| Joe Montana joined the San Francisco 49ers in | | | | youth football when he was just eight years old, |
| 1979. At Notre Dame Joe Montana was their star | | | | aided in part by his father. His father first |
| QB. In 1982, 1985 and 1990 Joe Montana was | | | | introduced him to football. Joe was actually 8 |
| named the Most Valuable Player of those Super | | | | years old when he first started playing football, |
| Bowls making him the only player in NFL history | | | | but he was really suppose to be 9 years old. |
| to accomplish that feat. | | | | However, his Dad signed him up any way. |
| Joe Montana has earned a reputation as one of | | | | Montana spent his first two years on the high |
| the top quarterbacks in professional football, first | | | | school football team as a backup. Basketball and |
| rising to fame in the 1980s. Joe Montana, 52, may | | | | baseball were two sports that Montana also loved |
| have won 4 Super Bowls, 3 Super Bowl MVPs, | | | | to play. Montana graduated from Notre Dame |
| and is arguably the greatest quarterback of | | | | with a degree in business administration and |
| all-time. Montana almost accepted a scholarship to | | | | marketing. |
| play basketball at North Carolina State University, | | | | Joe Montana has been married three different |
| while a senior in high school in Monongahela, | | | | times. He met Jennifer Wallace, who was a model |
| Pennsylvania. | | | | and actress, while they were both working on a |
| Montana was born in New Eagle, Pennsylvania, a | | | | Schick commercial, and the couple got married in |
| borough of Washington County located in the | | | | 1985. They have four kids. Their names are |
| western portion of the state. He grew up in a | | | | Nathaniel Joseph, Nicholas Alexander, Alexandra |
| coal mining town that was about 25 miles south | | | | Whitney and Elizabeth Jean. |
| of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were | | | | Hall of Fame Coach Bill Walsh often called said, |
| Theresa and Joseph Montana. He was interested | | | | "Joe Montana is the greatest quarterback today, |
| in sports at an early age. Montana started to play | | | | maybe the greatest quarterback of all time. |