Joe Montana facts
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- Joe Montana led Notre Dame to an NCAA National Championship in 1977.
- Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr., (born June 11, 1956), nicknamed Joe Cool, Golden Joe and Comeback Joe, is a retired and iconic American football player whose professional career in the National Football League (NFL) spanned the late 1970s through the mid-1990s.
- Joe Montana was inducted into the Ringgold High Hall of Fame on September 2, 2006, along with Baseball stars Stan Musial and Ken Griffey Sr. and NFL kicker Fred Cox.
- Montana started his NFL career in 1979 with the San Francisco 49ers, where he played quarterback (QB) for the next 14 seasons.
- Joe started playing peewee football when he was eight, even thought the minimum age was nine, but his father adjusted his age on the application.
- Montana started four Super Bowl games and the team won all of them with San Francisco.
- His high school alma mater, Ringgold High, plays in Joe Montana Stadium.
- In 1989, and again in 1990, the Associated Press named Montana the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP), and Sports Illustrated magazine named Montana the 1990 "Sportsman of the Year".
- Joe Montana was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000.
- Montana was elected to eight Pro Bowls, as well as being voted 1st team All-Pro by the AP in 1987, 1989, and 1990.
- Joe Montana is the only player to win the Super Bowl MVP Award three times.
- Noted for his ability to remain calm under pressure, Montana helped his teams to 31 fourth quarter come-from-behind wins.
- Filmmaker Oliver Stone named the lead character in his movie Scarface (Tony Montana) after Joe.
- Montana had the highest passer rating in the National Football Conference (NFC) five times (1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1989); and, in both 1987 and 1989, Montana had the highest passer rating in the entire NFL.
- Joe Montana attended Ringgold High School in Monongahela, PA.
- Joe Montana is tied with Terry Bradshaw having quarterbacked his team to four Super Bowl Championships.
- Sports Illustrated named him Sportsman of the Year in 1990.
Joe Montana was selected to play in the Pro Bowl eight times.
- Joe Montana won the Associated Press MVP Award twice, in 1989 and 1990.
Joe Montana was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round of the 1979 NFL Entry Draft.
- Montana owned an employment company with Mickey Mantle, but the company failed after only a few months.
- Joe Montana went to school at Notre Dame.
- Joe spent the 1993 and 1994 seasons, his final two years in the NFL, with the Kansas City Chiefs.
