The WORST ROAD TRIP in Pittsburgh Steelers HISTORY

In week 4 of the 1966 NFL season, the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Washington Redskins in what was the Steelers' first road game of the season, as well as head coach Bill Austin's first road game in charge of the team. And everything that could've gone wrong, both on-the-field and off-the-field, did, to the point where Coach Austin knew how the game was going to play out before a single snap was even taken

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[mpf]

It's so weird to hear a story about a Steelers team not coached by Noll, Cowher, or Tomlin.

[PittsburghMarky]

An interesting note is that four years later Bill Austin would be the head coach of the Redskins.

[Davepool-hsvr]

So interesting to see a video of the Steelers prior to the tradition that they have since the 70s.

[PittsburghMarky]

Something interesting about Austin. Three years later he was an assistant once again for Vince Lombardi, this time with the Washington Redskins. Sixth game of the season is against the Steelers in Pittsburgh. The Redskins win, but after the game Austin starts laying in to Pat Livingston, a longtime and respected Pittsburgh sportswriter, for the coverage Austin received as Steelers coach. Lombardi put an end to it real quick and told Austin to knock it off.

[eddiekulp]

Can't believe Austin got job with Redskins later

[JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly]

Before Chuck Noll, the Steelers were downright pathetic and irrelevant.

[marcus]

So many things went wrong for the Steelers in the old guard NFL. This mess just happened to be one of them. Maybe that truck breakdown affected the Steelers' prep for the game.

[danielbowden]

Man, DC Stadium was really chewed up. I wonder what it looked like in December.

[DolFan]

I keep forgetting that Washington didn't have a team nickname for their entire 86 year history before it was decided that the nickname they never had needed to be scrapped so they could be called the "Football Team" for 2 years.

[jeremydobbs]

You are not going to the playoffs if you can't beat the Giants in 1966

[martinjkrumm]

Something that might be fodder for Steelers fan and self-proclaimed masochist UrinatingTree

[denisceballos]

The Steelers were indeed woeful in the ‘60’s. No one took them seriously. 1966 was another lousy year for them. Yet, they shocked division rival Cleveland in a big upset on a Saturday night game, then beat the heavily favored Cardinals the following week.
Those were small glimpses into what was to come for Pittsburgh six years later.

[WaltGekko]

The game in Washington was the day after George Washington University played a game at DC Stadium, with the two games combined with the then-Boston Patriots playing home games at Fenway Park (at the insistence of the city of Boston) on Sept. 25 (home opener against the Chiefs) and October 2 (against the Jets) led to a bizarre situation for the Red Sox in 1966 as apparently, the Patriots kicked the Red Sox out of Fenway (even though the Yawkey family owned the Red Sox and Fenway Park) to where their original season-ending two-game series with the Senators at Fenway (likely scheduled for Friday and Saturday 9/30-10/1 due to the Pats game Sunday 10/2) had to be moved up to July 4 as a standalone doubleheader, in turn forcing the Yankees and White Sox (their originally scheduled opponents respectively that July 4) to play a standalone doubleheader as well, borrowing games in that case from a scheduled series that Sept. 20-22, 1966 that led to ANOTHER bizarre situation when the remaining game of that White Sox-Yankees series was played (scheduled for Tuesday 9/20 it was delayed two days by rain and drew just 413 fans, fifth-smallest in MLB history and for years was believed, though later proven false to be the game that cost legendary MLB play-by-play voice Red Barber his job with the Yankees and ended his career as over the objections of the Yankees he went on about the crowd and not the game being the story), That season-ending two game series at Fenway could not be flipped with a two-game series a week and a half earlier in DC due to the two football games Sat.-Sun. 10/1-2 and led to the Red Sox finishing their 1966 season five days before the actual end of that season with back-to-back doubleheaders: Monday 9/26 against the Senators in DC that drew just 485 fans, eighth-smallest in MLB history and the smallest ever for a doubleheader and Tuesday 9/27 against the White Sox in Chicago as the Pats apparently wanted the Red Sox completely out of Fenway once the Pats began their home schedule. The doubleheader in DC turned out to be the last games of that season for the Senators as their subsequent (and season-ending for them) three-game series against the Yankees was entirely rained out (and those games would have been the last for Barber as Yankees PBP voice as he had been fired Monday 9/26 but allowed to finish the season as he had been already scheduled to skip the final series for them in Chicago against the White Sox), all part of series of storms that hit the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions during the final two weeks of the 1966 MLB season.

JG could easily get up to three separate videos on the end of the 1966 MLB season for his JG7 channel: The game that ended Red Barber's career in the eyes of many (Sept. 22, 1966, White Sox-Yankees), the bizarre situation on how the Red Sox and Senators ended their seasons five and six days respectively ahead of everyone else and how rain in the eyes of many caused the Dodgers to be swept by the Orioles in the 1966 World Series as they had to fend of the Giants on the final weekend of the 1966 season playing the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium.

[strredwolf]

"Get that knocked out in 4 hours."

Okay, I want to trace that. Washington would be in RFK Stadium. From Acrisure Stadium to RFK is 4 hours, 3 minutes... so 4 hours is accurate.

Flying on a charter plane... okay, you're 30 minutes to the airport. Screening and loading equipment is concurrent and probably takes maybe 20 minutes. The flight is 1h 5m. Getting everyone off and equipment loaded into buses is about 20 minutes as well. Getting to RFK is 45 minutes from BWI or Dulles, and Regan National is more like 20. So best case is 2h 35m, worst case is 3 hours. So you save at least an hour, right?

But as you said, things went wrong.

[aaronholcomb]

That has to be one of the largest disparities in passer rating. Jurgensen was 9.1 points shy of perfection.

[domenicdurante]

Betcha the hotel short-sheeted their beds. 😄

[peacefrog]

All these lowlights had me fooled into thinking I was watching the Steelers’ 2022 season 😂

[DolFan]

So I just had to know...was that second '66 game VS the Steelers really the best of Jurgensen's career? Close, but nope. Against the Bears two years later he would have the exact same number of completions and attempts (14 of 21) but for 12 more yards and one more TD with no picks. And even that's not as good as his ridiculous 12 of 14, 195 yard (nearly 14 yards per attempt) 3 TD zero pick game VS the Cards in '65.