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On Sunday, September 12, 1976, the Pittsburgh Steelers faced the Oakland Raiders at Oakland
Alameda County Stadium for Week 1 of the 1976 NFL season.
The Steelers were the defending back-to-back Super Bowl champions and were coached by
Chuck Knowle in his eighth season leading Pittsburgh.
The Raiders were coached by the legendary John Madden and were looking to make it to
the first Super Bowl after three straight losses in the AFC Championship.
This audio recording is from the radio broadcast featuring announcers Tony Roberts and Tom
Pagna.
The public address announced here at the Oakland Town of Cambridge is announcing the
starting lineup for the Oakland Raiders as their offensive unit, wide receiver Cliff
Branch at Westpac Large Shell, the left side is Seenup Shaw.
Dave Delby is the center, George Biller is the right guard, the right back is John Bell,
and on the side end is Dave Kaepfer.
The quarterback of course, Kenny Staibler, at running back, Florence Davis.
The other running back is Mark Van Egan.
The wide receiver, the plank on the right side, is going to be Fred Bollettnikoff.
And that's the starting lineup now for the Oakland Raiders.
Now the procedure this year is that the coin toss is not until three minutes before this
ball game is to get underway.
And I do not believe that they have had that coin toss as yet.
So since they announced the Raiders offensive unit, let's take a look at the Steelers defensive
unit, the front four at left end, L.C. Greenwood.
The left tackle is Joe Green.
The right tackle is Ernie Holmes and the right end is Steve Farnes.
The linebackers, probably the most familiar trio of linebackers in the National Football League.
Jack Ham, the left linebacker, the middleman, mean one, Jack Lambert, and the veteran on
the right side, Andy Russell.
As far as the defensive secondary, J.T. Thomas at left corner, the strong safety is Mike Wagner,
the free safety Glenn Edwards, and the right corner is Mel Blunt.
In a couple of minutes now, the NFL kickoff on Mutual.
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We are having the coin toss.
It's flipped up in the air.
The captain of the visiting team will Claude and I believe Oakland will get the choice.
The official explaining and Oakland is going to receive.
Pittsburgh will kick off and so the toss of the coin and the nod goes to the Oakland Raiders.
The Raiders clad in the black jerseys with the silver pants and the silver numerals.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and the gold pants, the white jerseys, the black piping.
And of course the black helmets.
You notice the booze, Johnny.
A couple of the Bradshaw and Rocky Blire and a lot of Yays.
And Tom Fagner, right now, our national anthem.
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And Mutuals, first Sunday afternoon football broadcast is moments from getting underway.
Roy Geronimo will kick off for the Pittsburgh Stateers and waiting near the goal line.
To our right is Carl Garrett. To our left is Morris Bradshaw.
And this one, a big one for both ball clubs, is about to get underway.
Again, a beautiful, sun-shiny day. Temperature is 65. Very high sky here at the Oakland Codiceum.
And the classic confrontation, the Pittsburgh Stateers and the Oakland Raiders.
A rivalry that matches that of the Bears and Green Bay Packers many, many years ago.
It's a spectacle I never tire of, Johnny. The anxiety and the electricity that you can feel here.
Just before that kickoff where you think all those thoughts.
Well, I wonder what Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Garrett are thinking right now.
And here's Geronimo about to approach the football.
Roy's been around a long, long time. And this one about to get underway.
Geronimo, soccer-style kicker.
Roy's about seven yards behind the ball. Runs up.
It's up on the air. It's coming down. Bradshaw.
No, it'll be Garrett. Two yards deep. That's a five. That's a ten.
Circuit going to the way. 15. 20 goes to the outside.
Up to 25. The 30. Quick one-second of his knockdown. Somewhere around the 33-yard line.
He had a little something going there. He's headed up the middle, broke it to the right.
It's walking form pretty well. And the man that made the hit-off there, at least one of the Pittsburgh Stateers, was Jack Dettiflain.
Running back, who's done a fine job, especially in the past season, for the Pittsburgh Stateers,
a rookie out of Salem College in West Virginia.
Stealers are going to take an even front up front. Looks like an even.
Yeah, Lambertson in the middle, a middle linebacker. Now they move Joe Green over a little bit.
Burston's ten at the 34-yard line. It's right around the give by Kettys Daibler.
They may have been a fumble, but I believe the whistle blew to play dead.
As the handoff went to Clarence Davis, he tried the right side. That right side was stacked up by the big guy, L.C. Greenwood,
and by the linebacker, Jack Lambertson. He's menacing. He climbs right up on the nose on an angle on the center,
just before the snap of the ball. Kind of makes you think a little bit.
Well, the ball is still at about the 34-yard line.
Second down. No gain on the play. Second down and ten yards to go.
Kettys Daibler the quarterback. Turns around. The left hand are looking.
Goes out to the left flat. Taking up the 27. That's a 30. Up to about the 32- and 33-yard line.
And it's Clarence Davis once again, and he may have gotten a yard up to about the 35, and that's about it.
That was an interesting decoy that the stapler came up with right there.
He split two wide receivers to his right, and the defensive secondary for Pittsburgh moved over to compensate.
There was one man left on the tight end. He came back, looked to the double receiver, and screamed off.
So it's third down. They still say ten yards to go. No gain on the play.
Left the golf. Wide to the left. Davis getting the snap. Dropping back. Looking. Looking.
Going out in the flat. He's got a tight end catcher at the 43, at the 45, the 48-yard line.
And Davis Kessler comes up with a catch, and it's good enough for the first down.
And getting up and just a little slow there. It looks like he was holding his wide arm with Jack Ham.
The 6-1, 225-pound, seven-year veteran from Penn State backing up the left side of the line.
But the pass is complete. Stapler to the tight end, Dave Casper.
Great protection that time. Zone coverage, and he picked it apart.
Casper, of course, a former Notre Dameer. That'll make it first in 10 to about at the 48.
The handoff up to the middle. And Davis finds very little running run.
Gets it up, pass, midfield down into the Steelers territory.
And the last man to get up on the bottom of the plow for the Steelers was Ernie Long,
the 6-year veteran tackle from Texas Southern.
Incredible pursuit on the interior of that line. Elsie Greenwood and Joe Green, Ernie Holmes,
converge in the interior run.
Second down to the eighth. The ball just passed the midfields plow with a 48-yard line.
Here's David, eye formation, pitches back, Carl Gerrit, Tancal inside, goes outside,
breaks one tackle, gets down to the 45-yard line.
Fine lateral pursuit by the Steelers defense. Andy Russell was there.
Coming up to make the hit with the right quarterback, Mel Blount, a 6-3, 4-5, 8-year veteran from Southern U.
So on the play, we've got third down now at about 5 yards to go.
As the ball is spotted down right around the 46-yard line of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He's got some work in the room here, Tony. Third and five is a good run-action down.
You can go for a bomb, you can go for the little short 5-yard pickup.
Dave Banners back in the backfield along with Gerrit.
Here's David dropping straight back, looking, looking, throws up over the middle,
plus by Gerrit at the 40. He loads the tackle at the 35. Cussian gets down to the 30-yard line.
And the Raiders have another first down.
Applying catch by Gerrit as he came out of the backfield from the right side,
trickled around over the middle, made the catch, eluded a couple of tacklers,
and got it placed down to around the 30-yard line, and it took me another open first down.
You know, Tony, there were four receivers on that, and the deeper one, leading Gerrit, was Casper.
Gerrit came underneath it and it flooded four people out in the zone.
So another first down for the Oakland Raiders. They started back at their own 34.
They're now out at the Steelers starting one-yard line.
The Steelers are the four-man front. Stabler on the give.
Betta's like going outside. Andy Wessel grabbed him, and then, grabbing that jerk, lost control until the else came in,
and grabbed him and knocked him down, led up the 30 to 29-yard line.
Mel Blunt came up very quickly, and the mean one, Jack Rabbit, was also there to help on the play.
That's a pet play for them to the weak side, to the split-end side, to give to the fullback,
let him slam it in there, take it if he's got it, if not dip it outside.
Well, he dipped it that side, to the sweep side, but it's funny about him. He's tough to get around.
A game of the yard, second down, nine yards to go. The ball at the 29-yard line of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
There is no score. We are in the first quarter. The Raiders started back to 34.
Here's a handoff by Stabler, and it looked like he was going to grab back the pass, sort of a half-back sprint.
The ball was given to Clarence Davis, and Davis ran into the right side. He ran into Steve Pones, the 6'4", 255 pound six-year man on a Rhode Island,
and the play comes to a grinding halt somewhere around the 28-29-yard line.
There's going to be a third down now, and about nine yards to go for a first down.
They've shown two sets here, Tony, so far, of the pro set, conventional, flanker-back and split-end, opposite sides, and two receivers to a side.
Now, here they come out again with the two receivers to their right. It'll be interesting to see if he floods it.
Wide to the left, we've got Lefnick, Alpen, Bradshaw. Stabler looking, looking. He's going to throw down to the left sideline.
It's done it for Bradshaw, and it's incomplete, and he was given a shot by Mel Blunt just to let him know, Mr. Bradshaw, I'm here, and don't forget it.
That was interesting. The underneath coverage, that is, the linebackers, and the inside, the two cornerbacks and the linebackers played man coverage all over.
They had three receivers out, wide receiver, tight end and flanker-back, and then deep behind the linebackers was a twin safety to pick off.
It's called double free safety. Good coverage. Stabler's free for four, 32 yards. All right.
Here comes the field goal attempt. It's up in the air. It is blocked. Scramble for the football, picked up by one of the Pittsburgh Steelers,
and he is whistled down to the ground immediately, and the big guy to knock it down and grab the football was number 75, Meen Joe Green.
Oh, a tyrant on defense. Well, Freddie Steinberg does not succeed on his first field goal attempt. He's 5'11", 185 pounds, number five,
Brad Joyce at a Boston cottage. He replaces the aging veteran George Blanda, and so we have no score on the blocked field goal.
With a score, Oakland nothing, Pittsburgh nothing. There's a timeout on the field. Now this for Buick.
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First down at 10 for the Pittsburgh Steelers, their first offensive series of the game. No score, first quarter action, Bradshaw turns around,
gives it to Rocky Blyar. Blyar, loose one tack, goes to the wide side of the field, gets past the 40 and hustles out about somewhere around the 45 yard line.
So the original line of scrimmage was the 44, Blyar getting about a yard on the play.
A gain of one, it will be second down and nine to go. Bradshaw at quarterback, they're running back to Rocky Blyar, Franco Harris.
Randy Grossman is the tight end, and the wide receiver off the left side is going to be, well, he's in tight this time, and that's Johnny Stallworth.
So both end are inside, Grossman.
Bradshaw reaching under shutter, Ray Mansfield, a veteran of 15 years, 14 years out of Washington.
Bradshaw dropping back, looking, Blyar is up and in and out of the hands at the 43 yard line.
That pass was intended for Lynn Swan, and I want to tell you Lynn Swan was really muscled by Reese Facy Jack Tatum.
That was just an individual play to the flanker back, Swan was out to the right, went down, did a curl hook, and the defense timing was just perfect.
He knocked the ball out of his hand.
Jack Tatum, 511-206, a seven year veteran from Ohio State, coach Tom Bagnott, really established that that was his territory, and Mr. Swan had better beware.
It was a good time to do it early in the game.
Stallworth in the slot to the right side, Swann is wide to the right, Deuce Backfield, Harris and Lockie Blyar.
Here's Bradshaw.
Third down, looking, looking, throwing down to the left sideline, pass is intended for Grossman, and it is incomplete.
An incomplete pass, and coming up to make the hit on the play with Charles Phillips.
You know, that's an amazing place, Johnny, because if that ball had been thrown with a little left air under it, he'd drill it.
And if he didn't drill it, it was an interception ball.
The mouth becomes fourth down today, and the stealer is unable to move the football outside of a yard, gained by Rocky Flier on the switch to the right side.
That means it's Bobby Walden, a 14 year veteran from Georgia, six foot under and 90 pounder, standing back waiting to boot, waiting for the snapback at the 32 yard line.
Deep man is Neil Colzy, the kick angled off to the far side, hips and will go out of bounds, somewhere around the 22 yard line of the Oakland Reders.
The Oakland Reders moved the ball on that last drive, it was just a set of circumstances moving here, inside the 40 that, that cycled them.
Now they're starting deep down in territory, and Staber probably try to run a couple plays out of there, get a little working room, and then go with that marvelous arm of his.
Well, they marked the ball down at the 18 yard line, and the Reders have it first down on 10, at the 18.
There's a timeout with a score, the Oakland Reders, nothing, the Pittsburgh Stealers, nothing, now this word.
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They had the branch wide to the left, and it took off wide to the right, and Staber turned around and gave the ball that was running back, and Mark Van Egan gets that ball up to about the 19 yard line, maybe a gain of one.
In town, Pagna, both teams, of course, doing a little searching, feeling out, no score here in the first quarter, looking for the break that's going to get their all finishes in high gear.
But for the most part, doing a lot of punching into the line, and searching out each other's defense.
Second down, they say a gain of three second out of all of the 20 yard line, seven yards to go.
The handoff, they was coming to the outside, gets it up to about the 30 yard line, but there is a penalty marker on the play.
On the left, a lot of Pittsburgh Steelers, as a matter of fact, one of the Steelers wound up with a football, eventually, and that happened to be the right quarterback, Mel Blunt.
But the penalty marker on the play, that sweep away from the double receiver side, it had to be called, Tony Roberts, because of the definite overlay of the defense of secondary on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
They get double receiver one side, boom, the secondary switches that side, and the Oakland Raiders came right back with a sweep to the opposite side.
Well, the Steelers were outside on the play, so the warm golf is five, that'll make a second out in two, it'll ball up the 25 yard line.
Well, that's the golf comes out, wide to the right, out to the left side, the speedster, Cliff Blunt, who played at Colorado.
What about County Stapler, a left hander, turns around, gives that ball to his tail back, Mark Van Egan, and Van Egan gets it up past the 0-25 up to about the 27 or 28 yard line.
Me and Joe Green is there, and so is LC Greenwood, to make the stop on the play.
That was that Marv Hubbard play that they ran so well, that again slanted the split inside, but Marv, of course, is certainly going for the season.
Mark Van Egan got some good yardage there, and if you're wondering what happened to Marv Hubbard, he has a pinched nerve in his shoulder,
that required another operation, he probably will not see any action this year.
Now we're going to have the stretch, the first big one of the afternoon, and the Oakland Raiders have themselves the first down.
The first down for the Oakland Raiders, first in ten, the ball up the 28 yard line.
No score, first quarter action.
Next Sunday, the lost hand to the Slam, the Minnesota Vikings.
From Bloomington, Minnesota, and the Vikings were out in front of New Orleans, 30-3 at the half, and that spoiled the Coach Hank Strams' debut as coach of the Saints.
Here's a snapback.
Dave Lerd dropping back, looking, may have to run, fires, the ball is in and out of their hands, somebody at about the 32 yard line.
Looks like it might have been Clarence Davison, that's what it was, the half back coming out of the backfield, and he was ridden to the ground almost immediately by Jack Ham.
Both the linebackers and the defensive backs are really establishing their territory beyond the line of scrimmage, you know?
They're so quick with their reflexes, so great at coverage, Oakland so far has got three first downs, two passing and one running, and I really think that it's difficult to take a steady diet of running against the Steelers.
Well that Macalp is wide to the left, that's where the right side is Cliff Wrench.
Van Eken in the backfield along with Davis, they were back to the ball, looking, gets away for one man, circle to his left at the 20, the 25, the 30, he runs out of bounds at about the 33 yard line.
I'll bet you Coach John Madden is just shaking in his shoes when that quarterback has to scramble, he did a great job of scrambling, everybody was covered, and he ducked the rush and came out to his right, but he sure hates to see him run, he's a valuable piece of property.
Well I'll spot it at the 30, three that'll still be about three or four yards short, I'll be a first down.
You take the two wide receivers on that last play, the flanker and the split in, the defensive secondary corner people were just on them, so tight and the rush was getting to them, you know there's just not a whole lot you can do back there when they agreed that they're going to meet at the quarterback, and on that play Van Eken and Davis did not come out of the backfield.
That's exactly right.
They were at two men to throw through and they were both covered. Third down, five yards to go, the ball is up the Oakland 33 yard line, there's no score, they will back the throw, looking fires up field, blocked by Davis, don't take it by flip-flank, and he is landed on the ground.
That was picked up by Mel Flotton and Clott almost head over heels and driven into the turf. That was a pretty good body slam in a wrestling match, yes I should say, cleared the ground with him. That was that classic wide flanker driving off deep and the end coming down underneath or the half back swinging underneath at about a shallow course of about 10, 15 yards.
Has to be an ideal throw, Stabler can do it. Branch is giving his forward progress and that's going to put the ball up at about the 48 yard line. Two yards shy of midfield, so Stabler hits, cliff branch, a very difficult man to cover one on one, compacted because he has this great speed.
Hot to the right is Branch, out to the left we've got Beletnikov. There's a fumble in the backfield and I believe that Stabler fell on the ball. Looks like a missed handoff, Tony. Yeah, like strong formation rate divided back, there's going to be a sweep rate and he missed the handoff.
Gerritson in the backfield now with Mark Van Agen. So the ballers put back at the 45 yard line, that'll be a loss of about three yards, second down around 12 yards to go. They say the ballers at the 46. So a loss of two.
You know, earlier in the first quarter they tried a screen pass and I looked for him to come back. They had a pretty good field position, it wouldn't be a bad shot right here. For instance, there's a double receiver, it was the same set they did, double receiver rate.
I left Beletnikov and it's flat to the left side, we've got Branch. Here we go with Stabler, back to ball, looking for him to the left side line.
Wide open foul, Gerriton, the 46 yard line, 44 yard line. I want to tell you, he looked like the lost man. The closest man to him was Mike Wagner, the strong safety, and he was about five yards away.
And Gerrit tried to run with it before he found the handle and dropped the football. You know, the defensive corner for the Steelers was a little afraid of Gerrit, I think, deep because he backed up.
And in backing up, Gerriton stopped dead at about eight or ten yards deep, right along the sideline, and I think he just knew that he had it and it was so obvious he took his eyes off.
Unfortunately, they pulled Jack Ham, the middle line back around and they have inserted Donnie Shell, an extra back, in what they call an equal defense or the prevent defense.
Now it's third down, 12 to go, the ball is up the 46 yard line. David with Ben Egan back there, looking to foul, looking with Branch down the left sideline, comes back on the pattern, gets the ball, 40, 35, a little bit back there, inside the 39 and 28 yard line.
Grant did a great job, it looked like the old buttonhole, he wheeled around, clumped the ball, eluded the Pittsburgh left corner back, Jay T Thomas, spun around again, clumped the ball up, and got it down to the 28 yard line at Pittsburgh.
That's when Canney movie made his, as he ran, as Cliff Branch ran down the sideline, when he got to a point of ten yards, he came back sharp towards the passer and a great delivery put him in the clear.
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The best in football action over most of these mutual, net worth stations, first in 10, Oakland at the Pittsburgh 48, the pitch out, Davis trying to look for some running room, at the 30 to 25, the 20 and hustled around, somewhere around the 18 yard line.
Palmer Southern California star, Clarence Davis, you know, that's exactly the formation they ran and they were in the eye that time with a combo, a combination of receivers away from him, the short side of the field, that's the Clarence Davis I remember.
Well, up there to make the play, Jack Lambert's a little linebacker, and also the safety Glenn Edwards, no scar, first period action.
I look for the tight end pass here, there's a flankering a wide receiver now and I look for the Casper, no, it's a run, I'm sure.
Second down in two yards to go the handoff, what's the middle of a right guard and it's going to be a first down for Oakland on about the 14 yard line.
The call to Mark Van Eagley is hit by a linebacker, Jack Lambert, and also by Ernie Holmes, but it'll be another first down for the Raiders, and they march forward, so it'll be forced into about the 15.
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Here come the Raiders out of the huddle, Dave Dalby out over the football, in the backfield Clarence Davis, and now Pete Banasak, wide to the left,
Bollettnikoff and Branch, they were back to throw, he's got time, looking, looking, still has time, lost the ball out of the end zone,
it's all been assisted, it looks like the first back play of Hannah Futter was picked off by the end zone by Free Safety Glenn Edwards, a 6.185 pound seven year man from Florida A&M, and the Oakland left dies in the end zone.
Tony, what they tried to do there, and it was a good call, they took the slot back and the tight end on opposite sides and crossed them, figuring that Pittsburgh would be in a defensive man to man coverage, which they were,
the coverage was so good and the ball lost that it caught the interception.
Well, with the score still nothing to nothing, there's a timeout on the field now this for Midland.
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Well, we've got five minutes and seven seconds left to play in the first period, there is no score, Pittsburgh nothing, Oakland nothing.
It'll be first in 10-4 to Pittsburgh Steelers, the ball at the Pittsburgh 20 yard line, the Raiders went 62 yards before the pass was picked off by Glen Edwards and Cutted for Cliff Branch.
So here come the Steelers, they're not over the football now for Pittsburgh Better than Ray Mansfield, quarterback Kateri Bradshaw, the running backs are Rocky Blyar and Frank O'Harris.
Why to the right? We've got Lin Tuan, hand off to Blyar, break one tackle up to 20-25, break three gets up to about the 28 yard line.
Very hard runner, Rocky Blyar, Palmer and O'Harris.
Equated himself heroically in the Vietnam War, came back, became the comeback player here in the National Football League, and he has just ripped off seven yards going over the right side.
And it'll be second down in three yards to go with a ball at the 27 yard line.
That's a pretty good strategy, they think Frank a one-way and kind of a crossbook with Rocky.
Now they're in the eye and a slot formation. Deep man in the eye is Blyar, the pitchback to Blyar, Harris leading the interfere, is Rocky, Cutted at right tackle.
He's got a fuller's way for what looks like first down yardage, and then some as he gets up to the 30 yard line, the Oakland defense ganks up on him, knocks him out of bounds somewhere around the 31 or the 32 yard line.
He's hustled out of bounds right there, so Rocky Blyar and the Steelers should have the first down at about the 32 defense about what they, that is their first, first down.
Our statistician is Bob Coffee.
He's coming third down, conversions, Oakland's had three out of four, Choney.
Then when they spot the football, Davener's going five for nine for 67 yards and one interception.
So they're going to spot that ball up around the 39 yard line.
There was a face mask grab. I did not see a flag drop. Apparently it was down the sideline where they had the gang of players.
So a face mask grab sets the ball up field, and it'll be another first down for the Pittsburgh Steelers, first and ten at their own 39 yard line.
Again, Harris and Blyar in the backfield. Hand off to Franco. Franco can't find anyone at all.
I think he dropped the ball, Choney. He ran into, but apparently the play was blown down to Pittsburgh Recarbon.
He ran into Charles Billiard, the rookie defensive left down to 6'8", 270 pounder from Texas Southern.
It was a number two grab choice for the Oakland Raiders.
Boy, Billiard was waiting for Franco Harris with open arms and Franco really had no place to go.
That was a costly penalty. They may have made the first down anyhow, but the Raiders, I am told, were the most heavily penalized team last year.
Well, that means they are aggressive. They give him two. It'll be second down at eight yards to go.
Here's a turnaround batch off to Franco Harris, cut back against the greatest against the 40 yard line,
spin around and get to about the 43 before being stopped down the play.
It'll be a pick up of a couple of fours for Franco Harris. As Monty Johnson, a little linebacker,
at 6'5", 240 pound, five-year veteran from Nebraska, now in his second year at the little linebacker spot, makes the tackle.
Pittsburgh's doing something with a smoke receiver on occasion. They're bringing him in and making an eventual two tight ends.
Here, of course, there's two wide receivers.
Third down and four to go, but if it's first, see there's no score of first quarter.
Here's Brad Joll back to four looking, throwing up a little open player.
At the 50 to 45, at the 40, inside the 40 to 35, that'll up the 34 yard line.
Before finally being knocked down on the play by left side linebacker Bill D'Opiano.
That was a crossing pattern and a check through. The tight end crossed from his left to his right.
Rocky Blyre came out of the backfield on the right half position and underneath the crossing in.
Four receivers. First in ten, the ball is at the 35 yard line of the Oakland Raiders.
Wide to the right goes Lynn Swan as the Stevers.
Marching goalward now. Then Swan up to the right, the ender inside.
Here's Brad Joll handing off and nowhere to go at the 35 yard line.
Franco Harris having difficulty as a linebacker, Bill D'Opiano, 6-2-0-225 pounds, seven year veteran from Bowling.
Gray makes the stop. Well that was going to just be a power play where they lined up and let Franco have it go into his right.
But he lost his footing as D'Opiano came in to meet him. You know, he's amazing anyhow.
Franco Harris has got those quick feet and a tremendous surge of power when he gets it turned up the field.
Blanked out to the left side is Johnny Starwood. Lynn Swan is also left.
Here's Brad Joll with second down and ten.
He hands it off to Rocky Blyre and Blyre flies right back home to the ball as he's in around the 38 yard line and the Oakland Raiders have recovered.
That's very interesting, Johnny, because it was a trap play.
It was one of those things where Rocky was lined up at left half back, they opened Brad Joll, Rocky slanted in the left guard pole and they had three day late.
It's that little extra effort after it. Five or seven yards game and it's called the ball up.
Bonnie Johnson recovered the fumble and it'll be Oakland ball first down and ten.
Brad Joll, one for three, twenty-two yards, third down conversion, these one for two. The Steelers are anyway.
That'll be first and ten.
Well, the ball is up the twenty-seven yard line.
They're moving the ball but coughing it up inside the twenty yard line.
Wide to the left is Blanche, it now comes in motion toward the line of scrimmage.
Dave LaFaxte is all looking out of the backfield, he's got a man.
That's the thirty-five yard line and that pass was caught out of a twenty-eight bar in Stavis and they'll give him the four or five or something about the thirty-six yard line.
That was an interesting play, came out of the backfield, did a maneuver underneath the wide receiver, made it look like a long pass and then Stavis jetted it out to Clarence Stavis out of the backfield.
An under screen, it's called.
A game of about nine yards on the play, it'll be second down a yard to go, the ball up the thirty-five yard line.
Dave LaFaxte turns around, gives it his half back and he gets the ball up past the forty yard line and it's going to be enough yardage for the first down.
Mark Van Egan carrying on the play and the attack will be by Ernie Holmes.
So they'll put the ball down, not at the forty yard line but at the thirty-nine yard line, that's the first down and ten.
We've got about forty-nine seconds left to play in the period, there's no score.
As Blutnikov comes wide to the left.
Off to the right side we have Clarence Stavis. Stavis turns around, takes the hand off to Van Egan, looking to throw to the sideline.
All those better steps in the pass with a jetted for Clarence Stavis coming out of the backfield and Jack Ham got a hand on it, couldn't hold onto it.
And if Jack Ham had picked that one off, he could have walked into the end zone.
They are so quick, I can sit up here and watch the flat throw.
Normally speaking the ball is in good shape and here comes out of nowhere that linebacker with that quick, quick thrust of speed.
So that'll make a second down and ten, thirty-three seconds left to play in the first period.
And again Blutnikov comes out to the left.
Davis on the far side, Deuce backfield, here Stabler back to throw, looking, throws up over the middle, caught!
That's a fifty and knocked out at the forty-six yard line.
It's Mark Stad Egan who came out of the backfield, he raked up, grabbed the ball and opened once again as in pitch for territory.
That's another first down for the Raiders.
I'm totally amazed at their absolute fearlessness on the Raiders part of sending out three, four receivers all the time.
But they're the check-throughs and they're the delays and they're the things to let the other wide receivers clear out openings and then bring these people underneath.
That's the end of the first quarter with a score still tied.
It's Mark Stad Egan who came out of the backfield, he raked up, grabbed the ball and opened once again as in pitch for territory.
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Well, Branchy, get to that 32-yard line. Five is a spin away from the defender and is down right there. And Mel Blunt made the tackle on the fly. Well, apparently Stabler splitting Branch out as far as he can, divorcing him from the rest of the field and letting him go one-on-one with the cornerback.
And he's working against one of the great ones, Mel Blunt, but he's evidently respectful of the great speed branch as because he backed him off and he curled in. Stabler can deliver the ball if he's got a couple steps.
First down in 10. The ball at the Pittsburgh 31-yard line. David Gerdgeron gives the Van Egan and right up the middle, just straight power play and a head-heat ride. Inside the 30-yard line, down to about the 25-26-yard line, before being stopped on the play.
By a mean Joe Green was there. Dough is middle line backer Jack Lambert. Van Egan hit that play. It was right up over the center and it was trap blocked. The center blocked back to his left. The left guard pulled, trapped up and through and there went Van Egan.
Van Egan picks up five on the play. It'll be second down and five to go. In the backfield Van Egan and Carl Garrett. And off Van Egan, right tackle. Inside the 25-yard line, inside the, oh, close to about the 20-yard line, before being stacked up on the play.
Nothing fancy, they just went power, right tackle. Again, Lambert's gonna make the stop on the play. Last man to get up is number 68, Matt Dirtyholm. Check that, make it out to the Greenwood.
I think that's Mark Van Egan coming out of the ball game and he's getting quite a round of applause for a young player. He's done a very fine job so far.
Oakland switches back now. They take Van Egan and Garrett out and Clarence Davis is in. Along with Banners-Fax.
Banners-Fax and Clarence Davis in the backfield. Staibler the quarterback. Staibler looking to crawl. Looking again. He's being rushed.
The loose one, Packford. Can't get away from another and he'll be down for a loss. You'll have to eat the football back at about the 32-yard line.
Just couldn't find anybody open and the Steelers came with a big rush. Alfie Greenwood. Mean Joe Green. Steve Burnette. Oakland's had 11 first down so far, Tony Roberts. 7 passing and 4 with the rushing.
A lost of 10 on the play. Staibler with Fax. Double big of second down and 20 yards to go. The ball is now at the 30-yard line. Banners-Fax goes wide to the right.
Casper the tight end is in left side. Davis and Banners-Fax in the backfield. Staibler looking. Pumps once, goes to the left side wide open out of the hole. Touchdown. Hey Casper the tight end. And there had to be a mix up on the coverage because Casper didn't have anybody within 10 yards of him.
And Staibler wide with the touchdown pass. The Casper took it the 2, danced into the end zone. That was a 30-yard touchdown pass from Teddy Staibler, the Dave Casper and the Oakland Raiders are on the board.
You know Tony on that particular play they had a double receiver right set up. Casper is the tight end left. When Staibler came back he made a great pump down the middle of the field and the linebacker cornerback over on the side of Casper relaxed.
And Casper surged with a bit of speed up the sideline and of course he threw the straight.
But he's time for it for the P-18 to kick things up and it is good. But the up right draw with Providence in 52 seconds left to play in the first half. The score is the Oakland Raiders 7 to Pittsburgh Steiner 0-0.
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Well the Oakland Raiders went from their 27 yard line, 73 yard. Tim Playsford touched down the last 30 out of pass from Keddie Staibler.
But Dave Casper, and that's what stands right now. 7-0. The Oakland Raiders out in front. Here's a run up and the kick coming by Ray Guy. Don Field it goes. Jack Double Plank gets it on about to the 5. The 10 comes up the middle at the 15.
At the 20. Can't find any running room. It runs into a dang, the Oakland Raiders somewhere around the 25 yard line.
The Oakland Raiders will offense around in that time. There were no openings along the line. We've got the raider shot where you'll watch them going down. And there was absolutely nothing but a picket fence covering.
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First in 10. At the 26. Here's Bradshaw back to full. He's got some people open. Can't he find them? Toss up a little bit of hook by swan.
35. On his feet at the 14. Up at the 37 yard line. Hit and knock down. At the 37 yard line. That's the thing he does so well. The back fuel fake flow one way.
Terry Bradshaw came out the other and then threw back to the original flow of the backs. The 3rd and the 4th man on that side.
Billy Hall who is a number two linebacker. He normally spells Philip Biano. He's 6'2", 225 pound of 5 year veteran from Southern Cal.
Was the man who made the hit on the play. So it'll be first in 10. One of Pittsburgh's dealers with 07 nothing.
They bought up their own 37 yard line. Bradshaw turns around. Gives a flackle here. Can't go inside. Spins to the outside and is knocked out of on somewhere around.
The oldest caught up the 38 to 39 yard line. Frankle having very difficult time fighting in the running room at all.
And again, Willie Hall was there. The right side of the defensive secondary also came up on the play.
Then there's a thought by the name of oldest sister, the defensive right end. 6'4", 273 pound 6 year veteran who did not play cottage football.
And he made sure that Frankle Harris ran out of running room.
That's short side play again. Instead of a split in they brought him in tight and let him have a go at it.
Here they go White. Again a 1, second out and 90 goes. One wide out of the right. Bradshaw looking for Swine.
Looking, throwing to the sideline is caught by Randy Grossman. And he is drilled down immediately into vicinity of the 42 or 43 yard line.
Grossman the tight end on an angle toward the sideline making the catch on the play.
There were the two wide outs. One to either side Tony and then of course the tight end Randy Grossman coming underneath the drive off of the right flanker back.
The veteran safety George Atkinson, a 6'8", 6'8", 185 pound 10 year veteran from Morris Brown, made the stop.
So a game of 7, third down and 3. They've out at the 44 yard line of Pittsburgh.
Dealer's in possession. They play by a score of 7-0. Lockheed wire, Frankle Harris in the backfield.
Here's Bradshaw back to the front looking. Close up field it is. All the way out of the incendiary receiver.
The tight end Randy Grossman just all went for those who are in the vicinity.
And so it's now forced out of 3 yards to go. And that sets up the putting situation for the Steelers.
Well the Oakland Readers couldn't get any better coverage than they had that time because the Steelers sent 3 receivers out and they were all over them.
Blanketed them. And of course Bradshaw I think threw it over higher than he should have as he wanted to rather to avoid the interception and go ahead with the plenip.
Then he gets the 30 yard line waiting for the snap as a veteran Bobby Walden.
For Oakland at the 18 yard line Neil Colby, the former Ohio State star.
High spiral coming down deep. Boutas goes into the end zone. Touchback and a ball to be put back and play at the 20 yard line.
With a score. The Oakland Readers 7. The Pittsburgh State are nothing. There's a timeout.
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Greatest of all first and 10 at their own 20 yard line.
Here's a hand off the court. Davis and Kenny's table and believe me there was no room that time in the middle of the line.
Davis did not get back to the minus.
Grimace fine penetration by the dealer defense.
He was hit and drilled right into the ground and the man who made the hit was they go home.
Pretty tough to move the ball both ways.
On the other side of the fence there's only been 24 complete yards on seven carries for the Steelers.
But the Raiders haven't really run the ball that much either.
They've got to go to the passing game here I think.
Why do the right foot let me call Bob double up the speed through a branch back to throw.
We're looking at the 10 fires on the right side line.
Well that's a car has it.
And he is going to be down somewhere at the 34 yard line.
Well that's the couple runs past lots like you'd map them up on a drawing board makes the grad.
He was hit and knocked down just as soon as he caught the football at the first down at the 33 yard line.
That's an amazing thing about stable. He rolls to his left.
Everybody moves that way.
He's got a one on one situation on the right and he can drill the ball and get it there quick enough for the reception.
Again it's letting the car wide at a light.
And he'll be picked up by JT Thomas who just made the hit a moment ago.
Branch is out to the left.
David turns around.
Gives the ball to David.
Pedalty marker on the play.
David just about got back to the line of scrimmage.
You ran to the big mean Joe Green.
He's dropped at the 33 yard line but again a pedalty marker.
I think it's in the internal line someplace because it was a running playoff to the left tackle to the strong side
and that flag was thrown long before anything downfield could have transpired.
Well just there was no gain on the play.
This David will probably decline the penalty with the motion penalty against Oakland.
Declined by this David that'll make it second on a 10.
The ball is at the 34 yard line.
They're open on it front by a score of 7 nothing to 10 play by that went 73 yards.
Last 30 covered on a pass by Stapler to the tight end Dave Casper.
Out of the football Dave Dalby.
Wide to the left is Cliff Branch out to the right.
Poletnikov.
Dave will back the throw on second and 10.
Looking throwing up wide open as Casper again at the midfield at the 45 yard line
but there's a penalty marker at the 48 yard line.
Dave Casper again wide open on the play.
Dave was finally down by Mike Wagner the strong safety.
Jack Label was also there as was JT Thomas.
Now a huddle at the Oakland 45 yard line and it looks like it's going to be against the Raiders.
That's a tough break for the Raiders because that particular play was a chunk in the midfield
about a 20-yard chunk in the midfield.
Put some back instead of four down positioning they're now back into their own territory.
You know Casper I was focusing on that side of the field where the flanker back kept his man out.
Casper brought his man straight up the field and then made a beautiful outside cut.
I believe it was a holding call.
I guess this neither.
That'll bring the ball back to about the 34 yard line.
Second down just 10 yards ago it's got to be more than that.
Here's a handoff that goes to Van Egan and he ran into the back side Ernie Holmes.
There's a fumble down the play but the play been blown dead.
Ernie Holmes was being blocked his back was to the action.
Van Egan ran into the back side of Ernie Holmes, bounced off of him and lost the football.
Meanwhile he didn't get any room at all in the yards at all and they're going to spot it at about the old 31-32 yard line, 31 yard line.
So now it's going to be third down at about 13 yards to go.
The ball is at the 31 yard line.
9-48 left to play in the first half.
Oakland out in front by a score of 7-0.
Ernie Holmes comes out and they'll use the extra back now.
That was going to be a draw play.
They, you know, famed the pass, slipped the ball underneath but Pittsburgh front four wasn't going to be fooled.
Here's Tableau back to throw.
Looking, being rushed just away from one man, certain of the left sideline throws down the running, throws it away.
Throw it right into the Oakland bench.
He was being chased by a linebacker Andy Wessel and also by the big defensive left hand, Elsie Greenwood.
See Andy swinging at the air there. He's mad he couldn't have him for a sec deep in the backfield.
That'll make it fourth down at 13 yards to go and the Raiders must give up the football.
And they will call on the best in the National Football League.
Ray Guy, the boom went up field.
Be an opportune time for the Steelers to put a heavy rush on, although I doubt that they will because they have a double deep safety here.
The O'Beller's back there for the Pittsburgh Steelers along with Frenchie Dukeway.
Low snap, Guy gets the boot off and it's Torque Dukeway.
It is a bomb, way up on the air at the 20 yard line.
Dukeway, circle to his left, runs into a gang of Raiders.
He could be knocked down somewhere around the 23 or 24.
Dukeway pinned to the sidelines, didn't have much running room at all.
He was on the short side of the field and there's a timeout with his car.
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That boot by Guy was 49 yards, a four yard return by Dukeway. Here's Bradshaw now.
With Lockheed Wire and Franco Harris in the backfield.
After the right we've got Lynn Swan. There's nothing open out in front.
Bradshaw, long count, gets a snap of Mansfield, turns around, gives the ball to Franco.
Franco finds worth going up the middle. We've got a penalty marker thrown on the play, Randy Grossman and Jack Tatum
grabbing each other, spinning each other around, a penalty marker thrown.
That is the ball is advanced to about the 31 yard line.
Penalty is going to be against the open raiders and they'll walk off 15 yards of real estate
and that's going to bring the ball up to the 45 yard line.
And a personal foul is the call against the raiders.
This quite conceivably will generate something for Pittsburgh now. They've got some work in room.
846 to go in the second quarter.
And again wide to the right, we've got Lynn Swan. High formation.
Harris Plotman on the eye. The ball is given to the tail by Lockheed Wire.
Right tackle and Lockheed Rams pass the 15.
Got that ball into the Oakland territory at about the 47 yard line before he is hit and knocked down on the play.
That was just an isolation, Tony Roberts. Just absolute split him out of there and lead with a full back,
give the tail back the ball and let him hammer it in.
Little Piano one of the linebackers in there but the hit was made by Woody Hall who has moved in.
As a linebacker on the right side, Monty Johnson is the linebacker in the middle.
Deuce backfield now for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Second down, the game was eight. About two to go.
Michael Harris finds one in the middle and charges down to about the 41 yard line before being stopped on the play.
And that's going to be enough for a Steelers first down.
As safety George Atkinson comes up there, Monty Johnson was also there to make the hit on the play.
Looking at the Oakland Raiders front four, Charles Finyard, Dave Rowe, Jeff Winans and Otis Sistron.
Left or right, the linebackers, Little Piano, Woody Hall and Monty Johnson.
And the deep men, Skip Thomas, George Atkinson, Jack Catamon, Woody Brown.
First and ten at the 41.
Bradshaw turns around, putting his head down, trying to find Little running room as Rocky Flier and Rocky gets to the 40 yard line.
And he gets no further as Little Piano is there along with Monty Johnson to make the tackle on the play.
So Rocky gets a couple yards, Little Bigot second down and eight yards to go, the ball is spotted down at the Oakland 39 yard line.
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Down to the right, Lynn Swann. Deuceback field again, Bradshaw, dropping sprays back at the 48 fires.
WSON's got it, spins around at the 33 at the 25 yard line and out of bounds somewhere around the 23 yard line.
Lynn Swann, the former All-America from USC, finally hustled out of bounds by Skip Thomas, so that's quarterback.
And Thomas, of course, played his college ball at USC. They were a teammate at one time.
Thomas in the pro game now a total of six years, Swann, of course, in the pro game four years.
Four receivers out again that time. They spot the ball down at the 24 yard line, another first down,
full of Pittsburgh Steelers, it fails, seven and nothing. Here's Bradshaw back to the draw.
Looking, looking, he loads one tackle, looking, closed up the middle, incomplete.
He was lucky there, Charlie. Randy Grossman, Randy Grossman and George Atkinson almost going out of the pass,
was way over thrown and Grossman fell to Atkinson and no business hitting him at all.
Lynn Swann was the closest man to the football and he wasn't that close.
So the incomplete pass makes a second attempt at Pittsburgh In possession at the Oakland 24 yard line.
Well, the Steelers have got six first downs, three passing, two running and one on a penalty.
They're down here knocking if they can get it in. That time, he was really lucky.
Charlie Bradshaw, I think, was lucky there that he didn't get blindsided.
He looked in one direction, looked in the other and banged.
The bottom of the Oakland 24 yard line, the drive center back into Pittsburgh 24.
We've got four potential receivers now, one man on the backfield.
That's Frank Goher, gets the ball on the draw. 20 at the 15.
He's up at the 10, down to the eight yard line, seven yard line.
Frank Goher is finally hustled out of bounds by Woody Brown, the right quarterback.
And it's going to be a first down into the center of the Oakland six yard line.
Pretty good place to election there. Four quick receivers, as you mentioned.
They've spread them out over the field, come back, make it look like pass,
flip the ball to Franco and let him do his thing.
He started it up the middle and has that great speed to get it outside.
Franco Harris wanting 17 yards up to that side.
So at first down and go to go for the Steelers at the Oakland seven yard line.
Brent D. Fugley in the backfield now.
He's like a wing on the right side. He's just outside the cut and handoff going to fly.
A flyer hits the five as it gets down to the two.
Rocky flyer, power player right up over the middle.
And Rocky was hit right around the shoulder pad.
Started a spin, was finally knocked down by a linebacker, Phil Littleby out of the Oakland leaders.
But he charges up five yards, gets it down to the two yard line,
worth second down and goal to go.
They're in tight formations now, offensively they brought in a close wing, two tight ends and divided backs.
And I think perhaps Oakland is in its goal line defense, taking the gaps now.
Alright Bradshaw, reaching out to center Ray Mansfield.
Duce back up, turn around, give the half.
No, no, no. The Raiders defense knew that was coming at the right side.
But especially the quarterbacks in the linebacker charged in to stop the play before whatever development.
They had a total pinch on the entire line, took the inside, they compensate by bringing the cornerback.
It's a gamble if you're passing, but down inside the one, or inside the two, it's not likely that they're going to pass.
That makes a third down a loss on the play of a yard as Michael Harris buys the old one he will on the left side.
Third down, goal to go with the three yard line.
Raiders out in front, seven and nothing.
Ramshaw, looks over to defense. Everybody up on the goal line.
Duce back field, flyer, Harris there set.
Here's Bradshaw looking to throw, looking to throw, wanting to go left.
At the 10, may have to throw the ball. Duce it is incomplete.
The only man close to it was a tackle on the play.
That was Jerry Mullins for the offensive left guard.
Mullins 6th lead, wooden 40-quarter mile seven-year veteran from Southern town.
Was the only man that was close to the football.
They didn't call it, but there was alignment down field.
In the end zone, it was Mullins. He was open.
I'll say that for him.
Well, this could be a very big play for Pittsburgh.
They've got to get on the board if they want to tie it up and be part of the ballgame before the half ends.
By the same token, Oakland's got it all at stake here trying to keep them out down in distance.
Bobby Walden will hold. He'll spot the ball down at the 10-yard line.
Warren Geronimo will kick.
Flyer for the 3-quarter will be a 20-yard effort.
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Mark Redegan got five yards, one of those short-time outs going over the left side.
It'll be second down and five.
Here's Dave. We're heading off to Clarence Davis.
Blake's attacking up to 25 and charges up to about the 28-yard line,
where he's knocked down about a couple yards short of the first down.
So Dave is hitting the left side,
picks up another three, it'll be third down about two yards ago,
as Milb 1 came up to make the stop on the play.
Dave left a quarterback, Van Egan comes out,
Clarence Davis remains in the backfield.
Cliff Plans goes wide to the right,
warned Banks that there's now the tight end.
Dave Casper, using a double tight end situation here.
Pete Benesack is in there, doesn't get the call.
Dave LeLukney fires at Bob Hunt by Banks at the 33-35, the 40.
At the 45 and I cut him out of him, it feels.
Well, a little quickly by the Raiders.
They used the double tight end, they break their hand off plate action pass,
then they whipped up to the warned Banks
and it was second down, third down a couple of yards ago,
four to first down, and Dave were rivaled to pass to Banks,
who carried it upfield to about the 47-yard line,
and the Raiders have another first down.
What a great sense of training he is.
He drives that flinker back off, whatever pattern comes underneath it is delayed,
just about the time that Stabler's ready to throw it.
Wide right for LeLukneycough, out to the left is Cliff Branch.
Here's Stabler turning around, handing off to Banks.
I can't find anyone and we'll start cutting him back against the grain
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Second period action.
Oakland out in front, 7-0, 3.5 seconds showing on the clock.
This drive started back at the Raiders 40-yard line.
They've got it up now to the 48-yard line.
Out over to football, Dave Dalby.
Just backfield, back to the first, Stabler,
draft back looking, throws the ball, left side almost intercepted by Andy Russell.
Bass was intended for Carl Garrett, but Andy Russell stepped in front.
Jared got two men out on that time, a corner back and a linebacker Russell,
and Andy got our right hand out, it tapped the ball up into the air
and it fell to the turf incomplete.
Now, the Stevers come close again to picking one off.
You know, last year, Stabler had 24 passes intercepted,
and that was second only in the National Football League to Joe Namath who had 28.
Well, they play percentages, I guess they put it up an awful lot too.
That last play when he was crossing underneath, he was being chased by a corner back
and running into the linebacker.
Ratchall wide left, Siany's in on the slot to the right side,
but letting it cough out there, far up and down for Siany, it is incomplete.
Great pass was intended for Siany, and he was covered on the play by Donnie Sheld, a 5-11,
a 1-195-4-year-man from South Carolina.
Absolutely great coverage that time.
I really think we're having no place to throw it, and as it was, he threw it perfectly.
The Raiders have so many combinations, double-side edge, double-flankers.
Pussed out at nine yards to go, the ball at the 48-yard line, and Ray Guy is back to boot.
The last time he put the foot to the football, 49 yards.
Dukeway left, and out to the right side, the O-bell.
Guy waiting for a snap, gets it, belt high.
Puts the foot to the ball again, headed towards Dukeway to the far sideline.
Go for the ball at the 15-yard line, bubble up and a win out of bounds.
Ruff this man to the football, Oakland Raiders, Mike Weinfeldt, almost recovered that ball.
And one of the Steelers shaken up on the plate at the 35-yard line, making us a 25-yard line.
Now being up to his feet, that could have been a very crucial turnover had it been turned over,
but he was close enough to the sideline when he muttered that it did bounce out.
The injured player is linebacker, Mark Gellum.
Mark Gellum is the injured player.
So the Pittsburgh Steelers take over with 3-21 left to play in the first half.
And Oakland out of front by his court of seven-and-nothing, it'll be Pittsburgh's ball,
first down in 10 at their own 14-yard line.
Swine is wide to the right, here's Bradshaw turning around and adding it up,
and there's very, very little running room in the middle of that freighter deep bench.
They get the ball up to about the 15-yard line and no more.
As the carry is made by Rocky, Blyar, and Rocky just can't find much room to negotiate.
So give him a yard or two, it'll be second down, and let's call it nine yards to go.
Pick up a one. You know, they're a great trapping team, Pittsburgh ordinarily,
but the Raiders are really wide up front. They haven't gone for it other than one or two times early.
So it's wide to the left. Blyar in the slot to the left side.
Bradshaw looking to throw, head swat out to the right side.
Going to the side, it is incomplete at the 20-yard line,
as Rocky Blyar had to try to dive back toward the line of scrimmage
and make a shoestring catch in the football.
Bradshaw had 20 of time, so it'll be third down and nine to go.
The ball at the 15-yard line.
Well, he's got to put it in the air. There's just no other way to do it.
Here is third and long. It's scrim, draw, or pass time.
The unfortunate part is everybody in the stadium knows that.
Well, hey, Paul, the linebacker has come out.
And we've encircled another deep edge of back. Bradshaw back to throw.
Looking, looking, wide open. Blyar on the run 20-25 at the 30.
At the 35. At the 40, it dives ahead to about the 42-yard line.
It was an excellent selection, really, because they double covered.
Both wide receivers had two Oakland defenders on them,
and the extra man coming out of the backfield,
being chased by the right Oakland cornerbacker, linebacker, was Rocky Blyar.
And Monty Johnson was the man that made the hit.
But the ball goes up to the 40-yard line, where it needs touch to the ground.
It'll be first down and 10 for the Pittsburgh State.
Two minutes, 10 seconds left to play in the first half.
Linz-Wan wide to the right. Bradshaw back to throw.
Looking, looking, being chased. Now running with a ball.
Look, throws that ball on the run. It is caught by Stallworth at the 50.
And he is written down somewhere around the 48-yard line.
Jack Tateon was there to make the hit, along with several other raiders.
Well, Tony Roberts, they've got one minute and 58 seconds to try to make the thing
turn into a score at midfield.
All right, that's a two-minute warning now.
As Tom Pagda said, a minute and 58 left to play in the first half.
Oakland out in front here by a score of 7-0, but the steamer's on the move.
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And Oakland out in front by a score of 7-0.
And now it's time for the two-minute drill, Tom Pagda.
Well, it's likely they're going to put it in the air.
They have to, really, with a time element, but running-wise, they haven't been quite that successful.
Bliars had 33 yards and 7 plays.
Harris, Franco Harris, 7 plays for 33 yards.
A total of 66 yards and 14 rushing plays.
What they've got to do is move the ball 50 yards in roughly two minutes.
Ratchaw 6-4-11, throwing for 84 total yards.
It's been an exciting football game and it's well played,
and I am really amazed at the total quickness on both teams' sides.
And I'm amazed that, really, Pittsburgh has looked real good running the football at moments.
And then that turnover of Rocky Bliars going in for one score.
Then Oakland turned around and made a great defensive stand on their own goal line on the two-yard line,
which could have evened the score.
It's anybody's ball game and I guess that's what makes it an exciting game.
Well, that's 1-4 now.
Fill y'all.
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Assist run.
Takes the line back and went up on the line of scrimmage.
First in 10, the ball at the midfields fly.
Ratchaw dropping back, looking to throw.
Being chased, gets away from one man, throwing long downfield for the end.
Oh, no, almost intercepted.
In complete.
Stay with Swann, step for step.
Alonzo, Skip Thomas, a 6-1, 425 pounds, 6-year veteran from Southern town.
Gotta say this about Ratchaw, he has such great peripheral vision.
Now he's scrambling back there.
He went straight to the pocket, rolled to his left, had four people out,
and then glanced down the field and picked up Swann.
That's a long throw in the air.
The defensive pressure was put on by number 74 Dave Rowe, the 6-7, 271 pounded up in your veteran from Penn State.
And Ratchaw was able to load Rowe and get that ball upfield.
But Skip Thomas was step for step with Lin Swann,
and that makes it second down ten yards to go with the 50 yard line.
One minute and 50 seconds left to play in the first half.
Oakland leading 7-0.
Out to the right we've got Lin Swann.
Out to the left, stalwart.
Franklin Harris, Rocky, fly on the backfield.
Cut around, handoff goes to Rocky.
Rocky at the 50, at the 45, cuts in, flips and falls,
and runs right into the waiting arms of Charles Phillips.
That extra defensive back goes in there.
That was a trap designed to go inside and he read it outside to his right.
He hit it over the middle and had to dip it outside and make it into a sweep.
I'm in a 30 left to play.
Quick cuddle. Here's Ratchaw back to throw.
Looking, being pressured. Still looking.
Half time, fire that ball.
Harris at the 40, at the 35, 40, at the 45, 20, at the 15, the 10,
falls down at the 7 yard line, the 6 yard line.
That was the magic again of Ratchaw.
He looked all over the field, coming out of the backfield and a delay.
I think Franklin Harris banged, he spot him, dribbles in the ball.
Franklin broke a tackle about the 30 yard line.
Of course that's the magic of Franklin Harris also.
From the 50 down to the 6 yard line, a pick up ball, 44 yards.
On the fast play.
So a little 14 left to play.
As Terry Ratchaw goes to the sideline and talk to Pittsburgh's Devis coach Chuck Know.
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Swada was shaken up on the play?
It has gone to the bench.
It was Tony, it looked very reluctant to walk off.
It's unfortunate, I don't think it's anything too serious.
If it is, it's in the upper body because he walked off fine.
Substitution, stalwart goes out.
You win the game, OK.
Here's Bradshaw, turning around, flying a quarterback snake, and he just powers straight ahead, gets it down about the 2nd 3rd line.
That's a good call down there, it's what they call a delay snake. The backs, everybody's in man coverage.
He steps one direction like he's going to give a hand off the backflow that way, pull their men, he plants the foot after he fakes, talking about Bradshaw, and then comes off of it and one-on-one reaches blocking in front of him.
The Raiders defense try to muscle them all away from Bradshaw and the officials. Blow the whistle to stop the clock as they finally on track.
Little Piano is there on the tackle. Little Piano second down. Goal to go, pick up up two, the ball is up the Raiders 3rd line.
Bradshaw, turning around, rocking, firing, he's in for a touchdown. He broke the play of the goal line with his head in shoulders, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are on the board with 57 seconds left to play in the first half.
That was a trap play again, Tony. He was divided back, little wing back to the right. He looks like he's going to step out, Bradshaw, step out to his right with a pitch, and then a hand-backed trap to Rocky Blyre.
Just enough daylight, and of course that body momentum of Rocky Blyre carried him into the end zone. Any part of it breaking the plane and it just broke it.
Here's why Jarella will attempt the 4F to touchdown with not this game at 7-0. Bought it down by Bobby Walden, kicked up in the air, waited for the up-right this time, and it's good.
And the Steelers have deadlocked the issue in the final minute of the first half, 57 seconds showing on the clock, and 86 yard march is started way back after a regular I've watched, back in a 14-yard line,
and the Steelers came off field 86 yards. The last two yards covered by Rocky Blyre as his head and shoulders broke the plane on the go line, and the Steelers, with a point after by Roy Jarella, make it 7-0.
Well that took 7 plays. It's an exciting afternoon so far. We're in the first half. I think they called it wingding. That's what we've got here, a real wingding.
Well it's not over yet. For the Oakland Raiders it'll be off to our right, Morris Bradshaw, and Carl Garrett as the deep mat.
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That'll be next Saturday afternoon. So what if by Jarella and the Booth, it is high angling toward the near sideline. It'll hit and goes out of bounds into the vicinity of the old 17-yard line or so.
The Steelers will be assessed a penalty. Another kick coming from the 35. They'll move it back now.
And looking back to that opening kickoff when Oakland received, they have a little blocking form. And of course this will be their second time returning it, so we've got a real good look shot at it because we're sitting right behind the opener.
Right behind the home plate. Right, that's where we are. A legal procedure penalty. A legal procedure penalty against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And the ball will be spotted back to the 30-yard line, a 5-yard walkoff.
Obviously, Jarella kicking the ball toward the sideline, trying to isolate whoever's going to take that kickoff, and pin him toward the sideline.
Now let's see what Jarella tries this time. It's still Gerritz and Bradshaw back. They're standing now.
Gerritz at the 5-yard line, and Bradshaw, to all right, is up around the 8-yard line. For the Raiders, Warren Bankston is at the, oh, let's call it the 48-yard line.
Here's a run-up on the angle by Gerralla, and he gets it straight up the middle this time, and it comes down, end of a run, at the 1.
Gerritz at the 5, at the 10, run-up the middle at the 15, and he is hit and up, ended at about the 19-yard line, and slicing in from the wide side to make the hit on the play was Pittsburgh, and believe it or not, we've got a fellow who we don't have on our spotters' cards.
Coach, we run into this quite often during the year. You run into it quite often during the college football game, number 85, and he is not listed.
But he was on the play, but he was on the play, and he offended him, so it's first down at 10 now, for the Oakland Raiders, with a ball at the 20-yard line, at the 19-yard line.
David Targer-Rod gives that ball to Pete Bannersack, and Bannersack gets it up to 20, maybe the 21-yard line, and that's about it.
Five ball game at 7-7, 41 seconds left to play in the first half. Raiders in possession. Did they run the clock out here, Tom Pagner?
Well, they go for all the marbles.
I don't think you'll go for all the marbles. I really do.
Staveler looks like a fox. I guess they call him the snake in their styling.
Now they out over the football. Staveler reaching the other side of Targer-Rod gives it to Clarence Davis, and Davis spins off one tackle, gets it past the 20, and gets up to the 25-yard line.
That's what they're going to do. I think they're going to play it fairly conservative. Break a run if they can, if not...
The tackle was made by Jack Handle, the left side linebacker, and he's just a little slow getting up on the play.
So there it is. That's the end of the first half for the score. The Pittsburgh State are 7, the Oakland Raiders 7.
Well, the third quarter just moments from getting it away. Pittsburgh 7, Oakland 7.
And the Oakland Office of Lime called the best of the game when it's healthy.
Shell, Upshaw, Dalby, Yildor, and Gunner are going to have their work cut out against that tough Pittsburgh defense. Both plus. First tremendously by injuries during the preseason.
And right now off to our left we've got Terry Bradshaw warming up with backup quarterback Mike Druzec.
We also see out there the big tight end who is Benny Cunningham, the number one grab choice of 6-4, 235 Ponder,
out of Clemson doing some pass catching along with Theo Bell, the number five choice from Arizona who is certainly an exciting player during the preseason.
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Well we've got some statistics going on them. Total net yards 210 for Pittsburgh, 83 yards rushing and 127 passing.
For the Oakland Raiders 220 yards net 56 yards rushing and 164 passing.
It's 7-7 pass attempts for Pittsburgh 7 out of 14 and for the Oakland Raiders 11 for 19.
They've gone with Bradshaw and Steebrough all the way so far.
Alright here's a run up by Ray Guy and the Boatman the third quarter is underway.
Wobbly kick off the shoulder.
The incentive of Steebrough falls into the ends on and the state has landed them all first and ten at their own 20 yard line.
A wobbly kick came up field and it bounced off the shoulders and there's our mystery player.
Jacket will put the glasses on them. You can read his facial expression.
Well that was a tricky little play there. He didn't have possession of it. It went into the ends on and they covered it and of course it's brought out to the 20 yard line.
I believe that Pugh, if I'm not mistaken, number 85.
And it's difficult to pick the name out of the back of the jersey because they're in gold on a white jersey.
Anyway it's Steiner's ball first down and ten. Handoff goes to Franco Harris and Franco does not get back to the minus curve.
It's both a factor, the penalty marker on the play. He is hit and met by the linebackers, Billy Piano and Monty Johnson.
They've had the most success with Franco coming out of the backfield as he set up that touchdown play but running the ball.
They really haven't had much daylight for him.
That was a little counter play where he jab-step one way and then again hit back to the weak side to the split end side and a play, penalty on the play.
They'll walk it off and they'll bring it back down to the 10 yard line and the signal from the official was holding against the Pittsburgh dealers.
Well it's 90 yards to go, long way to go.
Second down, make that first down and 20 yards to go.
First down and 20 yards to go.
What a Pittsburgh dealers have bought up their own 10 yard line. Harris from the backfield takes the handoff,
and the opening wide double up. That's the 10-fives that dance his way into some running home and he is met by Teddy Henrich.
He's of course very tall for linebackers, 6'7", 420 pothole in his ninth year out of Miami, Florida.
He really gained his reputation and greatest acclaim when he was a member of the Baltimore Coast defense and in Baltimore they called him the Stork.
Mad Stork.
And here's the thing, he had a blocker in his face, Frank O'Harris running behind the blocker and ate him both up.
Well they gave Frank O'Harris a yard on the play up to the 11 yard down, it'll be second down and 19 yards to go.
The ball is up to the 11.
Here's Bradshaw, back to the ball, circling to his left at the 5th ball,
ball is caught, bobbled him on the 5th, Storkworth, and he gets it again, finds the handle at the 25 yard line, and he is written down right there.
Grand Stork, 6'283 pound four year man from Alabama A&M, makes the catch, and that puts the Steelers up to the 25 yard line,
gives them a little breathing room now, an advance on the play of about 14 yards from Bradshaw up to Storkworth,
and it now becomes third down and five to go with a ball up to the Steelers 25 yard line.
That's that great scramble again, that you can't cover him forever and Bradshaw's ability to pick the open man.
Wide to the right, Theo Bell, in a slot to the right side, Johnny Storkworth,
flyer and Harrison Abakfield, Bradshaw back to throw, he's got Frank on the left side, he's got a run and he's been getting anywhere,
he has been on about the 21 yard line.
The tackle, made by Charles Filiault, the number two draft choice of the open leaders, actually he was the first pick,
he was chosen on the second round, he's 6'8", 270 pounds, he's a rookie from Texas Southern,
and I want to talk to you about Filiault because the scouts said that he would be the biggest boss in the NFL,
not the biggest player, Tank Inger from San Diego allegedly said, he was the first player I rejected,
can't play no way, and you had him in college all-star camp, and you said he was terrific downpagna.
He was for us, he put pressure on the passer.
A beautiful punt five, Bobby Walden, sticking up to 30, at the 35, and driven down somewhere around the 35 yard line for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
That too was, Neil Colzy back there, they'll spot it down, let him on the 37 to the 38 yard line.
Well, Mr. Filiault has acquitted himself quite well this afternoon.
I'd say that for his opening game he's made a pretty good account of himself.
That was a 46 yard punt Tony Roberts, and with a 5 yard return.
So the open raiders now, going offense.
They take over with their own 37 yard line, wide to the right, they've got Blutnikoff,
out the left latch. Here's Davenport, wanting to his left, looking to throw a field,
close that bottom field, it is caught at the 45 yard line, and the receiver is knocked down at about the 47 to 48 yard line.
Now the catch is made again by Dave Casper, who has to be the leading pass receiver today.
Both Dave and Casper comes up, uh, lifting just slightly.
That was a play action fake to hold the inside linebacker, and as after the fake Kenny rolled out a little to the left and then dunked it off.
That's a hard play to defend, especially for the linebacker.
We're going to have a measurement here for the first down.
Carl Garrett is now in the backfield, and Garrett is joined in the backfield by Reggie Harrison.
They've got a way to warn banks that he's in there now.
They've got the first down. Garrett's in the backfield, along with Stabler, and a warned bank to the Zaltor in the backfield.
So it's the first down for the Oakland leaders, first down in Ted at the 47 yard line.
Third quarter action is Oakland 7, Pittsburgh 7.
Bobbitt is 30 seconds left to play in the third period.
They'll be out over the football. Now the official call is time out.
They want to talk to somebody.
Now we're ready to go once again.
We'll let the call wide to the right, and the slot to the right side. We've got Cliff Wrench.
Turn around to give, and the ball goes to Van Egan or Bannersack.
They've got that ball up to, past the 40 yard line, up to about the 42 yard line. It's Mark Van Egan in now.
So Van Egan, charging straight ahead, quick off of her.
Just driving 40 yardage.
That ball is going to be put down at the 49 yard line.
It's in Pittsburgh territory, and now it becomes second down and sixth to go. The pick up is four.
Well, let McCall comes out to the left, and the slot to the left side is Cliff Wrench.
Stabler, on America to Alabama. Pitch is out. The ball goes to Van Egan at the 50.
His hit, and he's going to be written down right around the 49 yard line of the Steelers.
And now Mike Wagner and Freddie Beletnikov. Looks like they might be going at it.
Beletnikov was leading the blocking on a pitch out. They had four quick receivers, and the corner support by Wagner had little run in.
Tom Wagner, it was not Beletnikov. Instead, it was the offensive light tackle.
I saw a five, and I picked up Beletnikov, but it was a much bigger fellow.
John Vella, 6'4", 260 pounds, six year man from Southern California.
Wagner probably hoped it had been Beletnikov.
Well, third down and sixth. I'll say one thing for Wagner. He did not back off.
Third down and sixth to go. The ball is at the 49 yard line. I'd look for a blitz here.
The Pitchburg Steelers, Stabler back to fall. Looking for a down to the left side line.
Beletnikov putting to try to get that ball. It is incomplete.
Beletnikov tried to gain position on defensive cornerback, Mel Blount.
There was a little bumping on the play, but the pass is incomplete off the hands of Blount.
That's going to set up fourth down and sixth to the planting situation with a ball at the Pitchburg 49 yard line.
There were pure man coverage at time. It was strictly blunt against the wide receiver.
And I looked to see the linebacker blitz and four people covering.
The Ray Guy, waiting for the snap. Standing back at the 37 yard line of the Oakland Raiders.
Here comes the snap. Deep melt, Duke play in bell.
And the boot off the side of the foot of Guy and it goes out of bounds.
They kicked no bargain at all. And they'll say it went out of bounds into the vicinity of the 22 yard line.
What we found out who our two mystery players are, number 74 is Ray Pitty.
He was listed as number 53. He is the number three center for the Pitchburg Steelers.
And the other man, number 85 is Ernest Pugh. It's P-O-U-G-H, but pronounced as the Pugh in church this being Sunday.
1042, third quarter action. Pitchburg 7, Oakland 7. Terry Bradshaw at quarterback. Harris, flyer in the backfield.
Bradshaw, fix the handoff to blast. Close it to the right sideline. Almost intercepted.
This was intended for Theo Bell and racing over from the left side was Jack Tatum and Jack Tatum sliding along the turf of the 40 yard line.
Almost fixed one off. Bradshaw has drawn under thrown quite a bit today, Tom.
Well, the action in the backfield went to the left as he faked and then rolled out to his right.
And you're right, he didn't have a hold out on that ball, but he's probably just as happy.
There were three people converging on that one receiver.
And we have seen a lot of Theo Bell that we have not seen, Lynch-Wadier in the third period.
So Bell goes wide to the left. Randy grows from the right side.
Running back to Blyar and Harris. No. Franco moves two steps to the right.
Takes the pitch out from Bradshaw. Behind some blockers gets it up to about the 25 yard line.
And that's as far as he goes. Phil's gonna be able to make the tackle on the play.
So again on the play of about three yards, four yards at the very most.
And now they come third down and six. What a Pittsburgh's dinner is at their own 25 yard line.
They were lined up in a conventional post at that time, Tony.
And at the last instance, then Franco Harris moved from the fullback slot, became a right half back,
and that set up a quick pitch out, reverse pivot by Bradshaw.
Try to get something going outside.
Charles Phillips replaces the linebacker now in the waiter defense with third down and six at the 25.
Flip back, bill. Back to flow. Bradshaw looking, looking, looking.
Floating up the right side line. Has a man over. It's close. Franco Harris.
It was either Franco Harris or Stalwart. And it was Franco Harris.
Great protection that time. He took a long, long hard look and he did have the time for it.
Just a little over thrown and Franco had a step on the linebacker, Bill Piano.
So it now becomes fourth down and six.
Little ball at the Pittsburgh 25 yard line.
And in the booth, the veteran Bobby Walden.
Single safety for the Oakland Raiders.
Back at the 35 yard line.
Is Neil Colby the former Ohio State star.
Walden angles one to the far side line and that ball hits it about the...
Oh, 30 yard line. So continues to bounce. It bounced to the left state in play.
And it'll be marked down somewhere around the 23.
9.39 left to play in the third period. With a score of Pittsburgh 7-0-7, there's a time out again to score.
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The Steeler is the passive unit.
Halsey Greenwood, Meen Joe Green, Ernie Holmes, D. Fudes, that's the front four.
Jack Ham, Jack Lambert, Andy Russell, the linebackers.
Gip Thomas, Mike Wagner, Glenn Edwards, make that J.T. Thomas and Mel Blunt are the D4.
Tony, I think we're seeing a real defensive ball game in the evidence of two really fine defensive football teams.
That's why the low score. Nobody's really moving the ball.
Stableit turns around, hands that ball off to his full back and it's going to be off.
Now we've got a little fist-to-couch here between Jack Lambert, a penalty marker on the play.
It's Jack Lambert and John Vettel.
Vettel was involved in a little bit of an altercation with Mike Wagner and now it's Jack Lambert and John Vettel.
Double foul.
Off-setting.
Double foul. Off-setting penalties.
And probably a word of caution all right, but let's go to play football.
Clarence Davis comes out of the backfield.
Coming out wide to the left, we've got Beletnikov and there's lots of the left side branch.
Carl Garrett now, deep down on the eye of formation, Banner-Sack leading the interference as Garrett's trying to go wide to the right side
and he runs into a host of people, namely Jack Ham, who makes the initial hit and drops him back at the 24-25-yard line.
That defensive pursuit is so great. He's trying to pitch out and getting wide on it, but you can see a whole slew of white jerseys.
The white and gold of the Pittsburgh linebackers and linemen flowing to that side and cutting them off.
So it's third down now and seven yards to go at about at the 25-yard line and Tom Neva's team has been able to go outside with any consistency at all.
Longaners have been checked through as a little delay passes for both teams.
Third and seventh for the Oakland Raiders.
As Davis sends Beletnikov wide to the left in the slot, left branch, left side.
Here's Daebler back to foul.
Looking, looking, going to the sideline, it is almost intercepted and done it for Branch.
And moving wide in front of him was the JT Thomas, the left cornerback, and he knocked them all down at about the 40-yard line.
Almost picked off. You know, JT Thomas could afford to play him much tighter than ordinary and as a matter of fact, he had to be there for a perfect throw.
But the reason he could do that is he had backup help. Both of the twins, deep safeties for Pittsburgh, were backing it up.
It was a passing situation. That's why they played it that way.
That'll make it fourth down and seven and Ray Guy standing back at the 10-yard line waiting for the snap.
We've got Thiel Bel to the right, Frenchy Duclay off to the left with a putting situation.
Fourth and seven and here's Guy's kick. It is a boomer coming up field.
It drives Duclay and Bel back. Bel takes it at the 15.
The loser's tackler at the 15 to 20. Moving to the sideline is it at the 22 and it's hard to knock down right there.
D.O. Bel hit and knocked down at the 22-yard line.
And the man who made the hit and it was a jarring hit was Rick Bonette.
Now, Bonette, that's one helmet and one stomach.
It is a number three draft choice out of Nebraska. He's six-three, twenty-twenty pounds.
Well, we have no word, Tom, on what happened to Lynn Swan, but Thiel Bel is the young man who's been going here in the third quarter of the second half.
Thiel Bel is a number five draft choice out of Arizona. 511, 180 ponder. It is replaced Swan.
Of course, it was all fraud.
Oh, eye formation. Frontman in the eye is Franco Harris. The tailback is Rocky Liar.
The turnaround to give to Rocky up over to the 25.
And Rocky charges up to 30 pounds. The 30 up to about the 32-yard line before he is finally offended.
And the hit again is made by the middle linebacker, Monty Johnson, and also by Willie Hall.
But a gain on the play of about nine yards and it'll be second down on the yard to go. The ball up to 32.
That too was a draft play from the tailbacker again in that tailback set.
Two tight ends. Second down a yard to go. Here's Bradshaw pitching out.
Flier at the 30. Head in, driven down. Little piano, nice again from the left side.
Hit Flier, straighten him out and then fill you off. Put the finishing touch on him and drove him down to the ground at the 35-yard line.
But it's going to be enough yard it's for the first down. And a tough and hard earned first down it was for Rocky Liar.
They were in a tailback position, just turned and pitched him the ball, let him sweep to the right and coming all the way through on the other side.
It's a tough angle. It's kind of a blind side. He didn't see it.
So it's first down and ten. What a pitch first, dealers. They've got it up their own 35-yard line. The game tied seven at all.
Flip backfield. Bradshaw turns around, gives the Flier the workhorse and Flier is it.
He's charging in from the left side. He is willing to haul the linebacker. He came nothing in from the left side.
And Flier got the ball on his scrimmage and maybe a yard or so more. Give him about one on the play.
That'll make it second down and nine to go. That wasn't only a tough one. That was a dirty one there on the edge of the infield.
They've got about four yards to gain to get on the grass for the long haul.
That hit was made right around second base because that's the skin part of the infield where the upper days of course play here.
Second down. They give him two eight yards to go. The ball is up the 37-yard line.
Again the eye of formation. Bradshaw sets handoff. Parris up the middle at the 35, the 40, the 45.
At the 50-yard line. Open turn, 35, 45, 40. The fumble down to play picked up by Stowards.
He's out of the 10-5 touchdown. Well, it's tough.
The ball went to Frank O'Harris. He got to midfield. The ball split it away. Stowards fixed it up.
And Paul Footbal is able to advance the ball and they went all the way for the touchdown.
Well, maybe the Steelers all won like that. That was reminiscent of that one that they had in the playoff game a couple years back.
Frank O'Harris stopped. I don't know whether he lateral or Tony or they might have it a lateral.
From this angle it was difficult to see. All of a sudden we saw 32 with the footbal. And then the next thing you know, here's 82 running goal-word with it.
So that'll make it 13-7. Gerardo's going to travel to P-A-T. Spotted down. Kick up with the air. It is good.
So we've got a timeout here. We've got six minutes and 46 seconds left to play.
They went 77 yards, five plays in the third quarter. And the Pittsburgh Steelers have now taken a 14-7 lead over the Oakland Raiders.
Well, Frank O'Harris found a room up the middle on a quick opener. He got up to about the 45 yard line of the Oakland Raiders.
And all of a sudden we found Johnny Starwood with a footbal racing toward the goal line. You know, Tony had thought because, of course, Lin-Swan has injured,
but they ran that series with two tight ends. Actually, it's a slip receiver close. And they did it three or four times in a row and then finally bang with runs.
Frank O'Swan, that one. Well, I'm not sure that one is not in the play, but we want to welcome these stations who are mutual.
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WNAB up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. 14-7, the Pittsburgh Steelers out in front.
Well, the report is that it was definitely a lateral. It was a lateral.
Pretty good thinking on Franco's part. Well, pretty good thinking for Johnny Starwood to stay right there with a play and he was in the right spot at the right time.
Franco Harris had the presence of mind to get the ball to him and off it was to the races for Mr. Starwood. And they never gained a yard on him.
So Gerrano will kick it off in the 35-yard line. Now the Steelers who trail 7-0 and then tied it up at 7-7 with 57 seconds left to play in the first half are now out in front.
So the last two scores belong to Pittsburgh.
Bradshaw is back along with Clarence Davis at the goal line. Here's Gerrano with a run-up. The kick is coming down toward Bradshaw.
He'll take it up the goal line at Bouther's office, but he's going to have to get that football, do something with it, falls on it in the end zone, down to there, and it'll be Oakland ball first down in 10 at the 20-yard line.
It appears to me that he kind of lost that ball in the sun and it did hit him in the foot. They've got a long way to go.
I got a feeling we're going to see the ball in the air quite a bit this time, even though they're against the wind and they've got about six minutes to go before they get it in the last quarter.
Well, that last drive for Pittsburgh started at the 23-yard line, so that's a 77-yard march.
I don't know how many yards they're going to credit Franco with on that play, and then they subsequent lateral to Starwood.
But now the Raiders with 6-38 to go have to get something going here in the third quarter.
Stabler turns around, Jim. The ball is going to Clarence Davis who comes around. Clark was on a wing on the right side, and Davis comes around and gets that ball up to about the 28 or 29-yard line, an advance of about nine on the play.
He was running a sweep to his right, and they strung it out, and he saw a little daylight back into the inside, cut it back.
Clarence has got great running ability to open daylight.
Second out of yard to go at the 29-yard line, the left of the cuff, wide to the right.
Branch of the slot to the right side. Stabler turns around. The ball goes to Van Egan, and Van Egan powers for the first down.
As he cracks up to the left side, hitting left tackle, largest pass of 30 and gets it nearly to the 34-yard line.
So the Raiders have a first down, first in 10, and the crowd here at Oakland Connorsium starts coming to life.
Ball is up the 34-yard line.
Final score, San Diego 30, Kansas City 16, San Francisco Beach Green Bay 26-14, Houston 20, Tampa Bay nothing.
Stabler back to ball, looking, throws up over the middle, pass was almost intercepted. It was almost picked off by Jack Handler, a side linebacker.
It was intended for the running back coming out of the backfield, Mark Van Egan.
I think whatever coverage they were in, they'll probably repeat this down, because it is an obvious passing down, and they need the possession of this first down.
Double covered branch on the right, the offensive left side, and they left the linebackers free to roam and double free safety again. Good pass coverage.
Second down in 10, Oakland in possession of ball at their own 34-yard line.
Harris has been credited with a 25-yard run, so has Scott the remaining 38.
So will 63-yard play. Stabler back to ball, looking, cocked his arm, fires long downfield and petted ball.
Clarence Davis, it is intercepted. It was picked off out there, intercepted at the flip-de-five yard line by free safety Glenn Edwards, who came to the near side of the field.
On a fly pattern down the right side, Clarence Davis and the passes, intercepted by Glenn Edwards, and Pittsburgh's got the ball first in jam.
They'll plot it down at the Pittsburgh 27-yard line. That's typical Tony of the defense that I was just mentioning.
Here you've got a cornerback, J.T. Thomas, who's running step-for-step with a wide receiver of Oakland.
He's not really afraid that he's going to get beat deep, because anything long takes time to get there, and that's where Glenn Edwards came over playing the double free safety and lifted the ball so nicely into an interception.
Davis on the ball, they've got a 14-7 lead. Third quarter-action, Turner on, get the Franco Harris. This time there's no Roman in the middle.
Franco dancing around, just trying to get as much as he can, because he sees he can't go anywhere, puts his head down, knees turning, gets maybe a yard or two and that's it.
The entire middle clogged up by the Oakland front for a fifth yard, Dave Rowe, Jeff Wadden to notice this front, Monty Jot, the middle linebacker was also there in the play.
He gets about three on the play, second down, seven to go, the ball at the 30-yard line.
Pro-set four of the Steelers, Brad Jop back to throw, looking flyer open, wide side, penalty marker on the play, the pass over the phone, at about the 28-yard line, it is incomplete.
Again a penalty marker at the 35-yard line. I think it's a call on the defensive secondary or on the offensive flanker receiver, because there was collision between the two of them.
And apparently it is going to be against the Oakland Raiders.
Face mask grab is the call against Oakland. I saw the flinkerback go down, do a curl hook and apparently he didn't scream from against the face mask.
That'll be a first down now for the Steelers at their own 35-yard line.
Brad Jop's 8 for 17, 141 yards, Stabler 12 for 24, 174 yards, but two of his have been picked off.
Wide to the left, rookie Theo Bell, hot to the left, Johnny Stoward, the weather touchdown.
Brad Jop with a pro-set, Harris directly behind him, wire off to the right, long count, handoff goes to Franco, and Franco is next.
And the fastest he gets to the line is Trimmick. Franco got the handoff and nithing in from the right side was Willie Hall.
Willie is 6'2", 225 pounds. He's a 5-year veteran from Southern Cal, and he has been very active down.
I think what happened there is they probably, there was a long time in the cage you called out a long count, and I think he audibleized, sensing they were in some kind of man coverage you're going to have a blip on,
went to a little safer play with Franco running the ball.
Defensive back, Neil Colzi out, that'll make a second down, and he'll never to go to about the 34 yard line.
Stoward out to the left. Here's Brad Jop, handing off to Lockie Blair, Lockie running on an angle toward the right tackle,
sweeping to the right, slides ahead, pass the 35 up to about the 37 yard line.
And now we've got a third down situation. Tony, that's about where they were, we kept saying second base,
three yards before you hit the grass, that's about where they were when they broke that run with Franco Harris and that lateral.
Is that the 37? We've got about eight yards to go for the first down.
So the defenders are going to have to come up with something or give up the football.
Three minutes, 30 seconds left to play in the third quarter. Pittsburgh out in front, 14 to 7, either is in possession.
Here's Brad Jop, back to throw, looking, looking, can't go to Blair, right away from Harrison,
because he's covered, and Brad Jop's going to be 700.
Football is picked up by Jerry Mullins, apparently was crumbled by Brad Jop.
The medicine out of pressure. Brad Jop's about to go to the safety valve,
really holds the last man to get up to about a mile, and maybe that's what has stand up.
Jerry Mullins' guard picked up the ball, the play may not have been blown dead, or was it?
They're talking it over at the 45 yard line.
Brad Jop had it, did it, dumped the ball off to his running back,
and then the ankle hairs had gone out at an angle to the left side, and the play is going to hold up, but the ball will be spotted out at the 45 yard line,
and will still be short of a first down, however, and with fourth down and one body walled in, is back to front.
So Brad Jop, who was really ganged up by the Raiders' defense,
popped up the football, and Jerry Mullins advanced it up to the 49 yard line, on the 44 yard line, 45 yard line.
The Raiders' ball is in fact above high step, and he gets the kick off and over-render.
It'll hit on the sideline and go on a bond to the vicinity of the 24 yard line.
So the Raiders' allowed the ball, but then hit it their own 24.
The Raiders have really been playing tough, tough defense, Tony, that last series, as a matter of fact, they made Brad Jop call football,
but they were in tight man coverage.
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Here's Stabler back to ball, looking, fires on the side, it's much like that, put the 35 yard line,
and it's going to be brought to a halt somewhere around the 0-35 yard line.
He brought it up about the 33.
They were playing desperate again, the tight end is open.
They were playing just the street zone, Pittsburgh's defense.
There's a penalty marker back at about the 0-15 yard line, and it's going to be a wrap against the Oakland Raiders.
And if there's one category they lead in the shaft, it's certainly penalty.
Well, they've got two minutes before they gain the win.
They're back at the 10 yard line now.
I didn't catch the call, first down 19 yards to go at the 10.
Here's Stabler, back to throw, rolling to the right, jumps one throw that is caught again by Casper.
He makes the reception at the 23 yard line, and that is it immediately and dropped right there,
as Jack Lambert made the tackle on the play.
That was the fourth penalty for the Raiders, and that's their 50th yard assessed against them.
Wish Stabler can get you a lulli yardage, a churky yardage, all of a sudden there was just strictly his ability to play cat and mouse,
to roll out the flank or rather to fake the ball and pump it and then find the open receiver.
14 yard pass from Stabler to Casper, Stabler back to throw.
Looking, looking, throw to the left side, it is almost, oh but it is intercepted.
It went off the hands of the intended receiver, but it went up the call, and it was intercepted by the open raiders.
Mike Wagner, I don't think he was going to call that ball a reception.
Right about a Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Wagner.
There was no doubt about it on our angle here, it shows that Wagner picked it off.
Both feet were in and he caught it. I don't think he officially realized it.
It was Jack Ham will pick it off, the linebacker.
That's a costly turnover of this venture.
Well, went off the hands of the sure-finger spread, well, let's make off on the sideline,
and now the Steelers get their first big break of the ball game time.
They've got them all first down in ten, and as the ball is at the 39 yard line of the Oakland Raiders.
That's the third interception this afternoon. First in ten at the Oakland 39, Bradshaw back to throw.
Looking, throws that ball up a little bit with his cut at the 30 yard line.
At the 25 yard line, spinning away as Johnny Stowell was, but he finally hauled down by the big defensive left end, Charles Filyov.
6'8", 275, rookie number one, Bradshaw. Sixth burst in the second round by the Oakland Raiders out of Texas Southern.
That was just a double inside fake. He faked a franco, we faked a rocky firing through, and then threw it straight back and completed that pass.
First in ten now at the 26 yard line. Handoff goes to Reggie Harrison, bounces off one tackler, runs into a couple of others,
fill you off for one, and linebacker fills up a piano for another.
And let's see what he put it down. Somewhere around the 24 yard line, a game of about two yards.
Reggie Harrison, five out of him, 220 pound four year man out of Cincinnati. Bradshaw to quarterback has gone all the way.
Franco Harris back in, along with Rocky Blair. Oakland's really got to do her die here, Johnny, because if Pittsburgh gets another first down there in position for a field goal,
here's a handoff straight ahead, power play, and Franco just grinding it out, trying to get as much as he possibly can, get that football inside the 0-25 yard line, down to about the 22 yard line.
Well there it is, the end of the third quarter of play with a score. And if it's first center, it's 14, the Oakland Raiders seven on this foot, lazy boy.
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There goes he's still on his feet. He abates one tackler, explodes around right in, he's still on his feet.
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Fourth quarter underway, Pittsburgh 14, Oakland seven, and the Steelers have the football. Third down and sixth at the Oakland 22 yard line.
Steelers favorite to win it in the American Football Conference General Division.
The Oakland Raiders, the favorite to win it in the American Football Conference West.
Right now the Pittsburgh Steelers have the better of it.
The round in front 14-7 as we move to the top of the fourth quarter.
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Johnny, it's the third down, sixth situation. Pittsburgh's converted four out of eight of these in the previous times.
The Oval is wide to the right. Out to the left we've got Johnny Stowell with turnaround. Victor Franco, pass shot.
It's second here by Stowell, that's a 20. That's a 15. He's out at the 12 yard line before he's hustled out of bounds.
And Woody Harlow's again there to make the hit on the play.
And also the whole thing was, what if we're on the right quarterback, what do you have on Raiders?
That's a little quick screen action. They come back to the pocket, make a little draw to Franco, and then bang, hit a little quick flare pass to the wide receiver and try to get a screening action in front of them.
They picked up about eight or ten yards on it. The gate of the plate, Tom, is the fact that the wide receiver comes back a couple of steps to get it.
So that'll make a third down rather than a first down, a tend to go out of all of the open 12 yard line.
Brad Shaw reaching out of center Ray Mansfield, Flier and Harris on the backfield.
Wide left and Wright Stowell with the Obell. Flip back here now, hand off to Franco Harris, gets by one man, and gets down to the 12 yard line and no more.
As he runs into Teddy Hendricks, the right side linebacker. One of the Raiders, nice in the backfield and Harris is ran right by him, pushed him away, but Teddy Hendricks was there to make the stop on the play.
A gain of a yard, it'll be second down at nine, the ball is at the Oakland E-11. And the Raiders can hit a four to give up the score here.
They trail 14 to seven, but the Steelers who started back at the Oakland 39 are knocking on the door once again, following an intercepted pass by Jack Ham.
Now in motion toward the line of scrimmage, we've got Theo Bell to pass the ball, touchdown!
Harry Bradshaw to Theo Bell, and Theo Bell beat everybody, got up the out of the linebacker, and the defensive back in the left quarter, skipped Thomas for the score.
An 11 yard touchdown pass, Harry Bradshaw to Rookie Theo Bell, and the Oakland Raiders not play off by a score of 20 to seven at the top of the fourth quarter, and Roy Geronimo was private at B-8-D.
You know, it's funny, Tony, that was an individual thing all the way. They were in a strong right formation, the flanker back, who normally doesn't do this, comes in motion towards the rest of the team, and then he cuts up the field on the snap of the ball, which is strictly one-on-one coverage with a wing back.
Hit five, Geronimo right up the middle, it's good, and the 14th foul left the players at time out with a score.
Pittsburgh, Taylor, 21, the Oakland Raiders, 7, 14, with us in 12 seconds left to play in the fourth quarter. Pittsburgh now leading by two touchdowns, 21 to 7.
That march went 39 yards, five plays, the last eleven covered from Bradshaw to Theo Bell, both a touchdown.
Geronimo adds the P-18, his third of the half, that owns 21-7, Pittsburgh out in front, and deep now, but the Oakland Raiders at the goal line. Carl Gerot to our left and off to our right, Clarence Davis.
Geronimo's got to cheat it up at the 35-yard line, and the Raiders are going to have to make some moves.
Well, the one thing they've got going, Tony, is they've got the wind behind them all fourth quarters, so they need to drive here badly to get back in this thing, which they can easily do.
And the kick down to Geron at the five-yard line, up to the left side at the 10, the 15, at the 20-yard line, at the 25-yard line.
Spinger on is in at the 30-yard line, and driven down at the 32-yard line.
And the tackle made by Pittsburgh's Reggie Harrison, the number two running back behind Franco Harris.
So it'll be fourth and ten for the Oakland Raiders. I think we can see a lot of four out receivers, both the backs, both the ends, at the 33-yard line.
Now, the question is, will the Raider receivers be looking into the sun, Tom?
Well, that's another point. You might have the wind, but not the sun.
And believe me, there isn't a cloud anywhere in the vicinity, white, sun-shiny day.
So here's David, and let off the bat, he's back to fell. Looking, goes up over the middle.
It's caught by Mark Van Degen, he is hit down by Jack Ham at the 40-yard line.
That's the thing moved, I think we're going to see a lot of that, because both your wide receivers were double-covered.
So all he can do is come to the pocket, a little check flare, a little check through that is set up like pass protection,
then filter through the line and outlet to your backs, which is exactly what he did there.
Now, the same alignment now as Blutnikov goes out to the right, and Brandt comes out to the left.
The gain is eight on the play. Second out and two to go to about the 41-yard.
I hand off to Van Degen. Van Degen runs right into the waiting arms of the linebacker on the right side,
and believe me, there was just no place to go as Lauren does, or Tabs rather, or Tabes,
six, three, 222-pound five-year man out of California just picked him up, got his hands right behind his kneecaps,
and drilled them right down into the ground. They bought us at the 42-thirds down about a yard to go.
So Van Degen, just searching for some running room at all, couldn't get away from Tabs.
We're going to have a measurement here, and the stretch, and from here it looks like it will be short of a first down.
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13-21, time of course of the essence now. Fourth quarter action. Pittsburgh 21 Oakland 7.
The Raiders have the football, third down a yard to go. They must get a first down here, the bottom of the 42-yard line.
Better sack in there. Hands against the ball at the left tackle, and he is up to about the 47-yard line.
He's finally knocked down by Jack Lamberton, by Mene Joe Green, but Pete Mattersback has the first down.
He's fouled of him, 210 pounds at Povier, but I'm from Miami, Florida.
Well, I think that's six inches they needed for the first down. It was no time to play games.
They had to get the first down, and now they can open up a little bit. They're on the grass.
They've got about half way to go, 50 yards to go, and they can open it up and throw the ball.
The ball is at the 48-yard line of the Oakland Raiders. First down and 10 yards to go.
Here's Stabler dropping back to foul. Looking, looking. He may have to eat the football.
He's going to be wrapped up by Ernie Holmes, but there's a penalty marker at the midfield stripe.
Ernie Holmes got to him, 6'3", 260 pounds, six-year-old man from Texas Southern, wrapped up stable, but he couldn't find anybody open.
It's a penalty marker at the 50-yard line, and this one may be against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
They were playing that coverage again, Tony Woods. The linebacker's underneath are man-to-man in the two deep center fielders.
And I think the guy that was playing man-to-man on the right corner got a little too close, a little too nifty, and they called him.
Now we're going to have a defensive holding call against the Steelers.
And now, bigs at first down and 10 to go as they walk it off and bring the ball down to the 48-yard line of the Steelers.
This is a key draw for Oakland.
Wide to the right is Bolotnikov. Left to the right side, Branch.
Quick constable looking to foul. Looking, looking. Close to the sideline. Open, Bolotnikov.
Down the sideline at the 35, the 33-yard line.
Just right there at the 33 and driven down by J.T. Thomas. It's enough for another Oakland first down.
And the radar offense comes alive. This drive started back at the Oakland 33.
It is now reached the Pittsburgh 32. Dave Casper's at side end. Left side.
They send Clarence Davis on the wing. Wide to the right is Bolotnikov. Flat, French.
Here's the pitch to Bannisack. Bannisack behind the block at the 30. At the 25-yard line.
That's great. Bannisack gets the pitch.
And he got it down to the 25-yard line.
And the man leading the play was the big offensive left tackle, Artie Schell.
6'5", 265 pounds, 10-year veteran from Maryland and Eastern Shore.
Game of 7. It'll be second down and three.
Here's Stabler getting the ball. Hands it off to Bannisack. Bannisack spinning around down to about the 21-22 yard line.
As Jack Mabert makes the hit on the play.
First down for the Oakland Raiders. The ball is down around the 21-yard line.
Again, time of the essence. We've got another medicine. Two seconds remaining.
And the Raiders need a touchdown now on this drive. I speculate a little run-action pass about here.
It's a good call time for the first down situation. Oakland has had 17 first downs.
Wide left branch. On to the right, Bolotnikov. They were back to the throw point for Bolotnikov.
Open touchdown. Diving catch to the end goal by Fuddy Bolotnikov.
Who's split between the right corner, Thomas and the right safety, Wagner made a diving pass in the end zone.
PD. Well, it happens just quickly. Bolotnikov made a beautiful catch out of it, but you know, you talk about timing and anticipation.
Here you are with a pressure of a quarterback. Stabler comes to the pocket and he sees the wide flanker doing a turn in.
He anticipates where he's going to be and he puts the ball up and they merge. Well, that makes the ball game out of it. It was anyhow.
But he's time for the drive with a one-out-the-touch down now. 10-46 showing on the clock.
It's now 21-13. The Pittsburgh League 1-14. Now cut down to 8. Could be 7. Kick up for the air. It is good.
It's good. 21-14 Pittsburgh. In time we've got ourselves a football game.
A great man for the Steaters. Waiting to receive back at the 3-yard line is Jack Duttleplain, the rookie out of Santa West Virginia College.
Off to the left, Frenchy Foucouay. On the other side, Ernest Pugh and Ray Guy set the deal.
The runner found the kick. It is high. That is for Foucouay. The other sideline bounces. He's going to have to run it back.
The 2-5 at the 10-15. And he is ganged up there. He's written down at the 15-yard line.
This crowd is going to get behind him from now because they need to shut him off because they're going to get right back in it.
Steaters have the ball. First down on 10. Here's Bradshaw reaching under Sutterway Mansfield.
Again the process. Bradshaw back to foul. Looking. Looking.
He throws up the sideline and cut it forth. Caught by Stahlwards. Stahlwards did a superb job.
Working his way around the defensive back on the play. Willie Brown moved in.
Caught the ball. A big play for the Pittsburgh Steaters. That's the 48-yard line.
You know Tony, that had interception written all over it because the ball floated and the receiver had actually overrun it.
But he came back for it. You're right. That's just a super play on the part of the flanker.
A great job by Johnny Stahlwards. 6-283 pounds. Four year man out of Alabama A&M.
First down 10 now. The ball is over the 46-yard line. Here's Bradshaw back to foul.
Looking. Throwing up the right sideline. Caught by Stahlwards and he steps out of bounds again.
This time at about the 27-28 yard line. And again Stahlwards is getting the better of it.
The cornerback go Willie Brown and Willie of course, the most of the eight women are very best in foul football.
You know I think it's that great speed. Here you are a wide receiver. You're running down the field with all things turned up to the high gear
and the defenders backing off and then you suddenly do a little out-hitch pattern and that's exactly what he did.
Perfect throw. Stahlwards. Right. Perfect throw to him.
So it's first and 10. Down to the 31-yard line. Fitchfork in possession. They lead 21-14.
Wide to the right is P.O. Bell. Here's Bradshaw. A busted play. He was supposed to have handed off on
the top of the lead to Franco Harris. And Franco never did get out of the starting block. Flipped and fell and Bradshaw wound up with a football.
Tried to roll out to the right side and got nowhere at all. He fell right about at that same infamous place second base.
They're on the infield now. It's kind of tough traction down there.
Lots of the couple. Second down and 12 to go. Fitchfork in possession at the Oakland 32.
Up the Steelers can't afford. Believe me. The Raiders rather can't afford even a field ball because time of the essence and the Steelers are really
heating up the clock. It's down to 745 in the fourth quarter. Big play coming up for the Fitchfork Steelers.
Harrison Gwai on the backfield. Wide to the right is P.O. Bell. So with the insight. Here's Bradshaw back to throw.
Looking. Looking. Fast as up there. It's incomplete and there's going to be a penalty marker against Atkinson.
No doubt about it. Atkinson had his arm hooked around Randy Grossman. I thought the call was a good one. It was a good call.
He didn't. Defensively he didn't have to do that. He was in good position. He reached around with his right hand but his left hand was wrapped around him.
He hooked him with the left arm and George Atkinson the 6th 185 pound, 10 year veteran out of horse pounds is the culprit.
That is going to be a first down for the Steelers at about the 15 yard line.
Well that's a tough break for them but they're not on the 15 yard line now and they can play a pretty tight man coverage.
Rocky Blair comes out and Frenchy Dupley is now in. Frenchy's 5-11 quarter pounder in his ninth year at a Morgan State.
What a one setback and that'll be Franco Harrison.
Here's a handoff to Franco. Circus of the left at the 15 turns the corner at the 10. Turns in at about the 8 yard line where he's hit and knocked down at the 8.
We may have a face mess grab against the Oakland Raiders. They'll put the ball down at about the 6th or the 7 yard line.
Well that's the thing you get Franco with a little delay hitched up looking like he's going to run inside, vanes it outside and then turns it up and of course they don't want.
You can't arm tackle the guy. You really got to go after him and the aggressive Oakland team commits a fall.
The ball will be spotted down. Halfway to the goal. Halfway to the goal line it'll be at the 3.5 yard line.
Now it comes first down and goal to go at the 3.5. 6 minutes 46 seconds left to play. The state are in possession. They also have the lead 21 to 14.
Well and now it's up to the Raiders' defense. It was right here Tony that they stopped them in that first corner. The Steelers were knocking on a 3 yard line and they were in identical to the same position except for a different time in the football game.
They did it then and I'm sure they're going to be up there trying to do it now.
Mike Webster out on a football. 6-2 250 pound four year man from Wisconsin.
Take the snap hand off to Franco Harris. Harris touchdown. Franco started a circle to the right then cut back against the grain. Fondle Hall went around left guard and just ran into the end zone for the TD and now it's put for God in front 27 to 14.
That ball was almost fouled. When he handed it off it was a great curl pattern. Everything flowed right. The great defensive surge at the time at the point of line and then Franco just curled it underneath and actually winds up running it to the left of center.
Well that was a lot of penalties. The Steelers have gone 84 yards and they take a 13 point lead. Why Girella? Frank with a P-8D.
Fondle down by Walden. Kicked up right up the middle. Let's cut.
Alright it's 48 to 14. Now we've got some extra click of activity on the sideline between the officials and one of the upland coaches. One of the upland coaching staff.
Oh well I know that's seen Tony. You know you know Paul one way or the other convenable game and it's so important to them and they're so heated and angry. All their emotions surging through. He probably said something and words were exchanged.
And they're talking it over now right now for the Oakland bench. I believe a penalty mark was drawn.
And we may have a wrap another wrap against the Raiders and this time against the Oakland bench. Unfortunate like Conduct.
That'll be kicking off from the 50. He can put it through the uproar from there I believe. We've got Carl Garrett. Hey Clarence Davis standing at the go line.
Well that's a seven penalty Tony for the Oakland Raiders. Total of 69 yards plus that 15 is off of close to 80, 85 yards. And just to show you that everything isn't going right for the Steelers. The ball fell off the tee for Jarrell.
Well I think Oakland can get in with a quick score here. There's plenty of time to do it. Here's the boat straight up the middle. It's going to be three points.
If it were a field goal but it's not. A touch back and that'll bring it out to the 20 yard line. I'll tell you a Jarrell never kicked one any straighter from the 50 yard line.
Just put the up lights right in two. So the Oakland Raiders. 639 to go. Two touchdowns behind. Have their work cut out for them. First in ten at the 20 yard line.
Well he's got to go for broke on this drive I think. If you've got the ball you've got an 80 yard drive to sustain. You've got to put the ball in the air. He's got to take some gambles because it isn't the last score that's important. It's this score.
To get back in this game and they certainly can with 639. He's got to hit a score. Maybe a wide one. They've got some single coverage. Maybe you'll go that way.
Here's what the cup wide of the white branch out to the left table looking for branch. Goes that ball. It is intercepted on there by Blunt at the 30 at the 25 at the 20 and he is winning out of bounds.
Got about the 15 yard line. And now John Madden and the Raider Benton of Banger believe that Blunt was a little too aggressive on the incentive receiver Cliff Branch and no penalty marker was found.
Yeah that's a tough situation because that call takes away position at a crucial time. And that means that's the fourth time. Kenny Stamper has been intercepted this afternoon and as we said earlier in the game he had 24 interceptions a year ago.
And only John Amos in the NFL had more. He had 28 first down and 10 five minutes and 42 seconds left to play. 28 14 Pittsburgh is on top.
Here's Bradshaw with a deuce backfield pitch out to Franco Harris Franco finding difficulty getting any running room. And what have we got here.
Look like Franco might have had the ball ripped away from him.
Thomas the cornerback tremendous. One of the Raiders shake it up on the play. Getting in on the action was on a fist run.
He almost got into what one of the offensive linemen for the Pittsburgh Steelers the feedings run very high here.
535 to go and this is going to be open football at the 25 yard line.
Well this is where the field goal might put it out of range form or at least protect it. But they didn't get that shot.
Well this is it. The Raiders need a touchdown here. They trail 28 to 14.
Stabler intercepts the four times back to throw under pressure fire side line pass caught by Clarence Davis at the 35 at the 40 and knocked out of on by Jack Cameron about the 41 or 42 yard line.
But there's a penalty marker on the play back at the 19 yard line.
One would have to assume regardless of the outcome and this penalty is going to be against Oakland. It's going to be illegal motion against Oakland.
That they will leave the league at the end of the first week of play in penalty.
Well I'm sure it's a dubious honor for them. Yes it is. But it is custom dirty this afternoon. Surely it has.
Instead of having to ball up around the 41 yard line the motion penalty brings us back and brings us back to the 21.
You know and that's a double jeopardy thing. It's not only the completion loss and the penalty loss when you combine that instead of maybe 85 or 90 yards in penalties it's about 170 yards when you add what you could have gained on that particular play.
Make it the 19 yard line. It'll be first down and 15 yards to go at the 19 yard line. 527 left and let the car goes out to the right.
Siani is in the slot to the right side. Beats her cliff branches to the left. Van Egan the loan setback. Daibler back the ball. Daibler falls he is hit. The pass is all with the 12 yard break cut by Dave Casper.
Leasing in getting her hand on the football. What a pitchfork. The ball was tipped up into the air. Casper had it. Jogged it. Grabbed it again.
Van Egan the hit by Edwards and bought a cornerback. JT Thomas and the ball is at the 41 yard line now. A great catch. A great fingertip juggling act by Casper and it's the first down here ball of the Oakland Raiders.
Tony that was a 22 yard pick up and the beautiful thing about it. He caught it in trap. He can do with a bobble ball after it was tipped or tipped and Dave had great concentration on it.
I was a little worried about Stabler. He shook his arm when he got up because they're standing like mad up front. Those front four of Pittsburgh are putting on a tremendous rush.
Obviously with the Raiders trading by 14 in Oakland got to go to the air and Stabler's front four and the linebackers are just hanging off. Daibler dropping back. Here they come.
Here's a pass by Stabler. It's caught by Casper at the 45. He's knocked down at the 35-34 yard line and again it's went out with the link to stop on the play.
But the Raiders have now moved into Stader territory. We're just under five minutes. 4.55 to go.
At Oakland trying to come back. Trading 28 to 14. They've got a first down except the 34 yard line of the Pittsburgh Staders. I think we're going to see a change in coverage.
You see in the kind of coverage Pittsburgh's playing two deep safeties and four underneath people playing man to man. That puts a linebacker on Casper.
He's a little too quick for it. Not like the average tight end. So this kind they are. They're a man to man coverage tight.
Here Stabler back to throw. He's got four with Stabler throwing to the far side line. But it's got it at the 18 yard line and it's got a knock down immediately.
He was stopped right on his tracks by JT Thomas. Both he and Stabler, Tony. Stabler's getting up. It was a great throw but he's getting up on the ground.
And Gene Uptcha and it's got a part early home having some words out there. Feeling always runs high between these two rivals.
It'll be another first down. First and 10. The ball is now at the 19 yard line. Pittsburgh leading 28-14. But time running out. 3.50 on the clock.
The greatest little ball. First and 10. Out of the little eight-calf. Stabler gets the snap. Drops back. Looking. Looking. He's not going to get it off.
He is formed under by mean Joe Green in company. Joe Green looked like he was the first to get to him. I saw penalty flagpole Tony again.
The ball was there and it's going to be against the Pittsburgh
baseball. Goal at the net.
This game and if you start with Prince Charles I'm pretty sure you'll still be able to go enough.
yard line. This is a smart call it really was. You were playing the pass and it's another first down.
So the ball is at the 10 yard line and the Raiders are 10 yards away from moving within the touchdown
of the Sabres. Three minutes and eight seconds left to play the ball game. Sabre with Clarence
Davis and Pete on a second of backfield. Back to flow. Looking, looking, had the time, fire, touchdown Dave Kasper.
touchdown Dave Kasper. What a crossing pattern. Left to right and the Raiders are on the board
and it's now 28 to 20. Well he gets right Tony. He gets the in man coverage. Put two receivers
to his right, drove them off all the way to the left side. Delayed Kasper and brought Kasper
underneath crossing to the right side of the end zone. Perfect throw and he had the time to get it off.
A 10 yard touchdown pass from Sabre to Dave Kasper and that'll make it 28 to 20.
Here comes the P.A.T. attempt by Freddie Steinford. Left footed kicker spotted down,
kicked up at his cut. So there's a tie up. What a scar. The Pittsburgh
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Treated to a winged angle of a football game here at the Open Codiceum.
That is 28 to 21.
As the Oakland leaders have just moved 76 yards at eight plays,
the final 10, Kenny Stabler to Dave Casper,
who has now caught seven for 122 yards.
And it's not over yet.
On the clock here, two minutes and 56 seconds.
Well, strategy-wise, we could look for an on-size kick.
I don't know that they will, but they might.
Single safety for the Steelers. They're probably expecting it.
Sixth goes to Jack Dettoplane.
Dettoplane takes it at the cloud.
The 15 at the 20.
Circles of the left at the 20-yard line.
Right at the corner at the 25.
At the 30-yard line.
Written out of bounds at the 35-yard line or the 30-yard line.
There are penalty markers all over the place.
He was fighting so hard to make that return and get to the outside.
And it invited a clip, Tony.
It just had to be a clip.
And that's going to set the Steelers back.
The penalty marker at the 19-yard line.
And so was 2.45 to go.
Instead of having the ball in the vicinity of the 30,
it's now first down and 10 for Pittsburgh at the nine-yard line.
Everything comes into play here.
If their timeouts are run out, they don't want to make a bobble with a ball.
They can't afford a dangerous play to put it in the air.
They're fighting really for the possession of the ball
and the duration of the time element.
Mike Webb does a play-play, Mansfield at center.
Five-ball, Mation.
Frank Moheris left down in the eye.
Rocky Flyer is the tail back.
The O-Bell, wide at a right.
The handoff goes to Flyer up the middle.
He runs into the waiting arms of the nice thing left in, Charles Villall.
The number one best choice of the open raiders.
Well, the crowd's on it.
They know what they've got to do here.
They've got to stop them this series of downs.
Drops up the eight-yard line as Rocky Flyer lost from the yard,
second down and 11 to go.
We'll keep an eye on the clock.
Two 20 showing on the clock.
Second down, 11.
The ball is at the Pittsburgh eight-yard line.
Steelers in possession.
They lead 28 to 21.
Here's Bradshaw waiting for the snap.
Turn to round.
Gives again to Flyer and Rocky finds third.
It'll running will.
Maybe got her back to the line of scrimmage.
The original line of scrimmage.
The nine-yard line and that's about it.
They say he advanced it as far as a 10.
So the game on the play is a couple.
It'll be third down and nine yards to go
and there is a two-minute warning.
Terry Bradshaw has gone over to the sideline
because this is a crucial call.
You're the quarterback at home and you're saying to yourself,
I've got to possess the ball.
I can't take a big trouble spot
and yet I've got eight yards to pick up.
They're down and eight and it's a crucial down.
If they turn the ball over, they're going to have to punt it.
And Oakland gets another shot at trying to tie up the score.
Well, a shut open score.
Pittsburgh failed to move for the first down
and the Raiders come back and tie it up at 28-all.
There'll be about a three-minute delay
and then we'll go at it and overtime.
And the first team to serve score, it belongs to them.
Look at the farers briefly forced to ace them out into the game
and this is mutual.
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This is WSON and Henderson.
Pittsburgh 28, Oakland 21.
That's the score here at the Oakland County Fium.
Two minutes remaining on the spot.
Brad Shaw is returning to the huddle after talking to Coach Chuck Know.
It's a third down and nine situation.
The ball is up the ten yard line.
Steelers in possession.
I think they're going to play it safe, I really do.
We shall see.
Coming into the ball game, Charles Phillips.
Mathews at Williams Hall, the linebacker moves out.
The Steelers huddle up the goal line.
They break wide to the left of Starworth.
Off to the line is C.O. Bell.
Brad Shaw to quarterback.
Flip backfield, flyer and Harris.
Brad Shaw waiting for the snap and left to get it back to foul.
Looking, looking, looking.
Throwing up the left side and set it for Starworth that is incomplete.
Starworth fell down at the 35 yard line making his cut.
And the pass is incomplete and that's going to force the Pittsburgh pun.
What a five mile wind coming and the Pittsburgh Steelers going to be punning into that wind.
So it will help me in a pretty good field position for Oakland going in.
Now it's up the body wall and the veterans.
They're really bone-wrapping out of here.
They may even have a block on Tony, it's conceivable at this time.
Single safety, putty Oakland later.
It's Neil Kozy.
He's waiting for the football.
The three-year veteran from Ohio State, right around midfield.
And we're going to have, I believe, a timeout call to hear about the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The wide receiver trying the last reception.
This is a number 82.
Starworth, right.
Is it Starworth?
Lifting off the field.
Brad Shaw 12 for 23 with 148 yards, Tony.
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Bobby Walden back to the standing about a yard or two deep for the end zone.
Neil Kozy at the 49 yard line of the Pittsburgh Steelers waiting for the block.
There's a snap.
Head high, get the ball.
Maybe it was blocked.
It was partially blocked.
Hit at the 29, the raiders had the ball.
It's a 29 yard line.
It was blocked and it was picked off at the 29 yard line by Charles Cuttop of the Oakland Raiders.
Well, they got some penetration.
Some of those big linemen, I knew they had to go for a block or either better go for the return
and they were deep enough in their territory that the block seemed like good logic.
The snap was a little bit high.
It looked like Walden was going to try to angle a kick to the right away from Kozy.
Make him run to his left.
So now the ball is at the 28 yard line.
The Oakland Raiders have it.
First down in 10.
That's the Pittsburgh 28.
The concentrate of life.
Got the run to the carpet.
Siani stapled the quarterback.
Back to throw.
Booking.
Has a time.
Now it's going to have to run.
It was Willie Hull that got a hand on that punt.
Tony had to put him in position.
Pass was intended for Cliff Branch.
But Stabler, throw it out of bounds when he saw that he had nobody open.
And that'll make it second down in 10 to south the clock.
One minute and 40 seconds remain to be played in this game.
Boy, there's where experience really tells.
Kenny Stabler could have taken negative yardage.
He got trapped back there, but they don't need that.
He doesn't need to throw it in the crowd.
So he wisely threw it away after looking over the entire field.
It'd be a gamble here with the clock the way it is,
but it might not be the bad time for that draw or that screen.
Although Pittsburgh sure can't play it.
Second down in 10 to go.
Stabler back to foul.
Booking.
May have to run.
Now he's going to throw it on the sideline.
It is incomplete.
Incomplete it about the two yard line.
A fast long downfield and then it's for Clarence Davis.
He turned and he was looking the wrong direction.
The ball was coming on the other shoulder.
He turned the opposite way.
Probably lost it momentarily.
And if I'm not mistaken, that ball went through his arms.
Well, they had the coverage they wanted on this playtime
and that they had to speed through Clarence Davis
or running back on linebacker Lauren Tate.
So now if they come third down in 10.
The ball is at the 28 yard line.
Here's a big play.
Why did the white throws bullet in the clock?
In this left of the right side we've got Cliff Branch.
Dave Casper is the third in on the left side.
Gerriton better second of backfield.
Stabler back to foul.
Looking, looking, fired it is.
Overthrowed in 10-4 bullet in the clock.
That's time they had him coming around.
Cloting up over the middle.
They wanted a short yardage in the first down
and it's now fourth in 10 at the 28.
And we have a minute and 29 seconds left.
Well, no question about it.
The field goal is not going to help you at this juncture.
So all you're going to do, you're going to go for a fourth down situation.
That time Pittsburgh had to double-free safety,
double-free center field, so to speak,
and the underneath coverage running man for man with them.
They're going to come right back with the best pass defense they got.
Probably is.
They'll probably do that same thing.
So it's a check through or a little draw or a screen.
They need the first down if they're going to get in the game.
Ernie Holmes is back in now.
That means they'll be teeing off on the quarterback.
One setback to Spana-Sec.
Wide-to-the-writers, bulletin' the clock.
Stabler back to foul.
Looking, he loads the player.
At the 30 fouls and it's caught.
At the 15, at the 10, at the 8, at the 5,
Carter's done it the tone.
The fans were pumped by Cork-France.
Left-france ran almost the full width of the field
with at least three quarters of it
and got it down to the two-yard line.
And Holmes got it first down and go to go
at the Pittsburgh two with a minute nine left.
27-yard gain.
Fabulous display of mandatory adore by Kim Stabler,
who looked like he was trapped and was all over.
You talk about success inferior.
A margin of fractions of inches.
Coming out of there, out of the cross-flip branch,
grabbing the ball, running diagonally across the field
for a 27-yard gain.
And you're right, Tony, right from the first word of the game,
you said we might have our first overtime
and we're within about a foot away from having it.
The C-Click will free that time,
but he is aptly named, believe me.
All right, first down and go to go at the two-yard line.
Some kind of action here.
The Raiders make some changes.
Coming into the ballgame, Stabler going to the sideline,
not talking to the official.
Vanes-Sack stays in the backfield.
Clarence Davis is in the backfield.
Teddy Qualic, the tight end is in there now.
One-time solid, a San Francisco 49ers.
They might have two tight ends.
Dave Casper's on the left side.
Qualic will be on the right.
109 to go.
First down and go to go at the two-yard line.
Close set.
Now you've got to power back in Vanes-Sack
and you've got to speak to Clarence Davis.
And the official wants everybody out of the end zone.
That's what it is.
There are quite a few camera men, television men,
newspaper people in the end zone
and they want that end zone clear of everyone.
So the Seathers re-huddle and so do the Oakland Raiders.
First and go to go at the two.
Dave's out of the out of the football.
Qualic's tight end right side.
Here's a man in motion now.
It's Banks and Turner on give.
No, no, no, thanks.
Here's Sable running it.
It has to go right to down.
Sable said a man in motion.
Banks into the right.
Sable's the hand-off.
Catch it himself.
Headed for the end zone.
Made it to the quarter and it's now 28 to 27.
comes the all important point after.
That all important point after touchdown
as Buddy Steinport, Garouki out of Boston College,
a number five grab choice.
Well that's the place the veteran, George Planda,
has the field goal and point after kicker.
Well Tony, that has to be one of those
you keep in the back drawer for just that time.
They have time for about one or two plays.
This is an important point.
David Hum put the sound kick up good.
Time off game.
How you doing?
One oh five to go.
And we'll right back where we started.
One minute five seconds left to play.
And Steinport puts it between the up right.
And it's all tied up at 28 a pitch.
29 yards wide, five plays.
Stabler getting the last two.
Delkine Stabler is 22 for 39.
Completed 22 times for 39 thrown.
311 yards game.
Even though he's got four interceptions,
he pulled one out of the fire right there
but bootlegging it around to the left side.
Well the Sabers now have Jack Gelliflain back
at about the seven yard line in single safety.
Up planted about the old 12.
Picked up the 17 yard line off to the left.
Here's a run up and a boot.
It is high, it is deep.
Duke Lake gets it at the 12, the 15 at the 20, at the 25,
at the 30, a penalty marker at the 35.
And he is down at the 49 yard line.
Ball is against, it's gonna be a personal ball
against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
So that'll set the Steelers back 59 seconds
left on the clock in regulation time.
And the leaders have come back to score two touchdowns
in the final quarter.
The tie of the game at 28-0.
Off to the right, Theo Bell.
Off to the left, Ernest Peale.
The quarterback is Jerry Bradshaw.
Back to foul, looking, looking up over the middle
deflected, that is something.
The fast one did it, something.
Flotting up from leaders after what they clicked in.
And the leaders have the football
at about the center 12 yard line.
Well that was, that was five, that's right, five receivers.
And they were gone all over.
And it was Woody Hall who played himself
one way out of a football game.
He blocked the puck, he blocked the pass.
Woody Hall makes the interception.
Well when these two teams get together,
there's no telling.
Faberlin out a quarterback.
There's the handoff to Bannisack.
Tries left faculty as it gets down to the 10
to about the 8 or 9 yard line.
They're going to play position here Tony.
Jack Wabbert making the stop on the play.
Lance Davis to the backfield, so is Pete Bannisack.
Dave Casper the tight end on the left side.
Davis goes out on a wing now.
Second down, seven yards to go to Bautas at the 9 yard line.
Handoff to Bannisack up the middle at the 5,
under the 4.
Bannisack paroling straight ahead.
Seconds tick off the clock,
35 seconds left to the ball game.
Bereter looking at the clock,
letting the seconds tick off.
40 seconds left,
41 and a stop now with 41 seconds remaining.
And Stable again comes to the sideline.
Well, you've got a rookie.
Buddy Steinport 5 out of 185 pounds.
A number five grab choice out of Austin College.
And I did Navy games in past years time.
And I've seen plenty of Mr. Steinport
and I want to tell you he can kick the football.
What a way to break into the NFL.
And here he comes.
All right, here he comes.
Buddy Steinport left foot a ticker.
He'll try it.
They'll spot it down somewhere.
Probably around the, uh,
oh, 15, 17 yard line.
David Humm, the former quarterback at Nebraska,
will spot it down.
You know, technically Tony,
they had time for another running play with students, too.
I think they just did not want to play
with a possibility of a bubble.
21 seconds left.
Here comes the snap.
Back to home, puts it down.
Kick up, got it!
The kick is done.
And the open way to the right and front.
31 to 28 after turning 28 to 14.
18 seconds left.
Never say die.
You can never end it off.
And here's always a great, great comeback play
when it was Stabler or Griff Branch
or the running of Mark Van Hagen and Banishek.
What a great comeback.
Just a few seconds left on the clock.
18 seconds to be exact.
When the Oakland Raiders tied that ballgame up,
they came to life and when they went ahead,
they absolutely went wild.
That's about a 20 yard boot by Steinport.
He's a little far away guy.
Kick up on the air, headed towards the far side.
It's taken on the run.
He's better with a back cut about.
Just a 30 to 35 at the 40 yard line.
And that's going to stop the clock
with about 13 seconds left.
He's got time for one, maybe two plays.
Down, right.
A few lots to the left.
Here's Bradshaw back to throw.
Here come the Raiders. They're coming.
They're going to let it.
Now it's closing up field.
It's caught up there by Zio Bell.
And Zio Bell's final makes his way out of Bonn.
They say no, but the ballgame is over.
The ballgame is over.
And the Oakland Raiders have come from behind
to beat the Pittsburgh Center.
The final goal, Oakland 31, Pittsburgh 28.