Johnny Unitas

They looked like still-life portraits of saints in stained glass—those Technicolor photographs, scissored from Sport magazine, that papered boys' bedrooms in the 1950s. "When we started, the media was a magnifying...

Tough as nails, as Alex Hawkins, a teammate, vividly shows in this excerpt from his book My Story

Mass substitutions, sophisticated defenses and the pressure to win add up to one conclusion—we'll never see another Johnny U

In an interview more than two decades after his last game, the old pro showed the passion of an All-Pro still in his prime

In Barry Levinson's Diner, set in the Baltimore of 1959, the young hero insists that his fiancée pass an impossibly difficult Colts trivia test before he'll agree to marry her. This became known as The Quiz.