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Colts memorabilia bring stampede
Sun StaffBaltimore sports fans raided their closets, sock drawers and shoe boxes yesterday to dig up their mementos of John Unitas - then rushed to sports stores and the Internet to snap up some more. The Gallery of Sports Art at Camden Yards sold out of Unitas...Tags: Football, Johnny Unitas, Auction Service, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Sports
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Youngster's drive couldn't be sacked
Sun StaffWhen John Unitas was in seventh grade at a Catholic grade school in the hard hills south of downtown Pittsburgh, his teacher asked each of the students in his class what they wanted to be when they grew up. A pro football player, Unitas said. His...Tags: Vehicles, College Football, Sid Luckman, Public Employees, University of Notre Dame
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Ride to Tampa bumpy, wild
Sun ColumnistThe love affair between an old, historic NFL city and its new professional football team has been rekindled in the 2000 season. An affection once reserved for the Baltimore Colts and such legends as John Unitas, Lenny Moore and John Mackey has grown to...Tags: Cleveland Browns, Shannon Sharpe, Memorial Stadium, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles
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Lifetime guarantee; Jets-Colts
Sun Staff"I guarantee it." These words may never go down with "Four score and seven years ago," "War is hell" or "Read my lips," but, remembered in proper context, they, too, will not perish from the face of the earth. Yes, long after the particulars of the...Tags: Entertainment, Kansas City Chiefs, Theater, National Football League, Don Maynard
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'We won't see another Johnny Unitas'
Sun StaffMourners said goodbye to John Unitas yesterday, evoking memories of a steely, Hall of Fame quarterback and a tender father who stayed close to his coal-shoveling roots. Cardinal William H. Keeler said he found "sanctity" in the man who threw footballs as...Tags: Jim Parker, Johnny Unitas, Memorial Stadium, San Diego Chargers, Family
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Naming stadium for Unitas costly, not unprecedented
Sun StaffNaming Baltimore's football stadium in honor of the late John Unitas would be costly to the Ravens, but a handful of other teams have found a way to make similar gestures. Since the death of Unitas on Wednesday of a heart attack, many fans have suggested...Tags: Cleveland Browns, Johnny Unitas, Memorial Stadium, Mike Brown (ice hockey), Cleveland Clinic
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Ravens mourn friend, supporter
Sun StaffWhen the Modell family moved its NFL franchise from Cleveland to Baltimore in 1996, it knew a major endorsement from a certain local legend would ensure the new team's acceptance. The Modells got it from quarterback John Unitas without hesitance. "His...Tags: National Football League, Johnny Unitas, Brian Billick, Sports, Family
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Museum on track for Camden Station
Sun StaffBehind Camden Station's polished bricks and beneath its soaring cupolas, the paint has peeled and beams have turned rotten. The only obvious inhabitants are the moths flitting about the musty basement. For more than a decade, the 19th-century train depot...Tags: Peter G. Angelos, Arts, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Renovation, Sports
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Remembering Johnny U.
Sun StaffFearing another terrorist attack on the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11, former Baltimore Colt Gino Marchetti said he "was praying all day I wouldn't hear any bad news." But the news the former defensive lineman got when he arrived at his home in West...Tags: Golf, Art Donovan, Vehicles, Johnny Unitas, Memorial Stadium
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League is hit hard by loss of legend
Sun StaffLarger than life even when he played, John Unitas was hailed yesterday as one of the NFL's fiercest competitors, greatest leaders and toughest quarterbacks. "He was the greatest quarterback ever to play, not because of his arm, but what was inside his...Tags: National Football League, Joe Montana, Johnny Unitas, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports
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Toughest Colt lifted up a city
Sun ColumnistIt must have been a blind-side tackle that took John Unitas yesterday. The man who made Sudden Death part of the American language would have headed downfield in that determined crablike scuttle of his if he had seen the real thing coming. Anybody could...Tags: Hemorrhaging, Art Donovan, National Football League, World War II (1939-1945), Jim Parker
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Special talent, regular guy
Sun StaffJohnny Unitas' football life was remarkable, a royal blare of records, championships and honors. His life after football was another matter, grounded in the touchstones of normalcy more familiar to those who cheered for him. Like a lot of former players,...Tags: Entertainment, Heart and Circulatory System, Johnny Unitas, Clubs and Associations, Electronics
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