Robert Ehrlich: “we have heard about the numbers, about the greatest game ever played; and I just spoke with the gentleman from Maryland…”

“we have heard about the numbers, about the greatest game ever played; and I just spoke with the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) about what a sad day it was at the funeral. But I have a quick story about my friend and constituent. A couple years ago, Johnny Unitas was doing an event for me and the Q&A time came. The question was, ``Mr. Unitas, if you were playing today, how much money would you be making?'' The gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Osborne) will appreciate this. Johnny thought for a second and said, ``About 3 million bucks.'' There was a murmur in the crowd, and they were all thinking 3 million bucks for Johnny U, and that players get $100 million contracts these days and so the questioner said, ``Aren't you really underselling yourself, the greatest quarterback who ever played?'' Johnny thought for a second and said, ``Well, I am 66 years old.'' Mr. Speaker, I have told that story a lot because it says all one needs to know about my friend and my constituent. And as Kendall Ehrlich, my wife, always likes to say, the coolest celebrity she has ever met because Johnny U. will always be the coolest celebrity one could ever meet because he was an ordinary person who was able to achieve extraordinary things on the football field and he never took himself too seriously.”