Joe Montana paid homage to his father during his address at this week's annual NACUSO conference in Las Vegas. His father wasn't a big jock, but he could work the fundamentals with his future NFL quarterback son, like tying a tire swing up in a tree–not to swing on–but to throw the football through.
His father would swing it to force young Montana to hit a moving target. Kids being who they are, Montana applied his learning to throwing snowballs at cars passing down the street as well. Still it served him well.
Montana said he was a basketball nut when he was younger. Once his father got too slow to keep up with him, he'd do things like trip him or step on his foot when he was trying to jump. He would complain to his dad that he couldn't do that, to which his father replied, "What are you going to do about it?"
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