Joe Montana: Ghost of Super Bowls Past

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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If Super Bowl Sunday is America’s most beloved holiday — the holiday that the greatest and most famous quarterbacks in the sport have spent their lives dreaming about winning — it does feel like Joe Montana is a bit like the ghost of Christmas past. Montana is the man Tom Brady grew up idolizing. The icon whose accolades — four championships and three Super Bowl MVPs — Patrick Mahomes is now actively trying to surpass. But, today, Wright Thompson takes us behind the scenes and inside the feelings of Joe Montana…whose present life offers an important clue about a superstar’s future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, Tom, Stan.
0:01.6	I like to think of the greatest of all time,
0:05.0	as if they belong to like an actual club,
0:07.6	like they all hang out with each other,
0:09.1	they have takes, and one of the takes I imagine they have,
0:14.2	most ferociously is that we are all biased towards recency.
0:20.1	Yes, you know, I mean, that's the thing they always
0:23.9	are shocked at is how fast people forget.
0:26.7	It was actually like 10 years ago this month,
0:31.7	I was in Charlotte, North Carolina with Michael Jordan.
0:35.7	I was writing a story about him about to turn 50,
0:38.7	and we were sitting around his condo watching basketball
0:42.7	and watching sports center, and there was some debate
0:45.7	about who was the goat, Montana or Brady.
0:48.7	And at this time, Montana had more Super Bowls,
0:50.7	and Jordan was like apoplectic.
0:53.7	He was like, watch, watch, they're gonna say Brady
0:55.7	because they don't remember Montana.
0:59.7	In his head that you just sub out LeBron for Brady
1:02.7	and Jordan for Montana, you could tell exactly what he was thinking about,
1:06.7	but it was just...
1:07.7	Absolutely.
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