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8. Johnny Unitas
| An unknown in college, rejected by his hapless hometown Steelers, he became the intrepid leading man in that classic sports drama, The Greatest Game Ever Played. How could you not admire the man in hightops and horseshoes, standing fearless in the pocket, surveying the fields of fire, pumping, threading the needle? He threw touchdown passes in 47 straight games and virtually invented the two-minute drill. As all modern thoroughbred horses are descended from three Arabian stallions, all modern quarterbacks are the progeny of Johnny U. |
Photograph by Walter Iooss
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