Re: “Cold Cotton Bowl of 1979,” by Cynthia R ... Battling both the flu and hypothermia, the great Joe Montana, after gulping down a warm bowl of chicken soup at halftime in the Irish locker ...

In real life, that person is Joe Montana. Joe Montana was MVP in ... The most dramatic of them was his last collegiate game, at the 1979 Cotton Bowl, when he fought hypothermia in the ice and ...

In this week’s Throwback Thursday column, let’s transport ourselves to the gridiron spectacle that unfolded during the 1979 Cotton Bowl ... Three plays later Montana dove over the right ...