What I’m Reading ... The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts for the 14th time with its new album, “When You Believe: A Night at the Movies.” Steve Young is in the BYU Sports Hall of Fame, the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. So, he was pretty good, right? Well, ESPN’s Doug Clawson ranked the best and worst quarterbacks for each franchise and says Young was better than Joe Montana for the San Francisco 49ers. For some, this will be sacrilege, but Clawson said Young did more with a lesser team and tougher competition. He was terrific and prolific. He led the NFL in passer rating and yards per pass attempt for four straight seasons (1991-94), which has been done by exactly no one else. And there were seven other Hall of Fame quarterbacks playing at the time. Oh, and the 49ers led the NFL in scoring for four straight seasons, too, (1992-95), the longest streak in history. For those who don’t believe Clawson or just love reading about Young’s career, FiveThirtyEight came to the exact same conclusion this month in a piece partly titled, “We apologize, Joe Montana.” I’m not sure what prompted these two stories. Montana turned 64 this month. Young turns 58 in October. If you want to read something else fun about the two, here is the San Jose Mercury News story on the day Tampa Bay traded Young to the 49ers in 1987 when Montana was still at the height of his powers, kicking off a friendship and on-field rivalry for the ages. The pandemic put a stop to the daily organ recitals in the Tabernacle at Temple Square, but the five organists now will livestream the recitals online. After my story on Elder David A. Bednar’s speech at the BYU Religious Freedom Annual Review last week, my colleague Kelsey Dallas wrote about the Review’s panel discussion the following day between Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona. They said religion can help heal racial divides. |