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Apr 30, 2022 · Today in #NFLHistory: HOF QB Johnny Unitas is born in 1933. He became 3x @NFL MVP and won @SuperBowl V with the Colts. pic.twitter.com/Gax76MwKQc. — NFL Throwback (@nflthrowback) May 7, 2017. His father died when Unitas was only five which left his mother to work two jobs and care for the family.
Johnny Unitas. Class of 1979. All-NFL. 6. Passing yards. 40,239. Pro Bowls. 10. Seasons. 18. Touchdown passes. 290. "I came into the league without any fuss. I’d just as soon leave it that way. There’s no difference I can see in retiring from pro football, or quitting a job at the Pennsy Railroad.
Sep 12, 2002 · Johnny Unitas, who rose from a $6-a-game sandlot player to become perhaps professional football's greatest quarterback, died yesterday in suburban Baltimore. He was 69.
Nov 4, 2023 · Today marks the 50th anniversary of the day JOHNNY UNITAS threw his last NFL pass. Unitas’ toss, good for 7 yards on his only attempt that afternoon, came in back-up duty on an otherwise forgettable day for him and the host San Diego Chargers — a 19-0 loss to the rival Kansas City Chiefs on Nov. 4, 1973.
Johnny Unitas was a professional American football player in the 1950s through the 1970s, spending the majority of his career with the Baltimore Colts. He was a record-setting quarterback and the National Football League’s most valuable player in 1959, 1964, and 1967.
Aug 31, 2021 · NFL 100: At No. 9, a supreme work ethic put Johnny Unitas in the GOAT conversation - The Athletic. Bob Kravitz. Aug 31, 2021. 125. Welcome to the NFL 100 , The Athletic ’s endeavor to...
Sep 11, 2002 · BALTIMORE -- Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas of the Baltimore Colts has died, a Baltimore Ravens spokesman said Wednesday. Steele had no other details of Unitas' death. Unitas,...