Terry Bradshaw Does Not Deserve To Be in the NFL Hall of Fame

[polamalubeast]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4...e-to-be-in-hof

Terry Bradshaw Does Not Deserve To Be in the NFL Hall of Fame
By Josh Dhani (Senior Writer) on July 09, 2010 1,065
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Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Okay, forget about the Joe Namath discussion of him being in the Hall of Fame. It was a different kind of era and him winning Super Bowl III changed NFL History. I changed my mind about him. It's hard to see guys throw for 4,000 yards in twelve games.

At least Namath has thrown for 4,000 yards. At least he never had a season of six touchdowns and 24 interceptions.

In my opinion, Bradshaw is just overrated. Really overrated. Sure, he won some Super Bowls, but remember, he had a Hall of Fame running back, two Hall of Fame receivers, and a Hall of Fame defense.

And with those Hall of Fame receivers, all Bradshaw could do was produce a 70.9 quarterback rating. I have never seen a quarterback do that bad with so many targets.

What did Namath have? He just had two helpful guys on offense in Matt Snell and Don Maynard.

Bradshaw had everything a quarterback would dream for.

And yet, he did terrible. Here are his career statistics: 51.9 completion percentage, 27,989 yards, 212 touchdowns, 210 interceptions, and a 70.9 quarterback rating. He is lucky he barely got over the hump over more touchdowns than interceptions ratio.

Now tell me this, are these stats Hall of Fame worthy when you have a Hall of Fame running back, two HOF receivers, and a HOF defense?

Year Team G Att Com Pct Yards TD Int Rate
Pittsburgh Steelers season">1970 Pittsburgh Steelers 13 218 83 38.1 1410 6 24 30.4
1971 Pittsburgh Steelers 14 373 203 54.4 2259 13 22 59.7
1972 Pittsburgh Steelers 14 308 147 47.7 1887 12 12 64.1
1973 Pittsburgh Steelers 10 180 89 49.4 1183 10 15 54.5
1974 Pittsburgh Steelers 8 148 67 45.3 785 7 8 55.2
1975 Pittsburgh Steelers 14 286 165 57.7 2055 18 9 88.0
1976 Pittsburgh Steelers 10 192 92 47.9 1177 10 9 65.4
1977 Pittsburgh Steelers 14 314 162 51.6 2523 17 19 71.4
1978 Pittsburgh Steelers 16 368 207 56.3 2915 28 20 84.7
1979 Pittsburgh Steelers 16 472 259 54.9 3724 26 25 77.0
1980 Pittsburgh Steelers 15 424 218 51.4 3339 24 22 75.0
1981 Pittsburgh Steelers 14 370 201 54.3 2887 22 14 83.9
1982 Pittsburgh Steelers 9 240 127 52.9 1768 17 11 81.4
1983 Pittsburgh Steelers 1 8 5 62.5 77 2 0 133.9
Career Totals
168 3901 2025 51.9 27989 212 210 70.9


Answer that for me. If you can say he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, then by God, put Boomer Esiason, Randall Cunningham and Ken Stabler in there already.

[Chidi29]

What te author doesn't realize is how those career stats are skewed because he, and the team, was still bad for a couple years after he was drafted. He was drafted in 1970; it's not like he came straight into the team that was created by the mid-70's.

The seasonal breakdown shows that.

[steeldevil]

IDK maybe because he won 4 super bowls? He was clutch and played great in the big game. Yes he made a lot of mistakes, but he was a gunslinger and thats what they do. Does Brett Favre not deserve to get in either?

[fansince'76]

Another fantasy football nerd who was probably born a good decade or so after Bradshaw retired. Next.

Correction: a good decade-and-a-half after Bradshaw retired. Even better.

About Me

Josh Dhani

13-year old blogger known widely across the Internet. He also published a book called The Kwame Brown Chronicles featuring some awesome bloggers like Trey Kerby, Graham Brunell, Jonathan Mathis, and Nick Gelso.

[LLT]

Wow...what a completely uneducated article. There was a numbnuts at the old site who tried to use stats alone to "prove" that Mwelde Moore should be our feature back. That is pretty much what this writer just did.

According to the writer....players like
Jeff Garcia at 88.3 ...
Daunte Culpepper at 88.0 ....
Trent Green at 86.1...
Mark Brunell at 85.2...
Brad Johnson at 84.117

belong in the HOF instead of:

George Blanda at 60.6...
Sammy Baugh at 72.21...
Bob Griese at 77.1
Johnny Unitas at 78.20
John Elway at 79.9
and Bart Starr at 80.47


Just to show how skewed the authors perception is: NO ONE would put Kurt Warner in their top five QB's of all time....yet he retired with the highest passer rating of all time at 97.2

The writer (as already stated) is probably too young to realize that Bradshaw was the first QB to win more than two Super bowls...and was elected into the HOF in the climate of having won TWICE as many as any other QB in history. It was AFTER Bradshaws time that Joe Montana won 4...Troy Aikman won three...and Tom Brady cheated his way to 3 championships.

In a nutshell...the writer is a dumb-ass.

[GoSlash27]

Football was a different game back in Bradshaw's day; they didn't coddle QBs like they do now. Also that little matter of 4 superbowl rings.
Was there anyone in the history of the league who could throw a football as far and accurately as Terry Bradshaw? Let's go to the tape...

/author is useless

[Steelersfan]

"""""" In my opinion, Bradshaw is just overrated. Really overrated. Sure, he won some Super Bowls, but remember, he had a Hall of Fame running back, two Hall of Fame receivers, and a Hall of Fame defense. """"""


Do the Steelers have two hall of fame receivers without Bradshaw ??? A receiver needs a QB, good enough, to get them the ball for them to be HOF worthy, don't they ???

And what does a hall of fame defense have to do with Bradshaw being enshrined in the HOF ? Or a HOF running back, for that matter ?

How many QB's throughout history were good enough to win 4 Super bowls ???


I guess there's no way to put an age restrictions on blogging with the grown-ups huh ???

[zulater]

Maybe next week he can tell us how overrated Chuck Noll was?

[solardave]

QUOTE=zulater;23308]Maybe next week he can tell us how overrated Chuck Noll was?[/QUOTE]

Yeah really. Lambert was a pussy, Joe Greene was a wimp!!!!!!(Of course I wouldn't say that to their faces).

[GoSlash27]

Also forgot the matter of the '76 season. Can anyone argue that the loss of Bradshaw *personally* that year didn't screw us?

[Devilsdancefloor]

what a numbnuts!

[Butch]

As the great Chuck Noll once said..."Stats are for losers."

Let's see now Swann doesn't deserve it because he had Stallworth, Bradshaw, Franco and a Stellar Defense. Stallworth doesn't deserve it because he had Swann, Bradshaw and a stellar Defense. Franco doesn't deserve it because...Same old Bull Shit that was started with that Asshole Peter King.

Hey Petie and crew they were all great and happened to play on the same team. WOW to bad your hatered for great teams has blinded you to the greatness of players like L.C. Greenwood, Dermonti Dawson and many others.

[steelerdude15]

Let's also NOT FORGET that the NFL was different then it is today. First off, you could beat the living hell out of the WR. There was no illegal contact and things like that. They didn't call as many penalties as they do today. What this "writer" forgets is that we ran the ball majority of the time. Why not use the weapons we had. Lastly.... TERRY AND CHUCK CALLED THEIR OWN PLAYS!!!! I would those weapons in an efficient manner, just like they did.

[El-Gonzo Jackson]

Another fantasy football nerd who was probably born a good decade or so after Bradshaw retired. Next.

Correction: a good decade-and-a-half after Bradshaw retired. Even better.

Let me get this straight. The author is 13 years old. He isnt old enough to get into a movie that is rated A14, yet somebody on this board actually cares that he wrote a blog.

[PalmerSteel]

i just read the title and chuckled. figured it was some joke. thanks for the laugh.

[BPS3akaWirels3]

LOLOLOL.. No freaking clue..

[The Duke]

Bleacher report, 13 year old boy....

yeah,should not be on this forum honestly

[HometownGal]

Fixed that for ya Gary.

About Me

Josh Dhani

13-year old blogger known widely across the Internet. He also published books called "Dumbassery 101", "Still Breastfeeding at 13" and "I'm A Football Expert Because I Said So".

Dumb fuck.

[salamander]

lolz.

I guess his mommy let him use the computer.

[Godfather]

Did this guy compare Bradshaw's numbers to other quarterbacks of his era?

Next he'll tell us Sammy Sosa was a better power hitter than Harmon Killebrew.

[X-Terminator]

And just when a sensible Bleacher Report article comes out, along comes another one to show once again why Bleacher Report should never be taken seriously by anyone. It's a complete joke.

Hey kid...better log off now. I think I hear your daddy coming...

[zulater]

It's one thing to question Lynn Swann's Hall of Fame credentials. While I agree with Swann's induction I can also see the argument against. But questioniong Bradshaw's inclusion is just plain stupid. Stats don't define Terry, wins do. The Vikings, Cowboys and Raiders of that era were also littered with multiple Hall of Famers on both sides of the line of scrimmage, but those three great near dynasties combined together won only three Super bowls compared to the Steelers four. In fact much of what defines those Steelers teams and their players is who they had to overcome. Terry bested the likes of Stabler, Staubach, Tarkenton to help get those wins and that is why he was a first ballot Hall of famer!

[SteelerFanInStl]

Let me get this straight. The author is 13 years old. He isnt old enough to get into a movie that is rated A14, yet somebody on this board actually cares that he wrote a blog.

agreed

[st33lersguy]

Part of Bradshaw's "poor" stats was the fact that the recievers could get jammed anywhere on the field, his early struggles, the fact that he was playing in a 14 game season, and the steelers generally ran the ball
Whast this guy doesn't remember is that in 1978 Bradshaw was NFL and superbowl MVP
Most important Bradshaw stepped up in the superbowl when he had to
Superbowl IX, Vikings score TD, make it 9-6 steelers in the 4th quarter, Bradshaw ices the game by engineering a long TD march ending with a TD pass to then TE Larry Brown
Superbowl X, steelers up 15-10, heaves a TD bomb just before taking a hit that would knock him out of the game
Superbowl XIII, Bradshaw throws for 300+ yards and 4 TDs, in a 35-31 victory
Superbowl XIV, steelers down 19-17 at the start of the 4th quarter, Bradshaw heaves TD bomb to Stallworth and another bomb to Stallworth that sets up TD. Gets over 300 yards.

In the Superbowl XIV highlight video, John Facenda said "great teams aren't always great, they're just great when they have to be". These words apply to clutch players aswell

[SteelCityMan786]

I have question for the writter, can you name me another Quarterback to win 4 Rings as a starter other then Joe Montana?

[steelpride12]

Just a joke. I knew it was the second I saw the writer and his info.

[polamalubeast]

In the Superbowl XIV highlight video, John Facenda said "great teams aren't always great, they're just great when they have to be". These words apply to clutch players aswell

Really agree with her!

We can say that Roethlisberger is like her!

I thought that Santonio Holmes was like her too.

4 TD in four playoff games and 8 TD in his last 7 games against the Ravens, is one of the reasons I was so not happy to have lost!

And Woodley is like her too!

Eight sacks in four playoff games!...

[tube517]

Yawn.

[CanadianSteel]

Ya that was a wasted 2 mins of my life I will never get back..... Terry was clutch still and to this day threw one of the best deep balls I have ever seen. The Leauge has changed so much and patsy QB's like Brady and Warner would have lasted like 3 years max back in the 70's.

Terry is still the man and belongs in the Hall for his clutch QB performances alone in the SuperBowls. He had greta talent around him yes but he also was great when he had to be or they dont win.

Feel like I am arguing with myself here... :>D

[BigNastyDefense]

This kid's balls probably haven't even dropped yet. He has never had to shave a day in his life. Hell, he isn't even a freshman in high school yet.

Terry Bradshaw is one of the few QB's who played in two eras.

He played in an era where defenses were basically allowed to hit QB's late and mug receivers at any point on the field. An era where few teams threw the ball often, only to supplement the running game.

Then, after the Steelers had won two Super Bowls, the NFL changed the rules some. The pass interference rule and the no contact after 5 yards rule was instituted. After that, Bradshaw's stats started to get better.

Also, if Bradshaw was such an overrated QB, then why did it take us to long to win a Super Bowl after he left? I mean, if he had nothing to do with the success the Steelers had, replacing him shouldn't have been so hard.