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ESPN to Re-Broadcast 'Greatest Game Ever Played' In Color

Remember back in the last 1980s and early 1990s when Ted Turner spent his fortune buying up old films and "colorizing" them? ESPN plans to do the same thing when they re-broadcast the "Greatest Game Ever Played" this Saturday. The "Greatest Game" was the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York...

Manning Surpasses Unitas Yet Again

Y'know, it's a good thing the NFL isn't like baseball, or else we'd have to see endless camera shots of Johnny Unitas' family sitting in the stands and watching Peyton Manning break all of his records. Nobody wants that, do they? Tonight against the Atlanta Falcons, the Colts' current quarterback surpassed the Colts'...

Peyton Manning Approaches Another Record

While Tom Brady looks poised to break Peyton Manning's single-season touchdown pass record, Manning looks poised to break another record of his own -- Johnny Unitas' franchise record for total touchdown passes. Coming into tonight's Colts-Jaguars game, Manning has 285 touchdown passes with the Colts, two short of the 287...

Manning Passes Unitas On Colts' All-Time Completion List

Peyton Manning set yet another mark in the Colts week 2 victory over the Texans. With 8:17 left in the first quarter, Manning completed a pass to Joseph Addai which put him on top of the Colts' all-time completions list. He passed the great Johnny Unitas. The reception, which led to a 21-yard touchdown by Addai, put...

JohnnyUnitas News From the Web

05/15/12 THE SUN'S TOP 175 ATHLETES No. 2: Colts QB Johnny... Source: The Baltimore Sun - Baltimore MD Last week, on what would have been his father's 79th birthday, Chad Unitas visited his grave at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.
05/06/12 Michelle Singletary: Even a millionaire can fumble... Source: Reading Eagle - Reading PA Looking at former NFL star Warren Sapp's bankruptcy filing, it's hard not to focus on the Florida mansion he owns (18,000 square feet, according to property records) or the number of pricey athletic shoes he's purchased (240 pairs, many still in the box, unworn).
04/23/12 Carlisle resident Irv Fanus recalls photo op with... Source: The Sentinel - Carlisle PA For years, decades even, Carlisle resident Irv Fanus had been wondering to himself, "Where in the heck did I put those photos?"
04/21/12 Singletary: Sacked by overinvesting Source: Ventura County Star - Camarillo CA Looking at former NFL star Warren Sapp's bankruptcy filing, it's hard not to focus on the Florida mansion he owns (18,000 square feet, according to property records) or the number of pricey athletic shoes he's purchased (240 pairs, many still in the box unworn).
04/17/12 Athletes fumble finances Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC As I combed through Sapp's 59-page Chapter 7 filing, there was no question that he's not a good money manager.

Background on JohnnyUnitas

John Constantine Unitas (; May 7, 1933 – September 11, 2002), known as Johnny Unitas or "Johnny U", and nicknamed "The Golden Arm", was a professional American football player in the 1950s through the 1970s, spending the majority of his career with the Baltimore Colts.

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