THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Jared Goff was a 7-year-old playing Pop Warner football, torn between two jersey numbers: 12 or 16?
"My dad was saying, 'Oh, Joe Montana is 16,'" Goff, now the Los Angeles Rams' second-year quarterback, recalled earlier this week. "I had no idea. I was 7, and I was like, 'All right, I'll wear 16.' And just never left it. Then as time went on, I obviously learned about Joe Montana, and it made it even more special."
Goff was born and raised in Novato, California, in Marin County just north of San Francisco.