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00:09The Bible says the right hand of God sat the angel, on the left hand of God sat the devil.
00:14We were always suspicious of these people. Who are you and why are you throwing from the left side?
00:18Right-handed quarterbacks are average. Lefties stand out. They're ahead of the class.
00:23They're above. They shouldn't have to pay taxes.
00:30How many left-handed quarterbacks are there? You want to go there, huh? Okay.
00:34Sheer math, only 7 to 10 percent of all human beings are lefty. I did my research.
00:40The percentage of the world population of lefties is somewhere in the vicinity of 30 percent.
00:45There just hasn't been a lot of guys in the NFL who are left-handed quarterbacks, I guess. Has there
00:49even been 30?
00:50Actually, yes. The number is around 32 and growing. That's about 4 percent of all quarterbacks in NFL history.
01:0032? That's it? That's amazing. I've seen a lot of bad ones.
01:07Well, in this show, you'll see many good, some bad, and a few downright ugly lefty quarterbacks.
01:15There, Marinovich, in trouble.
01:16Sacked. Crumped up the ball.
01:18So exactly why have there been so few?
01:22Great question, man. One of those mysteries of the universe.
01:25The world is made for right-handers.
01:26There's something about a left-handed quarterback.
01:28There are a couple of french fries shy of a full meal deal.
01:31I don't know what you mean by that.
01:32They ought to outlaw Southpaws.
01:34What kind of f***ing call is that?
01:36It adds a wrinkle of complexity that people just aren't used to.
01:41Teams' lines have to be built differently.
01:43The blind side is now suddenly the right tackle, not the left tackle.
01:46Normally, with the right-hander, the ball will spin toward your right side as you catch the football.
01:51With the left-hander, it spins the other way, and it takes some getting used to.
01:55Those of you at home will have to make a quick adjustment,
01:58as over the next hour, you're going to see a lot of balls spinning from the left
02:03and a bunch of names you'll think we've pulled out of left field.
02:08Jimmy, come in from the other room. You might be number one.
02:13The number ten lefty quarterback of all time, Scott Mitchell.
02:19Can we just have a top nine?
02:21I mean, for one episode, please just do a top nine.
02:24Scott Mitchell doesn't belong on any top ten list.
02:26Yeah, Scott Mitchell.
02:31Boy, he fits in Detroit, doesn't he?
02:34Let's win this game. We have no letdowns. We can't have any letdowns the rest of this year.
02:38It's interesting Scott Mitchell's in the top ten for left-handed quarterbacks,
02:42mainly, I guess, because there just aren't that many.
02:44When he was asked to come in and start, you know, he didn't do a bad job.
02:48I mean, Scott Mitchell, nice fella, but he should have been a career backup in the National Football League.
02:55He's a top ten quarterback.
02:57Well, we're in trouble. We're in big, big trouble.
03:02There could be something critically wrong with Dan Marino.
03:06In week six of the 1993 season, our number ten lefty quarterback, Scott Mitchell, got his big break.
03:15Well, in any event, Scott Mitchell is in the game.
03:19Scott Mitchell had a few really nice games for the Miami Dolphins, in relief of Dan Marino.
03:26Eric Mitchell, he's in trouble, breaks out of it, runs to the near side, fires, caught.
03:30He had time to study and learn, and he was a big, sturdy guy.
03:33Mitchell looks into the middle. He throws the end zone. Man, open, touchdown.
03:38Scott Mitchell was born at the right time.
03:40He gets to experience the brave new world of NFL free agency.
03:43Mitchell back to throw, looking right, throwing deep down there is Ingram.
03:47He's got it in 20.
03:49Talk about the classic case of a backup quarterback gets an opportunity to play a handful of games
03:55and parlay it into a starting job and a big contract.
03:58And he was pursued heavily.
04:00There were teams bidding against the Lions.
04:02It wasn't just the Lions making a boneheaded play and throwing a lot of money at Mitchell.
04:10Don't realize Mitchell is one of only three quarterbacks in history to lead the Lions to multiple playoff appearances.
04:17Exactly.
04:18I think you're being a little unfair to Scott Mitchell there. I mean, there were some...
04:22He's still only one of five.
04:24Mother, left-handed quarterback, so you probably got ahead of him. He was better than...
04:27Just a little stretch from the one season he had with Detroit.
04:30He probably should be a little higher on the list than that.
04:33What a great throw.
04:34Five hundred yards, 32 touchdowns.
04:38That's one of...
04:39One, two, three, four.
04:46He was only the ninth player to do that back then.
04:59Scott Mitchell.
05:001995, he has 4,000 yards passing, 32 touchdowns.
05:04The Lions have all kinds of gaudy numbers for their receivers.
05:08Mitchell back, on swans, goes for Herman Moore, up for it, got it!
05:12The Lions won their last seven games, and they made the playoffs.
05:15Once the Lions reached the playoffs, Mitchell threw four interceptions.
05:18He lets it go.
05:19It's interception! It's interception!
05:21It was about as bad a playoff game as you'll ever see, and his career was all downhill from there.
05:26And the Lions don't know what happened.
05:27He was a really good guy who couldn't put a franchise on his back.
05:32By the way, how many people can?
05:34Even if it's just the one year, on the strength of that one year, he should be higher than 10.
05:38Mitchell, from the corner to the bank!
05:40I think Mitchell, in the left-handed quarterback, that wasn't that minute at play, I think he should be in
05:45the top five.
05:46Let's give Scott Mitchell a little slack.
05:48He was roly-poly.
05:49He was a system of the run and shoot.
05:51But he made the playoffs twice, with the Lions.
05:53He had some productive years.
05:55He had to be better than the field.
05:57Nope.
05:58Not on this list.
05:59The list sucks.
06:01The number nine lefty quarterback of all time?
06:03The field.
06:05Really?
06:06I think that's such fairness, Scott.
06:07I don't think the field...
06:13They're trying to make a case there.
06:15What do you mean, guys?
06:16You don't remember Eric Wilhelm?
06:18Or Jeff Carlson?
06:19Now a corrected talent.
06:20He ties the ball to stop the way.
06:22I'll take those guys, just because they have good stories.
06:25You know, they're just more interesting.
06:27Mitchell isn't compelling.
06:29And we can't forget lefty Steve Matthews and Dennis Morrison, even though they only played three games each.
06:37Jeff Gazo, he sucked.
06:40David Hum, he sucked.
06:42And they were on Dynasty teams.
06:44They sucked with Hall of Famers around them.
06:47Terrible.
06:50I'm looking at this list of these other left-handed QBs.
06:53I see...
06:54Matt Leiner, Tom Marinovich sucked.
06:57A lot of college superstars.
07:00And on an NFL show, when you're called a college superstar, that's the ultimate backhanded compliment.
07:05The field is comprised of 27 left-handed quarterbacks.
07:09Three of them came from the ultimate college superstar factory.
07:14Matt Leiner, Paul McDonald, and Todd Marinovich.
07:17And all three of those guys played at Southern Cal.
07:21Paul McDonald spent four years trying to replace Brian Seip with the Browns.
07:25Gets his chance.
07:2723 interceptions, 55 sacks.
07:29Todd Marinovich, he never ate a hamburger, right?
07:31Well, you know, I think he made up and he rebelled against all of that robo-cop-type upbringing.
07:37By doing all the partying he did once he got into the NFL, but that's clearly not a way to
07:41keep your job.
07:42Marinovich in trouble.
07:44Sacked.
07:44Puffles the ball.
07:45Kleiner, the king of Hollywood.
07:47Unfortunately, he's not the king of Arizona.
07:50He passed out to an old man a couple years ago, Kurt Warner.
07:57Kleiner had a lot of hype out of college, like some of the other lefties on our list.
08:02Chris Stamps threw some of the prettiest balls I've ever seen.
08:05Gave one of the toughest performances I've ever seen when he played.
08:08But what we found out later was a ruptured spleen.
08:10He'll run for a touchdown!
08:13But there was just something about him where he couldn't get those other ten guys in the huddle to really
08:18rally around him.
08:18Cade McNown also had trouble rallying the troops.
08:22From the day he came in, that kid, he really thought it was all about him.
08:27So he was kind of disliked as a teammate, and he was another number one draft pick who was a
08:33bust in Chicago.
08:34Terry Baker, he was drafted in the first round by the Rams.
08:38They couldn't quite figure out what to do with him.
08:40Terry Baker never threw a touchdown in the league.
08:42Baker is the next target for Munson.
08:44And in three years, he was out of the league.
08:46He was a really good college player.
08:48Obviously, he won the Heisman Trophy.
08:54Baker may have won the Heisman Trophy, but he never won the Lombardi Trophy.
08:59Got it?
09:00Here's Andre.
09:01Hey, hold up.
09:01Jared Lorenzen, Jim Delgazzo, and David Hum are all lefty quarterbacks that can call themselves Super Bowl champions.
09:09Jared Lorenzen, best known for his nicknames.
09:12The Hefty Lefty.
09:14Pillsbury Throw Boy.
09:15Jim Delgazzo, he was interesting.
09:17He was known for his mutton chops.
09:18He had big mutton chop sideburns.
09:20He was a third-string quarterback for the Dolphins.
09:22David Hum, four teams, 95 games played, one star.
09:26This was a good one.
09:32We can't leave out the lefty quarterbacks who won championships in other football leagues.
09:38Tony Graziani was a backup in Atlanta and never did too much.
09:40But the reason you think of him at all today is he had a really nice career in the Arena
09:44Football League.
09:45Tony Graziani won a championship in the Arena Football League,
09:49while lefty Matt Lytle won a championship with the Amsterdam Admirals in NFL Europe.
09:54I don't care about any of that.
09:58What does that mean?
09:58Three other lefties found success in the NFL after their playing days were over.
10:03Brock Heard was the Eli Manning of the Heward Brothers.
10:05Brock came out of the University of Washington, was one of the top QBs in Washington's history.
10:10Didn't get very far in his career.
10:12Brock Heard is now a broadcaster.
10:15Allie Sherman was the first left-handed quarterback in the early 40s.
10:20Way to go.
10:20Sherman only lasted one season, but went on to become a successful coach.
10:25Hey, Rosie, I'll lift tackle.
10:26I don't think it's been hitting that man.
10:27I'm scared to help.
10:29Fred Wyatt was in the 50s.
10:31He played a snap or two for the Redskins.
10:33But the reason we remember him today is he became an official for many years in the NFL.
10:38Notice which hand he signals with?
10:40I think you're talking about a lot of guys that did nothing in the league.
10:44Hey, man.
10:45To me, every name you said is the ninth best left-handed quarterback of all time.
10:51I don't know how you could parse it out.
10:52I don't know how you could choose between these guys.
10:55Coming up.
10:56What the...
11:00The number eight lefty quarterback of all time, Bobby Douglas.
11:06Rarely does an organization find precisely the right man to lead it at precisely the right time.
11:15And for the Bears' offense in the early 70s, the right man was actually a lefty named Bobby Douglas.
11:22He was a wild left-hander.
11:24No question about it.
11:26What a sensational athlete.
11:27He just had this football mentality.
11:29Entertaining.
11:29He was a big physical guy.
11:32He couldn't throw.
11:34He was a football player, but he wasn't a quarterback.
11:38Bobby Douglas was as big as a tackle.
11:41The coaches wanted to make him a tight end, but he wanted to be a quarterback.
11:45Bobby Douglas, number 14, is a rarity in pro football.
11:48A left-handed quarterback.
11:51I was the first left-handed quarterback that had played in the NFL since a guy named Frankie Albert, I
11:56was told, in 1945.
11:58And this was 69.
12:01Almost looked like the photo negative had been flipped and you were watching an entire game in a mirror.
12:06He played the quarterback position differently than probably anybody else that ever played.
12:13Well, Bobby Douglas was unique unto himself.
12:16I'm not sure it was because he was left-handed.
12:17Bobby Douglas was a big, kind of square-shouldered, lefty quarterback who ran over people.
12:23You didn't see anybody that really wanted to tackle him.
12:26He was a heck of a ball carrier.
12:28The reason he had to run?
12:29Because he was running for his life.
12:31A porous offensive line kept Douglas on the run.
12:34In 1972, he ran for a then-record 968 yards while throwing for just over 1,200.
12:43He averaged 4.5 yards per throw and 6.9 yards per rush.
12:48Why was he throwing?
12:50That's a question which dog-should down number 8 lefty throughout his career.
12:58This was a guy that ran like Larry Zonka.
13:02But as a passer...
13:06I was around Bobby a lot.
13:07He was not a good quarterback.
13:08Bobby, what did you do in the first play?
13:10Nobody took Carl.
13:11Well, I saw GL.
13:12I'm supposed to read GL.
13:13Bobby Douglas kind of gave a bad name to left-handed quarterbacks because it was perceived that because he was
13:19left-handed,
13:20he couldn't be a consistently great passer, even though he had a really good arm.
13:24Bobby Douglas could throw the ball 110 miles an hour.
13:29But, you know, good luck trying to catch it.
13:33Douglas!
13:35Douglas!
13:36Abe Gibran, his coach, at a press conference said, well, you know, he could throw the ball through a barn
13:42door if he could hit a barn door.
13:48I will argue his best game occurred when he played with a broken wrist.
13:52He suffered a broken bone in his left wrist.
13:54He was out for the rest of the year.
13:56But with a memory of the fact that he threw three of his four touchdown passes after the injury occurred.
14:02It's a feat you'd think would make him a legend in Chicago.
14:05I don't think anybody remembers me now anyway, 30 years, so...
14:08Everybody knows the name Bobby Douglas here, and they still love him.
14:11But we hated him.
14:13Because the Bears really didn't get a quarterback from Sid Luffman all the way to Jim McMahon.
14:18And I can tell you a lot of right-handed Bear quarterbacks that were inaccurate and suck, too.
14:22So I think it's more the position with the Bears, and he took the same amount of heat,
14:25whether he's lefty or righty, as any other quarterback that's played for the Bears.
14:30Coming up, what lefty?
14:32The number seven lefty quarterback of all time, Jim Zorn.
14:37Oh, hell.
14:38We gotta get the rabbit today.
14:39Hey, that silly rabbit, Jim Zorn.
14:45No way, Jim.
14:47He's got it.
14:48Probably one of the more underrated guys, because you don't hear a lot about Jim now,
14:52but you don't hear about a lot of us guys.
14:56But for fans of the burgeoning franchise in Seattle,
14:59Zorn was the right call as the team's inaugural passer.
15:03For his time and for what we needed as a franchise, Zorn was perfect.
15:07He really was a captivating figure, because there wasn't a lot going on in terms of wins.
15:14I don't think anybody really knew what to expect.
15:16I certainly didn't.
15:1715 to 10, it's now Seattle!
15:22Jim brought a lot of flair to the game, just because he was left-handed.
15:27He was a guy that liked to scramble around.
15:29He would drive defenses crazy.
15:31Oh, my goodness.
15:32He was kind of like the left-handed Fran Tarkin.
15:35This guy was very, very versatile.
15:37I look at Zorn, I see a lot of me in Zorn.
15:39He's got a great feel for the game.
15:41He's left-handed, he's bigger, he's stronger, and he's probably better.
15:44Tarkin runs out on a sprint draw toward his right side.
15:47He throws the bond.
15:47He's down to right side.
15:48Large and wide open.
15:49Tarkin tend to a guy in his second season.
15:52And he's got it!
15:54Touchdown, Seahawks!
15:55The man on the other end of most of Zorn's passes can also provide the best insights
16:00into the mind of our number seven cutting whiffler.
16:04Jim is very eclectic.
16:07He's very creative.
16:08He's very artistic.
16:11When kind of the formality of the play broke down,
16:15that's when the originality of Jim Zorn really came out.
16:19Waiting for the snap from center.
16:21That's a good one.
16:21They throw it big.
16:22They give it a chance.
16:30You know, Jim's a little different.
16:33He'd come to work, you know, in a beat-up flannel shirt,
16:36driving a yellow Volkswagen.
16:39He'd get out of the car and just walk into the stadium with the fans.
16:43He was a real breath of fresh air.
16:46Some will tell you Zorn's creativity and individualism
16:49was a result of being a lefty.
16:51But it may have come from an utter source.
16:55Milk makes me feel so good, I could just sing.
16:58Show your stuff and drink milk.
17:01He has lots of calcium, protein and vitamins.
17:05I thought it was pretty good.
17:07I thought they should have just perpetuated that.
17:09But for some reason, we got next off the deal.
17:12Milk is good on you.
17:18Zorn may not hold any passing records or championships,
17:22but he most likely accomplished a feat, which is rare in NFL circles.
17:27In his entire career, I never heard him say a curse word.
17:30That, to me, maybe is the best thing about Jim Zorn,
17:32is that he could play this game that's so tough and so deflating
17:35and never curse.
17:37That, and he's left-handed, there's something special about Jim Zorn.
17:44The number six lefty quarterback of all time, Michael Vick.
17:49Michael Vick could have been the number one left-handed quarterback ever.
17:55I would take Michael Vick on the Chicago Bears right now over Jay Cutler.
17:59I would put Michael Vick higher than number six.
18:03Being left-handed for Michael Vick, this was huge.
18:06I'm going to give him all this, man.
18:08I'm going to give him all that.
18:09This guy was already magical because of his legs.
18:11Now, all of a sudden, you've got a great help to him
18:16and a great help to his mystique.
18:19That was a magician making me.
18:21Most people didn't even know or care that he was left-handed,
18:24so it's kind of like, uh.
18:27Magic again.
18:28Did you see that smoke coming off of Michael Vick soon?
18:30Number seven starts to tear that jersey off.
18:32There's a big ass underneath it.
18:34When you play Atlanta twice a year,
18:36you had to have the right matchup for Michael Vick
18:38and how to handle them and how to defend them.
18:40Michael has looked as impressive as I've seen him in the pocket today.
18:49This is a guy who does more running than throwing,
18:53and I think the fact that he's a left-hander
18:56is secondary to the fact that he runs.
18:58He's cut it to the middle.
18:59He's got the first down, and he is down at the 28-yard line.
19:02How did he do that?
19:03I'm not sure people entirely know that he's left-handed.
19:06He's a left-hander, isn't he?
19:07Yes, he is.
19:08He's a left-hander.
19:09You never knew what you were going to get,
19:10but you knew you could possibly get an explosive play.
19:14Good or bad, something interesting was going to happen
19:16when Michael Vick got the ball in his hands.
19:18Whoa!
19:19Lightning in the bottle.
19:20That's what he is.
19:24Vick also had a cannon for an arm,
19:26and it was not the most accurate cannon at times,
19:29even friendly fire with all the falcon drops,
19:32but when he was on, he was on.
19:34I don't think anyone in the league could match him
19:36in terms of raw arm talent.
19:38He just never corralled it.
19:40Vick is on fire.
19:41He's thrown for four scores.
19:43If this guy can throw the ball down the field,
19:45I mean, he's trying to answer those questions today.
19:47He can make all the throws.
19:49He's got a quick release.
19:50He has great touch on the ball and throwing the deep pass.
19:53There's no limit as to what he can do,
19:55you know, throwing the football.
19:57You all right?
19:58Yeah, I'm good.
19:59People may think that our number six lefty quarterback,
20:02Michael Vick's favorite play, would be a run.
20:05Here comes Michael Vick.
20:07Not so fast.
20:08Snug 71-71.
20:10Coach Reed's playbook.
20:12It's all coverage beater right here.
20:1471-71 is a mirror and two receivers on each side
20:18with a corner route and a stop route,
20:21and he's got a go-to guy,
20:23and then he makes a throw to the corner,
20:25you know, or he makes a throw to the short guy.
20:28Same read, same combination.
20:30If I was a quarterback coach,
20:31that's what I would teach my kids to run.
20:3490% of the game.
20:36The number six left-handed quarterback
20:38spent two years away from the game
20:40while serving a prison sentence.
20:42In 2010, he returned to a starring role in the NFL.
20:47Mike Vick just gliding into the end zone.
20:51Vick established a career high in passing yards,
20:54completion percentage,
20:56touchdown passes,
20:57and touchdown runs,
20:58making the most of his second chance.
21:01I know that he can play the position as well as anybody.
21:06How do you thread the needle that tight?
21:09Mike Vick 2.0 was awesome.
21:11Just awesome.
21:11The best thing about Mike Vick right now
21:14is the fact that he gets it.
21:16He understands he has to work hard,
21:17which he readily admits he didn't before in the past.
21:22Coming up.
21:22Take it yourself!
21:24Take it!
21:25What's for five lefty quarterbacks of all time?
21:27Mark Brunel.
21:29Mark Brunel is on this list seriously.
21:31He's number five.
21:32This is why I should have been a left-handed quarterback.
21:34I mean, he was like an okay quarterback in Jacksonville.
21:37You know, he makes this list because he's a left-hander.
21:39Hey, guys.
21:40Let's not discount the career he had.
21:42He had a very good career.
21:47Solid, steady player.
21:49Don't know if you won a championship with him,
21:51but you definitely felt good that he was your guy.
21:54To me, he's the ultimate caretaker.
21:56He's like the girl who's nice and friendly
21:58and makes dinner for you and shows up on time,
22:00and because of all that,
22:02you just don't find anything about her exciting at all.
22:05All right.
22:09Remember, he was a backup for a number of years in Green Bay.
22:12While you're out there real cold,
22:15just think of me.
22:16I'll be right by that heater over there, okay?
22:17Yeah.
22:18When he was in Green Bay,
22:19it was the perfect nurturing ground for him to learn his craft,
22:22and then when he got to Jacksonville, he could flourish.
22:25Initially, Burnell played his familiar role as a backup to Steve Berline,
22:29but it wasn't too long before the Jaguars realized the lefty
22:33was the right man for the job.
22:35And this was a time when the Jags were just in their infancy,
22:38so everybody was kind of watching them to see if they were going to be a train wreck.
22:45A four-win first season was actually deemed positive,
22:48but no one could have imagined what would happen in Season 2.
22:53The Jaguars started out 3-6, and then magic happened.
22:575, 4, 3, 2, 1, touchdown Jacksonville!
23:01I think the word was momentum.
23:02We won a game, won another, and pretty soon, we became a very good team.
23:05And the Jaguars are going to the playoffs!
23:09Burnell passed for a league-best 4,300 yards
23:12while leading the second-year franchise to within one step of the Super Bowl.
23:17Touchdown, Jacksonville!
23:18Riding the arm of our number-five lefty,
23:21the Jaguars would make four straight playoff appearances,
23:25a record for an expansion team.
23:29Since you're a left-handed quarterback,
23:31do you think you have advantages over defensive schemes?
23:35I think for the most part, it doesn't make any difference which hand you throw with.
23:41Burnell may not have thought how he threw gave him an edge,
23:44but other traits associated with lefties
23:46helped him rise above the crowd in the late 90s.
23:50Ah!
23:50His mindset was that he would be smarter than any opponent,
23:55better prepared.
23:56Very dangerous quarterback, smart guy, mobile,
23:59just like, again, most of these left-handed quarterbacks are.
24:01Must be the right-brain, left-arm thing.
24:03That great athleticism, Steve Young-type athleticism.
24:07I heard that quite a bit, and I liked it.
24:09I mean, if you're going to be compared to someone,
24:11you know, if you're compared to Steve, that's not a bad deal there.
24:13Mark Burnell with a masterful run!
24:19Steve Young never led all quarterbacks in passing and rushing yards in a season,
24:24as our number five left-hander did in 1996.
24:28That was a hard ball to run, dude.
24:29Good job, buddy.
24:30Look at home.
24:30I am old.
24:31Brunel ranks third amongst lefties in passing yards and fourth in touchdown passes.
24:37Touchdown Jaguars!
24:38But those stats don't compare to what he earned in his 17th NFL season.
24:43When he played for the New Orleans Saints, he was the backup to Drew Brees.
24:46Drew Brees did great, man.
24:47Excited for you to win this thing, huh?
24:49I think Brees took great comfort that Brunel was his backup in that Super Bowl season.
24:54Get ready to party with the Lombardi!
24:56The Saints have won the Super Bowl!
24:59100 years, man.
25:00He only got you up.
25:01Good forever!
25:01Good forever!
25:03The number four lefty quarterback of all time, Frankie Albert.
25:07I gotta admit, when I first saw this list and I saw Frankie Albert,
25:10I thought it was part of the four seasons.
25:11Frankie Albert?
25:12I don't know anything about him.
25:13That's Frankie, uh...
25:15Who was it?
25:16Frankie Valli.
25:17I mean, I'm literally like, it seemed like the first time.
25:19Who do you play for?
25:20I've honestly never heard of the guy, not once in my life.
25:22When did he play in the 50s?
25:23Oh, it doesn't even count.
25:27Ignorance from modern-day football fans probably wouldn't bother Albert,
25:31who conquered a few shortcomings in making it to the pros.
25:35Frankie Albert, you know, was...
25:37He had two curses.
25:38He was left-handed and he was short.
25:39And he overcame them both.
25:41Frankie Albert belongs in the list.
25:43He didn't play that long.
25:44But he was a really good player.
25:47As far as having a lot of success and being a well-known player,
25:52yeah, he was the first among the South Pole quarterbacks.
25:55Certainly a great old-school name, Stanford.
25:59The United States took all their players.
26:05...has been the home of great stars as well as great teams.
26:09And of...
26:10...the league average excluding him was 58.
26:20...stars to form a galaxy.
26:22He was really kind of the first poster boy for football in San Francisco.
26:28The first time when I was a youngster and I saw a picture of him with the ball in the
26:32left hand,
26:32I thought, gee, they made a mistake in the photograph.
26:35But he was a left-handed quarterback.
26:37With his number 63 jersey, as unique as the arm he threw with,
26:42our number four lefty passer piloted the 49ers through the 40s
26:46as part of the Upstart All-America Football Conference.
26:49He had 29 and 27 touchdown passes in back-to-back years.
26:53That was major production back then.
26:56The little lefty heaves it for a 49ers touchdown.
27:00The gaudy touchdown totals helped earn Albert co-MVP honors in 1948.
27:06Frankie and Otto were the recipients.
27:08Join me as the league's most valuable player award.
27:11The leagues merged in 1950,
27:13and the 49ers lefty signal caller came to the NFL with a few tricks up his sleeve.
27:21He was one of the first guys I remember, you know,
27:24coming off of faking the handoff on the sweep one way
27:27and then keeping the ball coming out the other way.
27:29Bootleg as it's called.
27:31Albert combines good faking, running ability, and passing
27:34as he fools the Browns with a fake bootleg, good for a touchdown.
27:38He was a magician with the football,
27:40and his coach at Stanford, Clark Shaughnessy, said
27:42his best attributes are those of a faker.
27:45So nobody ever knew where the ball was going
27:47or who had it when he was wrong.
27:50A fake trap play that fooled even our cameraman.
27:53Frankie and Otto were the faker.
27:55When he got outside the pocket, he was very dangerous.
27:58A lefty who just liked to run around like a crazy man.
28:01That was Frankie Albert.
28:03Throwing the football, spreading out the offense, men in motion.
28:07They were reinventing the game, and he had a huge, huge part of it.
28:11Up next, what lefty could do at all?
28:18Are you serious?
28:19A faking quarterback of all time.
28:21Boomer assigned to him.
28:24Number three?
28:25How do you feel about that?
28:26Who's number one and who's number two?
28:27What kind of f***ing call is that?
28:30I think we've got him ranked a little too high.
28:33The best of anything in Boomer's number three.
28:35Boomer in the 80s, yeah.
28:36Boomer in the 90s, the Jets thing.
28:38That's not so much.
28:39Not your problem, Boomer.
28:41Boomer is the worst.
28:43I don't agree with it,
28:44and I can explain my way through it all.
28:47Listen, I need your concentration.
28:51Boomer's size, and the thing that sticks out to me
28:53is, you know, the blonde locks and the left hand.
28:57Coming off an era where you have Ken Anderson,
28:59who threw the ball hard enough to get it there
29:02and soft enough to catch it,
29:04and he was tremendously accurate.
29:06On comes Boomer.
29:08Let's go, boys!
29:09The strong left-handed quarterback,
29:12the ball with a different spin coming out of the left hand,
29:14and it took a long time for his receivers to adjust to it.
29:24A lot of people don't talk about left-handed quarterbacks,
29:27but he was a great passer.
29:30Sires into the throw.
29:31Throws deep.
29:32Into the end zone for McGee.
29:34Touchdown, Cincinnati!
29:35He had a great gun,
29:36and he could throw anywhere on the field.
29:38Which is exactly what our number three lefty QB had to do each week,
29:43running the complex, up-tempo Bengals offense of the 1980s.
29:47They should have a cheat sheet for you.
29:49They should, because this is not a normal offense.
29:51Let's go, let's go, attack!
29:53We basically took our entire playbook
29:56and put it out on the field without a huddle.
30:00And in order to do that, you've got to have smart players.
30:03So there is still motion on that.
30:04Sam Weiss challenged him intellectually,
30:06and Boomer responded to that.
30:08Throws down to right, Holman is going to be a touchdown!
30:11That's Major League, man!
30:13Boomer, to me, was a guy that,
30:15because he got wild high at times,
30:17as left-handers often do,
30:18that would be the only criticism.
30:20I could have thrown a better ball,
30:22so I could have hit him in the stomach with it.
30:27Boomer made being a left-handed quarterback
30:30a little bit of a glamorous thing.
30:32I know Boomer has every passing record
30:34of left-handed quarterbacks in the history of the league.
30:37Sure, our number three softball put up gaudy career passing numbers,
30:41while the 1988 league MVP
30:43lost that season's ultimate prize
30:46to a legendary right-hand.
30:48Into the end zone,
30:49and that's down to Bader!
30:54Boomer Siason was huge.
30:57Not only his physical presence,
30:59but his leadership ability.
31:00Everybody gravitated to him.
31:02I feel like I'm at a wedding with this guy
31:04right in our face all day.
31:05He definitely wasn't an introvert.
31:07Let's take our focus off that jumbotron
31:10and get back on the field.
31:11I liked him because he had an edge to him.
31:14Oh, s***.
31:16You know, it is like we gave up on that s***.
31:18I just didn't give a hoot
31:20about what people thought about him.
31:22He was going to do his own thing
31:23and do it his way.
31:25Oh, what a play on that!
31:27Unbelievable!
31:30Boomer proved from a stat standpoint,
31:33from an execution standpoint,
31:35that it could be done just as effectively.
31:37It didn't matter what side you were throwing from.
31:38Thank you!
31:40A convincing enough argument
31:42to put Boomer at number three on our list,
31:44which should be an honor.
31:46Unless you're an independent,
31:48strong-willed lefty
31:49who had more than just a big arm.
31:51If you don't think you're number one,
31:53then there's got to be something wrong with you.
31:55Because you've got to remember,
31:56all of us quarterbacks,
31:57you know, we have like huge egos.
31:59We like look at ourselves in the mirror
32:00and go, hey, you're a pretty important guy.
32:02Coming up, tales of a lefty
32:04who was a legend on...
32:06The number two lefty.
32:09...orderback of all time,
32:10the Snake.
32:11Snake Stabler.
32:13Who's won?
32:14Snake, you know.
32:17Stabler number two,
32:18I think is probably about right.
32:20A brilliant work of art.
32:22Yasha Heifetz never played a violin
32:24with more dexterity
32:25than Kenny Stabler
32:26is playing the Minnesota Viking defense.
32:28Snake Stabler pioneered the idea
32:31that, hey, left-handed quarterbacks
32:33are just as good.
32:36There weren't any left-handed quarterbacks.
32:38I mean, that started with me
32:39in high school ball
32:40and in Alabama,
32:41I'd always hear,
32:42good athlete,
32:43but he's left-handed.
32:44You know, I always live with that label.
32:46Stabler rolling to the left.
32:47He's going to go.
32:48Woo!
32:48Wins it in.
32:49Kenny Stabler.
32:51But, you know,
32:51it doesn't matter which hand you play with.
32:53When you play with the people
32:54that I played with,
32:55it all works out.
32:56And Stabler was on the money.
33:05I don't think being left-handed
33:07is an advantage or a disadvantage.
33:09The only thing that looked different
33:10was a guy throwing the ball
33:11with a different hand
33:12and the ball spins the opposite way.
33:15Receivers can figure out
33:16the different spin on the ball.
33:17Maybe you have to have
33:18your right tackle
33:18rather than your left tackle
33:19be better than pass protection,
33:21but these are things he can do.
33:22Back is Stabler.
33:23Puts one.
33:24Goes down the middle.
33:25It's got a wide open.
33:26Touchdown, Raiders!
33:27I asked Freddie Belenikoff about that
33:29the day that I got to training camp
33:30as a rookie.
33:31I said,
33:31this ball looks different
33:32coming at you, right?
33:33He said, yeah,
33:33but I don't notice that.
33:35All I see is a football coming.
33:37Six to go.
33:37Keep bombing.
33:38From the Belenikoff.
33:39Up on the side.
33:39Three, three, three.
33:40Go!
33:41Down, Raiders!
33:46Snake is number two on this list,
33:48but he's number one as a partier.
33:51Legendary partier.
33:52People always thought
33:53he didn't want to work hard.
33:54When he worked hard,
33:55he worked.
33:56But when the work was over,
33:57he was going to go play
33:58and have a good time.
33:59Where were you last night?
34:00He was all late.
34:01I was reading the game plan
34:02by the light of the jukebox, right?
34:04That was one of his lines.
34:05I don't really need
34:06an awful lot of sleep.
34:07I would read the game plan
34:08by the light of the jukebox sometimes.
34:10How much sleep do you need
34:12to go play three hours?
34:13I picture Ken Stable
34:14like, you know,
34:15kicking open the saloon doors,
34:17you know,
34:17those wooden swinging doors
34:18like in the old west,
34:19going in,
34:20having a couple of whiskeys,
34:21looking at his watch.
34:22Oh, I got a game in three hours.
34:23I better get going.
34:28Late in the game,
34:29that cool,
34:30everybody felt it in the huddle.
34:31He was going to take you down,
34:33boom, boom, boom,
34:34and make something happen.
34:36Okay, in the huddle today,
34:37we got the snake at quarterback.
34:39To me,
34:39Kenny Stabler
34:40was the definition of clutch.
34:42He's under the gun.
34:43He's on.
34:44He's on.
34:45Winner.
34:45He caught it.
34:46He caught it.
34:47Go.
34:49There was a little magic
34:51about Ken Stabler.
34:52That renegade,
34:53he was a very popular,
34:55mesmerizing figure.
34:57Stabler roaming to the left
34:58for us,
34:58a quick touchdown
34:59for Kester.
35:00Ken Stabler
35:01was the first lefty
35:02to ever win a Super Bowl.
35:04He was a great quarterback
35:05on a team
35:06that won a lot of games.
35:08He's one of those guys
35:08you just see him out there
35:10and flinging the ball
35:11left-handed,
35:11and he just got it done.
35:15Coming up.
35:16I mean,
35:17he had a run
35:18in his career
35:18where
35:19he was 50-11-1
35:22in the regular season,
35:237-4 in postseason.
35:2557-15-1.
35:30He won
35:3679% of his games
35:38for five years.
35:40And now,
35:41number one
35:42lefty quarterback
35:43of all time,
35:44Steve Young.
35:46Steve Young,
35:47without a doubt,
35:47best left-handed
35:48quarterback of all time.
35:49All right,
35:50watch the hot and the flat.
35:50Double wing right.
35:51What's that?
35:52Hey,
35:53don't touch my ball now.
35:54Steve was such
35:55an unusual athlete anyway.
35:58He was kind of
35:58the Tim Tebow
35:59of his generation.
36:01People looked at him
36:01as a multi-threat
36:03runner style
36:04of quarterback.
36:05I'm sure the people
36:06of Tampa Bay
36:06have a much
36:07different opinion
36:08of Steve Young
36:09than the folks
36:10out in San Francisco.
36:11I mean,
36:12when he came
36:12to the 49ers,
36:13you know,
36:13he was considered
36:14a bust.
36:15Bill Walsh drilled
36:16Steve Young
36:17into becoming
36:18a passer.
36:19Left-handed-wise,
36:20he's better than
36:21a lot of right-handed
36:22quarterbacks
36:22ever thought about
36:23being much less
36:24left-handed quarterback,
36:25so he's got to
36:25be number one.
36:27Howdy, baby.
36:28Howdy, baby.
36:32Get in out of the huddle.
36:33Listen close.
36:34Get your ear
36:34into my face.
36:35You know what I mean?
36:36Let's go.
36:36In 1991,
36:38an injury to the
36:39right-handed legend
36:40Joe Montana
36:41gave lefty Steve Young
36:43the opportunity
36:44he'd been waiting for.
36:46He had so many cards
36:47stacked against him.
36:48It was always perfect
36:49and poetic
36:49that he was left-handed.
36:50Symbolically,
36:51he was so different
36:52from Joe.
36:53That's how you write
36:53it up in the script.
36:54Get back up
36:55and it's landed
36:56out of the 16-yard line.
36:58Then he lost the ball.
36:59Stupid.
37:00Joe Montana
37:01would be running
37:02in the first place.
37:02This was a controversy
37:03that swept through
37:05the Bay Area
37:05for several years.
37:06Joe or Steve.
37:08Steve or Joe.
37:09Montana's still the best
37:10and he always will be.
37:12You think about Steve Young
37:13and just all the pressure
37:15that comes with
37:16replacing a legend.
37:18People here,
37:19they think that's what
37:20Joe Montana would do.
37:21Steve Young took this
37:2249er team right down
37:24the field.
37:25And then to thrive
37:26after all of that.
37:28Boy, you know,
37:30Steve Young deserves
37:31to be in the Hall of Fame
37:33and number one
37:34on this list
37:34for dealing with that.
37:35He believed in
37:36a scrambling lefty.
37:37Thanks, Bill.
37:44He's a very intelligent guy.
37:45Same name as the category.
37:50Rubber Wedding
37:51and Marching Band.
37:52Yeah, wow.
37:57He has probably
37:58a much higher IQ
37:59than the average guy
38:00to go along
38:00with great athletic ability
38:02and usually
38:02at the quarterback spot
38:03you see one or the other.
38:05For a brain your size,
38:06you're not really
38:07acting very smart.
38:08Steve Young
38:08was the most complete
38:10quarterback of all time.
38:11It could have been easy
38:12for him just to be a runner.
38:14He's got some room.
38:14He's going to try
38:15to dive for it.
38:16He gets there!
38:17And a lot of people
38:18assumed that he was running
38:19because he couldn't
38:20make the right decision
38:21but he ran with a purpose.
38:23Steve Young
38:24for the courageous game.
38:25He was talking
38:26about the highest
38:27and the reception ratio
38:28of all time.
38:30Yeah, he could make
38:31the right decision.
38:32The pro football player's
38:34career to get the winning
38:36score is just
38:37the stuff of legend.
38:38Even in a preseason game
38:40I still remember
38:41Steve Young
38:41without his helmet on
38:42not running out of bounds
38:44but cutting back inside
38:46and trying to get
38:46extra yards.
38:47He was a fantastic
38:48competitor.
38:49That's guts.
38:50And he ran effectively
38:51but he threw
38:52with a purpose
38:53and threw very effectively.
38:55The ball had to be perfect.
38:57It was!
38:57The Niners will win it!
39:01The 49ers are going
39:03to the Super Bowl
39:04number 29 in Miami.
39:06As good as Steve Young
39:07was after Joe Montana left
39:09he was never accepted
39:10until he took that team
39:12past the Cowboys
39:13and won a Super Bowl.
39:15You won't have to hear
39:15any more talk about
39:16Steve Young getting
39:17to the Super Bowl.
39:19Now he'll have to win one.
39:21Quick pass to the goal line
39:22Floyd falls in!
39:23Touchdown 49ers!
39:25Run straight back drop
39:26quick pass left flat
39:27Ricky Waters makes the kill!
39:28Steve Young did more
39:30than just win the championship.
39:32He tossed six touchdowns
39:34and the greatest
39:34passing performance
39:35in Super Bowl history
39:36belongs to a lefty.
39:38He was one of those guys
39:39that when he won the Super Bowl
39:40you could tell
39:41it meant more to him.
39:42The tears, the shaking.
39:44And no one could ever
39:45ever
39:46take it away from us
39:47ever!
39:48And that's because
39:48he's left-handed.
39:50You know when you walk
39:50in a camp that should say
39:52here is all the righties
39:54and then
39:55one lefty
39:56Steve-O.
39:57Our list is complete
39:59but the debate
40:00reaches on.
40:01You got two
40:02awesome lefties
40:03at the top of the list.
40:04Other than Stabler
40:05I don't think anybody
40:06could come close
40:07to Steve Young.
40:08I'll go with Stabler
40:09just because there's
40:10a cool factor.
40:11When you think
40:12left-handed quarterback
40:13you think Steve Young.
40:14That's it.
40:14Until somebody else
40:15comes along
40:16and outperforms
40:17Steve Young
40:18as a left-handed quarterback
40:19who could also run
40:20like a running back
40:21and throw the ball
40:21downfield as good
40:22as anybody
40:22Steve Young's the best.
40:24Yeah, I think Steve Young
40:25is the most overrated
40:26quarterback to ever be
40:26in the NFL.
40:27There's going to be a riot
40:28because of this list.
40:29I just think you're an idiot.
40:32Let's hope NFL Films is...
40:34You're interested to know
40:35why do you think
40:35there's a big problem
40:35here's a lotでき
40:35and you shouldn't
40:36have to buy
40:36see
40:36the
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