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Originally Posted by kitekrazy
Some teams don't even have 3 in their history.
The "greatest of all time" of the old era was Johnny U. He wore the shoe. I still can't get over Luck. l There was Bert Jones, who also didn't want to be a Colt.
The reality is in the NFL the franchise QB is becoming less.
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The only time that Bert Jones did not want to be a Colt was in his final season with the team, in 1981. That was when he feuded with running back Curtis Dickey when Jones alleged that Dickey did not block for him, and he was angry with Robert Irsay for not paying him the salary that he thought that he was worth and for Irsay allowing the excellent team that Joe Thomas had built to deteriorate into the worst team in the NFL.
In 2009, Bert was one of the 39 surviving members of the 1975 Colts team to attend a reunion of the 1975 AFC East championship team at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, a team that was Jim Irsay's favorite Colts team of all-time (Jim was a 16 year-old waterboy for that 1975 Colts team.)
This is a picture of Bert with Lydell Mitchell at that reunion at Lucas Oil Stadium in 2009.
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