RIP Bart Starr

[Pies4shaw]

The Green Bay Packers’ legendary quarterback has passed away aged 85. It’s the end of perhaps the greatest living connection to the Lombardi era. 6 Division titles, 5 NFL championships and the first two Super Bowls. What a legend!

[K]

There Wasn’t a Before or an After. There Was Only Bart Starr.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/sports/bart-starr-packers-super-bowls.html

Stuck between eras of the N.F.L., Starr won more of the league’s titles than any quarterback not named Tom Brady.

"The era before the 1966 season, when the N.F.L. and A.F.L. created a championship game between the leagues that became the greatest spectacle in American sports, was defined by strong defenses, running games and a group of star quarterbacks — Sammy Baugh, Otto Graham, Y.A. Tittle — who are discussed in the vaguest, yet grandest, of terms. ...

The time after the Super Bowl has its own star quarterbacks — Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana, Tom Brady — each of whom has been scrutinized to an almost unimaginable extent.

In the middle is Bart Starr, who died on Sunday at 85.
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A 17th-round draft pick out of Alabama, Starr struggled to a 3-15-1 record through his first three seasons, never truly finding his fit. In 1959, the Packers were far removed from their heyday of the 1930s and 1940s. In stepped Vince Lombardi, whom the team hired away from the Giants. He and Starr went on to create one of the greatest pairings of coach and player in American sports history, surpassed by only the likes of Bill Belichick and Brady of the New England Patriots."

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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001031961/article/packers-legend-bart-starr-passes-away-at-age-85

[Pies4shaw]

The Man Who Wore Brodie Grundy's number talks about his famous predecessor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stoV3k9O2gw

And here's a really extensive tribute video - one of the best of its kind, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yK3ML4e2JM