Colorado St. Rams head coach Jim McElwain went to the same grade school as Denver Broncos great John Elway, but the two quarterbacks never had a duel to be the starter. As Terry Frei's piece in the Denver Post relates:
↵↵↵"John Elway went to the same grade school I did while Jack was coaching for the Grizzlies," McElwain says. "It's a good thing he left too, because I was the quarterback at Sentinel High School and he wouldn't have been the quarterback if he had stayed."
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But, as Frei relates, McElwain laughs after that because he knows how it would have actually turned out. So it wouldn't have been so epic, really.
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