1979 Pittsburgh Steelers at Houston Oilers 12/10/1979 - Part 13 of 13

A pivotal matchup between two bitter rivals in the old AFC Central. Part 13

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Sports

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• oilers
• steelers
• houston
• pittsburgh
• bradshaw
• greene
• campbell

[eugenemcgirt]

Exactly, because Renfro's catch was a TD.

[recsec]

Thank you SO much for posting this!! But I would have swore that we beat the Steelers 6-0 on two field goals. Oh well. And yeah the ref blew the call on the onside kick. But they made uop for it a month later when they BLEW the touchdown catch that would have tied the game! It WAS a touchdown! It's because of that game that we have instant replay now. Still Luv Ya Blue!!

[gdeleon101]

The reason Pastorini thought to try to score at the end was because in those days, total points scored for the year factored in the tie breaker. If both teams would have won the next game, they would of been tied, and by rule they would have looked at point totals. The Steelers had the most points anyway, so when Dan called timeout to ask the coach, Bum told him that it wouldn't help them anyway, so he just fell on the ball.

[TheGrandsonofsam]

Thanks so much for posting.

I miss the Oilers very much, and miss Campbell very much. The Steelers were possibly the greatest of all the dynasties, but they needed great opponents to make them what they were.

[nholt]

Eye... ham... Howward Cossell

[rusty1491]

@10:14 Calling time out with 1 second to play to try to score an extra touchdown. Terrible coaching.

[PhilthyTV]

@recsec I think was the 1980 season with Ken Stabler at QB

[SLAZHER62]

hwen the oilers destroy the iron wall .. I was 16 remember this game hoboy 

[TommyC503]

Unbelievable they tried to score at the end - classless pricks

[TommyC503]

@anthonyavila34 You fucking pussy - you must be a New England fan or one of those other pussy teams - this was real football the way it should be played - todays NFL sucks - just take the pads off - faggot.