Steve Young most recently was on an NFL field last month when he participated in Super Bowl 60 pregame festivities prior to kickoff.
However, it is not as if the long-retired quarterback does not think he again could put on a helmet to play in a game. Forty-four year old Philip Rivers inspired more than one retired signal-caller when he came out of retirement and played for the Colts near the end of last season.
“As a quarterback,” Young recently told the San Francisco Chronicle, “I really do believe if you could somehow do the Benjamin Button reverse-aging thing and somehow go back to play, one of the things like riding a bike would be sitting in the pocket and reading defenses. That’s not going away. It didn’t for Philip. You could see that he was able to do that. I absolutely feel confident that I could take the snap, run the screen game, throw the ball in the flat and maybe the slot”.
Overconfident? Maybe, but have you ever seen an “underconfident” quarterback? Young may be exaggerating slightly but one thing about him is that he usually accomplishes his goals. The Hall of Famer graduated from BYU with a finance and political science diploma. While still playing with the Niners, he later earned a degree from the BYU Law School. He returned to the Bay Area and now for the last 20 years has led a successful life in the financial world.
Young is a Co-Founder, Chairman and Managing Partner of the private equity firm Huntsman Gay Global Capital in Palo Alto. He has been involved in all phases of the firm’s development since its inception in 2007. Young also founded and chairs the non-profit Forever Young Foundation that supports extensive philanthropic work in children’s causes around the word.
Steve Young turns 65 this year but it seems as if he will continue to be “forever young” and an outstanding representative of our football community for many years.
We at NFL Alumni salute our Hall of Fame brother and encourage Steve Young to keep his cleats in the trunk of his car. One never knows when an NFL team may need an emergency veteran quarterback.
