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	Johnny Unitas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unitas was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1933.
		Johnny's father died when he was five years old and he was raised by his Lithuanian immigrant mother who worked two jobs to support the family.
		Johnny Unitas was traded to the San Diego Chargers in 1972, and retired from football in 1974.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Unitas (1325 words)

	Johnny Unitas - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Johnny Unitas, extolled in countless football arenas as one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game, was almost denied the chance to prove his talent.
		Johnny U, it was decided, could throw the ball well enough and was moved to the QB position with less than a week to learn the entire offense.
		Unitas received an offer from the University of Louisville, and after some consideration, decided being a big fish in a small pond might be more to his advantage after all.
	www.johnnyunitas.com /jbio.html (417 words)

	CNNSI.com - Pro Football - Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas dead at 69 - Thursday September 12, 2002 02:54 PM
		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.
		Unitas' brightest moment probably came in the 1958 championship game against the New York Giants, a match that was called "the greatest football game ever played" for years afterward.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/news/2002/09/11/unitas_obit_ap (1583 words)

	ESPN Classic - Unitas surprised them all
		Johnny Unitas emerged as a superstar at the same time the NFL was developing as a TV sport.
		Unitas led the Colts to NFL titles in 1958 and '59, helped them win Super Bowl V, was chosen to five all-league teams and was Player of the Year three times.
		Unitas was born on May 7, 1933 and grew up in a working-class section of Pittsburgh.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Unitas_Johnny.html (1627 words)

	Remembering Johnny Unitas: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Johnny Unitas' football life was remarkable, a royal blare of records, championships and honors.
	www.sun-sentinel.com /news/local/bal-johnnyunitas,0,4341703.special (1277 words)

	Johnny Unitas: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Unitas is considered by many to have been one of the best quarterback quarterback quick summary:
		Johnny's father died when he was five years old and he was raised by his Lithuania[For more, click on this link]n immigrant Immigration quick summary:
		The johnny unitas golden arm award is given annually in the united states to the nations outstanding senior quarterback in college football....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/johnny_unitas.htm (1710 words)

	Player Bio: Johnny Unitas :: Football
		Five games into Johnny Unitas’ freshman season (Unitas was allowed to play as a freshman because U of L didn’t belong to the NCAA), head coach Frank Camp knew he had something unique.
		One of the greatest plays of Unitas’ career took place in that game when the Cardinals were leading 28-21 and had the ball on their own eight-yard line in the fourth quarter.
		Unitas was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 1979 and his record 47-consecutive game touchdown passes is a record compared to Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak.
	uoflsports.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/unitas_johnny00.html (885 words)

	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.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=219 (380 words)

	Johnny Unitas press release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Johnny Unitas: America's Quarterback by Lou Sahadi with Forewords by Peyton Manning and Art Donovan offers an in-depth look into the private life behind one of the most important athletes of the 20th century.
		The highlight of Johnny Unitas is the inclusion of more than 15,000 words of never-before-published commentary directly from Unitas himself about his career, fame, moments of great personal pride and others he'd rather forget.
		Unitas' commentary is buttressed with a detailed biography that covers the superstar's life from growing up near the Monongahela River, to becoming 'The Golden Arm' to his retirement and battle with numerous physical ailments.
	www.triumphbooks.com /JohnnyUnitas-press_release.htm (366 words)

	Industry News: Johnny Unitas Remembered
		The multitude of records tell you about Johnny Unitas the football player, the quarterback, the competitor, but listen to his fellow players, his friends and his fans about the man himself.
		Unitas turned the car around, went back to the spot, pulled off the road and stayed there until the show was finished.
		On the NFL's 50th anniversary in 1969, Unitas was voted the greatest quarterback of all time, the Associated Press reported, and he also was selected at quarterback for the NFL's All-Time team in 2000 by the 36 Pro Football Hall of Fame voters.
	scoop.diamondgalleries.com /scoop_article.asp?ai=1027&si=121 (529 words)

	Unitas clan torn apart - The Washington Times: Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Johnny Unitas' ashes may be buried, but his name remains painfully alive and not well to those he left behind.
	www.washtimes.com /sports/20040102-112751-6702r.htm (1293 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hall of Fame QB Johnny Unitas dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BALTIMORE —; 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 Wednesday at age 69.
		Unitas died of a heart attack, Baltimore Ravens spokesman Chad Steele said.
		Unitas was never flamboyant or boastful — yet No. 19 always seemed to get the job done thoroughly and quietly.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/2002-09-11-unitas_x.htm (1261 words)

	AllRefer.com - Johnny Unitas (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Johnny Unitas[yOOnIt´us] Pronunciation Key, 1933–2002, American football player, widely regarded as the greatest professional quarterback of all time; b.
		After playing for the Univ. of Louisville, Unitas was signed in 1955 by the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers but released before the season started, and subsequently played semiprofessional football before signing with the Baltimore Colts in 1956.
		Noted for his ability to call plays from the line of scrimmage, Unitas was the Associated Press Player of the Decade (1960s), was the NFL's most valuable player in 1957, 1964, and 1967, and was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1979.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/U/Unitas-J.html (251 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Sports Talk \| Your tributes to Johnny Unitas
		Johnny Unitas, regarded as the NFL's best-ever quarterback, dies of a heart attack at the age of 69.
		When you see film of Unitas running 17 plays inside of two minutes in an age where QBs had to manage their own games, you get a sense of how great he was.
		Thank you for your thoughtful obituary on Johnny U. I haven't been interested in football since I was a kid, but back then he was God to me. I still remember watching the Giants game on TV as one of the most electric entertainment experiences of my life.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/sports_talk/2253024.stm (1170 words)

	Johnny Unitas: The Passing of a Legend - Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was decided that Johnny could throw the ball well enough and was moved to the QB position with less than one week to learn the offense.
		Johnny Unitas died Wednesday, September 11 in Timonium, Maryland.
		Unitas had suffered a previous heart attack in March 1993 which resulted in emergency triple-bypass surgery.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art5266.asp (781 words)

	Johnny Unitas: A Football Great Remembered
		Not only was Johnny "U" a gifted quarterback, it was his courage to perform in a pocket completely surrounded by violence and his ability to read and understand opposing defenses that led to career marks of 40,000 passing yards and 290 touchdowns, staggering totals compared to his contemporaries.
		Johnny Unitas was also included in several Topps inserts and subsets from 1968 through 1971: posters, four in ones, game cards, supers, and the extremely popular super glossy inserts give collectors plenty of opportunities to add to their collections.
		Unitas is the most beloved and recognized player during the "Golden Age" of professional football, and two decades of Topps, Philly, and Fleer issues keep collectors coming back for more.
	www.psacard.com /articles/article3600.chtml (1726 words)

	NFL.com - NFL News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A tribute to former Baltimore Colts QB Johnny Unitas.
		Unitas played in 10 Pro Bowls and was named NFL most valuable player three times.
		Unitas had some remarkable accomplishments, including an "untouchable" streak of 47 games in which he threw a touchdown pass.
	www.nfl.com /news/story/5706744 (576 words)

	ESPN Classic - Unitas dies of heart attack at 69
		BALTIMORE -- 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 Sept. 11 at age 69.
		Johnny Unitas was named NFL Player of the Year three times.
		"Unitas was signed after we received a letter from a fan telling us there was a player in Bloomfield deserving a chance,'' former Colts coach Weeb Ewbank recalled a few years later.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2002/0911/1430557.html (1738 words)

	Johnny Unitas: Simply, the best - Former Colts QB was the 'ultimate triggerman' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Unitas captured back-to-back NFL titles in 1958-59 as a young quarterback and won a Super Bowl in the 1970 season as an old one.
		Unitas, who had undergone emergency triple by-pass surgery in March 1993, retired in 1973 after 18 NFL seasons, the first 17 of which he spent with the Colts.
		Unitas' NFL career was one of the game's legendary stories during the 1950s and 1960s, when the game emerged as a rival to baseball in the country's national sports consciousness.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/749285/posts (3619 words)

	NPR : Johnny U., King of the Quarterbacks, Dead at 69
		Listen to a report from NPR's Tom Goldman on the death of Johnny Unitas.
		Unitas died Wednesday at 69 of a heart attack suffered while exercising.
		Born in Pittsburgh, Unitas became the first in a series of quarterbacking legends who escaped the rough work of the western Pennsylvania coalfields and steel mills for the rugged play of the NFL.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2002/sept/unitas (508 words)

	Johnny Unitas
		When the last member of the Terrier football squad had done stepping over me to get to Johnny, I looked up, hapless and disheveled, in time to see him hustled off by the coaches and their vermin to some secret gladiatorial sanctum of the school.
		The Sears Roebuck man had probably gone for the car, and Johnny Unitas was patiently waiting for his ride.
		This was my chance to be alone with Johnny Unitas, and to know then and for the rest of my life that for a few moments Johnny Unitas and I had been alone, alone together.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/unitas.html (879 words)

	Johnny Unitas Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnny Unitas Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Towson, Maryland, just outside Baltimore, United States.
		It was built in 2002 and holds 11,000 people.
		The stadium is named for the Baltimore Colts' Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas, who had taken a job as athletic director with Towson University weeks before his death in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Unitas_Stadium (137 words)

	Greenwich Time - 'We won't see another Johnny Unitas'
		Those knees served Unitas on the field as well as in his faith, when he knelt in prayer, the cardinal said.
		NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who was a college freshman when Unitas defeated the New York Giants in the storied 1958 championship, came to honor a player who helped popularize the NFL and convince the television networks of the sport's programming potential.
		We won't see another Johnny Unitas and what he did for football and what he did for this community," he said.
	www.greenwichtime.com /news/local/bal-te.sp.unitas18sep18,0,2365255.story?page=2 (857 words)

	Johnny Unitas
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		Profile: Former Baltimore Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas dies at the age of 69
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0109713.html (242 words)

	Johnny Unitas,R.I.P. - NetShrine Discussion Forum
		The other hero, John Unitas, was a quiet warrier (outside the huddle) with nerves of steel and incredible imagination.
		Had Shula stuck Unitas in Super Bowl III earlier (Unitas had been injured much of the year) the Jet's might not have won.
		Unitas was a part of my childhood as well.
	www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/showthread.php?t=6245 (647 words)

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