Johnny Unitas' NFL career had an inauspicious beginning. His first pass was intercepted for a touchdown, he botched a handoff for a fumble, and the Baltimore Colts lost 58-27.

John Unitas Jr. is not happy with his half-brother’s choice of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco to play their father, Baltimore Colts legend Johnny Unitas, in the football scenes of the ...

Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas By Tom Callahan Crown, 292 pages, $25 Pro football may be, as many pundits claim, our national sport, but it has created little in the way of genuine ...

John Elway, who Sunday will become the first Denver Bronco inducted into the Hall of Fame, ranked No. 4, behind Unitas, Montana and Cleveland Browns legend Otto Graham.

After football legend Johnny Unitas died of a heart attack in 2002, his wife was swept up in a whirlwind of interviews and speaking engagements. Since then, between tending to her family and to ...

The feud pits John C. Unitas Jr. against his father's widow from a second marriage and two business advisers in a struggle for control of Unitas Management Corp., a father-son venture that has had ...

It was the streak that helped build professional football. When the Baltimore Colts' Johnny Unitas started his record 47-game streak of throwing at least one touchdown pass in a game in 1956, he ...

Though generations apart as Colts’ quarterbacks, John Unitas was very proud that a young man like Peyton Manning followed in his footsteps.” Follow Lindsay H. Jones on Twitter @bylindsayhjones .

Joe Flacco is five inches taller than Johnny Unitas was, and has led the league in touchdown passes four fewer times by age 28. He does however, have a Super Bowl MVP, ...