The restaurant was "The Golden Arm" owned by both John and Bobby Boyd. If Unitas played during the Brady Manning two hand touch rules he would have 2,000 Td passes. Note nobody ever got close to his 47 td pass record for 50 years, three guys suddenly passed it within two years. Gee, wonder why?

Always liked his stories he had fun playing the game

@@michaelleroy9281 I'll bet he's still telling stories.

I read Art Donovan's book, "Fatso: Football When Men Were Men". Loved it! His stories are wonderful!

He was always great when he appeared on Letterman.

He was funny at WWF king of ring 1994 on commentary.

Me too

He was in an old NFL films video, and I just can't remember the name of it. I used to rent it quite a bit back in the day.

The same year with Pat Summerall him and Madden were the best

Unitas played in both those games too!

Sample was as dirty a player in 1958 as he was in 1968-1969.

STFU who wasn't in those day you didn't say anything about Chuck Bendnerick who was a dirty player playing for Eagles

When current fans suggest Brady id the GOAT I ask them how long do you think Tom would have lasted in Johnny U's era?

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Johnny U is considered 'the Father' of the forward pass.

@@michaelrog6082 And who knew he could lay your kitchen floor?

Same year for me just in time to remember Gale Sayers 6 TDs against the 49ers and Jim Brown final session

@@michaelleroy9281, and his final season.

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He was special if there was enough time on the clock most likely he would come back and beat you...He truly believed in his ability to win with time on the clock...he was as cool as a cucumber when the chips were down...I loved that guy...He was a real baller.

@@earlismarks7108 Unitas was overrated He had great players around him

@@lendrury2771 Ok perhaps you should ask Paton Manning....Oh by the way is Tom Brady overrated? He sure plays with a lot of great players huh...Dude Johnny U's passing record stood until Drew Brews broke it in recent years...Johnny Unitas is the godfather of the passing game QB....You cannot tell the NFL story without him...You don't have to like him but he is that guy He brought pro football into the modern era He made football popular and made it must watch TV... football on television was not really popular until Unitas and Colts won the title in 1958. championship game. #1: 1958 NFL Championship Colts vs. Giants | Top 10 Overtime Finishes of All Time kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNB3q9N2mqi8YKM.html Remember Magic played in a champioship series years later in NBA and it was not televised live but on tape delay. Whereas this 1st nationally televised nfl game takes place in 1958! So in 1980 the NBA was still not broadcasting their championship series live, wow.

@@earlismarks7108 he's more folklore than actual substance Its not that I don't like Unitas and yes he was a crucial element in vaulting the league into mainstream popularity but from a talent and productive standpoint i just think he's overrated Tom Brady is the most clutch player in the history of the NFL and correction There were seasons that tom played with average players and he still found a way to lead the team to a championship I realize that the game has changed but Unitas would be a backup quarterback to Tom Brady

That goes for me too! Unitas and Starr all the way!

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@@kevinbanks1264 Anything you're looking for specifically?

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I'm an NFL historian as well. I'm writing this on May 7, Johnny Unitas' birthday, and I wrote about him in my journal for the first time. What a legend.

HI! not makin money off it, but im also an NFL Historian. Im not exactly an "HISTORIAN" so much as person who knows alot about NFL history, but I agree TOTALLY! I didn't even know who Hugh Mcelhinny was lol. But this generation needs to know about the old days! *i sound like a total elederly man, IM PART OF THIS GENERATION!!!!*

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Yes, indeed.

The Greatest Game Ever Played( as it was called)

I've watched a re-enactment of the game on you-tube with audio of the national radio announcers broadcasting, and I can remember at least two or three times, they had remarked, that it had been the "closest, and most interesting championship football game in the last few years" during the course of the game. They knew what they were witnessing as the game developed throughout.

Yeah tougher but less skilled back then. Today’s guys wouldn’t last a quarter back then, like guys back then wouldn’t even make it to the league now

As a Packer fan I loved to hate Unitas.

@@gowersup6441 You're wrong if you think Unitas couldn't have played today or in any other era. He had a strong arm, good touch, the best QB brain in history (he called his own plays until rookie coach Shula arrived on the scene in Baltimore) AND toughness during an era that demanded it.

@@4orrcountry he had all those things for back then standard. All these QBs now have a better arm, better touch, better QB vision than QBs back then because of all the training they get. I’m sorry but if you disagree there’s no point continuining this conversation, as that’s basic football knowledge.

@@gowersup6441 Unitas may not even make a roster today Too small too slow weak arm. Yeah he was a smart tough player but how far is that gonna get him in today's game

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Agreed. Summerall was a great knew who knew that he didn't have to talk us to death.

Classy and attractive women on TV. What a novel concept. That's why Miss Anti-Freeze and Audrey Hepburn are special.

12 times. You must have forgotten.

You can blame Al Davis with Oakland to LA he got things like that rolling

When Indianapolis plays the Ravens the scoreboard reads INDY. They won't acknowledge their stolen name. The people of Baltimore who were devastated by the Colts move will never forgive Irsay. There's a reason he never returned to the city, he feared for his life. "Go, go you Balmer Coats......"

@@robertrock8778 The same thing with Art Modell he never went back to Cleveland

Ditka patterned himself after Casares a guy that he respected immensely.

Casares had one outstanding season(1956) when he gained 1126 yards . Otherwise a very pedestrian career. Morris and Galimore(rest in peace,Willie) did nothing to recommend them for the Hall of Fame.

To take your argument out to its logical ending, full extension, people playing today and in the past, should not have/have had pro football sports career, games to play in, at all. There should not/should not be/should not have been any pro football, nor college/NILcollege money/semipro college/minor league/semipro, high school, junior high/middle school/ youth, football to play, at all. Organized ftball. should/should've/ be/should've been illegal, if you want to take your argument/point out all the way. No, its fine to make the game safer, but not at the expense of its entertainment value and at the players on defense's expense. Hell, they are so confused sometimes as to how to hit someone now, that they don't bother to hit anyone. And, many are lousy at RUGBY-STYLE tackling. And, the fact that the downfield middle receiver no longer has to worry about getting hit aggressively and on certain parts of the body, has turned the game into the 1990's CFL= almost all passing, with very little running game= no balance, and very predictable and boring to watch..Its a relatively very soft game now... Soooo.. I'll pass on all pass and no or little mystery of what is coming on the next shotgun snap. Also, if the players care more about the paycheck and their social media popularity than the pride of putting out effort in a game, putting out for their teammates, and the league cares more about TV studio football, and the NFL cares more about politics, and no one cares about the product on the field, then I will continue not bleepin' caring about it, at all. PSSST.. Here is a hint to make sure football is safe for the players, with no after- career effects to worry about: TA DA!! DON'T PLAY IT! There now, that wasn't so hard, right? If one plays football at any level, they are going to get hurt and if they play it longer, and in a higher level league, especially in college and the pros, one will have after-effects. I don't care how you protect the players, they will have after-effects. The question is: IS FOOTBALL GOING TO SURVIVE THIS less entertaining quality of play and all of the political crap? We'll see. Want to make football safer? Don't play it. Do I care what athletes think about public policy, and what politicians care about in athletics? In a word.. NO..

I agree.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@robertsprouse9282So you think people should be put at higher risk of life-impacting injury for your own personal entertainment. i think this says a lot more about you than the NFL.

@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 , the day they walk on the field they're putting their lives in danger. As far as my entertainment needs, you are the one going against your so-called "grain" by coming to a website about a contact sport. Why would you want to promote and help ensure the existence of such a site that celebrates a game you abhor, but tolerate? And, if these guys were not in the field of organized sports, they would be far less protected playing any form of wrestling oriented game in a park with little protection. The movie about Vince Papale played by MARK WALBERG comes to mind. The footballers in his movie were bouncing off of parked cars while playing. Sorry..Its too late to prevent the invention of contact sports. That cat has long been let out of its bag. Since we cannot prevent them from being played, its better that they're played in a safer environment with pads, organization, helmets, etc. The argument isn't your strawman: YOUR ENTERTAINMENT OVER THEIR HEALTH. No, the argument is creating entertainment that no longer provides enough excellence of execution, quality of play, and theatre caused in large part by obstacles such as hitting to be popular enough to survive. The competition is no longer worth it to the fan or the competitor once no obstacle is there to be overcome with effort. Once the game at its organized level doesn't survive, its right back to those parked cars again, one way or the other. But, that is okay with you, right? There is the argument. No, if you or others don't want to be hurt, then don't play contact sports. No, there is nothing wrong with making them safer, but in the entertainment world, they won't survive if indeed there is no longer the very thing that makes them thrive as attractive professional sports= professional pride and execution. And, when they don't survive..its right back out on to the parking lots and parks with much fewer safeguards. Make up your mind what you want..any day now. YOUR MOVE, GENIUS..

Hugh McEllhenny was on the first Vikings team 1961

Hugh had great moves and quickness. Could have been an All-Pro receiver as well.

We used to go to the one on Loch Raven.......

If that's true, that's fantastic! If it's not true, it should be!

The game had many fumbles early, it didn't look like it was going to be " The Greatest Game Ever Played"

Great story but I dont believe it. Unitas wanted to go for the TD down 17-14 but Ewbank let Myhra kick the FG to tie it. In overtime, Unitas wanted Mutscheller, his TE to score the winning TD but he couldnt get his pass over the goalline. Ameche ended the game on the run. Unitas didnt want the kicker to get the glory. Smart man and the ultimate QB calling his own plays, when QBs didnt have flak jackets to protect their ribs ...

I heard the same.

And of course Carol owned heavily favored Colts in Super Bowl III when league MVP QB Rarl Morrell didn't "see" a wide open Jimmy Orr....He drowned under suspicious circumstances.

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Oh I totally agree, and it's not a slight at all. He really sets the tone for these documentaries and brings nuance to the films regardless of topic.

He was a racist. There were no Black players on his Redskins teams until the '60s.

Why would you want to watch any other team?

@@kevinmadden1645 Because I gamble on football and I want to exactly how I get screwed .

@@gerrypellissier9551 Masochism has many forms.

@@kevinmadden1645 Amen !!

now illegal of course

Yep! I got to see Unitas play in ‘68 against the Cowboys, preseason game though

1. Cool Joe Montana (4-0 in NFL Championships/SB, never lost one, never threw an INT in one. Perfection.) 2. Brady> lost 3 SB 3. Starr (5 NFL Champ in 7 years, 3 in a row never duplicated, plus 1st 2 SB) 4. Unitas Mixed bag in Championships. 3-2 if you count both Super Bowls. But he only played in the 4thQ of #3 and started but didn't finish #5. So then he's 2-1.

Every NFL CHAMPIONSHIP game film or sesson review from the 50s.

Bobby Layne was known to imbibe large amounts of beer at halftime.Some of his tacklers found his breath deadly!

@@barrykendrick3146 He even had whiskey on his breath at times.

@@barrykendrick3146 In Art Donovan's book, "Fatso: Football When Men Were Really Men", he tells the story of the 1957 season opener, Lions at Colts. Early in the 3rd quarter, Donovan said he tackled Layne and his breath smelled like a wine factory. Layne completed his next 12 passes consecutively, leading the Lions to a win over the Colts. Donovan says Bobby Layne was better drunk than Dan Marino and Joe Montana completely sober!

I swear, some of those hits (and from the 60s and 70s too) a guy looks like he was just murdered on the field, laying there, and the ref walks up and says "I'm going to need the ball to mark where you were down, excuse me"

That's not how reincarnation works dummy. Gronk was in his 20's when Art died.

@@artistamisto Well, since reincarnation is a falsehood, who's the dummy?

@@stevep8445 what an idiot we all know we will be resurrected in Christ

@@quattrobajeena135 Or in Buddha, Hindi or Muslim - 2/3 of the world population isn't Christian, has never even heard of Christ (who was a Jew, by the way), so GET OVER YOUR RELIGION: Pray and let pray. Smh...

I would say Tony Siragusa is the later day Art Donovan. Both played in Baltimore.

An interesting comment, in light of your post, from Forrest Gregg, in his autobiography, "Winning in the Trenches: "today's football players are better athletes, but the players of my era were better football players" (I'm paraphrasing).

@@paulbloede4214 thanks for your comment. It’s a hard one isn’t it... like a case of my walk to school was longer than yours etc... I don’t think either era could play in the other tbh. It’s a completely different game.

That's a cool story, thanks for sharing! Regarding your 2nd point, it's probably a little bit of both, don't you think? (Especially for markets where there was no team) That said, It was shortsighted for the NFL to blackout super bowls (or championship games) in those markets even when they were sellouts. A while back I remember reading a story of people who couldn't get tickets to super bowl VII leaving LA and driving out of market to watch the game.

@@deputay Sitting in the cheap bleacher seats, my father would have gotten a better view of the winning touchdown than he would from the more expensive seats in the grandstands, because the touchdown was scored at the bleacher end of the stadium. The way the field was laid out for football, one end zone was along the first base line and the other was in left field. If you look at the film at 52:35, you can see the left field field level auxiliary scoreboard and also fans leaving through the left field bull pen (visitor's bullpen for baseball). I wish I had asked my father if he sat in the left field or right field bleachers for the game. When we went to baseball games at the pre-73 renovation Yankee Stadium, we always sat in the right field bleachers, so I guess he would have sat there and wouldn't have had as a good a view, but still better than from the grandstands. It's too late to ask him now because he's long gone. Another sort-of myth for this game and about the Giants is that they had they had a long, glorious history playing in Yankee Stadium. 1958 was only their 3rd year in Yankee Stadium. Before 1956 they played in the Polo Grounds, and they only played in Yankee Stadium from 1956-1972, with 2 more games at the beginning of 1973. With the NFL blackout rules of the time, it used to be a thing with NY football fans to drive out to a motel somewhere outside the 75 mile blackout zone, in New Jersey, upstate NY or Connecticut, and rent a room to watch the Giants games. I don't know if the AFL had the same blackout rules, pre-merger, because I seem to remember watching the 1968 Jets-Raiders AFL Championship game (Shea Stadium) on TV, but I was very young, only 7 years old, and maybe I'm confusing it with another game. The Jets and Raiders had some doozies in those days.

@@RRaquello The Jet/Raider game was blacked out as well

@@brianwolf6166 I figured that. Must have been another Jets-Raiders game I saw that year, maybe the Heidi game. In the early days of Monday Night Football, they never had games from either Shea or Yankee Stadium because they didn't want to have their prime time game blacked out in the biggest market, so the Jets or Giants would only be on for road games.

@@RRaquello In Dec 1963, my dad tried unsuccessfully to get tickets for the Giants-Steelers showdown in Yankee Stadium for the Eastern Conference Championship. We drove to the Pickwick Motor Inn in Plainview, LI to watch the game, since it was blacked out on NYC TV. I brought my radio with me to listen to Marty Glickman and Al De Rogatis. My dad and I sat in the lounge area and we went crazy on that frigid December day as Y A led the Giants to victory. As the final seconds ticked off the clock, everyone at the Pickwick counted it down! What a day!

This is about the 50s, not the 60s.

The Colts might argue about putting the Lions over them.

@@kbrewski1 the Colts became great when the decade was ending since they won their titles in 1958 and 1959. They were probably the third best team of the decade since the Browns and Lions won more. The Rams had a great team also and they had an offense that was way ahead of its time.

@greensmithfootball10 Yes, the Browns were 3-4 in NFL Champ in the 50s. The Lions were 3-1. The Colts were 2-0, the Giants were 1-3, and the Rams were 1-2. I had forgotten the Lions won 3. So for 50s Team of the Decade: 1. Browns 2. Lions 3. Colts 4. Giants 5. Rams Plus the Browns were 1-3 in NFL Championships in the 60s, and they played in 4 of the last 6 NFL Championships!

@@kbrewski1 you should check out the documentary if you haven't already called Game of their Lives it talks all about the NFL in the 1950s. It's actually on here if you wanted to search for it. I've watched it a handful of times myself.

I could just imagine how all the great patriarchs of the NFL such as George Halas, Art Rooney, Wellington Mara, and George Preston Marshall must have felt to finally see the NFL reach popularity and mainstream acceptance in the 50s, only to see the upstart AFL burst upon the scene a decade later and thrive after the NFL had spent 40 years laying the foundation.

I saw all of those great games too, but the '58 game really WAS the greatest game ever played - at least it was until Tom Brady led the Patriots in their legendary comeback win (after trailing 28-3) vs. Atlanta in the 2017 Super Bowl. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_LI

Ha! "Personal foul, #64 defense, attempted murder. 15 yards, first down."

Can always have them made any time

You can but the name would be added for Unitas ... you can get Graham's without his name from ebbits.com

I lived 11 days of the 1950s.

It depends on which WW2 and Korean veterans you ask. Many black athletes and some white ones marched for civil rights on their own time and were blasted with many of the same attacks of being unpatriotic for holding the mirror up to America's face. The American flag and the National Anthem don't just represent military veterans. They represent all Americans and that includes those with minority and unpopular opinions, which includes not feeling those symbols stand for anything if people are only concerned with the comfort zone of a white majority of citizens how just want to be entertained and never want the reality of millions of their fellow citizens to enter their consciousness for even a few seconds. Exercising your God-given rights AS AN AMERICAN to peacefully make a statement and having the juice within The private entertainment industry to get away with it is the hallmark of freedom.

In basketball there will only be one GOAT ever MJ