As acclaimed sports biographer Mark Ribowsky shows, Shula met serious resistance at home when he asked to play high school football, but when his parents finally relented, they discovered that their son, though perhaps short on the physical ... Found inside – Page 147The quarterback for the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III was Earl Morrall . Earl Morrall guided the Baltimore Colts to the NFL Championship and into Super ... Found inside – Page 7Namath and Colts quarterback Earl Morrall were honored at a banquet a few days before the Super Bowl. At one point, according to Namath, a man got up and ... Found inside – Page 127That's a decision Don Shula faced in Super Bowl III . Earl Morrall replaced the injured Johnny Unitas in the 1968 season and led the Colts to a 13-1 record ... Found inside – Page 35His replacement was Earl Morrall — the same Earl Morrall who had replaced an injured John Unitas for the Colts in Super Bowl III ( when Shula coached Baltimore ) and for most of Super Bowl V. Morrall provided a steady hand and , throwing ... This unique and humorous look at life with the Dolphins brings fans onto the field and into the locker room through the eyes of Garo Yepremian, one of Miami’s most recognizable figures. Found inside – Page 450Nevertheless, the Colts went to that year's Super Bowl with Earl Morrall as quarterback. Unitas made a desperation appearance late in the game and led the team to its only score, but it was too late. Unitas returned almost all the way to the top ... Found insideRevised and Updated to Include 1997 Super Bowl Season Clay Latimer. But during an interview with Rocky Mountain News beat writer Rick Morrissey, ... This title will give you the story behind records held by such football stars as Peyton Manning, Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, and more. Describes the teams and events of the first five Super Bowl games. Found insideInstead, Super Bowl V became a carnival of errors, with the two teams ... the Colts would turn to Earl Morrall to lead the way the rest of the game. Found inside... that's ever played the position,” and Earl Morrall at quarterback; a team that is stunned in Super Bowl III by the Joe Namath Jets. Found inside – Page 336Murray Janoff, “A Super Bowl Special—Can Weeb Tame Colts,” The ... Ralph Bernstein, “Namath Raps Earl Morrall,” Progress-Index (Petersburg, VA), January 7, ... Relates the history of Baltimore's famous football team, detailing their Super Bowl game against the Dallas Cowboys in 1971. Found insideBut Morrall earned greater fame more than a decade later, replacing injured signal callers on three Super Bowl teams. With Baltimore in 1968, Morrall took ... Found insideWe'll leave the '69 Super Bowl out of the discussion—that was Earl Morrall's debacle, although it must be said that Unitas didn't exactly bring the Colts ... Found insideEarly in the third quarter, they turned a Colts fumble into a 32-yard field goal to put them up 10–0. Soon after, Earl Morrall was replaced by Johnny Unitas ... Found inside – Page 37(Record) Super Bowl Player Team C VII Bob Griese Miami Dolphins VIII Bob Griese ... Packers II Bart Starr Green Bay Packers III Earl Morrall Baltimore Colts ... Found insideDespite being the MVP of the season, putting up twenty-six touchdowns and nearly 3,000 yards, Morrall was flat out horrible in Super Bowl III (6-17, ... Found inside – Page 214Earl Morrall was thirty-eight years old. If he was remembered as the goat of Super Bowl III, he was also the guy who saved the Colts' season in 1968 when ... Found inside – Page 2015For all the annual buildup, the ultra-hyped Super Bowl—which turns 50 in ... came late in the fourth quarter after Johnny Unitas replaced Earl Morrall, ... Found inside – Page 170However, Shula started him over Earl Morrall in the Super Bowl. Dad must also have learned from the experience because he was getting up in years, ... Found inside – Page 21He was also tough enough to have benched the former allpro quarterback with a sore elbow , Johnny Unitas , in favor of Earl Morrall . The Colts had dependable runners and receivers and smart , tough defenders . In theory , they had all the ... Found inside – Page 13Miami took fifty-eight consecutive games at the Orange Bowl—a streak that lasted until ... and Baltimore, who won Super Bowl V with number 15 Earl Morrall. Found inside – Page 17Although he accounted for only 39 yards rushing in Super Bowl IV , running back Garrett scored an important five - yard ... With 30 seconds left in the first half , they ran a flea - flicker play with quarterback Earl Morrall handing off to Tom Matte ... Found inside – Page 63Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom consoles a dejected Earl Morrall after the team's loss in Super Bowl lll. MVP BOOKS COLLECTION A frustrated Tom Matte watches ... Found insidePart of the reason for the Baltimore Colts' shocking defeat against the New York Jets in Super Bowl III was the uninspired play of quarterback Earl Morrall. Found insideDespite being the MVP of the season, putting up twenty-six touchdowns and nearly 3,000 yards, Morrall was flat out horrible in Super Bowl III (6-17, ... Found insideBut his six Super Bowl appearances are tied for the most in history—tied with ... the Super Bowl: Johnny Unitas and Earl Morrall with the Colts and Morrall, ... Found inside – Page 344The play that Earl Morrall blew in the Super Bowl was now good for a forty - yard touchdown . Then the Colts added two field goals , making the score 13 – 7 ... Found insideEarl. Morrall. to. the. Rescue. Bob Griese sat on the Orange Bowl turf, ... As the quarterback who helped the Miami Dolphins reach the Super Bowl the ... Found insideThis was his Super Bowl. Two years prior, it had been Joe Namath's, when Unitas couldn't play in a season that belonged to Earl Morrall. Found inside – Page 1402Behind NFL MVP Earl Morrall, the Colts put together a 13–1 record and were ... quarterback Joe Namath upset the heavily favored Colts in Super Bowl III. Found inside – Page 26... Persian Gulf to the Shores of West Florida—The New York Giants, the Buffalo Bills, and Super Bowl XXV Adam Lazarus ... crew—cut—wearing Earl Morrall. Found inside – Page 32It was the first time an AFL team led in a Super Bowl. ... “Jimmy Orr's and my own worst fear had been realized: Earl Morrall had awakened. Found inside – Page 14BALTIMORE New York Jets ' quarterback Joe Namath did a lot of talking in the days before Super Bowl III in Miami . “ Earl Morrall would be thirdstring quarterback on the Jets , ” Namath said about Baltimore's QB . " There are maybe five or six ... Found insideEarl Morrall's impressive career included three Super Bowl championships, Most Valuable Player award, two Firstteam Pro Bowls, NFL passing touchdowns leader ... Inside the NFL uses chronological narratives to tell the beginnings of the Miami Dolphins, relate the greatest and lowest moments of the team, introduce the best players and coaches, and share other fun facts that help round out Dolphins' ... Found insideThe Duane Thomas goal-line fumble that cost the Cowboys another win in Super Bowl V. The Earl Morrall flea-flicker mistake in Super Bowl III. Purchase the audio edition. Found inside – Page 8Earl Morrall led the Baltimore Colts to the Super Bowl in 1968, but they lost to the New York Jets. He did win three FAST FACT Super Bowl rings as a backup ... Found insideClassic Super Bowls! ... quarterback in Johnny Unitas, but when Unitas was injured, it was the backup Earl Morrall who had led the Colts to the Super Bowl. Led by such greats as Larry Csonka, Bob Griese, Nick Buoniconti, Larry Little, Mercury Morris, and Jake Scott—as well as players discarded from other franchises who were transformed into key contributors once they were indoctrinated into ... Found inside – Page 18In the final seconds of Super Bowl V, the Colts and Dallas Cowboys were tied 13–13. ... He told quarterback Earl Morrall to talk to O'Brien. "We're going to win Sunday. Found insideTo be fair, after watching the recent Super Bowl game between the Atlanta ... many former NFL Super Bowl quarterbacks such as Ken Stabler and Earl Morrall ... 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