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Earl Edwin Morrall (/ ˈ m ɔːr əl /; May 17, 1934 – April 25, 2014) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 21 seasons, both a starter and reserve. He was the last remaining player from the 1950s still active in NFL football.
Shula strung together the wins despite the loss of his quarterback, Griese, due to injury in the fifth game of the season. He was replaced by 38-year-old Earl Morrall, who had been the backup to Unitas during Shula's years in Baltimore. [64] Griese was able to return for the playoffs, leading the team in the Super Bowl win. [64]
Earl Morrall, who started 11 games at quarterback during the perfect 1972 Miami Dolphins season, spent the last final years of his life in deep decline, exhibiting the early symptoms of Parkinson ...
In his place, 38-year-old Earl Morrall, a 17-year veteran, led Miami to victory in their nine remaining regular season games, and was the 1972 NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Morrall had previously played for Dolphins head coach Don Shula when they were both with the Baltimore Colts , where Morrall backed up quarterback Johnny Unitas and ...
The Colts still marched to a league-best 13–1 record behind backup quarterback and ultimate 1968 NFL MVP Earl Morrall. Although he was injured through most of the season, Unitas came off the bench to play in Super Bowl III , the famous game where Joe Namath guaranteed a New York Jets win despite conventional wisdom.
Morrall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Clare Morrall (born 1952), English novelist; Earl Morrall (1934–2014), American football player; George Morrall (1905–1955), English footballer; June Morrall [Wikidata] (1947–2010), American author; Paul Morrall (born 1956), Renowned SCUBA diving pioneer in Technical Diving ...
Belichick has the AFC's worst record. McDaniels was fired. And Garoppolo was benched. This all felt like the end of The Patriot Way, the greatest and most poorly replicated corporate doctrine in ...
The 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has sentimental roots.. The tree was planted by the Albert family back in 1967 in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, when Earl Albert and his late wife ...