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Joe Montana won a national championship at Notre Dame and four Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers, playing quarterback with an imperturbable élan that personified grace under pressure and made him synonymous with big-game excellence.

If he’s not the best ever at football’s centerpiece position, he’s certainly in a highly selective team picture of the all-time greats.

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The name alone carries a tinge of something mystical …  a Western movie hero, perhaps.

“If you had one game you had to win, Joe Montana is your quarterback,” 49ers teammate Randy Cross said.

Hard to believe a man who seemed born to do what he did so well was once a scared, skinny, homesick freshman, not sure if he fit at Notre Dame and wondering if he’d be better off someplace else.

“I was one of about seven freshman quarterbacks, and I played my way down to seventh string,” Montana recalled of his arrival.

“I didn’t doubt my ability, but I wondered whether I was ready for a place like Notre Dam