Joe Namath
Football Player — born 1943
Joe Namath is a legendary quarterback.
Joe Namath is an American Hall of Fame former professional football quarterback whose 13-year NFL career across the New York Jets and the Los Angeles Rams produced one Super Bowl championship (Super Bowl III in 1969), two AFL Most Valuable Player Awards, and his 1985 induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was born Joseph William Namath on May 31, 1943, in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, into a Hungarian-American working-class family. His father Janos Andrew Namath was a Beaver Falls steel-mill worker and his mother Rose Juhasz was a homemaker.
His college football career at the University of Alabama under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant across 1962–1964 produced the 1964 NCAA Division I FBS national championship and the 1964 SEC Player of the Year Award. His 1965 dual selection by the AFL New York Jets (first overall, AFL Draft) and the NFL St. Louis Cardinals (12th overall, NFL Draft) produced his 1965 signing with the AFL New York Jets — producing the foundational 1960s NFL-AFL bidding war over high-profile college football quarterbacks. His 1965 New York Jets contract was the largest professional-football contract at its 1965 signing, at $427,000 across three years.
His January 12, 1969 Super Bowl III victory over the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts (16–7) — at the Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami, Florida — produced his 20th-century NFL public profile. His January 9, 1969 "I guarantee it" Miami Touchdown Club guarantee at the Touchdown Club's annual award-presentation dinner — three days before Super Bowl III — shaped subsequent American sports-media public-prediction conventions. The Super Bowl III Jets victory produced the first AFL-team Super Bowl victory and shaped the subsequent 1970 AFL-NFL merger.
His subsequent NFL career across the New York Jets (1965–1976) and the Los Angeles Rams (1977) was complicated by his ongoing chronic-knee injuries, which produced his 1977 retirement at age 34. His later commercial-endorsement work — particularly his 1973 "Beautymist" pantyhose commercial (in which Namath wore Beautymist pantyhose) and his 1970s and 1980s multiple American TV commercials — launched late-20th-century American sports-celebrity-endorsement-industry conventions. He has been single since his 1984 marriage to Tatiana Stewart-Namath ended in 2000. He has two daughters.
His name Joe is the English short form of Joseph (from the Hebrew Yosef meaning "God will increase"). Joe has been continuously among the most-popular American boys' names since 1880.
About the name Joe
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Abbreviation Of Joseph.