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John Constantine Unitas played quarterback for 18 seasons in the National Football League.
Unitas, also affectionately known as "Johnny U," was a member of the Baltimore Colts for 17 years, and he finished his career with the San Diego Chargers. Unitas threw for 40,239 yards and 290 touchdowns in his career.
Uniats was born on May 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pa., and died on Sept. 11, 2002, in Timonium, Md. Towson University's football stadium is named in honor of Unitas.
Unitas, also affectionately known as "Johnny U," was a member of the Baltimore Colts for 17 years, and he finished his career with the San Diego Chargers. Unitas threw for 40,239 yards and 290 touchdowns in his career.
Uniats was born on May 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pa., and died on Sept. 11, 2002, in Timonium, Md. Towson University's football stadium is named in honor of Unitas.
John Constantine Unitas played quarterback for 18 seasons in the National Football League.
Unitas, also affectionately known as "Johnny U," was a member of the Baltimore Colts for 17 years, and he finished his career with the San Diego Chargers. Unitas threw for 40,239 yards and 290 touchdowns in his career.
Uniats was born on May 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pa., and died on Sept. 11, 2002, in Timonium, Md. Towson University's football stadium is named in honor of Unitas.
Unitas, also affectionately known as "Johnny U," was a member of the Baltimore Colts for 17 years, and he finished his career with the San Diego Chargers. Unitas threw for 40,239 yards and 290 touchdowns in his career.
Uniats was born on May 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pa., and died on Sept. 11, 2002, in Timonium, Md. Towson University's football stadium is named in honor of Unitas.
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Unitas would be amused at feud about Flacco playing him in a movie
Having co-hosted a pre-game radio show with John Unitas for four years while producing the radio broadcasts on WCBM for the Baltimore Colts, I think John would be laughing over the family feud about Joe Flacco portraying him in a movie. John would...
Tags: Entertainment, Brad Pitt, Joe Flacco, Radio, Movies
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Johnny Unitas' sons divided on casting of Joe Flacco as their dad
John Unitas Jr. is not happy with his half-brother's choice of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco to play their father, Baltimore Colts legend Johnny Unitas, in the football scenes of the upcoming biopic "Unitas We Stand." In an interview with...
Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Joe Flacco, Football, Peyton Manning, Sports
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Joe Flacco has become a star despite derision of Baltimore media
Mike Preston has taken every chance to knock Joe Flacco since he was drafted five seasons ago ("Ravens shouldn't overreact when it's time to pay Flacco" Feb. 25). He says it's not him, it's Jacoby Jones or Anquan Boldin who made the plays. Joe has to have...
Tags: Anquan Boldin, Joe Flacco, Cam Cameron, Jerry Rice, Andrew Luck
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The greatest on the greatest: Jim Murray on Michael Jordan
The late, great Times columnist Jim Murray opined about all the superstar athletes in the second half of the 20th century. It's what he did as well as anyone that came before or after him in America. So, on Michael Jordan's 50th birthday, we give you...Tags: Magic Johnson, Dennis Rodman, Sam Bowie, Scottie Pippen, Bill Tilden
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Both with winning seasons, Ravens and Orioles offer rare celebration for city fans
When the Ravens rolled to their second Super Bowl victory, fending off the San Francisco 49ers in the final seconds of the game, the storylines that defined an improbable season all found happy endings. Ray Lewis carried the Lombardi Trophy into the...
Tags: Michael Phelps, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Basketball, Spring Training, Frank Robinson
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Baltimore's heart will always beat for No. 52
I have never met Ray Lewis, but I feel as if I know him. How many people say the same thing? My guess is that there are many. I wonder if there has ever been a professional sports legend who has bonded so intimately with the city he represents ("'My...Tags: Nottingham, Brooks Robinson, Ray Lewis
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Preston: Ray Lewis will retire as the greatest middle linebacker to play the game
There is really only one more appropriate ending for the Ravens' Ray Lewis, and that won't come for another five years when he takes his place in the NFL Hall of Fame as the greatest middle linebacker ever. Lewis, 37, made the announcement Wednesday...
Tags: Ozzie Newsome, San Diego Chargers, Indianapolis Colts, Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens
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Collin Klein learns the meaning behind his Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award
The Baltimore SunCollin Klein may play quarterback for Kansas State, but on Friday he attended Johnny U. In town to receive the 2012 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, Klein spent part of the day viewing Unitas' memorabilia at the Sports Legends Museum, kibitzing with...Tags: National Football League, Arts and Culture, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Sports, Collin Klein
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Catching up with former Colts fullback Jerry Hill
He lined up at fullback, but from the moment he set foot in training camp in 1961, Jerry Hill understood his role with the Colts. "I was John Unitas' bodyguard," he said. For nine years, Hill policed the Baltimore backfield, protecting Unitas from...
Tags: Gino Marchetti, Super Bowl, Football, Weeb Ewbank, Washington Redskins
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This was an embarrassing loss to an ancient QB
The Ravens were fortunate that Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger didn't play Sunday because the score might have been worse. Much worse. In the past couple of weeks, the Ravens had the football gods smiling down on them, but Sunday they were...
Tags: Mike Tomlin, National Football League, Heath Miller, Joe Flacco, Chykie Brown
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Ray Lewis will end his career his way
Pro Bowl inside linebacker Ray Lewis did not make it through his 17th season, but he will play in No. 18 next year. The Ravens announced that Lewis tore his triceps in his right arm in Sunday's game against Dallas ending what had been his worst season,...
Tags: Brian Billick, Lardarius Webb, Dallas Cowboys, Art Modell, Super Bowl
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Jillian Unitas, granddaughter of Johnny Unitas, working PR for Grand Prix of Baltimore
She shares his surname, athleticism and demeanor, those who know her say. But Jillian Unitas, 22, is determined to blaze her own trail in the sports world, apart from that set by her late grandfather. Unitas, media manager for this weekend's Grand Prix...
Tags: Marketing, Mario Andretti, Open-Wheel Racing, Grand Prix of Baltimore, Baltimore Colts
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