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...exactly because the hefty linebacker wanted to chuck football. "What really disgusts me is this quarterback, not thinking for a minute about the average little guys who have families. Right now they're wondering where their leader is." It seems that "this quarterback" (and actor), Joe Namath, 27, had infuriated his teammate by failing to show up for opening practice sessions, a pattern the peripatetic star has followed for three years. Namath, who is also considering retirement, went through the motions of being contrite: "I don't try to hurt anybody in any way. If I have...
Mothers want to reform him. Schoolboys strive to emulate him. And girls by the thousands dreamily chant his name whenever he appears on the playing field. Another Joe Namath? Not at all. George Best is the name, and his fans hail him as the most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: "Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger...
...first movie starring role, he gets to play a nude scene with Ann-Margret-written by her husband Roger Smith. And Joe Namath seems a bit nervous about his part in a motorcycle epic called C.C. Ryder & Company. On a TV show Broadway Joe asked Smith: "Doesn't the thought of having me do a nude scene with your wife bother you?" "Well, yes," allowed Smith. "On those days, I leave...
...many people. It belongs to the Council, of course, but to the State Legislature as well, which has defeated, and would continue to defeat stadium bills. It belongs to the fair-weather fans, who sold out Alumni Stadium's 28,000-capacity only once last year, when Joe Namath came to town...
SCHAAP is obviously a much better writer than one would conclude from the book. His epilogue, which explains how the book came about, and the problems Schaap faced in trying to nail down Namath, is superbly written, and departs noticeably from the Namath-voice that comprises the remainder of the work...