FEATURES
By Laura Lippman and Laura Lippman,SUN STAFF | May 8, 2000
The name jumps out of the television set, hitting a Baltimorean's ear the way a high-pitched sound affects a dog. Did that guy just say something about Johnny Unitas? "Why was Joe Namath so much more popular than Johnny Unitas?" asks a silky voice belonging to actor Hector Elizondo. He makes the question sound rhetorical, and perhaps it is -- to the rest of the country. "Both were great quarterbacks." Relief sets in. It's going to be OK. Sure, the images are stark, black-and-white shots of a muddy, desolate football field near some smoke-belching factory, but the voice said he was great, didn't it?
FEATURES
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. and Gabe Mirkin, M.D.,Contributing Writer United Feaure Syndicate | July 7, 1992
Joe Namath, arguably one of the toughest quarterbacks ever to play in the National Football League, recently had both knees surgically replaced. Sports-related joint injuries like the ones "Broadway Joe" suffered never heal.A joint is the spot where two bones come together. Bones are really quite soft, so their ends are covered with protective, tough cartilage. You may have seen the "gristle" on chicken bones; that's cartilage.Once cartilage is broken, it never heals. When the cartilage in a knee joint is damaged, the knee can never be the same.
SPORTS
By FROM STAFF REPORTS | September 30, 2004
Joe Namath, in an interview last night with Dan Marino on HBO's Real Sports, said he never gets tired of talking about the legendary guarantee of the New York Jets' 1969 Super Bowl victory over the Baltimore Colts. "No way," Namath said. "Don Larsen, who pitched a perfect game for the New York Yankees [in 1956], came up with the perfect answer. I was standing there and someone asked Don, `Do you ever get tired of talking about your perfect game,' and Don said, 'Why should I?' " Marino asked Namath if the Jets played the Colts in the Super Bowl 10 times in 1969, how many times would the Jets have won?
NEWS
January 13, 1994
THE COLTS-GIANTS championship football game of 1958, was "the greatest game ever played," but the game that was played 25 years ago yesterday may have been even more important.At least in two regards.That game was Super Bowl III. The Colts were the National Football League champions and the New York Jets were the champions of the relatively new American Football League. Most sports writers and fans believed the AFL was not quite major league. The NFL champion had won Super Bowls I and II. The Colts were favored over the Jets by 16 1/2 points on Jan. 12, 1969.
SPORTS
By Don Markus and Don Markus,Sun Reporter | September 17, 2007
Joe Namath came to M&T Bank Stadium yesterday and didn't cause that much of a stir, considering his history with football fans in Baltimore. It certainly helped that he was disguised as Greg Hagarman, a 48-year-old machinist from Hanover, Pa. He looked a little shorter than most remember, but he had the bad knee to prove it. "I lost my kneecap in an accident," Namath, uh, Hagarman said as he stood in Lot B, drinking his first beer of the day, his throwback...
NEWS
December 25, 2010
Larry Bruno , a former Geneva (Pa.) College football star who turned down a chance to play for the Steelers and later coached Joe Namath in high school, has died. He was 88. The Steelers drafted Bruno, a running back, in the 13th round in 1947, but he chose to go into coaching. His career at Monaca (1949-58) and Beaver Falls (1959-78) high schools was highlighted by a Namath-led Beaver Falls team that went 10-0 in 1960 and won a western Pennsylvania championship. There were no statewide playoffs.