Introduction Joe Montana is, arguably, one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history. He set tons of records, passed for thousands of yards, and scored a handful of last-minute game-winning touchdowns. Joe Montana played for the San Francisco 49's and the Kansas City Chiefs in his fifteen year career; from 1979-1994. During this time, Joe Montana changed the way we play football today. In this paper, I'll be telling you more about his NFL career, college career, early childhood influences, and some of the many records that he's set. Childhood Joe Montana was born in New Eagle, Pennsylvania, on June 11, 1956; to Theresa Montana and Joseph Montana Sr. Montana began to take an interest in sports at a young age. It was Montana's father, …show more content…
Montana spent most of his first season as a backup for the 49's, only throwing twenty-three passes. It wasn’t until the mid 1980's season until Montana became the starting quarterback. In 1981 Montana went into the season as starting quarterback for the 49's. That season was one of the most successful seasons for the NFL at that time. With Montana's strong performance, and two comeback wins from the fourth quarter, the team finished the season with 13-3. The Miami Dolphins had finished their 1972 season with no losses; at the time, a regular season was composed of only fourteen games. This meant that in 1984, when the 49's finished their season with a record of 15-1 (after the NFL changed the rules to fifteen games a season) they became the first team to win fifteen games in one season; with the help of Montana. With this great season, Montana was sent was of course sent to his second pro bowl, and the 49's went into the playoffs dominating and earning their spot in the 1984 Super Bowl. In that game against the Dolphins, Montana completed twenty-four out of thirty-five passes, and threw for three-hundred-thirty-one yards, setting a Super Bowl record for passing yards. To assist his passing, he also rushed for fifty-nine yards. The 49's blew the Dolphins out of the water (pun intended) with a winning score of 38-16. This earned Montana his second Super Bowl MVP award. The 49's coach event stated after the game that, " Joe Montana is the greatest quarterback today..." Then again in 1988, Montana earned another trip to the Super Bowl where he threw three first half touchdowns and sealed a win against Minnesota; 34-9. In 1990, Montana finished with a 14-2 record and earned the title as Sportsman of the year from Sports Illustrated. Skipping forward to 1993 and 1994, Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. Montana was offered many retired jersey numbers from former players, but he ultimately turned them down, instead
improves this number with each season played. Miller almost single handedly won Super Bowl L for the Broncos by recording 2.5 sacks, forcing two fumbles, and winning
Tom Brady went to Michigan to play football and he was not the best. He got drafted by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick of the 6th round for the 2000 NFL Draft. Tom Brady is easily the best with that late of a pick. After that, Brady has had no season with a win percentage below 50%. Tom Brady has dominated in the NFL ever since he has been drafted. When you look at Tom Brady’s career stats, you won’t see any season that really pops out. This is because every season was a monster season. Well, not in 2008 because he was injured but other than that, he is a very elite
The theme of this book is about the legendary coach Paul Bryant and how he helped Joe Namath overcome the struggle of segregation on and off the football field. Considering the relationship of the athlete and coach during golden era of the game, it addresses the losses, the commitment, and the determination in becoming one of the nation 's elite.
To start off, Tom Brady has broken a lot of records. Some of his records include the most super bowl wins by a quarterback, most super bowl MVP selections, has won twenty five of the thirty four playoff games he has started in, has been selected to twelve pro bowls, and he has the most divisions won by a single quarterback (Doeden). For instance, he also has led the Patriots from a losing team to a winning team. With Tom Brady starting at quarterback the Patriots have never had a losing season (Doeden). In addition, he also has broken records for his stats. One of the records he broke was the best Touchdown to interception ratio of 28-2, because of this he wants to play until he is fourth eight (Reyes). At this years Super Bowl he had a great game. The Patriots overcame a twenty five point deficit and took the game to the first Super Bowl overtime game, he threw his first post season pick six ever after playing in thirty four playoff games, and in the last six possessions of the game he lead his team to four touchdowns and a field goal (Craig). After all, he did this all while his family was going through tough times. His mom was battling cancer and Brady dedicated the win to her (Hofforth). This is why Tom Brady is the best quarterback to ever live.
He even has awards named after him. When Payton was enrolled at Jackson State he won multiple awards like Black College Player of the year award two times. He was also selected to the All-American team his freshman year. His senior season he finished 3rd in the heisman voting (best college football player in division 1). Payton has other significant accomplishments like in 1977 when he won MVP of the NFL. Payton was also inducted to the pro football Hall of Fame in 1993. “The Walter Payton Award, established in 1987 is annually presented to the most helpful person in their community and one who helps make the biggest changes in the world only for NFL players”-(Britannica). Walter Payton is also credited for awakening national interest in organ donations. Payton has done a lot of things before he passed from fighting segregation to helping the fight against liver disease. Walter Payton has always tried to make a change in the world and he did. Payton held rallies for segregation, he put on events to help raise donations for organ donations. Even though he is gone now his family is still trying to make a difference by putting on donations and events as
Tom Brady is the Quarterback for the New England Patriots. He has won four super bowls and has won six AFC Championships. He is the only Quarterback to be picked in the 6th round and go on to six super bowls and win four of the six. Brady has also went to the AFC Championship five consecutive times NFL record, Brady is also the only Quarterback to win six AFC Championships. Tom Brady has had the best NFL career for a Quarterback ever, being picked in the 6th round many people did not believe he would be an amazing Quarterback like today. In 2007 Brady had the best season of his career going 16-0, he threw 50 touchdowns and threw for almost 5,000 yards with only eight interceptions. Brady would go on to the Super
The reason why i think that this is the most important reason why is that a Super Bowl is the main goal heading into a season and when you achieve that goal five times that’s impressive (“Tom”, Biography). Which Peyton Manning has done it twice but that’s nothing to Brady. Plus Peyton Manning only played good in one of those Super Bowls while Brady has never played a bad Super Bowl in his career (“Peyton”, Biography). The recent Super Bowl was the Patriots vs Falcons and the final score in that game was 34-28, it will go down in history as one
Tom Brady's first year in the NFL was not fun. He was only able to play one game due to the fact that the quarterback position was filled. The next season would be a different story due to the fact that Drew Bledsoe the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots went down with an injury. Tom Brady silenced the doubters with 11 wins and 3 losses. That year Tom Brady took the Patriots to the Super Bowl against the St Louis Rams and won.
Pat Tillman had a stronger work ethic than most everyone. Tillman showed his hard work in every aspect of his life on the fiend and off he had a 3.5 or higher GPA all threw high school. When Pat was a 8th grader he tried out for the varsity baseball team, he didn't make the team also he decided to mainly focus on football. Everyone told him that he wasn't big enough or good enough to play football but he pushed himself and worked harder than everyone to get where he wanted to go. In Pats senior year of college he had NFL scouts come to one of the practices and he worked so hard that he would let the scouts leave until he completed the drill to the best of his abilities. Pat was the 226th pick of the draft and he proved to be the best safely
Brett Favre had many flaws as a quarterback. First off would be his tendency to throw interceptions throughout his career. By throwing many interceptions he cost the Packers many football games, and possibly put the packers out of playoffs and superbowls. In fact, Brett favre has thrown the most interceptions in NFL history, which is 336 interceptions. One Reason people argue he threw so many interceptions is that Brett Favre is more of a gun slinger, and would take more chances. Now Aaron Rodgers on the other hand is an extremely accurate thrower of the football. While still being in the NFL, he has a total of 75 interceptions. Resulting in a considerably large difference between the accuracy of these quarterbacks and the play style.
Jameis Winston has threw for 60 touchdowns and 10,000 yards for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in just three years. He is the second youngest to ever throw for 10,000 yards. Winston has been the heart and soul of the team since his arrival despite the odds he has faced on and off the field.
Tom Brady has started in 7 SuperBowls, he won 5 and lossed the other 2. Tom Brady played against the Rams, Panthers, Eagles, Seahawks, Falcons, and the Giants. The only team Tom Brady has lost against is the New York Giants and that was in SuperBowl XLII and XLVI. Tom Brady has 2,078 passing yards with 15 touchdowns and only 5 intersecptions in all of his SuperBowls. Joe Montana has started in 4 SuperBowls and has won all of them. He played the Broncos, Dolphins and the Bengals twice. Joe has 1,142 passing yards with 11 touchdown and no interceptions.
“Brett Favre is one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of professional football. You are judged by winning, and he’s won more games than any other quarterback who has ever played. But I will remember him just as well for being such a fierce competitor and outstanding leader. He was the face of the Packers and a great credit to our game. It was an honor to coach against him.”(Mike Shanahan, Denver Broncos Head Coach) Brett’s passion for the game, and winning history, together earned him the respect of the entire football nation. I am going to give you a summary of this incredible athlete’s life, covering both the ups and downs of his bumpy road to success. I am using factual
John Elway had 51,475 yards to end his career. John Elway is ranked number 6 in all time yards. Joe Montana only had 40,551 and was number 15 all time. Also John Elway is number 7 in all time downs with 300. Joe Montana is number 13 with 273 touchdowns. They both was in the league 16 years but Montana only played 15 season because in 1991 he suffered a elbow injury. Elway also
Before I can argue that Tom Brady is the greatest of all time, I am going to summarize the criteria of what makes an athlete the greatest of all time. However, there is a possible problem with the criteria. Readers may think that this criterion is assembled to prove that Tom Brady is the greatest of all time. This is not the case though; this criterion has been complied of multiple sources of what they believe is the greatest athlete of all time. These sources are from all different places they are not all from New England. The criteria are made up of multiple characteristics required to be labeled the greatest of all time. Drive is a necessity to be the greatest of all time. Now this sounds very clichéd however, I cannot be over looked. The athlete cannot be satisfied with the day of work they have to have the