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2 hours ago, /dev/null said:

 

Johnny be with you

 

 

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Unitas was born in Pittsburgh on May 7, 1933. He was 5 when his father died, and his mother supported the four children by working at two jobs.

Football success did not come easily. When the quarterback at St. Justin's High School in Pittsburgh broke his ankle, Unitas inherited the job. He learned the entire offense in less than a week.

After high school, he wanted to go to Notre Dame, but it was wary of a 6-foot quarterback who weighed only 138 pounds. The University of Pittsburgh offered a scholarship, but he failed the entrance examination. He accepted an offer from the University of Louisville and did well enough to be taken by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the ninth round of the N.F.L's 1955 draft.

The Steelers had four quarterbacks, and Unitas never got into a preseason game. By the time the Steelers dropped him, it was too late to be picked up by another team, so he took a construction job. He also played football for the Bloomfield Rams, a semipro team in the Pittsburgh area that played on dirt, not grass, and sprayed the field with oil before a game to keep the dust down.

The next year, the Colts signed him. Ewbank once told how it happened.

''We received a letter from a fan telling us there was a player in Bloomfield deserving a chance,'' Ewbank said. ''I always accused Johnny of writing it.''

The Colts gave Unitas a $7,000-a-year contract with the condition that he had to survive the entire season to earn it all.

 

He survived and more. He got his chance in the fourth game of the season after George Shaw, the starting quarterback, broke a leg against the Chicago Bears. Unitas's first pass was intercepted and returned for a touchdown. He fumbled on his next two possessions. But the starter was hurt, the other backup chose law school over football, and Unitas kept his job.

By now he was bigger (he would eventually weigh 200 pounds) and soon he was a star. In 1958, he led the Colts to a 23-17 victory over the Giants in sudden-death overtime in an N.F.L. championship game still regarded by many as the greatest game ever played. In 1959, he set an N.F.L. season record of 32 touchdown passes and led the Colts to a 31-16 triumph over the Giants in the title game.

In 1971, his Colts beat the Dallas Cowboys, 16-13, in the Super Bowl.

In the 1969 Super Bowl, the Jets upset the Colts, 16-7, behind Joe Namath, a new-era quarterback star. Earl Morrall played most of that game at quarterback for the Colts, but a hobbling Unitas scared the Jets in the final minutes.

After 17 years with the Colts, he played a final season for the San Diego Chargers. When he left football, he had three Most Valuable Player trophies and 10 Pro Bowl trips.

Unitas's later years were troubled. He did not fare well as a pioneer television analyst. He had numerous business setbacks. The Colts dropped him as a consultant because he handicapped games for a gambling tip sheet. As his brother Leonard once said, ''He was too trusting.''

Like most players, Unitas took a physical beating from football, and he had both knees replaced. His right arm was so injured in a 1968 preseason game against Dallas that in recent years he could not pick up a fork and feed himself with that hand.

He played golf by strapping his gloved right hand to the club shaft with a Velcro strip. The middle three fingers on his right hand did not work, and to sign autographs he held a pen between his thumb and little finger and wrote slowly.

In 1997, he underwent five hours of surgery on the arm. The condition did not improve. He hoped to receive league-financed disability payments but learned that because he was receiving a monthly pension, he could not also collect disability because he had not filed for it by age 55, as the pension-fund rules required.

He was recently a tutor for Chris Redman, who played at the University of Louisville, Unitas's old school, and is now the starting quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens.

Unitas's survivors include his wife, Sandra; six sons, John Jr., Kenneth, Robert, Christopher, Joe and Chad; and two daughters, Janice Ann Unitas-DeNittis and Paige Unitas. His first wife, Dorothy Jean Unitas, died in May.

''The most important thing of all about Unitas,'' Ewbank said, ''is that he had a real hunger. This was a kid who wanted success and didn't have it so long that he wasn't about to waste it when it came.''

Bubba Smith, the celebrated defensive end and a Unitas teammate, told this story about him:

''A guy broke through the line, hit him, pushed his head in the ground. He called the same play, let the guy come through and broke his nose with the football. I said, 'That's my hero.' ''

Another compliment came from Raymond Berry, Unitas's main receiver. What made Unitas so good and so different, Berry said, ''was his uncanny instinct for calling the right play at the right time, his icy composure under fire, his fierce competitiveness and his utter disregard for his own safety.''

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/12/sports/johnny-unitas-nfl-s-genius-of-the-huddle-dies-at-69.html

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On 9/11/2018 at 7:20 PM, Taro T said:

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How long before LaDexter uses the top photo as proof that 911 was a Zoinist conspiracy; as the "get away" "rocket" for the conspirators within the building was clearly visibly at the beginning of its launch sequence?. <_<

 

Coming back to this, I think the most impressive feat for the demolition guys was to plant the explosives in a way to resemble an outline of a large airplane hitting multiple floors and caving the building skeleton inward, as if the force came from outside.  Brilliant job, I tell you.

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“What is more, no wise man, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him (Islam's Muhammad) from the beginning. Those who believed in him were brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching, through whose numbers Mohammed forced others to become his followers by the violence of his arms.”

 

FATHER THOMAS AQUINAS

 

Meaning:  Islam's Muhammad was a false Abrahamic Prophet of God.  Islam is not a religion.  Islam is a lie.

 

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The real story is that the terrorist were working forever on how to infiltrate America's security system to cause massive amounts of damage, both in the infrastructure and human loss.

 

The 1993 WTC bombing didn't raise any red flags and this country blew it off as nothing, because there wasn't a whole lot of damage to the building.

 

America's security was asleep at the wheel on 9/11 and that is why it happened.

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On 9/20/2018 at 8:53 AM, GG said:

 

Coming back to this, I think the most impressive feat for the demolition guys was to plant the explosives in a way to resemble an outline of a large airplane hitting multiple floors and caving the building skeleton inward, as if the force came from outside.  Brilliant job, I tell you.

 

That was a plane. It was the other buildings that were demolished with the explosives. Keep up with the conspiracy man!

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52 minutes ago, BeginnersMind said:

 

That was a plane. It was the other buildings that were demolished with the explosives. Keep up with the conspiracy man!

 

But it was an empty, robotic "bumblebee" plane with napalm rocket-launchers under the wings that fired just before impact, then an hour later they set off the micronukes and thermite to bring the towers done.  In the meantime, a super-secret hypersonic missile hit the Pentagon.  And the US Air Force shot down a fourth plane over Pennsylvania, to convince people the other three planes really existed (although two others really existed, albeit they weren't the planes everyone thought they were).  While those three other passenger planes were apparently...flown to a hidden airfield, where they were dismantled and buried and all their passengers and crew killed, I guess?  

 

And in point of fact, the plane shot down over PA...was MH370, brought back in time for that very purpose.  So FOUR passenger planes were dismantled and their passengers and crew killed.  WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

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37 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

But it was an empty, robotic "bumblebee" plane with napalm rocket-launchers under the wings that fired just before impact, then an hour later they set off the micronukes and thermite to bring the towers done.  In the meantime, a super-secret hypersonic missile hit the Pentagon.  And the US Air Force shot down a fourth plane over Pennsylvania, to convince people the other three planes really existed (although two others really existed, albeit they weren't the planes everyone thought they were).  While those three other passenger planes were apparently...flown to a hidden airfield, where they were dismantled and buried and all their passengers and crew killed, I guess?  

 

And in point of fact, the plane shot down over PA...was MH370, brought back in time for that very purpose.  So FOUR passenger planes were dismantled and their passengers and crew killed.  WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

 

...and all to increase the value of the defense stocks you (and the other Jew Bees) purchased on September 10, 2001.

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Personally, I can't wait until @DC Tom's defense stock portfolio on 9-10-2001, and role in the Mossad-led Jew Bee Dance conspiracy are revealed for all to see. Maybe then we can get the truth as to why the Zionists, led by Colonel Ossman bin Laden used a hypersonic cruse missile to attack a 'No Parking' sign at the Pentagon.

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