Joe Montana Biography
Joseph Clifford Montana is better known to football fans as Joe Montana. The football player was born on 11 June 1956 has now retired from playing professional football, but was a dominant force to reckon with from the latter half of the 1970s right until the middle of 1990s. |
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He was born in New Eagle located in Pennsylvania to Theresa and Joseph. This was a coal mining town, some 25 miles from Pittsburgh. It was evident from early on that Joe was interested in football. In fact, it was his father who introduced him into the exciting world of football. He was around 8 years old when he started playing the game. His father altered his age to 9 for the minimum age requirement of the league. However, besides football, Joe was also keen on baseball and basketball. He claims that basketball was his favorite sport as a child.
Joe went to the Waverly Elementary School and thereafter he went to the Finleyville Junior High School. After that, he got his high school diploma from the Ringgold High School. While he was in high school, Joe played basketball, baseball and football. In his senior year, North Carolina State University offered him a basketball scholarship, which he decided. While he was in the school’s football team, he was a backup for the initial 2 years. Then, in the junior year, he became the starting quarterback for the team. This earned him a football scholarship from Notre Dame, which Joe accepted willingly.
In 1974, Joe started college at Notre Dame. The head coach at the college was Ara Parseghian. As the coach was extremely successful, he had the ability to attract and recruit highly talented football player. However, Joe was just a seventh string quarterback even though he was considered to be talented. The same year, Parseghian resigned as head coach, as he was suffering from some health problems and this saw Dan Devine taking up the head coach duties. Devine was extremely impressed with Joe’s playing abilities, and decided to use him as a starter in the last game of the season. Joe went on to become the number one quarterback for his college team. His most memorable performance for his college team perhaps is the Cotton Bowl Classic held in 1979. During the game, Joe fell ill and was given fluids intravenously during half time. In addition, he was also fed chicken soup. However, this did not stop Joe from returning in the fourth quarter of the game. He helped his team win 35-34. His achievement saw Notre Dame producing a movie entitled Seven and a Half Minutes to Destiny.
Joe went on to get a degree in marketing and business administration. He was not considered as a highly ranked player for the NFL draft. However, in the third round of the 1979 draft, he was selected by the San Francisco 49ers as the eighty-second pick overall. This saw Joe joining the 49ers in the same year and he played as the team’s quarterback for 14 continuous years. He spent his last 2 years in the NFL with Kansas City Chiefs.
While Joe was part of the 49ers, the team won all the Super Bowl games that Joe was a part of. This totaled to 4 games. He was inducted into the NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame in the year 2000, and is considered by many as one of the best quarterbacks in the history of football.
When Joe retired from football, the 49ers retired his jersey number, which was 16. In 1993, he was traded to Kansas City Chiefs by the 49ers, and this saw the Chiefs winning their first ever AFC Championship game in the year 1994.
In his personal life, Joe has been married three times. His first wife was Kim Moses, who was his childhood sweetheart. They got married in 1974, only to divorce in 1977. He then got married to Cass Castillo in 1981. This marriage too ended in a divorce in 1984. He then met his third wife during a shooting of a commercial. She was Jennifer Wallace, an actress and model. They got married in the year 1985. The couple has 4 children and are still very much in love.
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