Berra is best remembered for having won 10 World Series with the Yankees and for his Yogisms. Not mentioned often enough is the role he served in the military. In , after his first year in the minor leagues, Berra was drafted into the Navy and volunteered for a secret mission. Berra went on to collect 2, major league hits, home runs and three MVP awards.
He missed nearly four full seasons and spent more than two years aboard the USS Alabama. In his first full season after returning from combat, Feller went with a career-low 2. When Mario Lemieux retired at age 31 in , the NHL waived its customary three-year waiting period and immediately inducted him into the Hall of Fame.
Deserving as the honor was, they probably should have waited. He had another successful one in him -- returning in at the age of Just 33 seconds into his first shift, he assisted on a goal by Jaromir Jagr and would later add a goal and another assist.
He went on to tally 35 goals and 41 assists in 43 games that season as runner-up for the Hart Memorial Trophy. Monica Seles, while still a teenager, won eight Grand Slam events. That included becoming the youngest French Open champion at the age of Seles returned in and went on to win the Australian Open, her ninth and final Grand Slam title.
Many baseball fans are familiar with Tommy John surgery. Not as many are as familiar with Tommy John, the baseball player. The left-handed pitcher had won games in the majors, and was during the season with the Dodgers, when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow.
Frank Jobe performed an innovative and career-saving ligament replacement surgery on John, using a tendon from elsewhere in the body to replace the torn ligament. John missed the entire season before going with a 3. The following season was the finest of his year career as he went with a 2.
John, after the surgery, spent 18 more seasons in the majors before retiring in at age 46 with a career record of Long before becoming a beloved TV pitchman, the Olympic gold medalist and former heavyweight champion first retired from boxing in to be an ordained minister. He made his return to the ring 10 years later at age 38 -- and at nearly pounds, put the heavy in heavyweight. He defeated Steve Zouski in a fourth round stoppage in what would be the first of 20 straight wins for Foreman.
We lionize quarterbacks for a lot of reasons — I'll get to that later this week — but the fourth quarter comeback is one of the most overrated.
Few will mention when citing the fourth quarter comeback that it, by definition, requires a team to be trailing late in the game; fewer still will note that the Broncos have trailed in the fourth quarter in nine of Tebow's 11 starts, and have carried a lead into the fourth quarter in just one, a win over the Chiefs in November that involved starting quarterback Matt Cassel getting hurt.
Tebow has been able to make fourth quarter comebacks happen in part because he's failed to build leads for the Broncos before the fourth quarter. Fault play-calling, or drops by wide receivers, divine intervention, resilience, or whatever you want for that, but it's as true a fact as any other in this stat-soaked maelstrom. This is also true: Tebow did not specialize in fourth quarter comebacks as a starting quarterback for the Gators. At Florida, Tebow started 41 games , and trailed in the fourth quarter in eight of them.
Of those eight fourth quarter comeback opportunities, Tebow capitalized on just two, leading Florida back from a deficit against Alabama in the SEC Championship Game, with what I still consider one of the finest quarters of quarterback play I've ever seen, and getting a significant amount of help from his defense and the officials in coming back against Arkansas in That makes for a tiny FQR1 of 4.
Again, for emphasis: Tebow faced eight fourth quarter deficits and had two fourth quarter comebacks 41 starts for Florida, and has faced nine fourth quarter deficits and pulled six fourth quarter comebacks in 11 starts for the Broncos. While Tebow's name is in the discussion about the finest college football players of all time, he didn't get there by ringing up comebacks; likewise, while he's viewed as no more than an above-average NFL quarterback, his play late in games has made him a folk hero, gotten him a "clutch" tag, and confounded conventional wisdom.
Subscribe to our Free Newsletter. This Month in Sports Reference Find out when we add a feature or make a change. Do you have a sports website? Or write about sports? We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Find out more. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Elway is second in career game-winning drives and fourth quarter comebacks. John Elway got it done statistically and in the big games throughout his entire career.
Like Marino, he became a legend in the state of Colorado. Interestingly enough we now see Tim Tebow, a player with a skill set much different than that of Elway, trying to capture the heart's of Broncos fans. Elway knows what it takes to be great, especially in the fourth quarter of games. It'll be interesting to see if Tebow can follow in his footsteps over the next few years. Montana tops my list as one of the greatest to ever play the position of quarterback.
Montana's ability to lead his team back in big game situations earned him the nicknames like "Joe Cool" and "The Comeback Kid". The nicknames don't lie as Montana has 31 career fourth quarter comebacks and 33 game-winning drives. That ranks him 4th and 7th on those all time lists respectively. One of Montana's more famous clutch moments is known as "The Catch". Montana famously slung the ball to the back of the end zone over Cowboy defenders where wide receiver Dwight Clark was able to reel in the pass with his finger tips.
This score put the 49ers on top and they went on to win the game as Dallas couldn't score with the 51seconds that were left on the clock. San Francisco went on to beat the Bengals in what would be Montana's first of four Super Bowl victories.
Montana famously burned the Bengals again in the Super Bowl. Montana made a living off of big plays in the fourth quarter of games and became the quarterback that really defined what it meant to be clutch.
Peyton Manning is one of the three active players to make this list. While he isn't playing this season, Manning has already established himself as one of the greatest to ever play.
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