Now 74, Namath is ready to open up, brilliantly using the four quarters of Super Bowl III as the narrative backbone to a life that was anything but charmed. In the wake of the 50th anniversary of his legendary Super Bowl Guarantee, the NFL icon who first brought show business to sports shares his life lessons.

And those words are powerful and instructive. When failing knees permanently derailed his career, he turned to Hollywood and endorsements, not to mention a tumultuous marriage and fleeting bouts of sobriety, to try and find purpose. All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters is told in Namaths words. All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters by Joe Namath: Used Audiobook 4.04 + 4.49 shipping Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News - Audio CD By Dan Rather 4.00 + 3.65 shipping Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia (AUDIO CD) 9.

By 26, with a championship title under his belt, he was quite simply the most famous athlete alive.Īlthough his legacy has long been cemented in the history books, beneath the eccentric yet charismatic personality was a player plagued by injury and addiction, both sex and substance. All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters - Namath, Joe - 9780316425377, Publisher: Little Brown and Company, Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Subject: Sports. Namath was instantly heralded as a gridiron god, while his rugged good looks, progressive views on race, and boyish charm quickly transformed him - in an era of raucous rebellion, shifting social norms, and political upheaval - into both a bona fide celebrity and a symbol of the commercialization of pro sports. When the final whistle blew, that promise had been kept. Three days before the 1969 Super Bowl, Joe Namath promised the nation that he would lead the New York Jets to an 18-point underdog victory against the seemingly invincible Baltimore Colts. The NFL icon who first brought show business to sports shares his life lessons on fame, fatherhood, and football. Rather than a chronological retelling of his life from the cradle to present day, he analyzes the four quarters of the game in the Orange Bowl and.

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