Terry Bradshaw

[horsehockles]

This guy is just an idoit. Does anyone on this forum find him informative in any way? How about his 10 yards with TB, were he always asks his interview subject if they prefer Carmello Anthony or Labron James!? I think he is the most anti-white personality out there.

 

[bigunreal]

A few years back, I went nuts when Bradshaw breathlessly announced
during the pre-game show before week one of the regular season, that it
was "great" and "an advancement" that there were (I think) 6
black starting QBs that opening day. Think about that; no one
would argue that blacks shouldn't be given a chance to play QB, but why
are more of them starting in the NFL a good thing? You could say it
wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but it isn't a good thing, either.
Assuming that no caste sysem existed, it wouldn't be good or bad, it
would just be. Of course, the opposite side of this ridiculous
buffoon's statement would be that it is a bad thing to have more white
QBs. While he may not be at the Deion Sanders or Shannon Sharpe level
of embarrassment behind the microphone, Bradshaw never has anything of
substance to say.

 

[Don Wassall]

He professed to be so hurt by his treatment in Pittsburgh, where Chuck Noll wasn't sensitive enough to his feelings (Noll was stearn and aloof with all the players), and because the home fans cheered once when he was injured. That's pretty sick, but it's happened to a lot of quarterbacks when they were playing poorly. Other than that one incident he was the toast of the town once the team became championship quality. But he was the one member of the Super Bowl teams to cut all ties with the city, refusing to attend reunion events and other functions, and refusing to speak to Noll, until the past couple of years.

And Bradshaw was actually the weak link of the Steelers first two Super Bowl champions. Check out his career stats, especially his first few years; he was lousy. (Six TD passes and 24 picks his rookie year of 1970; he didn't throw more TD passes than INTs in a season until 1975.) He was the beneficiary of a great cast around him on offense and defense, and he finally did develop into a great quarterback. Of course he should have as he was an athletic freak -- strong as a bull, super-strong arm, and excellent mobility and running ability. The main knock on him was the one that he is supposedly so sensitive to -- that he's dumb -- yet as noted he loves to play the buffoon on TV as he has little of value to say as a serious analyst or commentator.

And yeah, he not only loves those black quarterbacks, he even refers to their "God given talents." Apparently white quarterbacks are shunned by God in Bradshaw's eyes. Or maybe Bradshaw sees a lot of himself in black QBs -- allegedly "gifted" athletes with limited mental acuity!

 

[speedster]

I think Terry is afraid of upsetting James Brown and that's why he is so supportive of black QB's.If youv'e noticed Brown loves the black QB's and coaches.If anyone say's anything negative about them he doesn't like it.He will try to laugh if off and act like it was nobiggie but inside you know he's burning and later during the show when they are showing high-lites,if the QB in question makes a play Brown wil throw it in the perpatrater's face just like he did to Cris Collingsworth a couple of years ago.Now Cris is no-longer in the studio.Coincidence.The best line so far this year was when Howie said that Michael Vick expects to pick up the West Coast offence by week 12,and Jimmy Johnson piped in " maybe by the year 2012 ".Brown and Bradshaw just cringed.Brown will never let Jimmy forget that.I wonder if Jimmy wil be back next year.

 

[Mr. Lutefisk]

Terryneeds to shut hiscake hole.

 

[sport historian]

In the October 1974 issue of Sport Magazine there was a story by Phil Musick titled: "Terry, Are You Really That Dumb?" This was just before the Steelers won their first Super Bowl, and is a pretty good article. The gist of the story is that Bradshaw's problem isn't a lack of intelligence, but that he isn't good under pressure. An anonymous Steeler is quoted as saying, "I think he'd fold up so bad in the Super Bowl that we wouldn't get a first down."


As it turned out, the Steelers beat the Vikings in Super Bowl IX later that year. They relied mainly on the running of Franco Harris with support from Rocky Bleier. Bradshaw did hit some key passes in that game plus the playoff win over the Raiders. By the late 70's, Harris had faded a bit and Bradshaw's long-distance passing was the key to the Steeler offense. In his early years, Bradshaw had a reputation for making blunders, later he was the guy you didn't want to go up against in a playoff game.


Still, it's obvious Bradshaw was very immature, even for a pro football player. He came to the NFL in 1970 described as the most physically talented quarterback ever seen. Bradshaw was an especially good runner. He had to develop the ability to read defenses from the pocket and complete passes down the field. Bradshaw broke the Rams (who I was rooting for) back in Super Bowl XIV by hitting the long pass.

 

[Kaptain]

Weren't his steelers the first to widely use steroids also?

 

[Don Wassall]

O-lineman Craig Wolfley developed heart problems in his 30s and attributed it to steroid use. Hall of Fame center Mike Webster lived a very rough life after football and died at a young age from assorted mental and physical problems, some of which probably resulted from steroid use. But don't know if the Steelers of the '70s were the first to use them widely or not.