Super Bowl 50: Top 15 quarterback performances of all-time
By John Buhler
2. Joe Montana, San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl XXIV
While Joe Montana’s performance in Super Bowl XIX was fantastic in its own right, he out played that game with an absolutely dominating performance in Super Bowl XXIV, destroying the Denver Broncos, 55-10, in the Louisiana Superdome.
Montana would win his third of three Super Bowl MVPs and his fourth Super Bowl with the 49ers, repeating as Super Bowl Champions in the 1989 NFL season. He completed 22-of-29 passes for 297 yards, five touchdown passes, and zero interceptions. Montana also had 15 yards on the ground. He played so well that his Hall of Fame backup quarterback Steve Young got to play in the blowout victory.
The ideal matchup at starting quarterback between Montana and Denver’s John Elway was so unbelievably one-sided in this laugher that it started to become a joke that Elway was never going to win a Super Bowl. Elway would win Super Bowl XXXII and XXXIII before retiring, but his 10-of-26, 108 yard, two interception performance wasn’t in the same galaxy as what Montana did that Super Bowl Sunday in New Orleans.
Montana’s tenure in San Francisco would come to a close a few years later before playing the 1993 and 1994 NFL seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs before retiring. His last Super Bowl victory was his best performance of his Hall of Fame career and put him atop of all lists in terms of best quarterbacks all-time, only to be recently challenged by the New England Patriots Tom Brady.
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