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Not My Job: Quarterback Steve Young Gets Quizzed On Not So Great Grandsons

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young plays in Super Bowl XXIX in Miami in January 1995.
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young plays in Super Bowl XXIX in Miami in January 1995.

After 15 seasons in the NFL, Steve Young became the first left-handed quarterback ever voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He tells his story in a new memoir, QB: My Life Behind the Spiral.

We've heard that Young is a great-, great-, great-grandson of Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So we've invited him to play a game called "Not so great great great grandsons" — three questions about grandsons who didn't quite live up to their famous forefathers.

Click the audio link above to see how he does.

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