Those old enough remember Walt Frazier as a Cavalier and Johnny Unitas as a Charger.

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Their quarterback, Johnny Unitas, with his buzz-cut hair and high-topped boots, had played for little-fancied Louisville University.

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Basketball stars Larry Bird and Shane Battier jumped in and out of their own ventures, as did pro footballers Jim McMahon, Johnny Unitas and Lawrence Taylor.

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Johnny Unitas, Mickey Mantle and Wilt Chamberlain were acknowledged as iconic sports figures, but the country still had its priorities fixed where they counted most.

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Quarterbacks like John Elway and Dan Marino stuck with one team their whole career, but Johnny Unitas spent his last year with the San Diego Chargers.

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He also, in 1964 (before there was a Super Bowl), led the Browns to the NFL championship, defeating Johnny Unitas and the Baltimore Colts 27-0 in the title game.

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If Tim Tebow were to be sprinkled with magic Lombardi dust and simultaneously possessed by the spirits of Johnny Unitas, Otto Graham and Popeye the Sailor-Man, he would be lucky to be one-quarter as good as Peyton Manning at his best.

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