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...took down a Raiders team that flawlessly routed the Jets and a beat a very physical Steelers squad in an unfriendly environment. They're the best the AFC has to offer, and if you don't think they've got a chance, we'll try to dig up Joe Namath's phone number...
...rarer in American life. Braggadocio and trash talk are the rule these days. Once upon a time an athlete who hit a homer to win the game in the bottom of the ninth would say, "Aw, I was just lucky to hit that curve." But Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath changed all that. With Ali's "I am the greatest" speeches and Joe Namath's confident predictions of victories, sports etiquette was altered forever. In the NBA finals, Shaq pounded his opponents in print as much as he pounded them on the court...
...York Jets entered Super Bowl III as an 18-point underdog to the Colts. (It was the third year in a row that the NFL favorite was favored by at least 13 points over its AFL opponent.) Well, we know what happened next. Jets quarterback Joe Namath promised a victory, delivered, probably celebrated with a few female fans and spawned a number of New York sports guarantees, including ones by Mark Messier and Jim Fassel that were prophetic and numerous ones by Patrick Ewing that weren...
Thirty years earlier, the Super Bowl was definitively put on the map when Miami hosted "Broadway" Joe Namath and his upstart New York Jets. Namath...
...cried like a girl, because that's what I was, a nine-year-old in a Cowboys T shirt. Cradling the Roger Staubach-autographed football I had received for Christmas (which he had graciously signed despite the fact that my well-meaning mother had sent him a Joe Namath ball), I decided I was through with the game then and there. I think I suspected that there are a finite number of broken hearts a girl can mend, and knew to save up the bandages for the important stuff, like unrequited love or the cancellation of Melrose Place...