Biography elway john
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John Elway and his twin sister were born in 1960, in Port Angeles, Washington, near the Canadian border. Elway's father worked as a high school biology teacher and football coach, and the family made several moves for his father's work and ever-increasing responsibilities as a coach. He served as the head football coach at Grace Harbor Junior College in Aberdeen, Washington, for five years, and then as the offensive coordinator for the University of Montana. "That's where I got introduced to football," says Elway. "I played Pop Warner football in the fifth grade, and we won the championship that year. But really, I wasn't all about football. I loved all sports. I loved the competition. I was also very active in basketball and baseball."
Elway's early interest in sports was greatly influenced by his father. "I really looked up to him," he says. "Of course, a football coach isn't home a lot, especially during recruitment and the playing season. So I missed him a lot. But he would let me spend a few days with him at summer camps, and I loved that. He had a great sense of humor. When I was little, he used to time how long it would take me to run and get his slippers. Each time he told me I had broken the '˜world record' for slipper fetching. It took me a while to catch on to that
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John Elway
John Elway capped his brilliant career in 1998 by winning Most Valuable Player honors in Super Bowl XXXIII, leading the Denver Broncos to their second straight World Championship.
He also posted the highest quarterback rating of his career in his final campaign, with a rating of 93.0. At the close of the 1998 season, Elway ranked second among active NFL players for number of appearances with one team (234), trailing only the Oilers’ Bruce Matthews (248), and retired having played in and started (231) more games in more seasons (16) than any player in Denver Broncos history.
Elway, the NFL’s all-time winningest starting quarterback (148-82-1; .643), was voted to a franchise-record nine Pro Bowl appearances (1986 season, ’87, ’89, ’91, ’93, ’94, ’96, ’97 and ’98), tied for the most ever by a quarterback (Marino, Moon), and as a starter six times (’87, ’89, ’93, ’96, ’97 and ’98). He was the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1987, AFC Player of the Year in 1993, was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week 15 times and AFC Offensive Player of the Month twice.
Elway was named the Edge NFL Man of the Year for 1992, and was inducted in to the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in
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John Elway
American sport player stream executive (born 1960)
American sport player
Elway in 2021 | |
| Position: | Quarterback |
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| Born: | (1960-06-28) June 28, 1960 (age 64) Port Angeles, Washington, U.S. |
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight: | 215 lb (98 kg) |
| High school: | Granada Hills (Los Angeles, California) |
| College: | Stanford (1979–1982) |
| NFL draft: | 1983 / round: 1 / pick: 1 |
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