讲个故事：John Clayton让钢人痛失4个超级碗

发信人: lpx (老胖雄), 信区: Football
标  题: 讲个故事：John Clayton让钢人痛失4个超级碗
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有点标题党，不过是个很有趣的故事，命就是命。看到讨论威神，还有49人5座奖杯想
到的。

John “Professor” Clayton 大家应该都熟悉。现在是体育评论员里的泰斗级人物。
大家尊称为professor。当年刚出道的时候，是匹兹堡一个小记者。一天代替Steelers
的正式 beat writer去看钢人训练，发现钢人训练中有违规的现象。这呀不知是出于记
者的道德操守，还是脑子进水了。把这个事情给报道出来了。

结果联盟发现了，罚了钢人一个3轮选秀权。本来钢人正准备用这个三轮来选一个QB。
后来选秀时，这个QB被另一个球队在第三轮比港人更后的位置选了。

这个QB是匹兹堡本地高中毕业的，后来去了Notre Dame，名叫Joe Montana。之后
Montana带领49人狂扫了4个超级碗，都是大家熟知的历史。

John Clayton后来一度被匹兹堡视为不受欢迎的人。BTW Russell Wilson 也是三轮被
选上的。那个位置，不少队都有选他的打算，包括绿湾，最后被海鹰先到一步。


这就是有名的shouldergate事件

from wikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season#.22Shouldergate.22
"Shouldergate"
The 1978 season began with some controversy, when players were caught
wearing shoulder pads in off-season drills in violation of league rules. The
infraction occurred during a late May rookie camp and was uncovered and
reported by Pittsburgh Press reporter John Clayton.[41]
"That story had no news value whatsoever. The thing that made it very bad
was that the story was of no news to the people of Pittsburgh. So I have to
assume that he [referring to John Clayton] is working for the competition.
He certainly wasn't working in the interest of the paper or the fans. As far
as I'm concerned he was working for the other people. The only way I can
read it is espionage. I know for a fact that other people use other media
for their interests, to spy."
– Head coach Chuck Noll's reaction to the "Shouldergate" story.[42]
Clayton was not the paper's regular Steelers beat writer at the time, but
was just filling in that day.[43] While the practice in which the violation
occurred was closed to the media by head coach Chuck Noll, Clayton uncovered
the story in interviews with players whom he found wearing pads in the
locker room.[41] Clayton contacted the league office for clarification on
the rule, which stated that teams must have "no contact work or use of pads
(except helmets) in an off-season training camp."[41][43]
The story caused an uproar among the team's local fanbase, with most of the
vitriol directed at Clayton for reporting the story, rather than at Noll and
the team for breaking the rule.[43][44] This sentiment was stoked by Noll's
angry reaction to the story, in which he referred to the reporting as "
espionage."[42] Even some members of the local media spoke of Clayton as a
traitor to the Steeler cause.[45]
The precedent for punishment of such a rule violation was set by an earlier
incident for which the Green Bay Packers were stripped of a fourth-round
draft pick. The Packers were able to argue at that time that they were
unaware of the rule they broke. The Steelers had no such defense, since the
team's president, Dan Rooney, was instrumental in negotiations to get the "
no pads" rule included in the collective bargaining agreement with the
league's players.[46]
NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle eventually stripped the Steelers of their
third-round selection in the 1979 draft for the transgression.[47]

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