How Good Was Joe Montana Actually?

[YoshidaYui]

[pwb]

1. He was good

for his time. IMO.

[chicoescuela]

2. Joe was a winner. Not the best passer or runner, just found a way to win.

[twodogsbarking]

4. You don't need to complete every play or win every game, just the key ones.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. He must have been pretty good, they named a state after him! Ha ha heh...just kidding.

[lark]

5. He was one of the best ever!

He's my fave qb of all time! I had such great times watching him win all those games with the Niners and then the Chiefs!

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Montana was very, very good....he had a great Coach to guide him.

[YoshidaYui]

22. Bill Walsh was kind of a genus when it came to Coaching

YEH THE 49ers HAD it pretty good all those years despite the fact I rooted for the team across the BAY, and coach John Madden.

[Charging Triceratops]

7. He was THE best ever

No doubt about it.

[LoisB]

11. Depends. Fran Tarkenton fan here.

[bpj62]

8. Pretty Good

As a Washington football fan during that time I couldn't stand him but until Brady came along only he and Bradshaw had won four Superbowl Titles.

[Best_man23]

12. Washington had pretty good teams then, and a hell of a coach (Gibbs)

He won 3 Super Bowls with 3 different QBs. That feat was not done before, nor has it been done since.

[Basso8vb]

9. Those were the teams of my youth.

What a time it was to be a Niners fan!

[Brother Buzz]

10. Hurry up Joe

I can’t remember how many times he brought the team back from sure defeat with just two minutes on the clock.

It was nerve racking and exciting at the same time, week after week!

[BOSSHOG]

13. Check out the 1979 Cotton Bowl

It’ll give you a hint how good he was.

[True Dough]

14. He was quite good on Saturday Night Live too!

*I have his rookie card from when I was a kid. Not sure of its value today. Probably about a buck three-fifty.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Depends Condition

I've seen PSA 7 rookie cards for him at $150-160.
Even PSA 4s have sold for nearly a hundred bucks.
But, the card market fluctuates so much, who knows until someone actually lays down cash for one.

[True Dough]

16. I'm not even sure how it would be graded, to be honest.

I bought it screwed between two plastic protective coverings for $75 many years ago. Thought back then it might be my retirement ticket several decades later. LOL!

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Believe It Or Not...

...a first run JM rookie card, at PSA 10 (and encased as you describe) sold for $37,200.
I have no idea how the know if it's first run or not, because I saw other PSA 10 cards that sold for $400.
Go figure!

[True Dough]

18. I'd be happy

with anything in the five digits! I guess I should have it assessed some day.

[Brother Buzz]

19. He was good singing backup on Huey Lewis & the News' song, Hip To Be Square, too

Along with teammates, Ronnie Lott, Dwight Clark, and Riki Ellison.

The late great Dwight Clark, Huey's buddy (who had already been featured on the cover of Huey's smash hit Sports album), turned out to have some genuine chops and performed live with Huey Lewis & the News on stage.

Dwight Clark making "The Catch" (Thrown by Joe Montana) on the television on the cover of Sports (Photo taken inside the 'Duce' (2am Club) in Mill Valley, California, my old drinking hole.)

[True Dough]

20. Didn't know most of that, Brother Buzz

Thanks!

Hope you're keeping well.

[Brother Buzz]

21. Huey and Joe having fun

Did you notice the toilet seat guitar on the cover of Sports?

A little amusing backstory bonus:

My hero as I became older, was the late great Leo Fender because he built one of the first guitars to hold up in a bar fight - Charlie Deal, Mill Valley, California

[Morbius]

23. He was one-dimensional.

All he did was win.

[LisaM]

24. He was amazing and is proof that football isn't just a stats sheet.

No team ever felt safe if the game was close and Montana could win it with a two-minute drill.

Stats can be very phony, IMO. Carl Lewis didn't always set records. He just racked up a ton of medals.