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When reeling off the names of the most feared quarterbacks in the NFL, you'll have to go pretty far down the list before Chicago's Kyle Orton enters the discussion. Orton, who will start for the Bears (1-1) on Sunday when they host the Tampa Bay...

As the 1920 football season began, professional teams faced three pressing problems involving players: Salaries were rising quickly, players were jumping from one team to another and teams were using college players who had yet to graduate. These...

Perhaps Arch Ward had a prescient understanding of Chicago's appetite for football. Or maybe he was a curious sports fan who wanted to measure the talent differential between college football players, better known and more celebrated at the time, and...

One good thing about life in Los Angeles is that on fall Sundays, there are three NFL games on network TV — including two at the same time — as there were last Sunday morning, when, in the same three-hour span, L.A. football fans could compare...

Big Ben Roethlisberger vs. the distinguished Donovan McNabb: Now there's a matchup made in heaven. In a game to be presented on Pittsburgh's Heinz Field next Sunday, McNabb, the Philadelphia Eagles' veteran quarterback, will lead pro football's only 7-0...

Almost certainly, the most important football game of the season — the AFC championship game, which some folks are sure to call the real Super Bowl — will be played outdoors on what could well be the coldest day of the winter in Pittsburgh...

I think what Johnny Unitas did was elevate a second-tier city like Baltimore to major-league status - not just in sports. Johnny U. made that kind of difference on the psyche of a city. And he raised the expectations that a city has for itself, and, to...

John Unitas' importance in pro football history can't be emphasized enough. He was not only one of the game's all-time greatest quarterbacks, but also a central figure in the NFL's rise from relative obscurity to the nation's No. 1 sports obsession. When...

For 10 seasons, Otto Graham personified perfection, the Cleveland Browns and greatness. No quarterback has ever done it any better. The Hall of Famer, who led the Browns to 10 championship games in the 10 seasons he played for them, died Wednesday of...

First Game: Sept. 11, 1960. 27-3 home win over the Buffalo Bills Homes: Polo Grounds, 1960-63; Shea Stadium, 1964-83; Giants Stadium, 1984 Head Coaches: Sammy Baugh, 1960-61; Clyde Turner, 1962; Weeb Ewbank, 1963-73; Charley Winner, 1974-75; Ken...

The San Francisco 49ers, one of the NFL's most successful teams for nearly 20 years, plugged another winning quarterback into the same old offensive system Sunday. He is Jeff Garcia, who was brought to San Francisco by new General Manager Bill Walsh, the...

There are three identical reasons for the 1999 achievements of the 11-2 Indianapolis Colts and the 11-2 St. Louis Rams: 3. Because both teams lost so often for so many years, accumulating barrels of draft choices, they've both had so many shots in so...