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Full Name: John Albert Elway Height: 6-3 Weight: 215 Born: June 28, 1960 Birthplace: Port Angeles, Washington Resides: Englewood, Colorado High School: Granada Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) College: Stanford (degree in economics, 1983)

Family : Father: Jack Elway

Mother: Jan Elway

Sisters: Jana Elway-Sever, Lee Ann McCarthy

Wife: Janet Elway Children:



Jessica Gwen, born: 10/17/85

Jordan Marie, born: 6/1/87

Jack, born: 8/11/89

Juliana, born: 3/7/91 High School : Elway completed 60% of all passes thrown, for 5,711 yards and 49 touchdowns

John completed 129 out of 200 passes for 1,837 yards and 19 TD's in his senior year

During his summers, he threw up to 300 passes per day.

After a practice, Elway and some teammates headed to the 35-yard line, where they took turns trying to strike an upright with a pass. Elway hurled two perfect strikes.

Math was his favorite high school subject.

Coming out of Granada Hills High, Elway was the most highly recruited athlete in 1979. Not only did he excel in football, he was also highly sought after in baseball.

In baseball, Elway led his team to the Los Angles Championships with a .91 batting average and a 4 and 2 pitching record.

Right out of high school, Elway signed a letter of intent with Stanford University, but the Kansas City Royals selected him in the '79 summer draft anyway. College: Elway completed 62.1 percent of his career passes (774 of 1,243, both NCAA highs) for 9,349 yards and 77 touchdowns.

He set an NCAA record for the lowest percentage of passes intercepted in a career (3.13 percent).

Elway was a consensus All-American and finished second in Heisman Trophy balloting while setting virtually every Pac-10 and Stanford career record for total offense and passing.

John concluded his college career with five major NCAA Division 1-A records and nine major Pac-10 marks.

When Stanford's punter skipped a practice, Elway filled in by "throwing" punts that sailed as high as real ones.

In a little more than a half, Elway completed 15 of 20 passes for 245 yards and three TDs during Stanford's 63-9 win over Oregon State. He hit .349 with nine homers and 50 RBIs in 49 games in his final college baseball season as a sophomore.

New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner signed Elway in the fall of his junior year with a $150,000 bonus.

Elway played baseball for the New York Yankees' Oneonta single-A farm club in 1982, hitting a .318 average and knocking in a team-high 24 runs with no errors in 42 games.

He was the Yankees' first selection in the 1981 summer draft.

Elway won the Offensive MVP honors in the East/West Shrine Game, where his father, Jack Elway, was the head coach for the West.

He was on the losing end of the infamous game against California in which the Stanford band charged the field, allowing the Bears to return a kickoff all the way as time ran out.

Elway graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics and a 3.0 GPA. Miscellaneous : Elway receives about 40,000 autograph requests a year.

In his first football game, Elway ran for six touchdowns in the first half. He was in the fourth grade.

As a ninth-grader, Elway caught the eye of Cougars coach George Raveling at Washington State's basketball camp. George said if John was going into football, he was going into the wrong sport.

Before Super Bowl XXI, Raveling fired off a telegram to Elway: "Dear Shotgun: I still think you should've played basketball."

Jack Elway had to convince his son to play quarterback instead of halfback during John's Pop Warner days.

After his disastrous rookie season, Elway headed back to California, where he married Janet, who said he was so dejected he even mentioned quitting the NFL.

Janet set an American record of 4:52.95 for the 400-meter individual medley in a 25-meter pool during her junior year of high school in Tacoma, Wash.

Elway has been playing without an anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. He completely tore the ligament while making a cut during a high school football game.

He could bench-press 275 pounds four times, which is the equivalent of lifting 350 pounds once.

In 1987, following threats on Elway's life, 12 police officers were stationed behind Denver's bench. Seven accompanied him off the field.

In 1996, Elway and Jeff Hostetler chatted on the Internet in preparation for a Monday night game. Reeves was on their minds, even in cyberspace: "Preparing for you this weekend, our defense decided to bring in Dan Reeves as a consultant," said Hostetler, who didn't re-sign with the Giants after Reeves became coach in 1993. "We figure he did such a good job of holding you down before, he could do it again."

One of Elway's favorite authors: Tom Clancy.

His favorite golfer: Greg Norman.

His favorite actors: John Wayne and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Elway puts a lot of time into his charity, The Elway Foundation, which he started in 1987.