In his final season, Tittle was photographed bloodied and kneeling down in the end zone after a tackle by a defender left him helmetless. Although he was never able to deliver a championship to the team, Tittle's time in New York is regarded among the glory years of the franchise. Over the next four seasons, he won several individual awards, twice set the league single-season record for touchdown passes – including a 1962 game with a combined 7 touchdown passes and 500-yards passing with a near perfect (151.4 out of 158.33) passer rating, and led the Giants to three straight NFL championship games.
Y8 real football 2012 professional#
A groundbreaker, Tittle was part of the 49ers' famed Million Dollar Backfield, was the first professional football player featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and is credited with having coined " alley-oop" as a sports term.Ĭonsidered washed-up, the 34-year-old Tittle was traded to the Giants following the 1960 season.
Y8 real football 2012 pro#
Through ten seasons in San Francisco, he was invited to four Pro Bowls, led the league in touchdown passes in 1955, and was named the NFL Player of the Year by the United Press in 1957. After consecutive one-win seasons, the Colts franchise folded, which allowed Tittle to be drafted in the 1951 NFL Draft by the 49ers.
With the Colts, Tittle was named the AAFC Rookie of the Year in 1948 after leading the team to the AAFC playoffs. After college, he was drafted in the 1947 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, but he instead chose to play in the AAFC for the Colts. As a junior, he was named the most valuable player (MVP) of the infamous 1947 Cotton Bowl Classic-also known as the "Ice Bowl"-a scoreless tie between the Tigers and Arkansas Razorbacks in a snowstorm. Tittle played college football for Louisiana State University, where he was a two-time All- Southeastern Conference (SEC) quarterback for the LSU Tigers football team. Known for his competitiveness, leadership, and striking profile, Tittle was the centerpiece of several prolific offenses throughout his 17-year professional career from 1948 to 1964. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, and Baltimore Colts, after spending two seasons with the Colts in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). (Octo– October 8, 2017) was a professional American football quarterback.
0 kommentar(er)
