John Elway

**John Albert Elway, Jr.** (born June 28, 1960 in Port Angeles, Washington) is a retired Hall of Fame American football quarterback. He played his college football at Stanford and his whole professional career for the Denver Broncos football team of the National Football League (NFL). He was the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1987. Elway won Super Bowls with the Broncos in 1998 and 1999, and was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999, throwing for one touchdown and rushing for another as the Broncos beat the Atlanta Falcons, 34-19. That ended up being his final game (other than the 1999 Pro Bowl), as he retired after that season. He is famed for the fact that Homer Simpson wants to be him in the Simpsons episode “Cape Feare”, this is ironic as he lost 55-10 to the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIV, thus Homer should want to be Joe Montana.

## Infobox (nfl biography)

- **name**: John Elway
- **image**: Uso-show-john-elway-defenselink-mil.jpg
- **caption**: Elway in December 2004
- **number**: 7
- **birth place**: Port Angeles, Washington
- **height ft**: 6
- **height in**: 3
- **weight lbs**: 215
- **draftyear**: 1983
- **draftround**: 1
- **draftpick**: List of first overall National Football League draft picks, 1
- **high school**: Granada Hills High School, Granada Hills (CA)
- **college**: Stanford Cardinal football, Stanford
- **pastteams**: * Denver Broncos (–)
- **pastadmin**: * Colorado Crush (–)
CEO & co-owner
* Denver Broncos (–})
General manager & executive vice president of football operations
* Denver Broncos ()
 President of football operations
* Denver Broncos ()
 Consultant
- **highlights**: **As a player:**
* 2× Super Bowl champion (Super Bowl XXXII, XXXII, Super Bowl XXXIII, XXXIII)
* Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award, Super Bowl MVP (Super Bowl XXXIII, XXXIII)
* 9× Pro Bowl (1987 Pro Bowl, 1986, 1988 Pro Bowl, 1987, 1990 Pro Bowl, 1989, 1992 Pro Bowl, 1991, 1994 Pro Bowl, 1993, 1995 Pro Bowl, 1994, 1997 Pro Bowl, 1996–1999 Pro Bowl, 1998)
* First-team All-Pro (1987 All-Pro Team, 1987)
* 2× Second-team All-Pro (1993 All-Pro Team, 1993, 1996 All-Pro Team, 1996)
* National Football League Most Valuable Player Award, NFL Most Valuable Player (1987)
* 2× UPI AFL-AFC Player of the Year, AFC Offensive Player of the Year (1987, 1993)
* Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, NFL Man of the Year (1992)
* List of NFL season passing yards leaders, NFL passing yards leader (1993)
* NFL 1990s All-Decade Team
* Denver Broncos#Ring of Honor, Denver Broncos Ring of Fame
* Denver Broncos#Retired numbers, Denver Broncos No. 7 retired
* Pacific-12 Conference football awards, Pac-10 Player of the Year (1982)
* Unanimous College Football All-America Team, All-American (1982 College Football All-America Team, 1982)
* Stanford Cardinal football#Retired numbers, Stanford Cardinal No. 7 retired
**As a general manager:**
* Super Bowl champion (Super Bowl 50, 50)
- **statlabel1**: Touchdown, TD–Interception, INT
- **statvalue1**: 300–226
- **statlabel2**: Passing yards
- **statvalue2**: 51,475
- **statlabel3**: Completion percentage
- **statvalue3**: 56.9
- **statlabel4**: Passer rating
- **statvalue4**: 79.9
- **statlabel5**: Rushing yards
- **statvalue5**: 3,407
- **statlabel6**: Rushing touchdowns
- **statvalue6**: 33
- **nfl**: ELW276861
- **hof**: john-elway
- **collegehof**: 2055