BERT JONES, BALTIMORE COLTS QUARTERBACK, SIGNED DOUBLE MATTED UNFRAMED w COA

Description: VBERT JONESBALTIMORE COLTS QUARTERBACKNFL Most Valuable Player (1976)NFL Offensive Player of the Year (1976)First-team NFL All-Pro (1976)Second-team NFL All-Pro (1977)NFL Pro Bowler (1976)NFL passing yards leader (1976)George Halas Award (1979)Sporting News Player of the Year (1972) 12" x 16" Double Matted, Unframed & SignedCOMES WITH COA & LIFETIME AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE LAST DOUBLE MATTED SIGNED PIECE I HAVE!! PLEASE NOTE: This item is already double matted. A framing center would charge you over $25 to $30 to do this. All you have to do is buy an inexpensive 12" x 16" frame, take off my protective shrink wrap and insert it in the frame. Please take this into account when you decide to bid on this item. What this means you are buying this autographed item for about $10. I can offer you this item at this low price because I do my own matting and at my age of 73, I am trying to clear out my inventory. NOTE: BUY A SECOND DOUBLE MATTED SIGNED ART PRINT AND SHIPPING ON SECOND ITEM IS FREE!! Bertram Hays Jones (born September 7, 1951) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams. He was named the NFL Most Valuable Player in 1976 with the Colts. At Ruston High School in Ruston, Louisiana, he was given the nickname "the Ruston Rifle". Jones played college football for the LSU Tigers, earning consensus All-American honors in 1972. He was selected by the Colts in the first round of the 1973 NFL draft with the second overall pick. He is the son of former NFL running back Dub Jones of the Cleveland Browns. In 2016, Jones was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Jones was projected by NFL scouts to be the first quarterback drafted in 1973. He was chosen second overall by the Baltimore Colts to be the Colts' heir apparent to Johnny Unitas, who was later traded to San Diego. His debut came on September 16, 1973, in a loss to the Cleveland Browns. During his eight-year tenure as the Colts' starting quarterback, Jones and his teammates enjoyed three consecutive AFC East division titles (1975-77). But in each of those years, the Colts lost in the first round of the playoffs. The 1977 playoff game (known as Ghost to the Post) is famous as the fourth longest game in NFL history; the Colts fell to the Oakland Raiders, 37-31. Jones missed most of 1978 and 1979 with a shoulder injury, and the Colts fell to last place in the AFC East those two seasons. The 1976 regular season was Jones's finest as a professional; he threw for 3,104 yards and a career-high 24 touchdowns, compiling a passer rating of 102.5. He was one of only three quarterbacks to achieve a 100+ passer rating during the entire decade of the 1970s, joining Dallas's Roger Staubach (1971) and Oakland's Ken Stabler (1976). Jones was honored by the Associated Press as 1976's NFL Most Valuable Player and NFL Offensive Player of the Year, selected first-team All-Pro, and named to the Pro Bowl team. He was also selected second-team All-Pro following the 1977 season. The remainder of Jones's playing career beyond 1977 was curtailed by several injuries, the first of which was a separated shoulder after a hit from Al Baker in a Colts' 13–7 win over the Detroit Lions at the Pontiac Silverdome on August 26, 1978, in the final preseason contest for both teams. During an October 26, 1980, game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Jones made NFL history when he was sacked a record 12 times. This broke the record at the time held by many quarterbacks, including Jones's then back-up, Greg Landry, who had been sacked 11 times while he was a member of the Detroit Lions in a game against the Dallas Cowboys on October 6, 1975. In 1982, his final season, Jones played in four games for the Los Angeles Rams before a neck injury forced him to retire. In 1990, Jones participated in the first NFL Quarterback Challenge. He finished first in the retiree category and third in the regular competition (The regular competition taking the top three finishers from the alumni competition and adding them to the regular field of current quarterbacks). Given his strong performance, Bobby Beathard, then the general manager of the Chargers, wanted Jones to come out of retirement, but Jones was 38 at the time and chose not to try a comeback. Longtime scout Ernie Accorsi is quoted as saying that if Bert Jones had played under different circumstances, he probably would have been the greatest player ever. John Riggins has been quoted as saying Jones was the toughest competitor he has ever witnessed. On the eve of Super Bowl XLII, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, in discussing his choices for the greatest quarterbacks of all time, described Jones as the best "pure passer" he had ever seen. About Us I have been in the autograph and memorabilia business for over 35 years. All of our autographs were acquired in person. My son and I both loved football. We lived two hours from the football HOF. We attended many. many Induction ceremonies where we collected numerous in-person autographs. We also attended many NFL Football golf outings. I have been our items were authentically obtained, we have done work for or attended over three hundred charity-celebrity golf outings in the last fifteen years We have booked numerous sports stars to private signings. Our inventory numbers several thousands of items. We have earned a great reputation through the high quality products that we offer for sale. All of our items come with a certificate of authenticity providing you with a guarantee without time limit. Even though we offer memorabilia for all sports, this site mainly displays Ohio State and Cleveland Browns memorabilia. As a company, we have produced more approved art prints for Ohio State than all the other artists combined in the history of the school. If you would like information on memorabilia that we have for other teams or sports, please email us. We welcome any more questions that you might have about our items or our company. 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Price: 29.95 USD

Location: Sunbury, Ohio

End Time: 2025-01-29T20:36:13.000Z

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