Joe Namath: A Football Life - AFL Championship
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- In this segment of "A Football Life: Joe Namath", former teammates and Namath himself discuss his maturation into an NFL legend, as he led the Jets to their first-ever AFL Championship Game victory.
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Regardless of bad knees, the party life and all, the man was tough as nails! No one can argue that! :-)
Broadway Joe Namath; AFC first quarterback to win a superbowl
Younger people we never realize how much Namath changed professional sports for both NFL and MLB players. He made it okay to be an individual.
He is my all-time favorite quarterback, never saw him play except for footage like this. Shows just how great he was.
@Kansas Born You believe stats are the only criteria for HOF recognition? Naive thinking. Had Namath not joined the AFL in New York, the AFL/NFL merger would have happened much, much later, if at all. 🙄
@Kansas Born Lol… that’s your “argument”? 🙄
@Kansas Born I can tell you are young enough to have no firsthand knowledge of pro football in the 60s. And if you think HOF entry is based only upon stats and longevity, you don’t understand the word “fame”. I’m done entertaining your ignorance, son.
That pass to Maynard at 5:26 was classic. I have seen that play many times over the years in highlights of Namath.
RJ Walker in 2017 where the NFL changes the catch rule every week, that might not have been a catch
@@mikeyoungblood1642 no if you look at the catch he took three steps after then he lost the ball, so even in today's world it was a catch
@@mikeyoungblood1642 He took 3 steps after the catch it was a completion
The best I ever saw.. 11/28/71, he was on the bench recovering from injury when the Jets replacement was injured, so he had to play. They were down by 24 and He marches them downfield 4 times.. 3x for tourchdowns, the last time the ball slipped through Caster's hands in the end zonce with less than 30 seconds.. greatest comeback I ever saw.
+jimmyg2061 who were they playing ? caster had a lot of drops but he was wat the future of wide rec. were to become and he was a tightend.
+FREDDY BASTONE / No FiLtr LTD. - it was against the 49ers. We were down 17-0, Joe came off the bench, made it oh-so-close....24-21.
+Michael Zuko And if the Jets don't fumble the ball through the end zone at the end of the first half they may win. Namath teams found amazing ways to lose.
R. I. P.
#13 Don Maynard 🏈
"Mr. NY Titan"
"Mr. NY Jet"
"Mr. AFL"
God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era.
A quarterback who called his own plays, what a world it was.
The best ever
Joe Willie Namath. Broadway Joe. Joe 'White Shoes' Namath. I was seven in 1968 and the Jets' quarterback was the first and last athlete I ever idolized. Thank you for Super Bowl III.
Joe Namath may have not record numbers,that many dispute is HOF eligibilties...but Joe Namath was the Trail Blazer for the game of football. Certainly taking a to new levels on many fronts.
Joe Namath is a Legend
I have loved Joe since the 1960s & I still do . I was so happy when the Jets won the Championship Game & the Superbowl . To me Joe will always be the best Quarterback & he will always be my favorite . Plenty of times when he got injured he would stay in the games. I will love Broadway Joe always 🏈💚❤
Joe was my hero from as far back as I can remember. I recall my brother getting his football card in 1973 and going apeshit over it. I was a little kid, but he was the MAN.
Joe was a true Champion, plain and simple...
Imagine if Namath had had both (a) the same knees he had while a junior in college, and (b) the benefit of the pass-friendly NFL rule changes that were instituted in '74 and '78? His career stats would have been much more impressive, that's for certain, and he almost certainly would have made it back to the Super Bowl at least once. If not in '69, then definitely in '72, when the Jets had a young John Riggins in the backfield.
SingleTax the reason they didn't get by in 72 was no DE. 70 would of been great but some no name took a out of bounds shot right on his knee.
SingleTax The Jets finished 7-7 in 1972, 3 games out a playoff spot. so it would have taken a LOT of improvement to get them in the playoffs.
Let's apply the same principle in reverse. Imagine if Roger Staubach's or Fran Tarkenton's or Joe Montana's knees had been replaced with Namath's. Do you not think that would have constituted a major disimprovement?
+bigjoe4110 It looks bad on paper now, but the Jets would have been the wild card had they won their last 2 games. Beat the Raiders and the Browns, and the Jets get the wild card because they would win the tiebraker with Cleveland. But they really were not a playoff team, defense was terrible. And there was no excuse for loss to Houston.
+SingleTax yes i think , tarkenton's and roger's game was reliant on they're legs.
Something about watching Namath speak. It’s like putting together Clint Eastwood and dusty rhodes. He had the brash do it my way attitude of Clint but the swagger, rhythm and flow of the American Dream. Dudes an original. Very reckless on and off the field but one of a kind nonetheless.
Anyone who questions Namath doesn’t understand what he was expected to accomplish. He was expected to (1) put football fans in the seats in New York, (2) put football fans in the seats in the AFL, (3) promote the team and league with casual/non-fans through his non-football activities, (4) set passing records, (5) legitimize the AFL and push a merger with the NFL, and (6) win the Super Bowl. The owner would encourage him to stay out at night and make the paper for his playboy nightlife. And then he had to practice and play. His job wasn’t just winning games. He had to win games in spite of everything else. And he did all of it. Respect.
thats why he is in the Hall of "Fame".
At first I had a problem with Joe going in the HOF. Then when you learn more about the history of pro football, he was really the first hyped QB that brought a team to the championship and legitimized the merger. If you view the HOF as a museum, I have no quarrels including him in there since he was a key part of football history.
At the start of the video, Namath puts a hit on Bobby Bell !!
Nobody got more quality trim than Joe Willie .....
Behind Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath was one of the greatest QB’s of that era.
This was before the heavy steroid usage. An everyman can relate to these players physiques. Maynard's body is what a body of a young, fit athlete NOT on steroids looks like. Love this old footage.
+Andre Noble SO true!!!
Lmao you think the majority of NFL players take PEDs?
Richy M you can tell by acromegaly, acne, water retention, course blocky powerful movement as opposed to graceful almost poetic fluid movements of past. The appearance of substantial caucasian players in speed positions is also a clue to stuff like growth hormones. etc.
not back then
Andre Lopez Noble there is no coincidence that the NFL went down hill as it became less white
Look at his run in the first few seconds.....unbelievable
Walt Michael's said it best..."If Namath had lost to the Colts, nobody would know of Joe Namath today." MY reply? "But he didn't lose, Walt! He and the Jets won!!!"
Greatest sporting event I ever saw in person.
I was a big fan of Joe Namath back in the late 1960s.
Bill Bergendahl Broadway joe namath my hero ,afc first winning quarterback in the superbowl
Joe Namath is the man.
That run at :01
Holy smokes never saw that before. I have even more respect for Joe Willie than I had before. And i had tons of respect. Amazing watching him play
It was on Bobby Bell too!!
Even though I'm a Life Long Viking Fan, as a kid, I was always Joe Willie Namath throwing to OJ. My life long best friend; even to this day, was OJ in our mean Ass Sand Lot Football Games. In the 1960's & early 1970's, Joe Namath was the Michael Jordan of his era.
Joe Willy.....He was something else.
My hero as a little kid. People will knock Namath because he didn't have the greatest numbers, which he didn't. But what he did have more than anyone else was leadership and moxie. Like the "Guarantee" before the Super Bowl while he was hanging out poolside with the women in Miami. It wasn't calculated, just that he lost his patience with the beat writers that didn't believe the hapless Jets had a chance against Unitas and the almighty Colts. Ironic that Shula's loss sent him to the Dolphins. As they say, the rest is history.
Imagine if he wasn’t hungover every game
in 72 , the jets had the best offence in football .
they'rs defence was one of the worst against the pass.
the defence was old and by the middle of the season they were beat up by injuries.
but that offence was as good as any in football history.
+FREDDY BASTONE / No FiLtr LTD. One thing about those Namath teams is that they never seemed to be able to get a yard when they really needed it. Really hurt them in 72. Were down on the 1 early in the game against Houston and couldn't get in, down on the 1 in the first Miami game and couldn't get in. They sure could pass block, but never trusted them on short yardage. You are right, they had a great offense that year, and that was despite the fact Caster and Barkum dropped a lot more passes than Maynard and Sauer ever did.
+dmg1857 would u happen to have any footage from the 70's , i'm eagerly looking.
+FREDDY BASTONE / No FiLtr LTD. Boy, wish I did. Even some of the games i had seen highlights on from 72 seemed to have been pulled from youtube. Its getting harder to find those NFL weekly highlights shows from that era too. Wonder if NFL is cracking down on all that. Good luck in your search, always enjoy seeing highlights of Joe Willie and what might have been.
I was 8 years young, Joe was a God !
Joe Namath is a household name for this reason. Friggin awesome
Unbelievable Game
The pass to Maynard was estimated geometrically (by Dr. Z, IIRC) as travelling 75 yards in the air.
JOE NAMATH IS GREAT!
Greatest pass Joe Willie ever threw, the fly to Maynard.
Broadway Joe knew how to take a real man's dip.
Was he chewing Red Man?
+LandoMan09 You're not kidding !
+LandoMan09 1:13 lol.
Hell, half a pouch at a time by the looks of it. Joe Willie had STYLE for sure.
According to Joe, John Riggins father used to swallow the tobacco.
if NAMATH had one of tarkenton's knees , they would of won 2 or 3 more superbowls.
and he would not be a top 10 qb in history . he would of been #1 with no argument.
With his inability to read many basic coverages (hence the number of ridiculous interceptions), I beg to differ. His brain was the issue, not his knees, since plenty of statue QBs performed better and made far fewer mistakes.
@@AllPro777 His knees were definitely an issue . His doctors gave him 4 years max after the surgery. Plus in an era where quarterbacks could actually get smacked around it cause issues
Joe was an option QB before the knee injury but he was different. Tough guy. Probably will never see another Broadway Joe Namath.
❤️ Broadway Joe Namath; AFC first quarterback to win a superbowl
Joe Namath taught me about the hazards of vapor lock
Kinda weird how Don's catch wouldn't have counted today.
+InSRussia Exactly! I saw the same thing. That stupid "receiver has to complete the play" rule.
+InSRussia Did Maynard make "a football move"? 😯 🏈 LOL
InSRussia
That's debatable.
It would have been reviewed by officials for about 45 minutes
It Looked Incomplete to Me
The pass to Maynard was an audible called at the line of scrimmage.
Remember what I told you... Just one thing... I'm Joe Namath... My car broke down.... I'm Joe Namath
Interested to know what exactly you mean by all of that I know he got a new car and it was a Lincoln? On his Initial signing of his first contract
JOE !!
Joe played in a wide open AFL. Negative statistics mean zilch. The guy won! That is what counts!
The good ole days
Back when i loved the game
Not so much anymore
Yeah!
I grew up in Baltimore. I hated Joe for years. I cheered when Stan White dislocated his shoulder. But now in 2020 I love the guy. The pansies that play this game now have nothing on Joe and others that played in the 50s 60s and 70s. Real studs all of them. Time heals wounds.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my childhood idol + as everybody knows my man crush for all times "Brodway JOE willie white shoes NAMATH". Please ,don't ever speak the names Brady,Farve,Manning,ect....because without JOE the game as we know it now would not be played.
+FREDDY BASTONE / No FiLtr LTD. Freddy, grew up in Buffalo in the Namath era. Biggest Namath fan in a town that was focused on OJ. He was let down by the organization, Weeb at the top of the list. His stats dont reflect the crap he was working with.
+FREDDY BASTONE / No FiLtr LTD. you live in a fantasy world, bro...Namath isn't in the same class as Brady, Favre and Manning...you probably think we don't need oxygen to survive too...get a grip
+conni70 u really dont know football ,judging by your book mentality. your all about #s and u wouldn't know how to pick a goos qb if he was right in front of u. i bet u never played the game outside of the mommys sat outing with flags on your hip. u r the ones who always look at stats as the key . u and skip bayles r wat ruins the game. enough.
FREDDY BASTONE / No FiLtr LTD. z
Oh, to be at Shea watching a Jets game again!
The best arm in NFL history.
2:38-2:45....The old aqua-blue 7 Train rolling by Shea!
This game should have been played in Oakland as the Raiders had a better regular-season record and should have had home-field advantage.
yea baby Raiders tipo hulk y spawn the nfl americano fotever un México fan number 1 Raiders wow
Namath could read a defence better than a coach Joe Namath called the plays and just wanted to win
Sam Houston Confidence. Did you you not listen to what they said? It was more physical back then too.
Real football back in the day in the mud and the blood. AND... they let you play.
Did not know he had passed. RIP Don Maynard.
Is there ever a clip or photo where Ben Davidson isn't about to maul Namath haha.
Not to throw cold water on a great pass, but did Maynard fumble in bounds? The refs didn’t call it, today there would be debate as to whether it was a catch. On the other hand both teams could challenge the catch
A curious stat about Namath that is often noted is that after he beat the Colts in the Super Bowl he NEVER again beat a team with a winning record! Think about that…
Wrong, Research 1st
Ben Davidson broke his finger haha. Good job gramps
Baker needs to see this...
1:50 Like his number😂.
Fumble at 5:35 😂🤦🏿♂️
When Nameth was 30, I thought he was the oldest-looking 30 year old I ever saw.
@stardaddyo9 Namath didn't take good care of himself even by the way lower standards of his day. Not suprising you thought he looked older at 30. But for a guy who didn't take good care of himself he still looked good. For the record at time of the 68, AFL Championship, New Years Eve 1968, he was 25.
Why was he called 'Broadway joe '??
Only Marino had a faster release
joe threw alotta pics
He threw a pretty pass to Maynard.
Into the wind. An amazing throw.
What is going on with him
What would Parcells say? One-der boy. One-hit wonder.
That's what Namath was, the cult of personality in the 60s and he was in New York.
+brettfavreify wat ignorant thing to say. saying that means u never seen the man play.
+FREDDY BASTONE / No FiLtr LTD. ...his career numbers are pathetic...220 career ints compared to 173 td passes..? he averaged 18 ints per season in his crappy 12 year career..and his lifetime QBR is a dismal 65.5...that ranks in the bottom of QB's who played 10 or more years.. he had one singular defining moment, in an otherwise crappy career..it's a shame he's in the HOF..when looking at his full body of work, he doesn't deserve to be in Canton..
+brettfavreify ...the Jets started winning once their running game and defense became their staple...it wasn't until Namath stopped trowing the ball with frequency that things began to change in their favor.. he was horrible at deceiving defensive backs, they could read him a mile away...
+brettfavreify ...but when looking at his career numbers , it becomes apparent why he's in Canton...it's simply because he had one singular defining moment, the "guarantee" in addition to being in the biggest media market, in NY..his full body of work wasn't taken into account when he was voted into the HOF...the only people who feel he belongs in Canton are obviously Jets fans or people who don't understand football...it really is a shame he's in the HOF ...
Get your head out of the stat books . in 1972 ,coming back from 2 knee surgeries and a seperated shoulder , he was the top passer in the league , all pro and if he had a defence they would of beat miami. the nan called his own plays better then anyone (this is not on stat books). why don't u see wat the men who really know about football think? Al DAvis , Don Shula , John Madden ,and more...if Namath didnt exist there would be no Marino.love to see wat comes back , just to see wat kind of mind i'm dealing with. go back and watch the NFL network ,stat boy.
they almost all talk like southerners
Tony Micel which is beautiful. White men in the south use to be amazing athletes
Bart , wat a joke. athletic ability? Bart had 2 legs . did joe? As far as Stabler , he was GREAT and should of been a 1st ballet Famer. which brings me to the case of y it took so long for Kenny Stabler and y isnt kenny anderson in? lets not harp on Namath because to me its a no brainer and obviosly i have company being he's a 1st time hall of famer. i have a problem with guys from the 70's and 80's being over looked for 90's players and the rush of WR getting in. y not Klecko , Hendricks , Atkinson , winston hill , russ francis , shall i go on?
Which Hendricks? Ted Hendricks is in. George Atkinson? Is he worthy? I deemed him my favorite Raider player of all time but I didn't know he was worthy.
Randy Gradishar!!
@ 5:35 I dont think thatd be a catch in the modern NFL tbh
1968 AFL championship - ruclips.net/video/ef1VCWBIiu0/видео.html
That should have thought cop something... should have not bet against your own team
*The woman* could have been a plant from the owners, or other *interested guys* in JOE not being a 100%...
Beautiful gal hits in him, but wants to party first.... interesting.... but of course that's just a thought....
Full version - ruclips.net/video/ef1VCWBIiu0/видео.html
Looked in dictionary under word - "overrated" - saw Joe Namath's picture
+arthur131313 ...the most overrated player in NFL history...it's an embarrassment he's in the HOF... let's go ahead and and put Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson in the HOF too...they had better career numbers and they won a SB too..
+conni70 I always giggle thinking about how Tom Brady (twice), John Elway, and Jim Kelly could not beat the Giants in the Super Bowl, but Trent Dilfer did.
+arthur131313 better find a new dictionary or better glasses
+arthur131313 He's got a Super Bowl ring. You don't.
Colonel Angus ...false equivalency argument...i never said i was better than him..hardly...yet , when you compare him against his peer group he fails miserably..
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The Jets only won because of a stupid lateral by Lamonica (the Raiders would have won this game if they had just carefully continued to advance the ball to the goal line instead of this stupid pass) and also by the ridiculous rules that saw this game played in Shea Stadium instead of Oakland---The Raiders had a better record (12-2 vs 11-3 for the Jets) and also defeated the Jets in the regular season ("Heidi" game)---the AFL had this archaic rule that saw the title game rotated from West to East each year instead of being based on record/merit. If this game had been played in Oakland there is no way the Jets would have won--even the weather conditions alone conspired against the Raiders that day
and the "Gods" saw to it that they would never win it again--and based on how lousy they are again this year that sure isn't going to change anytime soon
+Rob Paradise ...lol Rob!...so true!
Enjoy your Jets "Super Bowl" parade this year--maybe Fitzpatrick will be MVP too!!! LOL
david graham some times the better team don't win. and the bottom line the Raiders lost. you suppose to find ways to win. it doesn't always work the way we think.
they won because Don Maynard beat them
The worst QB to make it Into the hall of fame. He was an interception machine. The superbowl victory was the only reason he got in in the first place.
Don’t care, cry some more
Overrated and in the hall of fame due to 1 game
Perhaps the most overrated NFL player ever -- Joe Namath.
Head slaps,clothes line shots to receivers. no in the grasp rule, piling on, wide hash marks so 1 sideline was easier to defend, only houston had a dome. Nickel back defense developed against him as 4000 yd seasons in 14 games impressed someone.
Looking at his numbers on paper, you certainly have a point. Looking at the leader on the field, you are dead wrong.
Most overrated qb of all time
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You had to be tough as nails playing for Larry Bruno. And The LB STINGER.
I was at this game
Pass to Maynard lives w me forever