Notre Dame thought Johnny Unitas was too small. The Pittsburgh Steelers thought he wasn't smart enough. The Baltimore Colts got it right. Unitas, 6-feet and 145 pounds in high school, became a ...

So Johnny Unitas is the antithesis of legend because ... He really was cut from the then-pathetic Pittsburgh Steelers. He really did play football on glass-strewn fields for $6 a game in ...