Bringing movie star charisma on and off the field and a cannon arm that propelled his team to an almost unthinkable Super Bowl upset, quarterback ...
Bringing movie star charisma on and off the field and a cannon arm that propelled his team to an almost unthinkable Super Bowl upset, quarterback Joe Namath embodied the megawatt glamour of New York City.related media assets available. Click to see the gallery.NEW YORK: Bringing movie star charisma on and off the field and a cannon arm that propelled his team to an almost unthinkable Super Bowl upset, quarterback Joe Namath embodied the megawatt glamour of New York City.
The win added lustre to the much-maligned AFL a year before the league's merger and saw the 25-year-old crowned Super Bowl MVP in the lopsided matchup against Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas, whose picture a young Namath reportedly once hung above his bed. "A fella in the back of the room said, 'Namath, do you know we're going to kick your butt?'," Namath recalled in a television interview years later."And I said, 'Wait a minute, I got news for you, buddy - we're going to win the game, I guarantee it.
Namath, the only Jets player to throw multiple touchdown passes in consecutive games in his rookie year until Sam Darnold in 2018, stayed in New York for 12 seasons and spent one year with the Los Angeles Rams before he retired in 1977.
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