re: Terry Bradshaw is the GOAT at QB

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I could give you every SB score. place, attendance, MVP,yards and other stuff.....

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My 11yo son can do that now. He loves football and watches all the old games.

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I love 70's and 80's NFL... In my teens and 20's during that time... I could talk ALL DAY about it and not look anything up... Don't need to.... Until about 1990 I could give you every SB score. place, attendance, MVP,yards and other stuff.....

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You sound like you're about my age. Here's a story that I think you'll appreciate, that speaks to how much things have changed since we were kids:

On the morning of Super Bowl IX, my Dad took my cousin and I to the hotel where the Steelers were staying, which IIRC, was the Fontainebleau Hotel, but don't hold me to that. My Dad didn't know anyone with the NFL or the Steelers, and we just walked in, as there was no security at hotels in those days, even a few hours before the Super Bowl. When we walked in, the team was about to hold a brief prayer service in a conference room, and we just walked in, sat at the back of the room and watched. After the service was done, the players, coaches and other team associates milled around in the lobby waiting for the busses to leave for Tulane Stadium. At this point, my Dad struck up a conversation with a couple of the coaches, while my cousin and I just stood there in awe of our idols standing all around us. I noticed Terry Bradshaw having a conversation with two teammates, who turned out to be John Kolb and Mike Webster, and I slowly walked over to them, and when it appeared that they were finished talking, I quietly asked them for their autographs, which they gave to me. About 10 minutes later, all of them headed out of the hotel to get on the busses, and I watched them all board (eg. Harris, Greene, Blount, Greenwood, Swann, Stallworth, Lambert, Bleier, etc.). Of course I had no idea how many of them would go onto be Hall of Famers, or that in a few hours, they would begin a reign as one of the greatest dynasties in sports history, but I remember that morning vividly, as I was an impressionable adolescent who was mesmerized by what I was witnessing.

When I think about that day, it's really mind-boggling when you think how much things have changed. Nowadays, can you imagine how hard it would be to get that close to a Super Bowl team that close to kickoff?