Notre Dame thought Johnny Unitas was too small ... Unitas, who had married during college and had a child, signed on for $6 a game. The Colts offered Unitas $7,000 to sign early in 1956, and ...

So Johnny Unitas is the antithesis of legend because everything about him is so documented. It is in the record book. What he did was so astounding that we don't even feel the need to embellish.