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In a time when men played football for something less than a living and something more than money, John Unitas was the ultimate quarterback. Rejected by Notre Dame, discarded by the Pittsburgh Steelers, he started on a Pennsylvania sandlot making six dollars a game and ended as the most commanding presence in the National Football League, calling the critical plays and completing the crucial passes at the moment his sport came of age. Johnny U is the first authoritative biography of Unitas, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with teammates and opponents, coaches, family and friends. The depth of Tom Callahans research allows him to present something more than a biography, something approaching an oral history of a bygone sporting era. It was a time when players were paid a pittance and superstars painted houses and tiled floors in the off-seasonwhen ex-soldiers and marines like Gino Marchetti, Art Donovan, and Big Daddy Lipscomb fell in behind a special field general in Baltimore. Few took more punishment than Unitas. His refusal to leave the field, even when savagely bloodied by opposing linemen, won his teammates respect. His insistence on taking the blame for others mistak

Author

Callahan, Tom

Publisher

New York: Crown Publishers

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400081400

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Memoir

Rating

3.95 / 5 (479 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14