Should be awesome. But, ugh, do I really need to listen to the motherfucking fuck Don Shula talk about Joe Namath?!
to quote spike lee: "there's stats, and then, there's impact". btw, how many rings do kelly and marino have? oh yea, that's right : NONE!:lol:
Every Jet Fan under the age of 40 should watch this (and read Kreigel's fantastic Biography "Namath" as well). I guarantee you after you watch this and read that book, you will never question why Joe Namath is in the HOF again. It's about more than stats, touchdowns and INT's. It's about how it would be a vastly different NF today if it wasn't for Namath (and to a lesser extent, Sonny Werblin). It's also about how modern athletes are now superstars and celebrities because of Namath. Before Namath football was a team game and it's "stars" were guys like Bart Starr and Johnny Unitas, who had no appeal outside of football fans. Namath was the perfect player and personality to welcome the NFL into the TV age. He made the NFL a TV sport that people OTHER than football fans watched. And the gravity and importance of the Jets win in SB III, and his guarantee and delivery of a win in that game, ushered in the modern NFL. He is in the HOF for what he did on the field, but also how he shaped the modern NFL. No matter what Namath has said or done in the last few years, as a Jets fan we should ALWAYS be proud of his being a Jet, and defend him as a HOF QB. For those of us who never saw him play, watch this documentary and read that book, and you will understand that, yes, he threw a lot of INTs (as did almost all his contemporaries in the AFL; it was a wide open passing league) but was a truly elite talent, and one of the best QB's to play the game in that era.
