By Darin On April 18, 1995, Quarterback Joe Montana announced his retirement from football. In a nationally televised farewell to football, Joe was joined by family and friends, including Bill Walsh, Ronnie Lot, Dwight Clark, and Roger Craig, as well as many executives from both the 49ers and the Chiefs, according to an AP Article in the Arizona Daily Sun.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Monday, January 25, 1982
Though Montana is best known as leading the San Francisco 49ers to some glory years, his last two seasons were played wearing a Chiefs uniform. In a post from the Kansas City Star, the KC Chiefs acquired the rights to Montana in 1993 by trading the 18th overall pick in the 1993 NFL Draft and received the veteran QB, Safety David Whitmore, and a third-round choice they used to take Lake Dawson.
Many expressed at the time their feeling that Montana was the greatest QB of all time, including his former teammate and a pretty good passer in his own right, Steve Young, from a remote location to the retirement event. Young was quoted as saying,” He’s the greatest I’ve ever seen. It’s a time of mixed emotions for all of us who ever played with him or watched him.” Joe Montana’s career highlights included throwing for 45,051 yards with 273 TDs and helping the 49ers win 4 Super Bowl titles. He was one of those players who seemed to always have some magic in them when it came to crunch time, and those athletes are indeed the most fun to watch.
