Joe Montana

The first football player to have ever been named Super Bowl Most Valuable Player thrice, Joe Montana was inducted in 2000 into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He won the AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award in 1986. He was also named by the Sports Illustrated magazine as the Sportsman of the Year in 1990 and NFL Most Valuable Player by the Associated Press twice in 1989 and 1990. His nicknames were “the Comeback Kid” and “Joe Cool.”

Montana’s football career started when he was playing for Notre Dame in college. After he graduated with a degree in business administration and marketing, Montana was chosen by the San Francisco 49ers in the 1979 NFL Draft and was the fourth quarterback drafted to the team. Since then, Montana’s football career soared to greater heights. Though in 1995, Montana retired from the sport. Years after, he joined a venture capital fund firm founded by a former San Francisco 49ers teammate.