He did not have to attempt a pass in the 4th quarter because he was great earlier in the game and the Jets had the lead in the 4th quarter. It is not rocket science. Namath called his own plays and was brilliant in that game. From Paul Zimmerman in A Thinking Man's Guide To Pro Football- http://forums.theganggreen.com/showpost.php?p=1814100&postcount=201
LOL, one person's opinion is proof? Where is Paul Zimmerman from? I can quote 15 others that disagree and don't have a bone to pick. 11 yards by the Colts in the 3rd quarter. Not a Jets pass in the fourth. FOUR Colts interceptions, TWO in the endzone. Missed easier fieldgoal...the Jets only won by 9 points. It is not rocket science, exactly. Namath's performance in that game was not mentionable. He made a few plays and did not turn the ball over. wowee. Yeah, Namath was like a surgeon out there. BS. Namath picked them to pieces. LOL. The Colts fcked up, plain and simple and came in overconfident. Namath won this game just like Dirty Sanchez brought you to 2 Championship games. NOT. Wait until you see how THAT works out. Namath was so good he did not have a single playoff win outside that year.
Did I offer any opinions on Namath besides his performance in Super Bowl 3? I will answer my own question. Nope. I only was discussing Super Bowl 3. You don't like Zimmerman's opinion, one of the top football historians, fine. Then read the chapter on Super Bowl 3 in Don Maynard's book. Or how about this? How about you watch Super Bowl 3?
feldspar will not last long here. He is an absolute clown troll until proven otherwise. He mentioned Sanchez to me! LMFAO! A) Sanchez has nothing to do with what I wrote earlier in this thread. B) I don't like Sanchez anyway.
This makes you sound like a tool. Cakes gives you a quote from a respected, non-biased analyst giving an well-informed breakdown of Namath's play that day. You shit all over it and provided nothing in return. I'd love to see you find a quote as good as that one by someone as well respected as Paul Zimmerman that backs your opinion. I won't hold my breath though. Thanks Cakes, that was a good read :up:
Nice read, thanks for that. Not sure why Bills fans are arguing about overall history. If you do that argument then Jets have the ultimate goal once and the Bills none. If you do recent the Jets have had more recent success although the Bills look like they can flip the trend this season. People have picked them a lot the last few seasons as a "surprise team" and they never became one, maybe the time is now. Fred Jackson's injury and rehab is very important.
I think the difference this year is that Buffalo making the playoffs really wouldn't be a major surprise, where as the last few years they needed everything to go right for them (injuries, schedule etc.) in order to even have a chance. This squad has more talent and more depth. For once Buffalo needs to merely meet expectations to have a shot at a winning record and a possible playoff birth and not greatly exceed them. But I'm with you, I'm a Bills fan and I don't understand turning into a battle of overall history. Buffalo has 2 AFL titles, the Jets have a Super Bowl title...but the bottom line is that BOTH squads haven't won sh*t in a very long time.
This topic is not indisputable, fellas. In fact, it's disputed all over the place. I would not make Joe Namath the MVP of Super Bowl III, and I DID watch the game. His whole Super Bowl III thing is what he hangs his hat on basically, and the whole deal was totally overrated IMO. Congrats on the Jets winning that game, but Namath's part is overplayed ad nauseum. I don't need to hunt down quotes either, as that proves nothing. I saw the game. Also, I don't need your permission or for you to bring something up before I'm allowed to say things, Cakes. You want to resort to personal attacks, that's fine, but I'm only giving my honest opinion here. I'm not a troll, believe it or not. Just talking football. Forgive me if you don't like what I say. It's only a game. Are you saying that I'm not welcom to my opinion? Thank you, ScotsJet.
If only one of the Bills opponents could have "fucked up" just once in a 4 year span. The biggest bills legacy is a false not guilty verdict. It's the same shit every year.An offseason signing,bills fans talking. bills play 2-4 good games out of the gate,then....lose out the rest of the season. Kind of like the Blue jays. Might want to have your regions water tested.
There was no personal attack. I stated you are an absolute clown troll until proven otherwise. A personal attack would have been if I knew something about you in your real life and used that info to ridicule you here. I was only specifically writing about Joe Namath's performance in Super Bowl 3. You then decided to respond to it and add your opinion on Mark Sanchez to anger me. That was your intent. You don't like quotes, but I'll give you another one anyway. From Don Maynard's autobiography- "And with respect to all of his 400-yard passing days, (Joe) was never better than he was in Super Bowl III with the stakes at their absolute highest."
The '68 Colts defense would have gone down in history with the top defenses of all-time had they defeated the Jets in SB3. To compare them to more recent teams which we are all more familiar, the '68 Colts would have been mentioned alongside the '85 Bears, '00 Ravens and '02 Buccaneers. The '68 Colts defense was maybe better than any of the Packers defenses of the same era. If only Tony Eason "made a few plays and did not turn the ball over" in Super Bowl 20 vs the '85 Bears defense. If only Kerry Collins "made a few plays and did not turn the ball over" in Super Bowl 35 vs the '00 Ravens defense. If only Rich Gannon "made a few plays and did not turn the ball over" in Super Bowl 37 vs the '02 Buccaneers defense. Do not kid yourself. Namath was superb in Super Bowl 3. Read more comments on that game from respected writers and from players and coaches. Don't go off the opinion of some 25-year old frat boy on some blog who only looked at statistics and was not impressed by Namath's stats. If Namath went 28 for 35 for 310 yards with 2 interceptions and the Jets won 24-21, would you have been more impressed? As for not getting back to the playoffs and winning another game, well, he got injured- a lot. Besides that, the team fell apart around Namath in the 1970s. There were terrible drafts, Maynard got old and retired, George Sauer retired in his prime, Larry Grantham got old and retired, Verlon Biggs went to Washington, etc. Namath was the 1st-team All-NFL QB in 1972 and he was very decorated in the 1960s. This was not a player who had one good moment as you have basically depicted.
He's also the first 4000 yard passer. He changed the way qb was played. If he were to play in the league today at his absolute prime, he would have at least 5000 yards. Sent from my VS840 4G using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5
