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		| Originally posted by Sidd Finch Really?  I mean, seriously -- people outside of SF didn't claim that Elway was better than, say, Joe Montana -- did they?  (anyone inside of SF would've been shot for saying this)
 
 
 Did people who were not on drugs say this?
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  The press put him way up on a pedestal.  They didn't compare him to Montana.  They had him in the Steve Young generation.  And yes, at the time they said he was better than Young.  Typical "best QB to never have won a Super Bowl" coverage for at least 5 years in a row.
Now I'm sure he is able to cry himself to sleep on a giant, gold-plated pillah.  Hed!