On 𝕏–Twitter the other day, someone asked who were the first four college football national championship winners of your lifetime. I had to look it up.
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After winning their playoff game on Thursday, Notre Dame now has their best chance to win a national championship since 1988, something they hadn't done at that point since eleven seasons earlier.
In 1977, the Fightin' Irish won the title with an unheralded junior signal-caller at the helm. On New Year's Day 1978, Joe Montana let the 5th-ranked Irish to a Cotton Bowl victory over the top-ranked Texas Longhorns. After the game, Notre Dame leapfrogged everyone to end the season at the top of the polls.
Well, young Montana wasn’t unheralded for much longer. Four Super Bowl victories would follow and he became widely considered the best quarterback of all-time (until another unheralded college QB, Tom Brady, won seven Super Bowls of his own).
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Joe Montana was born on June 11, 1956 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania. It was evident early on that Montana was going to be a great football player thanks to his athletic prowess and above-average intelligence. Standing 6'2" and weighing 200 pounds, Montana also had the perfect body for a top-line quarterback.
Montana played high school football at Ringgold High School in the Steel Valley south of Pittsburgh. In high school, Montana was a standout athlete not only on the football field, but also in baseball and basketball. He started two years for the Ringgold football team, and after his senior season he was named to the Parade All-American Team.
After high school, Montana decided to play football at the University of Notre Dame, despite receiving several basketball scholarship offers. Although Montana put together a solid career at Notre Dame (and won the national championship!), he did not put up big enough numbers to make everybody notice.
But one thing that he did during his college career is establish himself as one of the greatest come from behind quarterbacks of all time. A knack that he took with him to the pros.
Montana was selected by the San Francisco 49ers with the 82nd overall pick in the 1979 NFL Draft. Although he did not play a lot his rookie season, by the end of his second year he became the full-time starting quarterback.
In 1981, Montana led the Niners to the first of his four Super Bowl victories. In all but one of these Super Bowl wins, he was named the Most Valuable Player of the game. For his career, Montana passed for 35,124 yards.
He also was named to the Pro Bowl eight times. It is safe to say that Joe Montana will always be known as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
The aforementioned Tom Brady (and your humble correspondent) even wore Joe Montana #16 jerseys around as children. Montana was legendary. Still is.
As always,
Brian
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