Joe Namath
Actor
- Born
- May 31, 1943 (age 83) · Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA
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Joseph William "Joe" Namath (born May 31, 1943), nicknamed "Broadway Joe" or "Joe Willie", is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for the University of Alabama under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and his assistant, Howard Schnellenberger, from 1962–1964, and professional football in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. Namath was an American Football League icon and played for that league's New York Jets for most of his professional career but finished his career with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985.
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Namath retired after playing in 140 games 62 wins, 63 losses and 4 ties. In his career he threw 173 touchdowns, 220 interceptions, and completed 1,886 passes for 27,663 yards. During his thirteen years in the AFL and NFL he played for three division champions (the 1968 and 1969 AFL East Champion Jets and the 1977 NFC West Champion Rams), earned one league championship (1968 AFL Championship), and one "world championship" (Super Bowl III).
In 1999, he was ranked number 96 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. He was the only player on the list to have spent a majority of his career with the Jets.
He is known for brashly telling the media that he guaranteed that his team would upset Don Shula's NFL Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III in 1969, and then delivering on his promise.
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- 2025Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL as Self (archive footage)
- 2020I Am Burt Reynolds as Self - Interviewee
- 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (archive footage)
- 2017He Did Go All the Way: A Chris Berman Tribute as Self
- 2016Harry Benson: Shoot First as Self
- 2015The Keepers of the Streak as Himself
- 2015The Wedding Ringer as Football Legend
- 2013Underdogs as Himself
- 2012
