Great in his day but compared to today's qb he was slow and didn't have a quick release.

Johnny was great but he was over rated.

Unitas was quarterback on the NFL's Half-Century Team. I saw him play in person perhaps six, eight times. In Unitas' prime, I think Fran Tarkenton was his closest competitor. If you gauge a quarterback by what he can accomplish in the final two minutes of a pivotal game, then you have to rate Unitas as the best at his position. Of course it did not hurt him to have Raymond Berry as his primary receiver. I urge every fan of the best days of the NFL to read and savor Tom Callahan's bio of Number 19. It's the best-written sports book since Seabiscuit.!

Looked like a pair of pliers. Dropped back like a crippled duck. Threw like my aunt. But he could win. God could he win.

I love JOhnny Unitas and people are going to scream but I am comparing him to today.  He had a bad qb rating which he would not gey away with today.  He was tough but he was slow and unlike Warner didn't have as quick of release to make up for it.  That being said he was still a great QB.  My rating in no way reflects on how great overall he was but against todays pass rush he would have had it rough.

Still holds many records and only threw 18-25 times per game compared to Dan Marino's 40 or so. How many quarterbacks still call their own plays? Virtually invented the audible. Plus, the drive to tie the Greatest Game Ever Played is often forgotten. They faced 3rd. and 10 inside their own thirty with less than two minutes to play in the 1958 NFL Championship Game. Unitas put it together and set up the game-tying field goal. Definitely the greatest of all-time.

Threw for over 40,000 yards long before rule-changes made life easy for offenses. Won championships in a cold-weather city. Made comebacks famous and was a complete legend. Living proof that you can't pick a QB because he's 6'4 (See - Ryan Leaf) QB's have to have it from the neck up and Johnny U. can't be any lower than 2 or 3 on anybody's top list.

He would never make it in the NFL today. He was weak and would get crushed by even the smallest DB. Should not even be in the top 20.

Johnny U. belongs in the top 5 ever. Threw for over 40000 yards with 2800 completions and almost 300 TDs. He was named player of the decade in the 1950's and won the 58 championship on a final 80 yard drive to beat the Giants 23-17. He was also tough as nails. One time during a drive a player stepped on his face with his cleats- back in the days when the face mask was one bar- cutting a hole through his cheek into his mouth. The gash caused profuse bleeding but Unitas simply packed his mouth and face with dirt from the field and kept playing, leading his team to a touchdown on that drive and never missing one play during the game.

Johnny Unitas, along with Joe Montana, was the best quarterback ever. Mentally tough and physically gifted with a golden arm, Johnny U was the ultimate field general on the gridiron. But perhaps his greatest moment came during the 1958 NFL championship with he led his beloved Baltimore Colts to an overtime victory against the Sam Huff-led New York Giants. Only Montana was able to conjure up such cool under pressure over thirty years later with his Superbowl winning drive against the Cincinnati Bengals. But Johnny U epitomized greatness at a time when football was played by average working joes (no pun intended).

He sucked

The greatest QB in NFL history invented the 2 minute drill in the NFL championship Game in 58 made his player play to their potential and frankly his greatest feat was in 1970 when he lead an older less talented Colt team to the last of his three championships on what was a bum arm.and most importantly he called his own plays something that no QB does today.

The best of the best at QB. He didn't have an O Coord. calling plays in his ear. Johnny U. looked at the D, and went to work. His passing records were established in a running era.

Tougher than nails, great competitor and team leader. Can't use the fact that he called his own plays, almost all QB's in today's game audiable at least 35% of the plays. Poor man's Favre.

he called his own plays and set records in an era where the ball simply was not thrown like it is today. probably the guttiest qb to ever take the field.

Unitas was the best. He had 22 quarterbacking records at the time of his retirement, and one that stand today is his record of 47 consecutive games with a touchdown pass. Unitas was a money player, and its a sad thing that he had passed away this past year.