Steelers All-Time Team Bios

 

 

Thirty-three players were named to the Steelers All-Time Team the club announced the members as part of the Steelers 75th Season Celebration. The squad includes both former and current Steelers players who make up the official Steelers All-Time Team.

 

The players will be honored at the team’s Nov. 4 Gala event at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and at the Steelers Nov. 5 Monday Night game against the Baltimore Ravens when the Steelers will wear their throwback uniforms for the second and final time this season. Thirty-three players were selected in recognition of the team being founded in 1933.

 

Throughout this week www.steelers.com will feature bios of the players who were voted to the team. Be sure to check back each day for those bios.

 

SPECIALISTS


Gary Anderson – Kicker (1982-94)

 

 

The Dallas Cowboys had won 17 straight openers when the Steelers visited there to start the 1982 season, and the game was being televised on Monday Night Football to boot. Gary Anderson was a rookie who had been cut by Buffalo and signed by the Steelers just days before that game, and he made an immediate splash in the NFL. Anderson was 3-for-3 in field goals that night, all in the second half, and the Steelers held on for a 36-28 win. The Steelers’ all-time leader in points, Anderson was named to the NFL’s All-Rookie team in 1982 and followed that by leading the AFC in scoring and being named team MVP the following year. Anderson connected on 309 field goals in 395 attempts (78.2 percent) and 416-of-420 PATs for a Steelers’-record 1,343 points. A three-time Pro Bowl selection, Anderson owns the team’s career records for points (1,343), field goals (309), field goal attempts (395) and longest field goal (55). In a 1989 Wild Card Game in Houston, Anderson’s 50-yard field goal in overtime was the difference in a 26-23 upset win for the Steelers.

 

 

 

Bobby Walden – Punter (1968-77)

 

 

Cairo is the county seat of Grady County, Georgia, and its most famous resident is Jackie Robinson, the man who integrated Major League Baseball 60 years ago. Bobby Walden might not be that famous, but in those parts he is known as “The Big Toe from Cairo.” Walden still owns the Steelers’ all-time record for career punts with 716, and his 41.1-yard average puts him seventh on the team’s all-time list. Walden was the team’s punter on the first two Super Bowl championship teams of the 1970s.