Maybe it's because another legendary quarterback, Sammy Baugh, died last year, but I thought Y.A. Tittle also had passed away.
So it came as something of a surprise to me to learn that today is Tittle's 83rd birthday.
In his collegiate career at LSU, Tittle led the Tigers to a record of 23–11–3. I've heard it said his best college season was 1946, when only a loss to Georgia Tech and a 0–0 tie with Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl kept the Tigers from a perfect record.Tittle was the first NFL quarterback to throw 30 or more touchdown passes in consecutive seasons. Only six other men have done that — and, unlike Tittle, all of them (Steve Bartkowski, Brett Favre, Dan Fouts, Dan Marino, Peyton Manning and Jeff Garcia) played since the NFL expanded its regular season to 16 games.
The most regular season games that were played during Tittle's career were 14.
He was named the most valuable player twice, and he was inducted into the NFL's Hall of Fame in 1971 (along with Jim Brown and Vince Lombardi).
The only accomplishment that eluded him, in a professional career that ran from 1948 to 1964, was an NFL championship.
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