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Ok list, fun to see so many great players anyway
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00:00The Steelers, the Rooney family, Family Owned, Heinz Ketchup, Vermaney Brothers, Iron City Beer, they got their own wing in
00:11Canton, folks!
00:16Today, we're counting down the top 10 Steeler players of all time.
00:21How many Hall of Famers are on that team, man?
00:24No easy task for a team with 18 Hall of Famers.
00:28I couldn't make a top 10 list for the Pittsburgh Steelers. There were so many great football players.
00:33I think it's virtually impossible to take the Steelers and make a list of 1 to 10.
00:39The Steelers are the only franchise that matters in the league. All other teams pale in comparison.
00:44There are 27 teams in pro football. And then, there are the Pittsburgh Steelers.
00:50Who put this together? I mean, what is this, a joke?
00:55You have nothing compared to the Steelers.
00:57We got the best offense, the best defense. What more do we need?
01:02The history and tradition in Pittsburgh make this list possible.
01:07And in Steeler fashion, they went to the Super Bowl, like, months after this came out.
01:15It's nearly impossible for a player without a championship to crack our top 10.
01:20In Pittsburgh, you have to have been a champion.
01:22Who did the most to help the Steelers win Vince Lombardi trophies?
01:25San Antonio with a touchdown!
01:27You're talking about a franchise that has won six Super Bowls. Unprecedented.
01:32And the Steelers prevail.
01:34And win Super Bowl 43.
01:36You are literally having to be one of the best of the best.
01:39If there's a guy who hasn't won any of it, it's hard to get to the top of that list.
01:44It's hard to get on that list.
01:46When you have a franchise that's won more Super Bowls than any other in NFL history, what other criteria can
01:52you use?
01:53Our countdown features plenty of champions, but to be considered a top 10 Steeler of all time, there is one
02:00other key ingredient.
02:01It's a blue-collar, hard-working town.
02:04They expect you to be the same way as a player.
02:08Did they fit the mold of toughness?
02:11Gritty guy.
02:12Guys are going to bang with it.
02:13Guys are going to hurt.
02:15Finding guys that met our criteria wasn't hard.
02:18Leaving them off the list was.
02:21How could you not have a first-ballot Hall of Famer on the list?
02:24It makes the list an absolute joke.
02:26You could make a top 10 list just based on the 70s Steelers.
02:29The Pittsburgh Steelers are the champions of the National Football League.
02:33You could literally make a top 10 list.
02:36Like, 70s Steelers.
02:39And you maybe put Jerome Bettis, Hines Ward, Rod Woodson somewhere.
02:45And then two of those guys are honorable mentions.
02:48Fourth time.
02:49I don't think 10 is enough for the Steelers.
02:52I think you've got to do like a top 20.
02:54I just don't think you can choose who won it.
02:57And who do we leave off?
02:59The number 10 Steeler of all time.
03:02The bus.
03:03Jerome Bettis.
03:05I think any guy who became the bus has to be on the list.
03:07Go bus!
03:08Bus!
03:09Bus!
03:09Bus!
03:11A guy who could just flat out run you over.
03:13The bus is going to roll.
03:14The bus.
03:15Come on, ride this bus.
03:17You can ride it.
03:18I got a little goofy.
03:19The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round.
03:23Round and round.
03:24Round and round.
03:26The guy was unbelievable for the Steelers.
03:28What a horse.
03:28The bus!
03:29Come on, ride this bus!
03:32Here was this bruising back that was perfect for the Steelers offense.
03:36You talk about a perfect fit.
03:38Hand and glove.
03:39My goodness.
03:40It didn't get any better than that.
03:41Here comes the bus.
03:42You got that.
03:43He's breaking cotton.
03:44He's still at a speed at the 30.
03:46The 25 and 20.
03:47The bus!
03:48The bus!
03:48The bus!
03:53He had no right to be that fast.
03:55Who gave him the right to be that fast at that size?
03:59I want to know.
04:00Free express!
04:02I want to know.
04:05A fuzzy little guy.
04:07And he fit that system perfectly.
04:10Everything the Pittsburgh Steelers represented was embodied in that type of body.
04:15But your own baddest body.
04:16You know what? This is your f***ing city. Oh, man, no doubt. You know what? You're my f***ing guy.
04:22Bill Cowher actually just rolled him from the line of scrimmage, and he just kind of knocked over defensive backs.
04:29The linebackers like Candleton Bowen.
04:32When people say you fit that skill and mold, it's because I was tough, physical, and hard-nosed, and that's
04:37what I set out to be.
04:40I'll tell you, to be on a list with so many Hall of Famers is incredible.
04:46My first f***ing list.
04:47I forgot he played with the Rams. Is he still as a leading rusher? If we take out the Rams
04:52years?
04:53He's probably 11 to 12.
04:54How could you dismiss him with the yards he has? It's amazing. I'm your first ballot Hall of Famer, and
04:59it should be.
04:59How could you not have a first ballot Hall of Famer on the list?
05:02Despite retiring fifth on the NFL's all-time rushing list, guiding the Steelers to their fifth Lombardi trophy gets Jerome
05:09Bettis on our list.
05:12We're champions on the wall, baby!
05:14But if it weren't for one miracle tackle, he wouldn't be on the list at all.
05:19He was a passenger. He stole that one. He meant nothing to that team.
05:23He almost blew it when he fumbled on the goal line against Indianapolis in the playoffs.
05:27He coughed it up. That was bad. And then Ben had to go make a tackle.
05:33There's a good draw. He has a goal.
05:35Oh, he's on the ball.
05:35Oh, he's on the ball.
05:36Oh, he's on the ball.
05:36Oh, he's on the ball.
05:37Oh, he's on the ball.
05:38Oh, he's on the ball.
05:38Oh, he's on the ball.
05:38Oh, he's on the ball.
05:38It was like, I don't believe it.
05:40Is this how it's supposed to end?
05:42Jerome might be remembered as a GOAT.
05:44Jerome Bettis was a shoestring tackle away from the NFL's ultimate humiliation.
05:49He tackles it up all the time.
05:51If Ben doesn't make the tackle, Jerome Bettis is Bill Buckner.
05:55He would have been remembered as the guy who blew it,
05:57and everything he had done up to that point would have been forgotten.
06:11The reason he did make our list is summed up by one play.
06:16I remember one time in the snow, the Bears came to Pittsburgh.
06:20It was a field a day made for Jerome.
06:23Right in the bus.
06:24Right in.
06:25He got his belt ties on.
06:28He was the bus that day.
06:30And he just clawed over her.
06:32If you would say, show me what the bus is all about,
06:36I'd play that play for you.
06:38That's what the bus is all about.
06:39Jerome Bettis just wasn't going to be tackled.
06:41This was one of the best middle linebackers playing the game.
06:45That defense was clearly no joke.
06:48The next year, they carried Rex Roseman all the way to a 13-3 record in the Super Bowl.
06:54That defense was no joke.
06:57And he was roadshow.
06:58He's mad at my football, baby.
07:02This is where I stopped.
07:04That defines Jerome Bettis.
07:05Give me a little, I'm going to take a lot.
07:07And I'm going to get to the end zone.
07:09Up next, what legendary wide receiver couldn't hold?
07:13Lynn Swann.
07:14No way.
07:15We're Stallworth.
07:16Stallworth was the better receiver.
07:17Lynn Swann is the only wide receiver from the 70s to make our list.
07:22No John Stallworth on this list.
07:24First of all, Swann and Stallworth should probably be a duo.
07:26Well, I might have had to have a combo.
07:28Individually, they wouldn't have been as good.
07:30If Chuck Mollah had a salary cap, he'd be gone.
07:33Swann or Stallworth.
07:35Would you like to make that decision?
07:37Why did we decide to have Swann over John Stallworth?
07:40He played better in big games.
07:43Lynn had the nag for the big play.
07:46I'm pretty sure Stallworth caught multiple touchdowns in the Super Bowl also, so.
07:52Hey, he's got the most clutch there.
07:54I'm not going to catch Swann.
07:55If we're having a pickup game, I'm taking John Stallworth.
07:5875-yard strike to Johnny Stallworth.
08:01Swann over Stallworth.
08:02That was a gutsy call on you guys.
08:03Sorry, taking Swann over Stallworth.
08:08So why is Swann only number nine on our list?
08:11He was a ballet dancer in a blue-collar town.
08:15You're talking about a team that was known for its tough, hard-nosed, blue-collar football.
08:20Lynn Swann took ballet lessons.
08:23He didn't fit the mold.
08:24It just seemed unstealer-like, in my opinion.
08:26I'd have to knock an out-tank for that.
08:28Everybody on a football team can't be tough, guys.
08:30There's got to be room for ballet, guys.
08:32Lynn Swann, soft.
08:34Have you ever seen the forearms he took from the Raiders?
08:37I mean, just beat and brutalized.
08:39He came back and played.
08:40That guy was tough.
08:42My job is to go ahead and catch the ball.
08:43And as a receiver, if I want to be effective and good,
08:46I cannot go out and worry who's behind me when the ball's in the air.
08:49Come on.
08:50He is a crybaby from the junction.
08:52Not only that, the guy who's a good football player, but he's soft.
08:55George Atkinson, who never sold a ticket in his life,
08:59never interested in anybody in a game of football,
09:01would knock him out and get away with it.
09:03They're villains.
09:05They're criminals.
09:07Raiders are doing whatever.
09:09Lynn Swann persevered.
09:10In his own way, he was very tough.
09:13The public doesn't realize that.
09:14They think, oh, how graceful he is.
09:16He's a swan.
09:16You look at his name.
09:19He went over the middle and took those hits
09:22like any other receiver of that era.
09:27Lynn would stick his nose in there.
09:28He's like a prize fighter.
09:29He could have played on our defense.
09:36Oh, he belongs to the top ten Steelers of all time, no question.
09:39This is Lynn Swann.
09:40Lynn freaking Swann.
09:42Lynn Swann is Pulitzer.
09:43Acrobatic catches, Baryshnikov and cleats.
09:46For this Baryshnikov in cleats, all the fields a stage.
09:50For nine seasons, Lynn Swann lived in the sky for one precious moment after another.
09:56But when championships were contested, he literally rose to the occasion.
10:03What he did in big games is what takes him to the next level.
10:07Swann, touchdown!
10:09Swann's championship performances are among the best in Steelers history.
10:14Two catches he made in Super Bowl X earned him a spot on our list and the game's MVP.
10:20Lynn Swann's levitating leap was one of the great catches in football history.
10:25That was the first time in the Super Bowl era that there was a play that we could watch over
10:32and over and over again.
10:34Just his involvement in that play, even if he had never done anything else, puts him among the top ten.
10:40364 receiving yards, three touchdowns in the Super Bowl.
10:45That's near a record, if not the record.
10:47Steelers of all time.
10:48Everybody talks about the one where he was falling down.
10:51But the better catch was to catch it on the sideline.
10:53Lynn Swann's kangaroo catch for Pittsburgh in close.
10:57Nobody had bigger play.
10:59It's easily the better catch.
11:00There's some bigger games than Lynn Swann.
11:01What is that you're holding right there?
11:02This is the game ball for the Super Bowl.
11:07It's all mine.
11:07Lynn Swann, you were sipping it.
11:08This guy came up big when he had to come up big.
11:11He was a clutch performer.
11:12Probably a big reason why he's on the list.
11:14It's the number eight steal of all time.
11:17Hines Ward.
11:20Hines Ward, the most underrated great wide receiver of our time.
11:25He's what Lynn Swann isn't.
11:26Maddox fires to the goal.
11:27The pass is caught by Hines Ward.
11:30And he fights his way to the end zone.
11:32You got to call him Wines Hard.
11:33Hey, wait a minute.
11:35No matter how successful he is, how many catches he makes, how many Super Bowls he wins,
11:40he always has something to complain about.
11:42But he wins.
11:43You're going to let him go if you're trying to break him.
11:45That said, he's an awesome receiver.
11:47He has more receptions than anybody in the history of the franchise,
11:50which includes two guys in the Hall of Fame.
11:52Fires back to the end zone.
11:53Slow down, pick first.
11:55That's how you play, baby.
11:56This is a guy who was not a high draft pick.
11:58Had to prove everything.
11:59End zone.
12:00Touchdown, pick first.
12:01When he spells the end zone, nobody breaks him down.
12:05Hines Ward became a receiver Steeler fans could love with all their thirst for work ethic.
12:13Since he arrived in Pittsburgh in 1998, our number eight Steeler has taken some tough hits,
12:20but none like the ones he dishes out.
12:22He is the toughest wide receiver ever to play the game.
12:27I wouldn't say that.
12:28I'll tell you what.
12:29Hines Ward is tough today.
12:31Whoever's second is not a very close second.
12:3486 is 11.
12:35Let's go.
12:35F-I-D-4.
12:36How many wide receivers do you know would rather hit people than catch?
12:39Yeah, don't look over here for a level punch in the mouth.
12:43He went right at Ray and Reed.
12:48He's dirty now.
12:49I think he plays within the rules.
12:50If you always have to wonder where Hines Ward is because he might come up behind you and hit you,
12:55I don't think that that is the way that most players will play the game.
12:59They changed the rules to keep him from blindsiding people and knocking them out and breaking their jaw.
13:06Like he did to keep rivers of the Cincinnati Bengals a couple years back.
13:09That's just a good block by Hines Ward.
13:11I mean, there's nothing dirty about it.
13:12I mean, this is football.
13:13Just a hard block.
13:14How many of you deserve that, sir?
13:19With four Pro Bowls, two Super Bowl rings, and a Super Bowl MVP,
13:24it's no wonder why number 86 is number eight on our list.
13:28He's going to throw it down the field.
13:29Is it an open?
13:31Touchdown, football!
13:32Hines Ward!
13:33And the Steelers prevail.
13:36Hines Ward epitomizes Pittsburgh Steelers football.
13:39Is he better than Swan?
13:40No way.
13:42Is he better than John Spalworth?
13:43No way.
13:44He's got it!
13:45It's on the 10!
13:46And he's got a Steeler touchdown!
13:48He should be on the list.
13:50Absolutely.
13:50And you can put it in the books!
13:53Coming up, what current Steelers inclusion on our list is being questioned by Hall of Famer?
14:00The number seven Steeler of all time, Troy Polamalu.
14:06He'd be hired today.
14:07I don't know if Troy should be on the list yet.
14:09I don't think it's premature to put him on that list.
14:11I'd have him high on the list.
14:12He's just one terrific football player.
14:15He's got the hair.
14:16The hair kind of makes him a little flamboyant.
14:19How would you get your hair like that?
14:20In fact, how long does it take him to comb it?
14:22That's what I want to know.
14:23He uses a lot of conditioner.
14:25Oh, they tried to sneak it.
14:27Oh, Troy came up over the top.
14:29Superman!
14:29What a play.
14:30It's just like Cousin It going and tackling somebody.
14:32It's just this big whirling dervish of hair.
14:34It does seem to be a dichotomy that we're talking about Troy Polamalu's lush and soft hair.
14:39My goal was to somehow pull his hair.
14:42Across midfield and dragged out by Larry Johnson's shot behind.
14:47He's grabbed him by his hair!
14:48He's got the hair!
14:50I think I would long hair myself.
14:52Oh, yeah, that hurts.
14:54It probably hurts.
14:55Really long hair.
14:56You can't play.
14:56You're out of town.
14:57The guy's the anti-stealer.
14:59The hair, he goes to two-hour church services.
15:02I haven't been to two hours of church in my life.
15:04There is nothing about this guy that screams tough except the way he plays.
15:09Polamalu picks it up.
15:10Then he claps Curtis Martin.
15:13Troy Polamalu is the biggest hitter in...
15:16How do you run over Curtis Martin like that and then you flip over Vernon Davis like that?
15:21That's disgusting.
15:23Steelers history.
15:26Big hits aren't the only reason Troy Polamalu is number seven on our list.
15:31His big plays have made Pittsburgh's defense one of the best over the last decade.
15:36Especially today.
15:37I need you.
15:37I need you today, man.
15:39The American Football Conference Championship game.
15:43And no play with vigor.
15:46Snap your W.
15:47The Steelers to Super Bowl XLIII.
15:49Troy's one of those guys the other team will stay away from.
15:53Because sometimes a trip to that neighborhood just isn't worth it.
15:59I still don't know where January Joe was trying to throw the ball.
16:05There were three Steelers there.
16:08Troy Polamalu will change the game.
16:11In that one play, Polamalu ended the season for the Ravens.
16:21I like to call him the Tasmanian Devil of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
16:25Athletically, he can do things that no other safety can do.
16:28Wow.
16:29I mean, he can do that.
16:30He has closing speed.
16:31It's just amazing.
16:32On television, you don't see Troy on the screen.
16:35And all of a sudden, you see this thing darting to make the play.
16:38It's just like a jet that comes out of nowhere.
16:40Plays like a guided missile.
16:41What does he have, rocket boosters in his shoes or something?
16:44Polamalu came diving over the line.
16:47Troy Polamalu said, no way.
16:49Polamalu's presence changes everything.
16:51He's the whole key to that defense.
16:53You cannot say enough about what he means to that Steelers team.
16:56You're a funny guy.
16:57When this guy is healthy, he's in a better safety game game.
17:00Clearly, he's right up there on the list.
17:02And I think if you give him a couple of years, he stays healthy.
17:04He could be the number one man on the list.
17:05Troy Polamalu's a great player, but we're talking about the Steelers, okay?
17:09He should be high on any list, Steelers or otherwise.
17:13Gosh, there's a lot of Hall of Famers for Steelers.
17:17He is not there with Rod Woodson and some of those other great safes.
17:22We had some great safes.
17:23Mike Wagon, Donnie Shell.
17:25Troy is probably better than those guys.
17:27I hope all those Hall of Famers are on the list before Troy.
17:30Because if there's a Hall of Famer left off that list, then there's an argument to be made.
17:36The number six Steelers of all time, Mel Blunt.
17:40She'll be top five.
17:421975's brightest star was a quarter horse rancher from Slidell, Louisiana named Mel Blunt.
17:49If you're lucky, I think you could bump him up a little bit.
17:52Probably the best corner.
17:53He's a top three cornerback of all time, in my opinion.
17:57She'd probably be top five if you're top three at your own position.
18:01The number that I think ever played in the National Football League is Mel Blunt.
18:04Mel Blunt came up for the interception.
18:07So why is Mel Blunt number six on our list?
18:10He's got the most interceptions in Steelers history,
18:13and he's one of the most notorious hitters in NFL history.
18:17The guy goes up for a pass, Mel Blunt was going to get you out.
18:21Mel Blunt, dumpy.
18:22At that time, Mel Blunt could beat up a receiver.
18:25This is a completely different game.
18:27There was no restrictions.
18:28As long as they could keep contact with him, they could bump him all over the field.
18:34Who hit defenseless receivers hard?
18:36You or Mel Blunt?
18:38Blunt.
18:41That's a good question.
18:42Blunt.
18:43Now, who put this together?
18:45I mean, what is this, a joke?
18:48Who his defenseless receivers are hard?
18:51It's me or Mel Blunt.
18:52Quite national, Mel Blunt.
18:54Our number six Steelers hitting even spawned a few urban legends.
19:00A lot of people don't know this.
19:01Mel Blunt killed two wide receivers during the 70s.
19:04Literally beat them to death.
19:05We didn't have the replays, all the different camera angles then that we do now.
19:09They just got these two guys.
19:11Quarterline players.
19:12Not really missed.
19:13Didn't make much money.
19:14Your family said, hey, we can do better.
19:16Don't press charges.
19:17Takes a settlement from the league.
19:19Very well kept secret.
19:20Very hushed up.
19:23There's no way that had...
19:26Conspiracy theories aside, the league had to do something about Blunt.
19:30In 1978, they changed the rules of contact between wide receivers.
19:35Big night train lane didn't kill anybody.
19:37I don't know if Mel Blunt could.
19:39T-burst and defense backs.
19:40The thing that we tried to do in the competition committee was to try to make the game as exciting
19:46and appealing to the fans as we could make them.
19:48Every year, the National Football League comes up with some rules changes.
19:52This year, the most important changes concern pass coverage and the interaction between receivers and defenders.
19:58They're going, well, all right.
20:00The Steelers are dominating and nobody can throw the football on Mel Blunt because he's just mugging receivers all over
20:06the place.
20:07You don't want to start a receiver knocked down or engulfed by somebody.
20:11So let's just outlaw Mel Blunt.
20:13You got to have a positive attitude and you got to believe in yourself.
20:17When they changed those rules, it made me prove to the NFL that we still can play and we still
20:24can be the best.
20:25And he still won Super Bowls after that.
20:26Of his five Super Bowls, he went to three after they changed the rules to supposedly negate Mel Blunt.
20:33Mel Blunt's got to be higher because not only was he one of the greatest defense backs of all time,
20:37he single-handedly changed the rules of football forevermore.
20:40Up next, whose position on our list is the...
20:44The number five Steelers of all time, Jack Lambert.
20:50When the Steelers went to scout Jack Lambert, the field is in such bad shape that they're actually practicing in
20:56the parking lot.
20:57And Jack Lambert is practicing like it's a game.
21:00A couple of times he makes diving plays and comes up and picks embedded gravel out of his skin and
21:08goes back for more.
21:09Jack Lambert's trademark toughness isn't the only reason he's on our list.
21:14He did win four Super Bowls and goes to nine straight Pro Bowls.
21:18Any portal taken these days, Jack Lambert's number one in parts of senior fans.
21:22Jack! I've got come all the way from Mexico to see you, man! This is my dream!
21:28Jack Lambert is the favorite son of every man, woman, and suspicious-looking character in the Pittsburgh area.
21:36Martin's one of Lambert's moon attacks, right? I was a Lambert moon attack. I mean, he was the real deal.
21:40Boy, if you're talking about any image, could there be anybody greater in the Steelers history than Jack Lambert?
21:46It's kind of like looking at Dick Butkus with the Chicago Bears.
21:49I think Lambert should be hired. I think Lambert took the Butkus position to the next level.
21:56At 220 pounds, Jack Lambert fills the middle like a slender Dick Butkus.
22:04He should be far and away at the top of this list.
22:07Jack Lambert is Steelers football, and you just have to wonder without Jack Lambert, would that team have coalesced?
22:13No, Alaska. Jack Lambert was never drafted by that team. I think they would have been a great team, and
22:18maybe the team of the 70s.
22:20I don't think they would have won four Super Bowls.
22:22Oh, not even a lot of more!
22:24If you could put a face with the Steelers, it would be Jack Lambert's face.
22:29It's a face only a mother can love, and only a franchise can embrace, and that's what the Steelers did.
22:33He was their face.
22:34To me, you can't be the face of the franchise unless you have more teeth.
22:37I think he's number five because he only had five teeth in his mouth.
22:40He looked like a Halloween mask with his teeth in.
22:42That's how ugly Jack Lambert was.
22:45Oh, you f***ing whore!
22:47He wasn't exactly ugly. He just had no teeth.
22:53Legit.
22:56Jack Lambert frightened him.
22:59I wasn't afraid of anybody out there, whether they were on my team or the opposing team.
23:04I was kidding about all people have daughters who date as you.
23:08Could you imagine walking up to Jack Lambert's house, knocking on the door, and he said,
23:13Mr. Lambert, I'd like to date your daughter.
23:15Just imagine what it was like.
23:16Ha, ha, ha, ha.
23:17How cool your ass off?
23:21Now, number five Steelers earns high marks not just for having a mean mind, but also a mean disposition.
23:28So, Jack Lambert is best known for having no teeth and a sweet stash.
23:34Great.
23:35Really tough.
23:36Really tough, too.
23:37That's intercepted.
23:38Picked off by Jack Lambert.
23:39He was so aggressive out there.
23:42There was nothing that was going to get in his way.
23:45I'm sure Jack Lambert's a nice guy.
23:47But on the football field, what a mean son of a gun, boy.
23:53He was smart, too.
23:55So, why isn't Lambert higher on our list?
23:58He benefited from playing with a steel curtain defense.
24:01He was just one of many vital components on that unit.
24:05That steel curtain had blocked everybody.
24:07He's number five.
24:08It's hard to imagine there are four Steelers better than Jack Lambert.
24:12For this guy to be fifth on a list of all-time Steelers, that cannot be.
24:16This guy is the epitome of a Steeler linebacker.
24:20That tells you about the depth of the organization with good players and outstanding Hall of Famer.
24:24If Jack Lambert were with another team, I don't know if many people would be right ahead of him.
24:28It's possible here because there's so many great players.
24:32Their number four Steelers of all time, Rod Woodson.
24:37Are you serious?
24:38How can they have him above Jack Lambert?
24:40How can they possibly have him above Mel Blanc?
24:42I don't know if I can put myself in front of men.
24:45No way.
24:46Hey, the guy himself doesn't think he should be that on the list.
24:50You start talking about the Steelers and Mel Blanc, when it comes to defensive backs, to be behind anybody.
24:55I think Mel should take that spot and I should jump back up to seven or seven.
25:02He's a great player for them.
25:03Player of the decade.
25:05Roy!
25:05And that will Roy!
25:06What a hell of a big play by Rod Woodson!
25:09He could run.
25:10He could jump.
25:11He was athletic.
25:12He could do it all.
25:13He was a great football player.
25:16He's really good at super tech mode.
25:19Really, really fast.
25:20When he got the ball after he made interceptions, some of the best running you'll ever see by anyone.
25:24Here comes Rod Woodson!
25:25See you later!
25:26If you're looking at it purely in terms of performance, football ability, how dominant he was out there on the
25:31field,
25:32heck, Rod might be the number one Pittsburgh Steeler of all time.
25:34Rod Woodson goes all the way for the Steeler touchdown!
25:38You've got to take it serious when you become players.
25:42Our number four Steeler went to 11 Pro Bowls and remains the only player to be selected as a cornerback,
25:48safety, and kick returner.
25:51I think maybe when I played in my time frame, there was better cover corners.
25:54Intercepted by Woodson!
25:56There might have been some better safeties.
25:58And for big defensive light, and Rod Woodson come true!
26:01I think there might have been some better kick returners.
26:03Woodson came right through Kansas City like water and through a still.
26:07But I think putting that all together in a package, I was proud of that.
26:15Talent and versatility are important.
26:18But to be this high on our list of Steelers, you have to be tough.
26:22In 1995 season, he blows out his ACL early in the year and almost unprecedented.
26:28The Steelers come back and plays in the Super Bowl on that blown out ACL.
26:34Carry him all year, with really one shot, and one shot only for him to play, and that's in a
26:39Super Bowl.
26:40Just the act of keeping that roster spot open says a lot.
26:43Rod just in the right place at the right time.
26:45You know, he had a coach, Bill Cowher, where a lot of people would have put Rod on the region
26:51itself.
26:51Welcome to the NFL.
26:53All the credit goes to Bill Cowher.
26:54I'm like, I can make it back.
26:56And he looked at me kind of like crazy, like, huh, let me think about this.
27:01And then the next day he came to me and said, you want to put this bottle open for you?
27:04I got to play in the Super Bowl.
27:05Just the fact that he came back from that, when most people thought he would never come close, shows you
27:10what kind of drives this guy had.
27:11Rod Woodson made it the way he'd never played this year, and he worked and worked.
27:19Despite our number four Steelers effort, Pittsburgh lost Super Bowl XXX.
27:24So why isn't Woodson higher on our list?
27:26He did win a Super Bowl with one of Pittsburgh's most fierce rivals, the Baltimore Ravens.
27:32Rod Woodson truly was a great player, who is so good he can transcend the fact that of all those
27:38Super Bowl teams, he wasn't on any.
27:40I know he didn't win a Super Bowl with Pittsburgh, but he kept that black and gold tradition of hard
27:45-hitting, hard-nosed defense alive.
27:48The lack of Super Bowls is not Rod Woodson's fault.
27:50Mel Blunt, a great player, but he also played, exactly, a mean joke.
27:55How many other Hall of Famers were on the team with Rod Woodson?
27:58Probably not many.
28:00The shame of it is, they'll follow through it right to it, there was no receiver out there.
28:03There's some great Pittsburgh Steelers.
28:06To be at four, man, I'm honored just to be remembered.
28:10Coming up, what's Steeler on our list?
28:13Which guy can just rock in the game?
28:15Hall of Famer Mike Webster won four Super Bowl championships.
28:19Now, Grant, the Steelers have so many good players, but not to have a guy like Mike Webster on there.
28:25At that...
28:26You have Len Swan on the list, but not Mike Webster.
28:29Okay.
28:30It's a pretty tough call.
28:31Mike Webster.
28:33God bless his soul.
28:34But to make our list, you have to be immaculate.
28:38Frank O'Hara.
28:40The number three Steeler of all time.
28:43Frank O'Hara.
28:47I think you can make the argument for Frank O'Hara at number two.
28:50The one play that you remember with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Immaculate Reception.
28:54Oh, it's the greatest thing ever.
28:56And there's that great shot that was captured of him catching the ball.
29:04First off, he trapped the ball.
29:06And everybody knows that.
29:08It wasn't a catch.
29:10I can't stand those people.
29:12It's the greatest thing that ever happened in the world.
29:14It was bigger than Jesus rising on the third day.
29:40When you have a definitive play in your career, sometimes that's...
29:44That's not all he did.
29:46A curse.
29:47Because it takes the focus off of how good the player was.
29:50All they remember is that catch.
29:52That catch kick-started a dynasty in Pittsburgh.
29:55But it also overshadowed the fact that Frank O'Hara retired as the second leading rusher in NFL history.
30:03Yep.
30:03The numbers will put him on the list.
30:05But I don't think he will be as high.
30:06That play just was the dollop at the top.
30:08A great play on top of a great career.
30:11It was the catalyst for a great career.
30:13But I don't know if Frank O'Hara needed the amount of reception to be the Hall of Fame running.
30:17I think he's still on your list without making that catch.
30:20But it represented a breakthrough for the Steelers as an organization.
30:27Frank O'Hara, in many ways, was the anti-Steelers.
30:30When you think about the Steelers, you think of toughness.
30:33Gritty guys.
30:34Guys are going to bang with you.
30:35Guys are going to...
30:36That sort of thing.
30:37Frank O'Hara was none of that.
30:39The only thing I never liked about Frank O'Hara was the fact he tiptoed out of bounds.
30:42At the line of scrimmage, Frank O'Hara made elucidness look elegant.
30:47But he often...
30:48Jim Brown, when Frank O'Hara was chasing his record, he came out and said, basically, Frank O'Hara was
30:54a punk for going out of bounds.
30:57He did unnecessary punishment at the play's end by running out of bounds, a style that offended those who would
31:03confuse bravado with bravery.
31:06Jim Brown was the man who said, how come Frank O'Hara, when he's going to get hit on the
31:10sidelines, continuously runs out of bounds?
31:13For me, to run out of bounds because of a collision is to admit weakness.
31:17Why would you run into three people?
31:19How stupid is that?
31:21If we needed that extra yarn, he doesn't have a bunch.
31:25He was a thinking man's running back.
31:27It probably added years to his career and yards to his resume.
31:31It was smart.
31:32That doesn't make him smart.
31:33The thing was to play smart.
31:35Those excuses were what I would consider weaker minds.
31:39Jim Brown did not vote on the Spitberg Steelers list.
31:42That's the only way Frank O'Hara is when we get to three.
31:48Frank O'Hara's great because he's the only guy with his own Italian army.
31:51I mean, there's an entire Italian army at every Steelers game for this guy.
31:56Frank O'Hara, Frank O'Hara.
32:00Of course he's a top three Steeler of all time.
32:02Let's move again, we have the running game.
32:06What's this red doing to the right?
32:08What's this?
32:09You ain't doing to the right.
32:10The Italian flag.
32:12The Italian army was great.
32:14The Steelers are so great and they play the best of all.
32:18It did a lot for his career.
32:19Everybody belonged in Franco's Italian army then.
32:22Even if you were Irish, you joined the Franco's Italian army.
32:25To take our beats for the Super Bowl.
32:30When you think about a running back, he was the cream of the crop.
32:35Franco's ability to transform into an army of one in the playoffs is the reason he's number three on our
32:41list.
32:43Frank O'Hara has become the first player in Super Bowl history to score three touchdowns in three Super Bowls.
32:49When someone tells me that the regular season game is the same as a championship game, not to me it
32:58isn't.
32:58He's one of the best ever in the postseason.
33:00So he now has scored 17 touchdowns in postseason play, which adds to his own NFL record.
33:06Big money running back.
33:08Big guy really kept throwing away.
33:11And he's had his fourth touchdown in the Super Bowl play.
33:15And he's the only player to ever accomplish that.
33:18Big game.
33:19There was no one better than Franco.
33:21No one.
33:22With only two spots left on our countdown,
33:25which was the most controversial decision we made while compiling our list?
33:30Jack Hamm got him down.
33:31Where's Jack Hamm?
33:32I mean, you're talking about maybe the greatest outside linebacker ever.
33:35Where's Jack Hamm ever?
33:37Make it 11.
33:38Jack Hamm needs to be on your list.
33:40There's an interception by Jack Hamm.
33:42Jack Hamm locking you on this list invalidates the entire list.
33:46It makes it look an absolute joke.
33:48We're splitting hairs, but Jack Hamm made one less foble than fellow linebacker's Jack Lambert.
33:54The next stealer on our list has no hairs left to split.
33:58Another three-star of all time, Terry Branshaw, too.
34:03For a guy who couldn't spell cat if you spotted him in a C and the A, Terry Branshaw's done
34:09pretty well.
34:13Terry Branshaw, too dumb and made it into a weapon.
34:16Yeah, I mean, I was dropping back and I could see the defense and see him going into the weak
34:19zone.
34:19And I could see the whole picture and he's definitely ready to go.
34:24If that continues, you know, that's going to be great.
34:26He wasn't dumb.
34:27He couldn't allow the stealer at the four Super Bowls and made all the big plays.
34:30It's time for a touchdown, Doroski.
34:33We need to make the plays in the playoffs.
34:44When our number two stealer came into the league, he was the number one draft pick in 1970.
34:51Living in the city of Pittsburgh didn't exactly one of my goals in life.
34:56With Branshaw calling the plays, the stealer's goal was to have their first winning record since 1963.
35:03That's a lot warmer.
35:04Branshaw's back.
35:05The rush is off.
35:06He has to unload it.
35:07He has to be right.
35:07Lear going in for the touchdown.
35:12I always get a kick out of people talking about, you know, how dumb it is.
35:17I don't know where that ever came from.
35:19Where are you watching?
35:21Talk to my agent about my next movie.
35:24I'm not going to last it.
35:26Oh, it's beautiful.
35:28Pittsburgh, Steve.
35:29The finest team around.
35:31He's a pretty smart guy.
35:32He knows how to take an offense, work it, call it, execute it.
35:36He's going to get around the swing of us and he's like a hit.
35:38Okay.
35:39He's going to go all the time away, man.
35:40He wanted people to think that.
35:42He realized that if people...
35:45It was a trap.
35:47They got...
35:47Thought he was stupid.
35:48It was easier to get things accomplished.
35:50There was one game that the Super Bowl with Tom Henderson said,
35:54you give him the first two letters and he can't spell it.
35:58I think Bradshaw is dumb enough to spell W-I-Penn.
36:05It's not like the old Steelers.
36:07Believe me, the public, the football world might as well wake up
36:10and just take what I'm saying and heat it because we're going to be a winner.
36:14This year, I'm sure of it.
36:16Here's Bradshaw, running away, and he's going to get back to the court.
36:22The blonde bomber earned two Super Bowl MVPs while leading the Steelers
36:27the four Super Bowl championships.
36:42I often wonder, did it bother him that he doesn't get respect?
36:46His name's not mentioned when it comes to the top quarterbacks.
36:49But on the other hand, not many can hold up all these and shake it like Terry can.
36:58Ladies and gentlemen, the blonde bomber, Terry Bradshaw.
37:05Terry Bradshaw is number two on our list.
37:07But when it comes to Steelers quarterbacks, they'll always be number one.
37:15Roethlisberger surpassed him by now, I think.
37:18There's nobody better than the game.
37:20No one likes a loser.
37:21It really takes something special to be around.
37:24That sounds good.
37:26Keep on.
37:27That's all right.
37:27You keep going.
37:28Coming up, who's our number one Steelers?
37:32Now, the number one Steelers of all time.
37:36Mean Joe Green.
37:39Out of all the players in the history of the Pittsburgh Steelers,
37:44if you had to pick one that showed how great this franchise was,
37:48it's got to be Mean Joe Green.
37:49You start talking Pittsburgh, and first person only comes to mind for most people
37:53is Mean Joe Green.
37:54Number one!
37:57It would be hard for me to come up with a player that did if you put ahead of Mean
38:01Joe Green.
38:01He was an unbelievable force to rep him there.
38:04He just took the game.
38:06Joe Green, roast food, Daniel, Starbucks, and Pots of Bumble.
38:09It's greatness.
38:11Mean Joe had it.
38:12Cloak and a smile.
38:18Chuck Knoll's very first NFL draft choice was a little-known small college defensive lineman named Joe Green.
38:28Mean Joe was our number one Steelers for one reason.
38:31Before he came to Pittsburgh, there was no such thing as the Steelers.
38:36People forget what a terrible franchise the Steelers were before the 70s.
38:41Mean Joe Green brought to the Pittsburgh Steelers that thing that they had never really had, that toughness.
38:46He changed the personality of that team.
38:48With Mean Joe Green in there, all of a sudden, you can start building pieces around them.
38:52You have an identity.
38:53To opposing quarterbacks, he's the twilight of a career.
38:57To the Steelers, he's the dawn of a new era.
39:02No one was ever more deserving of the moniker Mean.
39:05Just remember Joe as he's been a good football player and not really Mean.
39:10Mean weren't a nasty enough.
39:13He was nasty.
39:14He just played the game with a vengeance in that area that he was responsible for.
39:19You were holding him.
39:20He didn't complain to the ref like today's defensive lineman do.
39:23He punched you in an area where it really hurt.
39:26He just got a crack.
39:28He sent his message by kicking the guy in the groin.
39:30Those officers around me didn't like me the whole time.
39:32There are Cleveland Browns linemen out here somewhere who have a permanent imprint of Joe Green's piss in their nether
39:39regions.
39:40Hey, Cleveland!
39:41How you like us now?
39:45Ha!
39:47But Mean Joe's tactics of intimidation paid off.
39:50You had to do so many things to block him that everyone else became freed up.
39:54Without him, would Jack Graham have ever gotten free to go tackle a ball carrier?
39:58Would Jack Lambert have ever had an opportunity?
40:00I would love to play behind him a little bit.
40:02The presence of Mean Joe Green in the middle, taking up so much attention, wreaking such havoc, made all of
40:09those guys much better players.
40:15When you only have ten spots to work with, every great stealer can't make the list.
40:20It was hard to leave off Hall of Famers and multiple Super Bowl winners, but at least some people feel
40:26our pain.
40:27There's so many great stealers.
40:29It's hard to pick which ones you're going to put at the top and which ones you're going to put
40:32at the bottom because they're all truly great players.
40:35It would be impossible for me to say, okay, I'm down here to Terry Bradshaw.
40:40Woo!
40:41And I got Mean Joe Green over here.
40:43Oh, you're like Jack Rambert.
40:45That's where you're ass off.
40:46Ooh, how about Mel Blunt back here?
40:49Mel Blunt came up with the interception.
40:51Hey, let's not forget about some of those great running backs they have over here.
40:54That's cut out of the air!
40:55Oh, and how about those wide receivers?
40:58I think it should be two-less with that franchise.
41:05Nope, you only get one list on this.
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