Quarterbacks who were good/great right away: Brady, Manning,

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Marino, McNabb, Favre, if I recall correctly...

QBs who got hammered on bad teams then became legends: Aikman, Elway...

Don't really remember about Bradshaw, Montana...

[Tesla]

1. Montana was the greatest!!!!

He was the best come-back kid ever!!

[CornField]

7. Montana was third string at Notre Dame

No one expected him to do anything. He wasn't chosen in the NFL draft until the third round. Guess he proved a few folks wrong!

Not to mention that I think he is one of the most sexy men in the world.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Bradshaw stunk early on. Got booed.

Namath was good right out of the blocks.

[chookie]

3. Big Ben

Ha ha -- before his first game, everyone was saying he was going to be a disaster.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. What round pick was he? Was Maddox hurt, why did he get to play

so early?

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

5. 10th or 11th pick overall...after junior year...

Maddox went down in game 2, is OK now, but is being Wally Pipp-ed by Ben...

[JohnKleeb]

8. heh yep

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. What's "Wally Pipp-ed"? I think I understand from the context, but

where does this term come from?

[JohnKleeb]

11. Wally Pipp was Lou Gehrig's predecessor at first base

for the Yankees in the early 20's, one night Wally injured himself, and the young Gehrig replaced him, and Gehrig did so well that he stayed at first base for 2130 more games, basically Pipp was an established first man but Gehrig did so well as first baseman for the Yanks that Pipp was replacd by Gehrig.

[chookie]

12. He was the one no one wanted

I don't have deets, but recall that his joining the Steelers was ridiculed. Some said we got stuck with the bozo no one else wanted.

Maddox was hurt and unable to play. Big Ben got to play simply because there was no other option.

I love stuff like this....

He sure is giving us a reason to be happy in Pittsburgh this year!

[HawkerHurricane]

6. Which Manning?

The young one with the Giants (Eli?) stinks.

[JohnKleeb]

9. give him some time, most rookie QBs aren't like Big Ben.

[Norbert]

13. Anyone remember Greg Cook of the 1969 Cincinnati Bengals.

The guy was a hometown product from the University of Cincinnati. The guy was phenominal the first part of the 1969 season with a still rag-tag expansion team. He and the Bengals beat the Super Bowl winning Kansas City Chiefs. He ended up with an eventual career ending injury that year. It's a shame too. I bet Boomer Esiason would have spent his career playing in Cook's shadow had Greg been luckier.


Montana initially didn't really stand out because in the beginning he was on a lousy 49er team.

How about Broadway Joe Namath?

[RPM]

14. Manning? Peyton Manning?

I swear I heard on PTI tonight that even Peyton Manning got off to a slow start (0-4?) as a pro....

I may be wrong, but I swear they said that; would research it, but need to finish my federal tax practice and procedure take-home exam...