When the AFL and NFL merged, the team fell into a state of mediocrity along with their star quarterback, Namath, who only had three successful post-merger seasons after injuries hampered much of his career.

The Steelers joined the Cowboys in their attempt to be the first team to ever win a third Super Bowl, after wins in Super Bowl IX and Super Bowl X. Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw had the best season of his career, completing 207 of 368 passes for 2, 915 yards and 28 touchdowns, with 20 interceptions.

Some also pointed out that Ken Anderson was an established 11-year veteran who had just finished the best season of his career, while the young Montana was only just starting to emerge as a top notch quarterback.

Jones and Johnson picked UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman, who would eventually go on to be selected to the Pro Bowl 6 times in his NFL career.

The 38-year old quarterback made the Pro Bowl for the 3rd year in a row and the 9th time in his career, throwing for 2, 806 yards and 22 touchdowns, with only 10 interceptions.

* Bob Davis ( born 1945 ), former NFL quarterback whose career included three seasons with the New York Jets

* Bob Davis ( born 1945 ), former NFL quarterback whose career included three seasons with the New York Jets.

Most of his career he was the center of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino.

Early in his own playing career, Smith approached the former Cowboy quarterback with an interest in learning more about real estate.

McMahon battled injuries for the rest of his career although at one point between the 1984 and 1987 seasons, he won 22 consecutive regular-season ( 25 including playoffs, & The Super Bowl ) starts, the longest " regular season winning streak " by an NFL quarterback at the time, now held by Peyton Manning, who won 23 in 2009 ( but lost a Super Bowl during his " winning streak ").

He rushed for a career high 102 yards on just 8 carries vs. the New Orleans Saints on December 23, 1990, making him only the second 49ers quarterback to rush for at least 100 yards in a single game.

His 96. 8 career passer rating is the third highest in NFL history ; his 4, 239 rushing yards are the third most ever gained by a quarterback, behind Michael Vick and Randall Cunningham.

It would be the first of a record five Super Bowl starts at quarterback in Elway's career, a record that he solely held until 2012 when Tom Brady earned his fifth Super Bowl start.

Elway ended his career with a record 148 victories, since surpassed by Brett Favre for most wins by a starting quarterback.

He finished his career with 774 rushing attempts, one shy of NFL record-holder Randall Cunningham ( 775 ) for rushes by a quarterback.

Cappelletti attended the University of Minnesota, finishing his career there in 1954 as quarterback, in addition to his placekicking duties.

Lamonica spent his collegiate career at the University of Notre Dame, and was the team's starting quarterback for three seasons.

Brady, with the 100th win of his career, also set an NFL record for the fewest games needed by a starting quarterback to do so: his 100 – 26 record is sixteen games better than Joe Montana's.

Brady ended the 2009 season throwing 3 interceptions in a Wild Card playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens, 33 – 14, his first career home playoff loss, and the first playoff loss at home by a New England Patriots quarterback since 1978.

Struggling with his baseball career, Carter went to the University of Georgia in 1998, where he won the job of starting quarterback in a highly contested battle ( over future Oklahoma starter, Nate Hybl, among others ) and after a good freshman season was recognized as one of the top young quarterbacks in the nation.

The touchdown was Manning's first in the NFL with a team other than the Colts, and marked the 400th of his career, making him the third quarterback, after Dan Marino and Brett Favre, to accomplish the feat and the fastest of the three to reach that mark.

Vanderjagt began his college career at Michigan State, where he was a quarterback in 1988.

At the conclusion of the 2007 season, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had a career record of 31 – 3 on artificial turf.

* NFL quarterback has Matt Hasselbeck has 142 career touchdowns with the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks

* November 18, 1985 – Giants ' linebacker Lawrence Taylor sacks Redskins ' quarterback Joe Theismann severely breaking his leg and ending his NFL career.

When the Revolution broke out, he, along with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar, with considerable financial sacrifice.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

The new century opened with Oersted beginning his professional career in charge of an apothecary shop in Copenhagen and as lecturer at the university.

there is no one point in a man's career at which he must select either the technical or the managerial path upward.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

Skorich, who is 39 years old, played football at Cincinnati University and then had a three-year professional career as a lineman under Jock Sutherland with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

He began his coaching career at Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School in 1949.

) His first case was " The Affair at the Victory Ball ", which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private detective.

Poirot is less active during the cases that take place at the end of his career.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

Saint Alcuin had a long career as a teacher and scholar, first at the school at York, founded in AD 627 ( now known as St Peter's School, York ) and later as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational matters.

He was raised for a career in the Church and spent some time at the court of Hermann IV of Hesse, Elector of Cologne, who appointed him canon of the Cologne Cathedral.

He was described as behaving as a criminal at every stage of his career.

* Clark Gable, actor, began his career at the Astoria Theatre in 1922.

His elder brother, Tom, was already a physician and suggested to his younger sibling that he follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington.

After leaving school at 17, Ayckbourn's career took several temporary jobs in various places before starting a temporary job at the Scarborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, Stephen Joseph.

He taught at the University of Chicago from 1947 to 1958, before spending the remainder of his career at the Institute for Advanced Study.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

Big bands such as those of Duke Ellington ( at the very beginning of his career ), Bennie Moten, and Count Basie performed head arrangements ( ibid ).

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

* Notes on his career and a picture of him at work

Early in her career at the paper, she wrote a controversial story in which she examined the failings of the popular chef Emeril Lagasse.