Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew we had to keep [49er quarterback Joe] Montana and company off the football field," Morgan said. "We wanted to score early and keep the pressure on them and hope they'd make some mistakes...
...first of Moore's two career touchdowns--both with the Packers--happened almost by accident. Although he was only supposed to be a decoy, the other tight end forgot to enter the play, and Moore was left to receive the ball. "The quarterback threw the ball so hard that it wedged in between my face mask and shoulder pads, so I didn't have a chance to drop it," he recalls...
...like having a new quarterback, because he basically runs the plays," Keller said. "It's a whole new offense, but it won't be too much of a problem since we've played together before...
Particular quarterbacks move teams beyond the scrimmage line, as the best coaches know. San Francisco's Bill Walsh could make a serviceable quarterback out of an usher, but no one can be taught to lift a team the way Joe Montana raised the 49ers 55 days after back surgery. "Armies work hard for Lancelot," Guard Randy Cross says, "harder for King Arthur." At 38, oft- deposed Raider Jim Plunkett keeps coming back to reign in Los Angeles...
Diana Ditka thinks of the quarterback as one of her sons: "He has the same hair, the same sunglasses, and he talks to Mike the same way." "But who knows?" says McMahon. "We might be the Oakland A's. Maybe we'll kick and scream our way to three straight titles." Who would bet against...