The Colts finished 0 – 8 – 1 in the strike-shortened 1982 season and earned the team the right to select Stanford quarterback John Elway with the first overall pick, but Elway refused to play for Baltimore, and using leverage as a draftee of the New York Yankees baseball club, forced a trade to Denver.

The Falcons lost Super Bowl XXXIII to John Elway and the Denver Broncos.

Joe Montana became the third to start four Super Bowls, but all were passed by John Elway and Tom Brady.

Led largely through the play of quarterback John Elway and a defense that led the AFC in fewest yards allowed, Denver posted an 11-5 regular season record and two narrow playoff victories.

The Broncos won the AFC West with an 11 – 5 regular season record, largely through the play of their quarterback John Elway.

On the Broncos ' first play after receiving the opening kickoff, quarterback John Elway faked a handoff, then spun around and ran in the opposite direction for a 10-yard gain to the Denver 34-yard line.

The Broncos were making their second consecutive Super Bowl, and third overall appearance, after posting a 10-4-1 regular season record, largely through the strength of their quarterback John Elway.

Quarterback John Elway had another excellent season, passing for 3, 198 yards and 19 touchdowns.

After forcing Washington to go 3 and out, the Broncos ' scored on their first play from scrimmage, when quarterback John Elway threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to wide open receiver Ricky Nattiel, giving Denver a quick 7 – 0 lead after just 1: 57 had elapsed in the game.

However, quarterback John Elway played inconsistently during the regular season, throwing just as many interceptions as touchdowns ( 18 ) and recording only a 73. 7 passer rating.

Buffalo then played against Denver Broncos, who were coming off a 26 – 24 win over the Houston Oilers in which quarterback John Elway led them on an 87-yard drive to set up kicker David Treadwell's game-winning field goal with only 16 seconds left.

The only other quarterbacks to start four at the time were Roger Staubach, Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana, with John Elway and Tom Brady since joining this exclusive club.

After the Broncos won Super Bowl XXXII during the previous season, many wondered if 15-year veteran quarterback John Elway would retire now that he finally won a Super Bowl.

John Elway became the first quarterback to start five Super Bowls.

* June 28 – John Elway, American football player

Green later married hall of fame quarterback John Elway, who played for Raiders rival the Denver Broncos.

Weller, a Washington graduate, was the guest yell-king during the Huskies ' homecoming football game against the Stanford University Cardinal ( led by junior quarterback John Elway ).

* John Elway ( Denver Broncos NFL ) and Wayne Gretzky ( Edmonton Oilers NHL ) have summer homes here.

Port Angeles is home to Peninsula College and is the birthplace of football hall of famer John Elway.

** August 8 – John Elway, Barry Sanders, Carl Eller and Bob Brown are inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame

* In the first season of the television show Vegas, there was a scene about the ArenaBowl, where former Broncos QB John Elway and singer Jon Bon Jovi have a ' Battle in the Monteceto.

* John Elway, quarterback of the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos, hit his first professional home run at Dwyer Stadium while playing minor league baseball.

Many credit Young's turnaround to the arrival of then 49ers Offensive Coordinator Mike Shanahan, who mentored Young just as he would mentor John Elway in the years to come.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )