He played 10 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers and a final four seasons with the New York Giants. Although Tittle had excellent personal statistics while playing for the Colts and 49ers, the one thing that eluded him was a championship.
Then, in 1961, when Tittle was traded to New York, it looked like his fate would change. The Giants were contenders. However, when he joined the team, he was about as welcome as a bill collector. The Giants were a veteran, close-knit group, proud of their past successes. They knew that Tittle would be battling a team favorite, 40-year-old Charley Conerly, for the quarterback job. The Giants may have feigned cordiality to their new teammate but, for weeks, "Yat" was the loneliest guy in town.
When the 1961 season started, Tittle and Conerly shared the quarterbacking duties but as the Giants moved nearer to the NFL Eastern Division crown, it became more and more evident that Tittle was the guy making it all possible. By the time he was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player, the cold-shoulder treatment from the Giants had long since evaporated.
In 1962, Tittle played even better with 33 touchdown passes and a career-high 3,224 yards. A year later, his TD figure went up to 36; he completed 60.2 percent of his passes, and again was named NFL Player of the Year. A terrific competitor who was always willing to play "hurt," Tittle led the Giants to divisional titles in 1961, 1962, and 1963. Even though they failed to win the overall NFL crown, those were the "glory years" in New York when Tittle was at the helm.
Y.A. Tittle was the first and one of only seven quarterbacks
in NFL history to have achieved consecutive 30-touchdown passing seasons. The
others are Steve Bartkowski, Brett Favre, Dan Fouts, Dan Marino, Jeff Garcia
and Peyton Manning. Tittle's 36 touchdown passes in the 1963 season would
remain an NFL record until Marino threw 48 touchdown passes in 1984.
In his most prolific college season with LSU, Tittle passed
for 780 yards, impressive for the time, leading the Fighting Tigers to a 9-1
record and a #8 ranking in the final AP poll. LSU then tied Arkansas
in the Cotton Bowl.
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