Namath (9pm, HBO)  “‘Namath’ seems too cozy and slightly too apologetic to be considered a pure, real-deal, warts-in-sports documentary, yet too honest to be seen as a whitewash. But, above and beyond that, it’s good, very good.” - Phil Mushnick, NY Post

Namath (9pm, HBO) 

“‘Namath’ seems too cozy and slightly too apologetic to be considered a pure, real-deal, warts-in-sports documentary, yet too honest to be seen as a whitewash. But, above and beyond that, it’s good, very good.” - Phil Mushnick, NY Post

High-res chitwoodandhobbs: Broadway Stache On December 11, the morning after appearing on The Tonight Show, Namath went to a video production studio on East Seventy-eight Street. There, Fu Manchu finally met its match, Namath didn’t like anybody telling him how to wear his hair. But there was a higher principle at stake here: money. Nobody knew it, but the world was about to witness a watershed moment in sports marketing.— Mark Kreigel, Namath: A Biography Joe Namath was payed $10,000 to shave off his famous mustache in a TV commercial. Which would lead to the filming of this famous spot with Farrah Fawcett. @chitwoodhobbs

chitwoodandhobbs:

Broadway Stache

On December 11, the morning after appearing on The Tonight Show, Namath went to a video production studio on East Seventy-eight Street. There, Fu Manchu finally met its match, Namath didn’t like anybody telling him how to wear his hair. But there was a higher principle at stake here: money. Nobody knew it, but the world was about to witness a watershed moment in sports marketing.
— Mark Kreigel, Namath: A Biography

Joe Namath was payed $10,000 to shave off his famous mustache in a TV commercial. Which would lead to the filming of this famous spot with Farrah Fawcett.

@chitwoodhobbs

Jets History: Jets vs Giants at the Yale Bowl Nov 10, 1974

thejetreport:

The two New York teams were having pitiful 1974 seasons as they clashed at the Yale Bowl. This while Giants stadium underwent construction. Joe Namath was never short of excitement though. This OT thriller was filled with Broadway Joe heroics.

As for the Jets and the Charley Winner era? Rough. Kotite era rough. Winner was fired during the 1975 season after starting 2-7.

Jets vs Giants Nov 10, 1974 game stats: http://bit.ly/mFAOjO

thenationmagazine: Joe was cool, but what stirred me about him was not the playboy stuff, which I was already wise enough to know was naff and embarrassing, but the image of poise under pressure and the thrill of a last-minute decision zipping home. Like George Best in British football, his genius was too short-lived and too quickly drowned in drink, but he gave a too-inward-turning teenage boy confidence in the authority of action.

thenationmagazine:

Joe was cool, but what stirred me about him was not the playboy stuff, which I was already wise enough to know was naff and embarrassing, but the image of poise under pressure and the thrill of a last-minute decision zipping home. Like George Best in British football, his genius was too short-lived and too quickly drowned in drink, but he gave a too-inward-turning teenage boy confidence in the authority of action.