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June 11 , 1956
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New Eagle, PA
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QB
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Notre Dame
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1979
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3/ Pick 82
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1982 Super Bowl MVP <BR>1985 Super Bowl MVP <BR>1990 Super Bowl MVP <BR>1989 AP NFL MVP <BR>1990 AP NFL MVP <BR>1986 AP NFL Comeback POY <BR>1989 PFWA MVP <BR>1989 UPI NFC OFF POY <BR>1978 Cotton Bowl MVP
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San Francisco 49ers <BR>Career Passing Yards (35,124)
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San Francisco 49ers #16
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NFL 75th Anniversary <BR>All-Time Team ,<BR> NFL 1980s All-Decade Team <BR>1990 SI Sports MOY
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1979-1992<BR>1993-1994
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San Francisco 49ers <BR> Kansas City Chiefs
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1981, 1983, 1984, 1985,<BR>1987, 1989, 1990, 1993
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Montana attended Ringgold High School and was a standout in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was a two-year starter and as a senior, won Parade All-American honors. In basketball, he led his team to a League Championship as a senior. He also served as his classes' vice president as a senior.
Montana, was drafted in the third round by the San Francisco 49ers in in
January 1991 , Montana missed all of the
1991 season and most of the
1992 season with an elbow injury (he did appear in a ''
Monday Night Football '' game vs.
Detroit Lions at the end of the '92 season and was very effective). However, at this point teammate
Steve Young replaced him at the starting quarterback position.
Montana was then traded to the .
Montana earned the nicknames "Joe Cool" and "Comeback Kid" due to his ability to rally his teams from late game deficits, including 31 fourth quarter comebacks. ") and "The Drive" (the Super Bowl-winning 92-yd. drive vs. the
Bengals in
Super Bowl XXIII ) are staples of
NFL Highlight Films .
For his career with the 49ers, Montana completed 2,929 of 4,600 passes for 35,142 yards and 244 touchdowns. He had thirty-five 300 yard passing games. His career totals: 3409 completion on 5391 attempts, 273 touchdowns, 40,551 yards. His career passer rating was 92.3, 3rd highest of all-time, behind
Kurt Warner (still active) and successor
Steve Young . He also rushed for 1676 yards and 20 touchdowns.
Montana holds post-season records for most career touchdown passes (44), and passing yards (5772) among others. In his four Super Bowls, Montana completed 83 of 122 passes, for 1,142 yards and 11 touchdowns with an impressive zero interceptions, earning him a quarterback rating of 127.8. Montana lead his team to victory in each game, and is the only player ever to win 3
Super Bowl MVP awards. He played in eight
Pro Bowl s. His success is a combination of
Bill Walsh 's highly successful
West Coast Offense , a team of superstars, pro-bowlers and future stars, and Montana's uncanny ability to find the open man (often the third or fourth option).
- 5,391 passes attempted
- 3,409 passes completed
- 40,551 passing yards
- 273 passing touchdowns
- 139 passes intercepted
- 38.7 passing attempts per interception
- 16-7 record in the postseason
- 732 passes attempted
- 463 passes completed
- 5,772 passing yards (250.9 ypg)
- 44 passing touchdowns
- 21 passes intercepted
- 34.8 passing attempts per interception in the post-season
- 8 Pro Bowl s
- 3 Super Bowl MVP awards
- 4 Super Bowl victories
- Zero career interceptions thrown during Super Bowl appearances
Critics have largely slighted his comedy appearances, e.g. ''
Saturday Night Live '' with guest
Walter Payton . However his 3½ minute piece on the ''
Late Show With David Letterman '' in
1996 , which had
Homoerotic undertones and ended with the two men shoving a
Crab down their pants on stage, has been praised as inspired and amusing.
In
1993 , the town of
Ismay, Montana temporarily changed its name to
Joe, Montana in an honorary gesture.
Montana resides in Northern California's
Wine Country near
Santa Rosa, California with his third wife, the former Jennifer Sharon Wallace (born
July 7 ,
1958 ), whom he married on
February 24 ,
1985 , and their four children, Nathaniel, Nicholas, Alexandra, and Elizabeth. His sons both play football in school while his daughters have moved on to attend Notre Dame. Montana also owns horses and produces wine under the label Montagia.
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In
1999 , ''
The Sporting News '' named its 100 Greatest Football Players. Montana was ranked Number 3, and first among quarterbacks. However, in
2004 , when ''TSN'' produced another special issue, ranking the 50 Greatest Quarterbacks, Montana ranked Number 2, behind
Johnny Unitas , who they'd ranked Number 5 among all players in 1999.
In
2006 Montana allegedly skipped the
Super Bowl pregame show in which every former MVP of the game stood together in honor of the Super Bowl's 40th anniversary because the league would not offer him $100,000 for an appearance. (This was proved to be a fabrication.) The NFL wanted Montana to also do the coin toss at the beginning of the game, but in his absence
Tom Brady , who has been called the "Modern Day Montana" flipped the coin instead. However, it has been reported that Montana was attending his child's basketball game. Montana also stated on the show ''
Quite Frankly '', that he had missed being with his two daughters who are now in college and he didn't want to miss time with his two boys who are sixteen and thirteen.
