joe namath

 Joseph William Namath (/’neIm@th/ NAY-meth) was an American football player. He played for 13 years playing in both the American Football League and National Football League (NFL), primarily with New York Jets. He played in the NCAA football tournament at Alabama, where he won the national championship in his senior year and was selected by the Jets first overall in the 1965 AFL Draft. In the five AFL seasons in which he was a twice MVP, and twice led the league in passing yards. He also helped lead the Jets to win an AFL championship as well as a Super Bowl. These wins are the Jets only championships. After the merger between the AFL and the NFL in the year 1970, Namath joined the NFL with the Jets which was the league's passing yards and touchdowns leader during the 1972 season. He was a player in New York for seven more seasons, with his final season as part of the Los Angeles Rams.Namath made his mark in 1969, when he made a promise that his heavy underdog Jets would win Super Bowl III before defeating the NFL's Baltimore Colts in one of the greatest sports upsets ever. The Super Bowl victory was the first ever for an AFL franchise,