Joe Namath

Let me just say upfront that Joe Namath is my all-time favorite athlete, who delivered on his promise to win Super Bowl III, and forever change the future of the AFL and a NY sports franchise. 18-point underdogs, and Broadway Joe "guaranteed" the NY Jets would beat the NFL's best, the Baltimore Colts. The book is a memoir, and told in a series of vignettes as Joe is watching and narrating a recording of Super Bowl III. He speaks openly about many of his trials and tribulations, including the pain of his injuries, his decision to join an upstart league because of personality and money, his boyhood growing up poor in Beaver Falls, PA, his devotion to the truth, his drive to be the best, his relationship with Bear Bryant, his respect for his teammates, his battle with the NFL over co-owning the Batchelors III bar, and his alcoholism, where he embarrassed himself on national television by trying to kiss broadcaster Suzy Kolber. A measure of his greatness is that he remembers his bad plays, not his good ones.

Is this a great book? Not really, but I am glad to have read it for personal insight into Joe Namath. He will always be THE MAN, at least in my eyes. It also needed more football photos.… (more)