Bulletin board material is never something you want to give your opponent, especially before a conference championship game. But, that is just what former Oakland Raiders head coach John Madden did before the 1974 AFC Championship Game according to former Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Mel Blount.
Blount joined The Eye Test for Two podcasts recently and told the story of how the ever-stoic head coach Chuck Noll fired up his team before taking on the Raiders with the trip to the Super Bowl on the line.
“I’ll never forget when they [the Raiders] beat Miami and the playoff game, and that was in 1974,” said Blount.