gloveless goat
The hit and fumble on Harden is just too perfect
At my ripe age of 40, I just adore the production value, narration and overall quality of these. *Thank YOU!* to whom ever contributes to these ♥♥♥
Steve is a true American , Heart and Soul 🇺🇸 sublime , my favorite WR in NFL history , I’m still in awe every time I watch His highlights 💫✨, Steve and Jim Zorn America’s blue collar Heroes
One of my 10 favorite players ever. Those 1980s Seahawks teams with Largent and Kenny Easley were very good and a lot of fun to watch.
No mention of Curt Warner or Dave Krieg, ridiculous.
Lots of Krieg mention. They even interviewed him about the switch from Zorn.
Kenny Easley was one of the best defensive players ever.
I'll admit I'm the polar opposite of Steve Largent (never played football, Democrat, etc.) but he is one of the greatest WRs ever and his commitment to community and family is an inspiration for us all.
i wish more republicans were like him.
I love this docufilm on Steve Largent! The Zorn to Largent connection on & off the field is extremely special & for all of us that grew up in the Northwest watching the young Seahawks franchise, this is it! And quite touching to see a bond of friendship like theirs! It's heartwarming honestly
How fortunate and fitting that Largent's former coach from Tulsa was on that Seahawks staff, who was the impetus to the Zorn to Largent on-field connection, and eventual off-field close friendship.
And athough Steve missed out on his father's presence in his life, he was sure blessed to find such an impressive woman in his wife.
You can actually see one of Steves bloody teeth get brushed out of his hair while med staff was attending to him. That was a dirty hit, but it was sooo gratifying to see Steve get his humbling revenge hit! One of my favorites as a kid! So glad i got to see him play in his prime!
Seeing Steve Largent wide open is giving Defensive Coordinators nightmares.😂😂😂
These documentaries are so good
Well Steve Largent is now one of my favorite humans.
that was awesome thanks steve for the great memories,and that was football back then where many players play with his heart and soul no matter what.
Much respect to SL. I wasn't a Seahawks fan but his play and skill gained my unwilling respect. "Steve Largent," a name I will always remember.
Please watch the entire documentary - What an inspiring story!
Great player.
Steve has always been my favorite player. I am originally from Ohio, but his grit and toughness inspired me. I have always wanted to meet him in person. Hopefully some day I will get that chance. Thank you for your inspiring story, sir. You are an all timer, for sure!
Steve was one amazing receiving machine
Redskins fan and loved Art Monk, who could catch anything but watching Largent play was frankly jaw dropping and he frequently made some brilliant catches
Definitely one of the best and he’d go on my all-NFL team
Steve Largent is still my favorite football player of all time, still to this day.
My dad showed me this guys highlights with Jerry Rice, when I was 11, I had later gone on to see Jerry rice and Tim Brown play for the Raiders.. but never Largeant.. he inspired me to want to play receiver
GREAT PLAYER AND GREAT GUY TO!
Jim Zorn is so underrated and forgotten in history.
This dude made all those catches no glue and no gloves, not like the others...
One of the greatest Players to ever play the game
I grew up watching him play and wanted to catch the ball like him. That's how I learned to catch by watching him. I used to dive for every ball wether on grass or cement. It's weird cause at a early age I was a Patriots fan but loved and respected all the other stars.
In my opinion Steve largent is the greatest receiver of all time that didn’t wear gloves
I'm a lifelong New England Patriots fan. I went to my first game in 1977. Steve Largent was and still is my favorite player. I think he always will be. I was watching the game when Harden knocked him out AND the game when Largent drilled him and recovered the fumble. It's still my favorite play in NFL history. I just looked and I still have 4 of his rookie cards. What a great player and person.
I was a Rams fan, but he was one of my favorites, so glad I grew up as a little kid in his era
I'm a Raiders fan. Fred B, Cliff B. Dave C. Tim B. Steve Largent was and is One of the Greats!
Steve played in a tougher time at 5’9 180 pounds. He was smaller than chad ocho. Making it look easy to set the tone of what a receiver should look like when playing receiver. He’s right there behind rice and moss in terms of greatness and just pure receiver talent.
Loved watching Steve Largent!
It is great to hear stories about defensive backs who thought they planned for Steve Largent's every move just to have Steve destroy everything they thought they knew on the field. Even guys like Ronnie Lott said he was uncoverable
That's a hell of a statement coming from someone on the level of Ronnie Lott, probably the best safety and all-around DB to ever play the game.
Finally -- that was awesome!
My two faves were Largent and Charlie Joiner. Always competing for records.
Howard Cosell: "Charlie Joiner. The practically perfect receiver."
Howard Cosell: "Charlie Joiner. The practically perfect receiver."
They should do a competition where NFL WRs catch footballs without gloves.
Yep. Notice how they outlawed stickum after the 1980 season and then shortly thereafter every receiver was wearing the sticky receiver gloves...except Largent.
Largent was pure skill.
This provided a nice flashback to the early years of the Seattle Seahawks, when they were in the AFC West with the Broncos, Raiders, Chargers, and Chiefs. Their identity was in the left-handed quarterback Jim Zorn and the undersized receiver Steve Largent. Those Seahawks were never great but they always exhibited a competitive work ethic that led to them winning just enough games or keeping games just close enough to make things entertaining and interesting.
Thank you NFL films. This gets us through all the long summers of no football
Another great doc
Good, tough soul
He looked just like William Katt when he was young, from the "Greatest American Hero" tv show.
Greatest Seahawk of all time.
Damn Jim zorn doesn’t look as old as I thought he would
This originally came out in 2015. Also, it seems like he's become more mellow since he got out of coaching.
Was waiting for this one!!
My favorite receiver of all time. Heart and class.
Largent is who Washington needs as Governor. True Leader.
What a legend of a dad!
What a heck of a player too
God damn sometimes u just need the chance and it comes to u
Very special man
I grew up in Canada. Had the pleasure of watching Warren Moon play in Edmonton. As luck would have it, Edmonton got Brian Kelley from Washington State in 1979.
You can look up the stats of that!
To this day, my two favorite receivers are Kelly, and Largent. Go look at highlights….and see how the ball is supposed to be caught. Too many receivers of today don’t understand the basket catch. It drives me nuts when I watch dropped balls because of poor technique! Largent was the master of proper technique.
I feel Largent helped Doug Baldwin a lot, would've loved more mention of him
But this doc is so, so, so amazing as a Hawks fan
Raiders fan here. I hate seahawks 80. But, he deserves this
One of my all time favorite guys to watch was just so talented
Steve Largent was Jerry Rice before Jerry Rice in regards to receiving
Steve “Yoda” Largent. Wish I could’ve watched him play
My first favorite NFL player. ❤
Awesome!
I love these videos!!!!
Played in such a tough era in the AFC. The Seahawks were so good but couldn't make it.
I patterned my game after Largent and it paid dividends as it helped my high school win its first ever football state championship.
Legendary
After Largent left the Seahawks went into the dark ages for the entire 1990s.
Was not going half way. All in all the time. A favorite when I was a kid.
Greatest Receiver of all time not naturally gifted
Steve Largent was the Larry Bird of the NFL. Both was below average athletes but had Hall of Fame careers.
You don't do what they did being 'below avg athletes'.😏
@@earlybird9679 They weren't blazing fast or crazy athletic I think he means. They were great athletes though as you said, mental game is a huge part of that too and work ethic and they had both of that and then some.
Go Hawks Steve is our GOAT!
Imagine if this man played with even 16 game seasons let alone the 17 game seasons we have today... he'd give Jerry a run for his money on some of those records.
As a kid back then it seemed to me that wide receivers would be very toughest players on the field to go across the middle against someone like Donnie shell or Jack Tatum or any of the other safeties in the league was insanely dangerous.
The receivers running full speed the DBs running full speed the f****** collisions were far far more violent than a quarterback getting hit by a defensive end or RB by a linebacker
Having grown up out in the Olympic peninsula. Steve Largent was the Only thing that kept the Seahawks watchable. Then Curt Warner showed up. It was those two Alone.
And Kenny Easley!
@@bluegregory6239 who
@@leegoddard2618Hall of Famer and DPOY Kenny Easley
@@JDroo-me5uo WHO
@@leegoddard2618 You're useless
As a fellow Tulsa native I loved me some Steve Largent my first NFL jersey I got from the flea market just wish anyone but the nut Jim Cizivel
This was before his Qanon nutness came out
Yeaa Baltimore knew how that felt.
Instead of spending Sunday morning in bed with my wife...it was putting on my Largent jersey and sweatpants, before I sit in front of the TV to watch him play. I still have his rookie card.
I have this guys rookie card. It's in kind of bad condition though. Still cool!
We had Steve Largent as Yoda, and now we have Metcalf as Vader choking out poor DBs
My super favorite Seahawk of all time
My heart is sooooooooo happy for this man!! GO HAWKS!
When is NFL films gonna do one of these about LANCE ALWORTH!
There's an older but good NFL Films documentary about Bambi. What a great receiver.
@@1223baddad Most people don't realize how freakishly great he really was. Far more athletic, talented, consistent and spectacular than Largent,.Rice or any other receiver I've seen even to this day. Alworth is the GOAT.
Hell of a human being! It could have gone completely opposite for this guy, he chose to lift himself up and make something of himself. Heck of a story.
Imagine how much better he woulda been had Seahawks took moon in 70s-80s instead of moon having to play in CFL
He is an Oklahoma hero to us all okies
The no gloves aspect i completely overlooked too
Surprise ! Watching Largent reminded me of Berry .
Largent was like a snake in that Miami playoff game. You won't see him for a while, but he'll eventually bite you.
Can you make one about Larry fits
It really is an easy story. The story of the Little Guy. First Steve, then Baldwin, and then finally Lockett. Honestly screw it I got it. 😎
Wish he could’ve played in todays league so he could’ve competed for a championship
Jayne Kennedy in the documentary...big bonus.
What a great story with a ton of great lessons ... the last and most important being ... CHURCH and STATE are separate ... and If he had just been a Democrat he would have won easily.
And he did all that without those freaking gloves of today.
16:46
Now just imagine Seahawks vs 49ers in a superbowl in the 80s
The Chiefs could do with a Steve Largent right now, haha.
The 70s to mid-80s wide receivers have been blacked out of the Hall of Fame unfairly. Less games to put up numbers defensive backs that would try to break your neck going over the middle, no tacky gloves, and QB play where a rating of 85.0 for the year was league leading
They had the deck was so severely tacked against them.its amazing they did what they did.
For Stanley Morgan and Isaac Curtis and Harold Jackson to be outside the HOF is ridiculous.
Wesley Walker and Ahmad Rashad also has a stronger case, Sammy White to a lesser degree. as does Roy Green and perhaps Drew Hill.
Then there's Sterling Sharpe and the shortened career, but John Jefferson was the absolute best for four years or so. Ditto Wes Chandler Cris Collinsworth or Henry Ellard
Then there's TEs like Ben Coats, Russ Francis, Todd Christensen, Billy Joe Dupree, Raymond Chester
Then maybe borderlines in Jimmie Giles, David Hill, Riley Odom's, & Rich Caster
Hell blockers like Mike Barber, Russ Francis and Don Hasselbeck worst huge leaky in setting up some of the best rushing attacks of the era, but blocking skill for a TE is a long forgotten skill.
Looking for the phrase Rob gronkowski gets for his catching when he is one of the best blocking tight ends to play in the last several decades
A couple of the things that I don't like about today's modern game:
--The continual tilting of the rulebook TOWARD offenses (particularly the passing game). It used to be more challenging and rewarding to score (as it should be).
--The 'look at me celebrate' arrogance by players. Way too much egotistical, self-promoting, cockiness in sports culture in general.
The first Seahawk
Bum Phillips could have had Steve Largent and Earl Campbell. Wow.
Steve didn’t wear gloves he didn’t naturally. If Steve played with Tom Brady in the Patriots’ offense Steve would of put up unreachable numbers. He put up numbers as is but I am just saying.
STEVE LARGENT was MONEY...and not just in French..