[citation needed]. This page was last edited on 23 October 2020, at 19:43. 1979 (11 Games): 148/289 for 1,886 yards with 10 TD vs. 12 INT. Mark Malone ’s 90-Yard Touchdown Reception. Malone's career, however, was plagued with several severe injuries. Additionally, if you'd like to donate above and beyond the ad-free option, you can donate via PayPal as well. Mark Malone caught the longest touchdown pass in Steelers history which covered 90 yards. Play Index. Mark Malone. His 90-yard reception against the Seahawks would go on to be his only catch of his NFL career. However, before we get to the play that ultimately set the new franchise record, there were two other touchdown pass plays that were exactly 1-yard longer than the 1961 play. Here is a little trivia from deep Steelers lore: In 1981, a Steeler set the record for the longest touchdown reception in team history. Bryant easily ran the remaining 50 or so yards untouched for the touchdown. If you like what you see on this site, we now have an ad-free option available for a donation of $25 per year, and you can enjoy the site entirely ad-free! All-time Receiving Leader: Hines Ward 1,000 rec, 12,083 yds, 85 TD 132 carries for 471 yards with 12 TD. [4] Under Center with Mark Malone has since[when?] Malone also had one career reception for a 90-yard TD, a Steelers team record until Mike Wallace broke it with a 95-yard touchdown reception vs. Arizona in 2011. We use ads to fund this site and continue to bring you premium Steelers content. In 2019, Malone started work in the Alliance of American Football for TNT as a play-by-play announcer. That 3rd down and 19 play included Stone leaking out to the right flat for an easy dumpoff by O’Donnell and the speedy wide receiver/running back/kick returner did the rest as he raced 89 more yards down the right sideline for a touchdown. [5], Arizona State Sun Devils starting quarterbacks, Pittsburgh Steelers first-round draft picks, Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterbacks, Los Angeles Chargers starting quarterbacks, Learn how and when to remove this template message, http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?season=1980, "Pittsburgh Steelers Career Passing Leaders", "Donovan McNabb, Mark Malone Team For 3-7p ET On NBC Sports Radio", "2019 Alliance of American Football (AAF) Week 4 TV and Announcer Schedule", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Malone&oldid=985071316, Arizona State Sun Devils football players, Short description is different from Wikidata, BLP articles lacking sources from April 2009, NFL player missing current team parameter, Infobox NFL biography articles with old NFL.com URL, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2019, All articles with vague or ambiguous time, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Mark M. Malone is a former American football quarterback in the NFL. Single Season Rushing TD, Single Season Receiving Yards, ... College Football Scores. Bryant had easily raced by the Bengals cornerback down the right side of the field and Roethlisberger hit him in stride almost near midfield. All-time Rushing Leader: Franco Harris 2,881 att, 11,950 yds, 91 TD . That 90-yard completion to Malone became the longest pass play in Steelers history at the time. Malone, who was selected in the first-round of the 1980 NFL Draft, needed to start and play wide receiver in that game against the Seahawks due to injuries to two of the team’s other wide receivers, Lynn Swann and Jim Smith. Most Recent Games and Any Score Since 1869. In total, I have seven plays to revisit and before we get started, I wanted to point out that up until 1981, the Steelers longest touchdown reception took place in 1961. The other wide receiver that played in that game along with Malone and Stallworth, Calvin Sweeney, was recovering from a bruised lung. “Once I saw the ball, I said to myself, ‘Please, God, let me grab the ball.’ I thought if I caught it, I had one leg to make it the rest of the way.”. [citation needed], He was a two-year starter at Arizona State University and was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 28th pick in the 1980 NFL draft. School: Arizona State. [3] His highlights with the Steelers included giving the eventual Super Bowl Champion 49ers its only loss in 1984, and guiding the Steelers to the 1984 AFC Championship Game against the Miami Dolphins. That Bradshaw to Malone 90-yard touchdown completion stood as the Steelers franchise record touchdown reception play for 33 years but it was tied 20 years after it happened. The play was sort of reminiscent of the 2001 90-yard touchdown pass from Stewart to Shaw. Against the San Diego Chargers in Week 1 of the 1991 season, an 89-yard touchdown pass from Neil O’Donnell to wide receiver Dwight Stone equaled to 1988 play from Brister to Lipps. The Bradshaw to Malone 90-yard touchdown completion stood as the Steelers franchise record touchdown reception play for 33 years but it was tied 20 years after it happened. on the air from 7-10p ET. Malone started only half the season in 1985 for Pittsburgh due to various injuries, and missed two games at mid-season in 1986 with a thumb injury on his throwing hand. Even Malone wasn’t 100 percent healthy heading into that game because of a knee injury. Three years prior to Bryant scoring from 94-yards out in Cincinnati and almost 10 years after Shaw and Stewart tied the franchise record set by Bradshaw and Malone, wide receiver Mike Wallace become the franchise leader via a pass from Roethlisberger in a 2011 Week 7 road game against the Arizona Cardinals. 1977 (11 Games): 14/26 for 197 yards with 2 TD vs. 1 INT. We didn’t play him as tightly as we would a John Stallworth. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet.

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