Tony Dungy: The most memorable emergency QB of all time

[Steelman]

I normally would avoid posting an article from ESPN, but I thought this was a cool story that I'd only vaguely known about before.


Terry Bradshaw broke his wrist in the first quarter. Backup Mike Kruczek separated a shoulder on the final play of the third quarter. And suddenly, on a fall afternoon in October 1977, the Pittsburgh Steelers were all out of quarterbacks.

Tony Dungy, a rookie safety for the Steelers at the time, was sitting on the bench at that moment...

http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/189236/tony-dungy-the-most-memorable-emergency-qb-of-all-time

[86WARD]

Good story. Never realized that Dungy was a Steelers "QB".

Steelers have been close to emergency status this year. I don't want to see it, but I'm curious how Heath Miller would handle it...lol.

I think Brian Mitchell is the most famous emergency QB from what I can recall. I vaguely remember Payton doing it, but Inremember Mitchell like it was yesterday.

[tube517]

Dungy played QB at U of Minnesota in college. I forgot about that.

He became an asst. coach fairly quickly