What was John Elway's early life like?
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Wow,\n\nI just learned that John Elway is in the same Fraternity as me (i.e. Delta Tau Delta)!\n\n"Early life\n\nElway was born in Port Angeles, Washington of Irish descent. He attended Granada Hills High School in Granada Hills, California. He ended his high school career with 5,711 passing yards and 49 passing touchdowns."\n\n"College\nHe attended Stanford University where he played both football and baseball. His last football game at Stanford was one of the most famous games of all time, the 1982 Big Game versus the University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal), which ended with "The Play", an amazing (and infamous) play with five lateral passes that allowed Cal to win the game. Although Elway never led his team to a bowl game, he had an accomplished college career. In his four seasons (1979–1982) at Stanford, he completed 774 passes for 9,349 yards and 77 touchdowns. His 24 touchdown passes in 1982 led the nation, and he graduated with nearly every Stanford and Pacific-10 career record for passing and total offense. He won Pac-10 Player of the Year honors in 1980 and 1982, was a consensus All-American, and finished second in Heisman Trophy balloting as a senior. Although his team never qualified to play in a college bowl game, in 2000, Elway was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.\n\nElway graduated with a degree in economics, and he is a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity."\n\nGo here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elway
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I think he will be like Elway win one late in his career.
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When Don Shula was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame, in his introduction speech, he paid tribute to JOE JENKINS, his football coach in the 5th and 6th grade.\nhttp://www.profootballhof.com/hof/release.jsp?release_id=2101
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Christian Okoye - RB for the Chiefs.\nOriginally came to the United States in ‘82 to compete in track and field at Azusa Pacific … Joined the Azusa football squad in ‘84 and after just three seasons of organized football was a second-round draft choice of Kansas City in ‘87\nBorn in 1961 so he STARTED to play football at age 23 and was playing in the NFL 3 years later.
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Chad Johnson Born in Miami FL\nKeyshawn : los angeles Cal
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An early and pivotal figure in the National Football league around the time the two leagues (NFL and AFL) merged, circa 1965, noticed his son playing with a large ball. He asked what it was called, and learned it was a "Super Ball", giving him the idea to call the early championship a Super Bowl. Other football events followed suit and called their championships "_________ Bowl".
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Brady, Elway, and Nameth are known more for their Super Bowl victories.\n\nAikman, Young and Montana had SB titles AND great stats, but it is Joe Montana that has more recognition because ha has more Super Bowls than either of the other two, and his statistics are legendary.
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It all started in a small log barn in Southern Indiana where BLUE was born in a town called Jockey.  He grew up on a large farm and was groomed by his owners to be a race horse.  He never took to racing like the other horses, but lived for each Sunday when he could watch his beloved Colts play football.  \n\nEarly in his training, he realized he was much different from all the other horses.  One day he woke up and noticed a blue spot on his fur.  He tried to hide his embarrassing spots from the other horses by wearing his saddle all day and night.  Each day he woke up, and his spots were growing bigger and bluer, Bigger and Bluer, BIGGER AND BLUER!  Eventually he turned completely BLUE. All of the other horses made fun of him, and he just didn't fit in.  They wouldn't let him play in any barn yard games.  \n\nThe teasing from the other horses became so nasty that he decided he would run away.  He made his way all around Southern Indiana by sleeping in strange barns and eating out of corn fields along the way.  One day while making his way down to the creek, he saw in the newspaper that the Indianapolis Colts were having try-outs for the team.  Upon reading the news, he became so excited that he galloped all the way to the Colts Training Complex in Indianapolis.  \n\nWhen he arrived at the Colts Training Complex, he was asked to fill out an application for employment.  When he got to the column asking his name, he realized he didn't have a name!  The secretary informed him of the strict NFL rule that all players must have a name to go on the back of their jersey.  Because he had no name, he missed the try-outs.  Realizing he missed his opportunity to live his dream of playing football for the Colts, his eyes began to well up with huge blue tears.  \n\nHe walked out of the Colts Complex with his snout low and his tail between his legs.  Because he was so upset, he wasn't paying attention to where he was walking and accidentally bumped into Colts Owner and CEO, Jim Irsay.  After seeing the distraught horse, Jim asked him "why the long face?"  After a long and heartfelt explanation of his travels, Jim shook his hoof, and said "kid, how would you like to be the new Colts mascot?"\n\nToday, he has a name - BLUE!  BLUE is so proud to be a member of the Colts that he wants to make everyone else around him happy and laugh!
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asante samuel?? he started in '03 with the patriots
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He was never a cowboy.\n\nHis family owned a ranch, but he never had anything to do with actually running it. He was a rich, spoiled kid with a family that had a lot of money.\n\nHe made some publicity shots of cleaning up scrub on his ranch - I guarentee that he was only there long enough to take the pictures - then whisked back into his air-conditioned luxury existance.\n\nHe was a cheerleader - and one of the drunkest.\n\nDid you hear the one about how he was arrested for driving too slow -- because he had driven into a ditch full of shrubs. Of course he was driving to slow - he was so drunk he didn't know he was in a ditch.
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Barry Sanders, NFL, Detroit Lions, 1989-1999,\nMy question would be "Why did you retire at the age of 33 when you were only just over 1000 yards shy of the all-time NFL rushing record?"
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I can't believe you don't have Elway on there. Almost everyone and their mom has Elway atleast top 3.\n\n1. John Elway\n2. Dan Marino\n3. Joe Montana\n4. Peyton Manning\n5. Brett Favre\n\nUnbelievable
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99.9% of the time, he just sucks it up and plays for the team that picked him.  According to the rules, if you choose not to sign a contract, you can sit out -- unpaid -- for the entire year, then enter the next year's draft.  I don't think anyone has ever done that.\n\nJohn Elway and Eli Manning both threatened to do that (Elway threatened to play pro baseball too)... and that forced a trade that benefitted the teams that picked them.
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Johnny Appleseed was indeed a real person, whose real name was John Chapman.  He was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, and did indeed travel through Ohio, Indiana, and Ilinois buying and clearing land, and planting apple orchards (he didn't just plant apple trees randomly).  He was an ascetic, but also a businessman.  However, there was even more to him than that.  He was a Swedenborgian missionary, and was travelling in order to speak to people and distribute Swedenborgian literature.
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Steve Young played for the 49's after Joe Montana left.\nHe was a great-great-great grandson of Brigham Young in Utah.\nHis father played for BYU in the 50's, and Steve Young was one in a long list of great quarterbacks from BYU.  He is certainly the best of that group.
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Broncos all the way chaimp bailey best corner back ever john lynch bad ass safety plummer not to great T.bell not to great either M.bell bad ass HB broncos are the best when john elway played he was they were the best ever
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Good luck finding this. Most sports services like ESPN or NFL.com list only the college experience.