Sadly Mike Webster, succumb to C.T.E. ended up homeless in his broken down truck. I believe he was the best center in the NFL history by far. Took too many hits to the head, hence.. playing center, many clashes in almost every play. R.I.P. Mike Webster.
First game I ever attendee in person. I was 10 years old. I remember how bitter cold it was and walking around 3 Rivers stadium at Half Time to try and warm up.
Yeah it waa freezing I was like 8 years old.It was my first NFL game I attended all I remember is not feeling my hands or feet and the hot chocolate line was as longer than any other line in the building. It was Websters last game also noticed Greg Lloyd out there.Beginning of my fan as a Steeler for life.
Hardy Nickerson Steelers career came to a conclusion in 1992 when the team refused to adequately compensate him and he was a cornerstone in the landmark class action lawsuit that led to free agency in the NFL. During his final year with the Steelers he was the lowest paid linebacker in the NFL with a paltry salary of $200,000, but in 1993 as the primary plaintiff in the case against the NFL he was freed and signed a lucrative free agent contract with Tampa bay for $5.2 million.
Thanks for sharing. Also, Dwayne Woodruff, who returned a touchdown in this game went on to become a judge. Namath mentioned that had just finished law school during the broadcast.
Thanks for this video. Steelers drafted in its highest spot since 1971 following this campaign and whiffed on three of its first four picks. PIT had two first-round picks, the only time since the 1970 merger to have two picks in round one and drafted Worley and Ricketts, two duds. Missed big on a receiver in round three but Carnell Lake in the second round was a great pick. Missing on those picks and letting the offensive coordinator leave after 1989 and hiring Joe Walton cost Noll more success in his final three seasons.
Noll missed on countless picks since 1979. He passed up Joe Montana, Mark Gastineau, Rulon Jones , Joe Cribbs , Leroy Irvin . Cut Dwaine Board to keep a has been no talent stiff Dwight White . Noll selected bums like Greg Hawthorne, Zack Valentine, , Mark Malone and Bob Kohrs instead
@@jsbc1988 Imagine had Board been kept and Rulon Jones was the first-round pick in 1980? Those two at end along with Dunn and the Steelers may never had switched to the 3-4 defense in 1982. Drafting Jones and keeping Board also would have saved the team from drafting Kohrs and John Goodman. Maybe secondary help would have been addressed.
@@jsbc1988Noll missed on Marino too. He told Rooney he didn’t want Marino and that he wanted to rebuild the defense since he already had Bradshaw and Mark Malone.
Tom Hammond and Joe Namath on the call for this game on NBC at 1pm is the finale in 1988. Love the old OG Starter Satin NFL jackets like Chuck Noll has on, very street snd fashionable unlike today's era of fashion they call is cool . And this day the Jets took the Giants out the playoffs bubble and Don Strock took the Browns to the playoffs by beating the Oilers in snowy Cleveland and would face each other again the next week and it was the end of the Marty era in Cleveland.
As disappointing this was i followed it closely mostly through usa today and my weekly subscription from steelers digest.i still have every volume tucked away in boxes 1988 thru 1998.i knew woodson was going to be great as you could just see the range and speed was super human.i orderd his official home jersey shortly after this game and still have it..it cost 76 dollars including shipping still have it .you will not find his authentic jersey on ebay or on the internet from this season.it does not have the ajr patch because the nfl wasnt offering that as it was exclusive to players only. Infact i thing the catolog even stated that..for what its worth to my fellow steeler loyalists
It's funny in contrast that three active winningest coaches at the time, in fact, the three winningest franchises since the 1970 league merger all three teams the Cowboys, Steelers, and Dolphins who combined for 10 Super Bowl appearances including winning 8 of the 10 them back in 1970's really fell on hard times in 1988 has the three teams finished dead last in their respective divisions combining for only just 14 wins as it would be Tom Landry's final year with the Cowboys after nearly three decades while Chuck Noll would retire after the 1991 season while Don Shula would become the NFL's all-time winningest coach in 1993 and would retire after the 1995 season.
@@alexanderwinkins7158 ....Oh ok cool.....I'll try to see if someone uploaded that game. If not, I'll reach out to him and see if he has it somewhere. I'm pretty sure he does. Thanks for letting me know.
Your uncle was terrific and what a shame the Steelers didn’t pay him what he deserved. It sure worked out better for Everett going to Dallas and winning two SBs, so I’m sure he has no ill will toward Pittsburgh.
Odd how the Steelers went 5-11 this season yet finished in the top half of the league in scoring. In 1989, PIT wins a playoff game yet its offense was very inept. This 88 squad was missing Willis and Merriweather and Brister was in his first season as the starter. A lot of young bucks on this team to help set up for the success in the 90s. A shame Steve Wisniewski wasn’t picked instead of Ricketts in the 1989 draft. It still hurts all these years later.
Marino did not win a super bowl and for a quarterback who hardly ever got sacked and only put up numbers he Never won a pro bowl either how overrated he was and Tony dungy who broke all the records at the University of Minnesota but dungy just so happens to be black but was never afforded the opportunity because of white privilage. So if you believe I'm racist good for you. But I do know that the truth hurts.
@@keithclark7266 Also; there had been rumors stirring about Marino being a "partier" and that said parties included drug use (specifically, I think cocaine); which were prevalent enough that toward the end of the 1982 college football season Pitt had Marino undergo a drug test, though he and several others that were internally tested had clean drug test results; though that may have played a role in the Steelers' skittishness. The bigger reason, though, was that the Rooneys hoped history would repeat in selecting a defensive player first (much like when they took Mean Joe Greene #4 overall in 1969); thus resulting in the drafting of Gabe "Senor Sack" Rivera, who proved to be one of the Steelers' bigger "what-ifs", playing only 6 games with 2 sacks before being paralyzed in a car accident
USA Citizen He shut up the,critics in 1989 as they came out in the 2nd half of the season ro to make the playoffs thanks to the Colts loss to New Orleans, The Raiders lost to thr Giants, and the Bengals loss on MNF to the Vikings, and beat loud mouth Glanville and the Oilers on New Year's Eve in the Wild Card game and named Coach of the Year cause lot of people though he was done but to take a team with not much talent ti to the playoffs, thats an accomplishment. And it was the final victory of Noll career in the playoffs and got his 200th win against a 1-15 Patriots team the next year in 1990, but we could all see he was getting burned out.
@@mcdonoghrahloh459 Bradshaw had surgery without the Steelers knowledge then threw 500 passes in minicamp, thus officially ruining his elbow. Bradshaw wanted to play 4-5 more years.
Noll did a disservice to the talent of the 1980s weggie Thompson was a fourth string receiver. When I saw greg garrity wearing 86 how could they let Jim Smith get away and Theo Bell. Now merle hoage was a special teams player at best not a starter Barry foster proved that Chuck noll had favoritism rather than play the best players for example keith Willis keith Gary Edmonds Nelson kenneth Sims would have been the new steel curtain Winston little and Cole starts at linebackers. I was glad when chuck noll retired he wasted a lot of talent.
Wow. Edmonds and Willis were decent. Darryl Sims and Gary were garbage. Smith could've been great but he left for the USFL. Thompson was a decent player, certainly better than Sweeney and Capers (I wonder why you didn't mention them?). Garity was always a ST player who had to play due to injuries and the unexpected retirement of Swann and Sweeney and Capers being so bad. Hoge was a FB and an excellent one. He played in 88' due to injuries to TB. Foster was not on this team. Worley and Williams were the busts at TB but you didn't mention them for some reason (hmmmm?). Noll did a fine job. His problem was that he had bad QB play and Steelers drafted to many stiffs on the DL like Aaron Jones, Sims and Gary. Bryan Hinkle was a better LB than Winston.
@@TheTicktockman321 your right about one thing these overrated white quarterwhites if they would have let Tony dungy play quarterwhites white privilage those teams was bad because noll had his picks like Merrill hoage it didn't happen to get better until noll retired.
@@TheTicktockman321 let me tell you more of noll and the Steelers B.S when Ernie Holmes and Dwight White was being replaced by John banazak steve Furness tom Beasley Gary Dunn john goodman Bob khors Lorne toews and the Steelers got rid of dirt Winston I knew this team was losing speed on defense because speed kills. It wasn't until Willis Gary Nelson and Mike merriweather speeded up the Steelers defense. Since you said Gary was a bust. Gary was the one who made the hit and fumble that Rick woods scored in the same game Gary almost killed Ken Anderson and the league and the Steelers organizations made keith Gary tone it down. But the league and the Steelers organizations did Greg Lloyd the same way for hitting Brett Favre Trent dilfer and Greg Lloyd wasn't have it and Lloyd was a 7 year veteran Gary was a rookie. But Greg Lloyd wasn't about to hear that blank. I wish Greg Lloyd was playing today's games so he could hit tom Brady. You see Greg Lloyd got a sack in his hand and Tom Brady got a 👗 to put in it. And I wish deion sanders covered these fake wide receivers that tom Brady is throwing the 👗 too. In the national fake league. I see you got eyes in the back of your head that's why you can't see what's in front of you and probably run the 100 yard dash in 30 seconds like that slow tom Brady that the NFL protect. Get a football life. And probably never played the game like most sports writers.
Once again the quarterbacks could not had played better those 80s teams probably would have won 1 or 2 more super bowl. But noll had his favorites. Just like when played Barry person and Davey Williams I don't even won't to talk about Joe Gilliam, because you're going to bring up his drug issues and not the death threats he received from area KKK and it is well documented by Mel Blount who received the same threats after he retired in 1983 when he was trying to start a youth home for troubled teenagers in the Pittsburgh area. And the 72 73 Steelers teams but even Bradshaw wasn't at his best when Ron shanklin Frank Lewis were great receiver before stallworth and swann. To tell the real truth about Joe Gilliam lost the starting to Bradshaw is because he was throwing the ball to stallworth shanklin Lewis pough who all was from black college's and Lynn swann was the Steelers first round draft pick who was from the rich white college USC. This is why Gilliam was removed yes Gilliam had his drug problems but he also was black even if Gilliam didn't have a drug problems the Steelers organizations was going to give the job back to Bradshaw the same way the L.A. Rams did James Harris who did not have a drug problems and gave the job to Ron Jaworski but there will never be a out cry from white privilage American but will point out Gilliam drug use. By the way stallworth was the better receiver just like jerry rice who is the greatest pass catcher of all time like stallworth both were from black college's. One thing I do know is that the truth will never be told by the overall white media. Now call me racist because the truth hurts.
I mean you should know how sad you are that you're implying that Gilliam would have won 4 super bowls, a league MVP and 2 Super Bowl MVPz. Because Terry only got his shot cause he was white???? That is just sad BS from a delusional mind
Sadly Mike Webster, succumb to C.T.E. ended up homeless in his broken down truck. I believe he was the best center in the NFL history by far. Took too many hits to the head, hence.. playing center, many clashes in almost every play. R.I.P. Mike Webster.
First game I ever attendee in person. I was 10 years old. I remember how bitter cold it was and walking around 3 Rivers stadium at Half Time to try and warm up.
Yeah it waa freezing I was like 8 years old.It was my first NFL game I attended all I remember is not feeling my hands or feet and the hot chocolate line was as longer than any other line in the building. It was Websters last game also noticed Greg Lloyd out there.Beginning of my fan as a Steeler for life.
Your first in person nfl game was my dad’s first career interception.
The late 80's were grim times for us us Dolphins fans.
Hardy Nickerson Steelers career came to a conclusion in 1992 when the team refused to adequately compensate him and he was a cornerstone in the landmark class action lawsuit that led to free agency in the NFL.
During his final year with the Steelers he was the lowest paid linebacker in the NFL with a paltry salary of $200,000, but in 1993 as the primary plaintiff in the case against the NFL he was freed and signed a lucrative free agent contract with Tampa bay for $5.2 million.
Thanks for sharing. Also, Dwayne Woodruff, who returned a touchdown in this game went on to become a judge. Namath mentioned that had just finished law school during the broadcast.
Wow. Thanks for that Info
One of the rare games that both Mike Webster and Dermontti played on the same line.
2 of the all time greats.
Always loved the NBC intro back then.
Frankie Pollard’s last game. One hell of a RB! And the great Mike Webster’s last game as a Stiller!
Mike Webster's last game as a Steelers player.
Thanks for this video. Steelers drafted in its highest spot since 1971 following this campaign and whiffed on three of its first four picks. PIT had two first-round picks, the only time since the 1970 merger to have two picks in round one and drafted Worley and Ricketts, two duds. Missed big on a receiver in round three but Carnell Lake in the second round was a great pick.
Missing on those picks and letting the offensive coordinator leave after 1989 and hiring Joe Walton cost Noll more success in his final three seasons.
Noll missed on countless picks since 1979. He passed up Joe Montana, Mark Gastineau, Rulon Jones , Joe Cribbs , Leroy Irvin . Cut Dwaine Board to keep a has been no talent stiff Dwight White . Noll selected bums like Greg Hawthorne, Zack Valentine, , Mark Malone and Bob Kohrs instead
@@jsbc1988 Imagine had Board been kept and Rulon Jones was the first-round pick in 1980? Those two at end along with Dunn and the Steelers may never had switched to the 3-4 defense in 1982. Drafting Jones and keeping Board also would have saved the team from drafting Kohrs and John Goodman. Maybe secondary help would have been addressed.
@@jsbc1988Noll missed on Marino too. He told Rooney he didn’t want Marino and that he wanted to rebuild the defense since he already had Bradshaw and Mark Malone.
One day before i was born
Tom Hammond and Joe Namath on the call for this game on NBC at 1pm is the finale in 1988. Love the old OG Starter Satin NFL jackets like Chuck Noll has on, very street snd fashionable unlike today's era of fashion they call is cool . And this day the Jets took the Giants out the playoffs bubble and Don Strock took the Browns to the playoffs by beating the Oilers in snowy Cleveland and would face each other again the next week and it was the end of the Marty era in Cleveland.
Nothing said your game was unimportant more than Tom Hammond and Joe Willy on the call. '88 was THE low point for the Dolphins in the Marino era.
Weegie Thompson and Rich Erenberg should have hallo famers. Merril Hoge was a once in a lifetime talent.
Lol what?
@@ericwillingham6956 I'll have what he's smoking lol
Joe Namath was a better analyst than Bob Griese
As disappointing this was i followed it closely mostly through usa today and my weekly subscription from steelers digest.i still have every volume tucked away in boxes 1988 thru 1998.i knew woodson was going to be great as you could just see the range and speed was super human.i orderd his official home jersey shortly after this game and still have it..it cost 76 dollars including shipping still have it .you will not find his authentic jersey on ebay or on the internet from this season.it does not have the ajr patch because the nfl wasnt offering that as it was exclusive to players only. Infact i thing the catolog even stated that..for what its worth to my fellow steeler loyalists
This was Pittsburgh's first win vs Marino.
Keith Clark 10:10 Marino has the kitchen glove on after that interception, his new Isatoner commerical lol 😂
Was at this game as a kid.It was cold af!!!
Listening to them wondering who will be the center is fun Meanwhile both Webster and Dawson are in the hall of fame for playing center
Joe Cribbs and Frank Pollard's last game
It's funny in contrast that three active winningest coaches at the time, in fact, the three winningest franchises since the 1970 league merger all three teams the Cowboys, Steelers, and Dolphins who combined for 10 Super Bowl appearances including winning 8 of the 10 them back in 1970's really fell on hard times in 1988 has the three teams finished dead last in their respective divisions combining for only just 14 wins as it would be Tom Landry's final year with the Cowboys after nearly three decades while Chuck Noll would retire after the 1991 season while Don Shula would become the NFL's all-time winningest coach in 1993 and would retire after the 1995 season.
1:32:01.....Hell of a hit
1:50:46....Another great play Uncle
You should see the one he put on Tom Waddle of the Bears, I believe in 94 or 95. Bears at Bucs
@@alexanderwinkins7158 ....Oh ok cool.....I'll try to see if someone uploaded that game. If not, I'll reach out to him and see if he has it somewhere. I'm pretty sure he does. Thanks for letting me know.
@@alexanderwinkins7158 .....My Uncle's hit on Waddle is on UA-cam as a highlight. Thanks again for letting me know.
Your uncle was terrific and what a shame the Steelers didn’t pay him what he deserved. It sure worked out better for Everett going to Dallas and winning two SBs, so I’m sure he has no ill will toward Pittsburgh.
Your uncle was a hell of a player.
The 1980's was surely hard to watch as a steelers fan
Odd how the Steelers went 5-11 this season yet finished in the top half of the league in scoring. In 1989, PIT wins a playoff game yet its offense was very inept. This 88 squad was missing Willis and Merriweather and Brister was in his first season as the starter. A lot of young bucks on this team to help set up for the success in the 90s.
A shame Steve Wisniewski wasn’t picked instead of Ricketts in the 1989 draft. It still hurts all these years later.
When I was a kid be my brother took my other brother's small Pittsburgh Steelers helmet and smashed it with a weight
watched this in west palm working for prontis...
STEELERS COULD HAVE DRAFTED MARINO...
Marino did not win a super bowl and for a quarterback who hardly ever got sacked and only put up numbers he Never won a pro bowl either how overrated he was and Tony dungy who broke all the records at the University of Minnesota but dungy just so happens to be black but was never afforded the opportunity because of white privilage. So if you believe I'm racist good for you. But I do know that the truth hurts.
@@footballrealist9171 YOUR COMMENT IS SO STUPID ON SO MANY LEVELS ITS HILARIOUS...WERE YOU DRUNK AND/OR HIGH WHEN YOU WROTE THIS INSANE BULLSHIT??
25 other NFL teams could've also drafted him as well. Noll did not know the severity of Bradshaw's elbow injury, otherwise he may have selected Marino
@@keithclark7266 Also; there had been rumors stirring about Marino being a "partier" and that said parties included drug use (specifically, I think cocaine); which were prevalent enough that toward the end of the 1982 college football season Pitt had Marino undergo a drug test, though he and several others that were internally tested had clean drug test results; though that may have played a role in the Steelers' skittishness.
The bigger reason, though, was that the Rooneys hoped history would repeat in selecting a defensive player first (much like when they took Mean Joe Greene #4 overall in 1969); thus resulting in the drafting of Gabe "Senor Sack" Rivera, who proved to be one of the Steelers' bigger "what-ifs", playing only 6 games with 2 sacks before being paralyzed in a car accident
Should've drafted Marino
Look at all the empty seats. Such apathy.
1988??? Worst defense in team history. Sucked............HARD.
got any miami dolphins games from 2009-2012
Hey another quick question. How many tapes do you have with or of NFL primetime from the 80s?
meanmachinemedia.com has an awesome collection of 70's & 80's football.
Chuck Noll wasnt too good in the 80s
USA Citizen He shut up the,critics in 1989 as they came out in the 2nd half of the season ro to make the playoffs thanks to the Colts loss to New Orleans, The Raiders lost to thr Giants, and the Bengals loss on MNF to the Vikings, and beat loud mouth Glanville and the Oilers on New Year's Eve in the Wild Card game and named Coach of the Year cause lot of people though he was done but to take a team with not much talent ti to the playoffs, thats an accomplishment. And it was the final victory of Noll career in the playoffs and got his 200th win against a 1-15 Patriots team the next year in 1990, but we could all see he was getting burned out.
@@jasonwalker9091 He was burnt out in 85 or 86.
Not having Bradshaw until 1986 hurt Noll for sure, but the organization did a poor job finding a replacement. It cost Noll more wins for sure.
@@trr3160 ????
@@mcdonoghrahloh459 Bradshaw had surgery without the Steelers knowledge then threw 500 passes in minicamp, thus officially ruining his elbow. Bradshaw wanted to play 4-5 more years.
Miami Dolphins 1997-1999
Noll did a disservice to the talent of the 1980s weggie Thompson was a fourth string receiver. When I saw greg garrity wearing 86 how could they let Jim Smith get away and Theo Bell. Now merle hoage was a special teams player at best not a starter Barry foster proved that Chuck noll had favoritism rather than play the best players for example keith Willis keith Gary Edmonds Nelson kenneth Sims would have been the new steel curtain Winston little and Cole starts at linebackers. I was glad when chuck noll retired he wasted a lot of talent.
Wow. Edmonds and Willis were decent. Darryl Sims and Gary were garbage. Smith could've been great but he left for the USFL. Thompson was a decent player, certainly better than Sweeney and Capers (I wonder why you didn't mention them?). Garity was always a ST player who had to play due to injuries and the unexpected retirement of Swann and Sweeney and Capers being so bad. Hoge was a FB and an excellent one. He played in 88' due to injuries to TB. Foster was not on this team. Worley and Williams were the busts at TB but you didn't mention them for some reason (hmmmm?). Noll did a fine job. His problem was that he had bad QB play and Steelers drafted to many stiffs on the DL like Aaron Jones, Sims and Gary. Bryan Hinkle was a better LB than Winston.
@@TheTicktockman321 your right about one thing these overrated white quarterwhites if they would have let Tony dungy play quarterwhites white privilage those teams was bad because noll had his picks like Merrill hoage it didn't happen to get better until noll retired.
@@TheTicktockman321 let me tell you more of noll and the Steelers B.S when Ernie Holmes and Dwight White was being replaced by John banazak steve Furness tom Beasley Gary Dunn john goodman Bob khors Lorne toews and the Steelers got rid of dirt Winston I knew this team was losing speed on defense because speed kills. It wasn't until Willis Gary Nelson and Mike merriweather speeded up the Steelers defense. Since you said Gary was a bust. Gary was the one who made the hit and fumble that Rick woods scored in the same game Gary almost killed Ken Anderson and the league and the Steelers organizations made keith Gary tone it down. But the league and the Steelers organizations did Greg Lloyd the same way for hitting Brett Favre Trent dilfer and Greg Lloyd wasn't have it and Lloyd was a 7 year veteran Gary was a rookie. But Greg Lloyd wasn't about to hear that blank. I wish Greg Lloyd was playing today's games so he could hit tom Brady. You see Greg Lloyd got a sack in his hand and Tom Brady got a 👗 to put in it. And I wish deion sanders covered these fake wide receivers that tom Brady is throwing the 👗 too. In the national fake league. I see you got eyes in the back of your head that's why you can't see what's in front of you and probably run the 100 yard dash in 30 seconds like that slow tom Brady that the NFL protect. Get a football life. And probably never played the game like most sports writers.
@TAX COW FARTS what's your claim you idoit. Count to 3, now count back to zero loser and zero stupid.
Once again the quarterbacks could not had played better those 80s teams probably would have won 1 or 2 more super bowl. But noll had his favorites. Just like when played Barry person and Davey Williams I don't even won't to talk about Joe Gilliam, because you're going to bring up his drug issues and not the death threats he received from area KKK and it is well documented by Mel Blount who received the same threats after he retired in 1983 when he was trying to start a youth home for troubled teenagers in the Pittsburgh area. And the 72 73 Steelers teams but even Bradshaw wasn't at his best when Ron shanklin Frank Lewis were great receiver before stallworth and swann. To tell the real truth about Joe Gilliam lost the starting to Bradshaw is because he was throwing the ball to stallworth shanklin Lewis pough who all was from black college's and Lynn swann was the Steelers first round draft pick who was from the rich white college USC. This is why Gilliam was removed yes Gilliam had his drug problems but he also was black even if Gilliam didn't have a drug problems the Steelers organizations was going to give the job back to Bradshaw the same way the L.A. Rams did James Harris who did not have a drug problems and gave the job to Ron Jaworski but there will never be a out cry from white privilage American but will point out Gilliam drug use. By the way stallworth was the better receiver just like jerry rice who is the greatest pass catcher of all time like stallworth both were from black college's. One thing I do know is that the truth will never be told by the overall white media. Now call me racist because the truth hurts.
Too many black cocaine addicts on team.
Gilliam pissed his career away snorting herion. Typical. KKK stuff is bullshit.
It's funny how that has all changed, now the Democrat media is anti White. The Democrats always use race to manipulate people.
Yes you are a racist
I mean you should know how sad you are that you're implying that Gilliam would have won 4 super bowls, a league MVP and 2 Super Bowl MVPz. Because Terry only got his shot cause he was white???? That is just sad BS from a delusional mind