'I won four Super Bowl titles as a quarterback – I'll tell you who the best ever is'

Joe Montana is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the top quarterbacks successful NFL history, winning the Super Bowl 4 times with the San Francisco 49ers successful the 1980s

Joe Montana has named Dan Marino arsenic the top backmost of each time, dubbing him an "unsung hero" of American football.

Montana frequently pops up during talks astir the top NFL quarterbacks owed to his stellar tally with the San Francisco 49ers successful the 1980s. The elite backmost clinched 4 Super Bowl titles and 2 MVP awards, earning a estimation arsenic perchance the game's astir clutch subordinate of each time.

Even amid a oversea of formidable contemporaries similar Brett Favre, chap 49ers standout Steve Young, and John Elway, Montana reserves the rubric of best-ever backmost for Miami Dolphins titan Marino.

While Tom Brady is often celebrated arsenic the ultimate backmost owing to his unparalleled 7 Super Bowl victories and different record-breaking achievements, Montana told Men's Health that Marino is his prime for the top of each time.

He said: "I deliberation [Marino] is astir apt 1 of the astir unsung heroes of the game.People don't speech capable astir him oregon recognize the numbers that helium enactment up during the times that helium enactment them up. He had the cleanable torque of his precocious assemblage and spot to present the shot rapidly astatine a accelerated merchandise with accuracy."

Marino is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the top players to ne'er triumph a Super Bowl, contempt making the playoffs 10 times and appearing successful the 1985 Super Bowl game, which helium mislaid 38-16 to Montana's 49ers.

The Dolphins backmost made past arsenic the archetypal NFL subordinate to scope 5,000 yards passing successful a azygous play and was named MVP and Offensive Player of the Year successful 1984 for his efforts.

However, successful presumption of achievements, Tom Brady acold surpasses Marino and adjacent Montana, who Brady has cited arsenic 1 of his idols. Brady has won 7 Super Bowls, been named Super Bowl MVP 5 times, and is the lone NFL backmost to beryllium named to 2 all-decade teams successful the 2000s and 2010s.