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Hall of Fame 49ers quarterback Joe Montana said on Friday’s Dan Patrick Show that Montana nearly finished his career not as a member of the Kansas City Chiefs, but as the quarterback of the then-Phoenix Cardinals.
“It was between [Kansas City] and Phoenix,” Montana said, suggesting that concerns about the offensive line there kept him from making the move.
But he otherwise thought that the Cards’ offense had plenty of talent, and he said that if he had visited Phoenix after visiting Kansas City, he might have pushed harder to play for the Cardinals.
Montana joined the Chiefs in 1993, and led them to the AFC title game. They lost 30-13 to the Bills.
The Cardinals were 7-9 that year. Though Montana told Patrick that the Cards “went through three quarterbacks” that year, they actually used only two. Steve Beuerlein threw 418 passes, Chris Chandler threw 103, and running back Garrison Hearst threw one.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I think Joe is the greatest. And then Terry Bradshaw…
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July 25th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Did you know that Garrison Hearst won comeback player of the year on two separate occasions (although I would not consider the first one a comeback, you can’t really be a comeback player in your third year. I would call it a breakout)?
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July 25th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
umm, who cares????
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July 25th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
What about Dan Marino?
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July 25th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I think joe is one of the most over-rated qb’s to be discussed amongst greatest qbs, yes he was a great qb, but not top five, think about the weapons he had, jerry rice, roger craig, and john taylor i think they were all great players that complemented one another very well, to me the best qb’s to play in my life time anyways will always be between marino and elway, look at the teams they played for, before terrel davis elway always had denver a super bowl contendor atleast, marino cause he had all them records before he retired, but ask farve, when you throw the ball 50 times agame your gonna have some records.
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July 25th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Yep, Joe Montana - the greatest.
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July 25th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
montana was overrated
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July 25th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Montana is the greatest of all time
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July 25th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Hey, numbskulls, Montana only had Rice and Taylor for the back-to-back Super Bowl titles. Plus, Brady had a ton of weapons in last year’s play-offs but he didn’t come close to Montana’s 1990 Play-off numbers of 11 TD’s/O INT.
As for Bradshaw, I’ll give him credit for leading high-powered offenses during the back end of their 4 titles but he was more like a Rex Grossman short bus driver on the 1st 2 Steelers title teams as his numbers were awful even if it was a less sophisticated era for the passing game.
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July 25th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Joe Montana: 4 Super Bowl Rings, 3 Super Bowl MVPs, and 0 Super Bowl INTs. Zero, Jerry, Zero! Oh, and 0 Super Bowl losses. Two of his 4 wins came against the Bengals, the other team against teamed QBed by John Elway and Dan Marino.
If you think Montana is overrated, consider this: he came back into the NFL after suffering a broken freakin’ back.
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July 25th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Montana may have been referring to Rosenbach in Phoenix.
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July 26th, 2008 at 12:40 am
I don’t understand why this is being posted here; it was public knowledge in 1993 that Phoenix and Kansas City were the two teams vying for Montana’s services. I remember reading it in a Sports Illustrated and the local paper as a young 49ers fan.
Am I missing something?
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July 26th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Greatest qb ever, and not even close! I wonder how many more Super Bowls the 49ers would have won (key word ‘won’) if not for the back injury and the elbow injury.
Also keep in mind he led the Chiefs to the freaking AFC Championship when he was supposedly on the downside of his career with no real “superstars”, And do you really think John Taylor and Rodger Craig were superstars? I think it’s just a case of a great qb making those around him better. If Elway and Marino were the best ever, wouldn’t they have made “superstars” of their teammates?
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