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Related: About this forumThe trade that never was: Montana for Elway
UPDATE: The would-be trade came as news to Montana, who took to his Twitter account this afternoon:Cant wait to watch 30 for 30 when I get home, he wrote. Heard I was almost traded for Elway.Fifteen months after The Catch, Joe Montana could have been part of The Trade.
In ESPN Films 30 for 30 documentary Elway to Marino which chronicles the historic 1983 NFL draft, John Elways agent, Marvin Demoff, dropped this bombshell: Bill Walsh explored the possibility of trading Joe Montana in a deal that would have sent Elway to San Francisco.
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On April 6, 1983, 20 days before the draft, Demoff wrote this in his diary: Discussion with Bill Walsh. Would be interested in Elway if he could trade Montana.
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I called him, Accorsi said. And I didnt offer, but I explored the Montana thing. And the kind of person he really is his stature and how he lived up to it he said to me I could just never trade him. Thats what he said to me and I think it was, at that time, he was not through winning championships with Montana yet.
http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2013/04/24/the-trade-that-never-was-montana-for-elway/
Interesting that Montana found out about the trade like everyone else did last night.
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The trade that never was: Montana for Elway (Original Post)
charlie and algernon
Apr 2013
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a kennedy
(29,467 posts)1. I DVR'd this and haven't watch it yet....looking forward to it....
I have really enjoyed all the "30 for 30" movies on ESPN. They've done a great job on them.
Auggie
(31,067 posts)2. So glad that didn't happen
Peyton Manning (R) would now own a string of cheap-ass Papa John's around the Bay Area.