Showing posts with label Football League. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Football League. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Joe Montana - football player in National Football League

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/Joe Montana nicknamed Joe Cool, Golden Joe, The Golden Great and Comeback Joe, is a retired Hall of Fame football player in the National Football League. He started his NFL career in 1979 with the San Francisco 49ers, where he played quarterback for the next 14 seasons. He spent the 1993 and 1994 period, his final two years in the NFL, with the Kansas City Chiefs. While a member of the 49ers, Montana in progress four Super Bowl games and the team won all of them. In 2000, Montana was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 1989, and again in 1990, the related Press named Montana the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP), and Sports Illustrated magazine surname Montana the 1990 "Sportsman of the Year".

The 49ers retired the number 16, the jersey number Montana carry while with the team. In 1993, Montana was operate to the Kansas City Chiefs and led the franchise to its first AFC Championship Game in January 1994. In 1994, Montana gets a spot on the NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team; he is also a associate of the NFL 1980s All-Decade Team. In 1999, editors at The Sporting News ranked Montana third on their listing of Football's 100 Greatest Players. Also in 1999, ESPN named Montana the 25th best athlete of the 20th century. In 2006, Sports illustrate rate him the number one clutch quarterback of every time. In 2010 he was named the fourth greatest player in NFL history according to the NFL's top 100 show.

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Date of birth

June 11, 1956

Place Of Birth

New Eagle, Pennsylvania, USA

Height

6 ft 2 ft

Weight:

93 kg

Awards

Cotton Bowl Classic MVP (1979)

UPI NFC Player of the Year (1981)

PFWA NFL MVP (1989)

NEA NFL MVP (1989)

AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year (1989)

NFL Comeback Player of the Year (1986)

Bert Bell Award (1989)

NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team

NFL 1980s All-Decade Team

San Francisco 49ers #16 retired

Thursday, May 5, 2011

John Madden - football player, Football League

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John Madden is a former American professional football player in the National Football League, a former head coach among the Oakland Raiders in the American Football association and later the NFL, and a former color commentator for NFL telecasts. In 2006, he was introducing into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his coaching career. He is also widely recognized for the long-running Madden NFL video game series he has endorsed and fronted since 1988.

Madden show with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s, on CBS and later Fox. He was also the final color commentator for ABC's Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006. His final regular role was as a commentator for NBC Sunday Night Football. He has also written many books and has served as a commercial pitchman for various products and retailers. He retired from broadcasting on April 16, 2009 in order to spend more moments with his family.


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Birth Name

John Earl Madden

Date Of Birth

April 10, 1936

Place Of Birth

Austin, Minnesota, United States

Career history As coach

Oakland Raiders (1967–1968)

Oakland Raiders (1969–1978)

Awards

1969 Pro Football Weekly AFL Coach of the Year