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  Johnny Unitas information - Search.com
Unitas was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1933.
Unitas was also injured during Super Bowl V, but he did throw a key touchdown pass in the game that helped lift the team to victory.
Unitas himself lost almost total use of his right hand, which had become mangled by the end of his playing career, with the middle finger and thumb noticeably disfigured from being repeatedly broken.
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  Johnny Unitas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unitas was traded to the San Diego Chargers in 1972, and retired from football in 1974.
Unitas was frequently seen on the Ravens' sidelines at home games and received a thunderous ovation every time he was pictured on each of the JumboTrons at MandT Bank Stadium.
Unitas himself lost almost total use of his right hand, which had become mangled by the end of his playing career, with the middle finger and thumb noticeably disfigured from being repeatedly broken.
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 Welcome To Portland's WB | KWBP | Youngster's drive couldn't be sacked   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
When John Unitas was in seventh grade at a Catholic grade school in the hard hills south of downtown Pittsburgh, his teacher asked each of the students in his class what they wanted to be when they grew up.
Unitas was a fatherless child of the Depression, a 135-pound high school star and a bowlegged quarterback on outmanned teams at the University of Louisville, tough but obscure, talented but luckless, seemingly destined to exist outside the mainstream that funneled players to the NFL.
Unitas' sister, cousin and many of his former classmates, neighborhood friends and teammates still reside in the Pittsburgh area and were recently interviewed by The Sun for this story.
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Unitas was the fourth quarterback in training camp.
Unitas found work as a pile driver and quarterbacked a sandlot football team for $6 a game.
Unitas invented the role of the modern quarterback, football's marquee position.
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 John Main's Christian Meditation
John Main spoke out of the tradition of Cassian in which the emphasis is on the absolute simplicity of ceaselessly revolving the prayer formula in one’s heart as a way of ridding oneself of all kinds of other thoughts and keeping one’s mind fixed on the continual recollection of God.
John maintains that leaving discursive meditation before this knowledge and love is established in their souls can be as detrimental as continuing discursive meditation when God clearly is leading them into contemplation.
John Main obtained permission from his abbot late in 1974 to establish a small lay community in a former novitiate house at Ealing Abbey in England, primarily devoted to the practice of meditation.
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 Johnny Unitas at AllExperts
Unitas was traded to the San Diego Chargers in 1972, and retired from football in 1974.
Unitas was married to his high school sweetheart Dorothy Hoelle on November 20, 1954 by his uncle; they had 5 children.
However, a statue of Unitas was erected as the centerpiece of the plaza in front of the main entrance to M&T Bank Stadium, the plaza was officially named "Unitas Plaza", and large banners depicting Unitas in his Baltimore Colts heydey now flank the entrance to the stadium.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Unitas, John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pope Pius XI's "encyclical" Humani Generis Unitas against racism and anti-Semitism and the "silence" of Pope Pius XII.
From the sandlots to the shrine: for John Stallworth and the rest of the Class of 2002, the call to the Hall is the culmination of boyhood dreams.
The misunderestimation of John Kerry: beware of this man, He's won every race that he was supposed to lose.
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 Welcome To Portland's WB | KWBP | The mix that made him great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Unitas stumbled, fumbled and played like he was worth about 80 cents — the cost of the telephone call that had earned him a tryout two years before.
Unitas completed 12 of 16 passes for 168 yards "while acting as cool as if he were playing in a pickup game," recalls Andy Nelson, defensive back.
Unitas, toweling off at his locker, was as blase about the victory as about his early woes.
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 Remembering Johnny Unitas | Chicago Tribune news | Local news, weather, traffic, shopping and classified
Ravens Stadium got the Unitas touch yesterday, from the 13-foot statue of John Unitas to a ring of honor induction for Baltimore Colts Hall of Famers to an eloquent halftime address by the late quarterback's wife.
When John Unitas was in seventh grade at a Catholic grade school in the hard hills south of downtown Pittsburgh, his teacher asked each of the students in his class what they wanted to be when they grew up.
John Unitas was cut by the Pittsburgh Steelers and his stooped shoulders made him look like anything but an NFL quarterback.
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 Remembering Johnny Unitas: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Ravens Stadium got the Unitas touch yesterday, from the 13-foot statue of John Unitas to a ring of honor induction for Baltimore Colts Hall of Famers to an eloquent halftime address by the late quarterback's wife.
John Unitas: The legendary former Colts quarterback awed people with his play on the football field and his graciousness off it.
John Unitas was cut by the Pittsburgh Steelers and his stooped shoulders made him look like anything but an NFL quarterback.
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 DaRavens.com
Unitas retired after the 1973 season with 22 NFL records, among them marks for most passes attempted and completed, most yards gained passing, most touchdown passes and most seasons leading the league in TD passes.
Unitas was one of the few quarterbacks who called his own plays, an ability traced to his knack for reading an opponent's defense and spotting a weakness, then calling a play to take advantage.
Unitas was born in Pittsburgh on May 7, 1933, and was only 4 when his father, who had a small coal delivery business, died of pneumonia.
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 Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
Programmed strictly as a backup, Unitas got his chance in the fourth game when the Colts’ starter was injured.
Unitas’ first pass was intercepted for a touchdown but from that moment on, he never looked back.
A genuine team player, Unitas was a first- or second-team All-NFL choice eight years, selected NFL Player of the Year three times, and named to10 Pro Bowls.
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 Protrain China Bookstore: PMP Exam Prep: Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Unitas comes across as a Gary Cooper type--a man of few words and quiet, not very public deeds, who didn't make waves despite his own sense of individualism.
Toward the end, there is mention of Unitas' concern with retirement and disability issues, his difficulties as a businessman, and a difficult first wife.
John Unitas Jr is writing his own bio of his father and perhaps that will fill some of the gaps.
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 Welcome to The Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Unitas, who wore number 19 as a professional, had his No. 16 collegiate uniform retired at Louisville, the lone number retired by the Cardinals.
Unitas was selected as the top quarterback of all time by the Pro Football Hall of Fame 36-member selection committee.
This year, the banquet was attended by the Unitas family and numerous sports dignitaries, and was particularly poignant in light of Johnny Unitas’ death on Sept. 11, 2002.
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 Gridirons and virtues | The-Tidings.com
I think, for example, of the late John Unitas, quarterback of the Baltimore (yes, Baltimore) Colts when I was growing up.
Unitas, who invented the two-minute drill, put the NFL on the national sports map by driving the Colts downfield to tie the New York Giants at the end of regulation time in the 1958 championship - which the Colts later won in overtime, in what's often called The Greatest Game Ever Played.
John Unitas was no philosopher, but he lived the truth that athletic excellence - finely-honed natural talent, courage, and teamwork; hard, repetitive practice followed by precise execution when you had one, and only one, chance to make things work just right - is really a matter of virtue.
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 'Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas' by Tom Callahan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
John Constantine Unitas was born in Pittsburgh in 1933 and raised by his Lithuanian immigrant mother on Mount Washington after his father died when he was 5.
Unitas came of age when the passing game was capturing the imagination of television viewers, when quarterbacks called their own plays and players' styles weren't subordinate to a brain trust of coaches.
Unitas, with his laser-like passing skill and riverboat gambler's flair, helped change all that by ushering football into the big-money TV era.
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 An era passes, leaving Baltimore a different place - The Advocate
When former Baltimore Colts great and Hall of Fame quarterback John Unitas died yesterday of an apparent heart attack, so did an era in Baltimore when a professional athlete embodied the spirit and passion of a city.
Unitas was known for the tough persona, but Baltimore stole his heart.
Unitas and the Colts began turning professional football into the nation's No. 1 sport with the sudden-death overtime win against the New York Giants in the 1958 championship game on national television.
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 NFL Starting Quarterbacks of 1971- John Unitas
John Unitas no longer can pull the string on the long pass like he once did, but he still can pull some tricks which keep him high on the list of pro quarterbacks.
"Unitas is the master, the greatest of them all," said a star cornerback who has faced him many times.
Unitas proved his gambler's instinct was still alive during the 70 season.
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 Unitas clan torn apart - The Washington Times: Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
John Unitas, quarterback of the Baltimore Colts, poses on July 19, 1961, in Westminster, Maryland.
Unitas was one of the greatest stars in NFL history, a quarterback who broke nearly every league passing record and led the Colts to three championships in 18 seasons.
Christopher Unitas said that when his father died, Sandra Unitas told him she would notify him of plans to inter his father's ashes so that he and his family could attend.
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 Washington City Paper
Amazingly, half a century after Unitas began his professional career, Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas by Tom Callahan, a sports columnist with the Washington Post, is the first book to tell us how and why Unitas became a legend.
Unitas would flourish playing for Weeb Ewbank, winning two championships for a coach smart enough to know that Unitas called a better game than he could; the QB chafed under the micromanagement of Don Shula, who outsmarted himself by not turning Unitas loose during big games.
Callahan makes the case that it was Unitas, with his laserlike passing skill and riverboat gambler’s flair on the field, who helped change all that by ushering football into the big-money TV era.
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 Remembering Johnny Unitas - The Advocate
The funeral for John Unitas is tomorrow, but the wake began yesterday, when the past and future of Baltimore football merged at Ravens Stadium.
John Unitas' importance in pro football history can't be emphasized enough.
JOHN UNITAS was slow but cool, gritty yet unpredictable.
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 Amazon.frĀ : Johnny U: The Life And Times of John Unitas: Livres en anglais: Tom Callahan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The decisive moment occurred in December 1958, when Unitas and the Colts defeated the New York Giants for the NFL championship in an overtime game for which the only appropriate adjective was, and remains, thrilling.
Unitas played for the Colts for more than a dozen years -- a very long time, by pro-football standards -- but his last seasons were diminished by injuries and age.
Unitas played out his career in San Diego, but never felt at home in that warm, sun-washed city and beat it back to Baltimore as soon as he could.
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 Amazon.com: Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas: Books: Tom Callahan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Unitas was a bit light for a football player but was the starting quarterback for his high school.
In 1955 Unitas was drafted in the 9th round by the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL but was soon cut and ended up playing in a semi-pro league around Pittsburgh.
Unitas won 3 NFL championships in his career - the first which many consider to be the most pivotal professional football game ever played - the 1958 NFL Championship where the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants 23-17 in the first overtime game in NFL history.
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 KTLA The CW | Where Los Angeles Lives | Remembering Johnny Unitas
Growing up in difficult circumstances, John Unitas had the makings of a quarterback even as a child, but his legendary career might never have come to pass if not for some good fortune.
Hangout: For 40 years, the working-class Brooklyn Park bar was a favorite spot for John Unitas to eat, relax and be treated as family.
John Unitas: The legendary former Colts quarterback awed people with his play on the football field and his graciousness off it.
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 SI.com - Pro Football - Unitas Remembered - Thursday May 22, 2003 11:48 PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Posted: Wednesday September 11, 2002 7:43 PM Johnny Unitas, the Hall of Fame quarterback who broke nearly every NFL passing record and won three championships with the Baltimore Colts in an 18-year career, died of a heart attack Wednesday at age 69.
John was the greatest football player of all time.
I think Unitas was probably the person that was most responsible for the explosion of pro football, simply because of what happened and the drive that took place in the 1958 NFL championship Game.
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