Joe Namath, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetJoe Namath
American football player
Date of Birth: 31-May-1943
Place of Birth: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Joe Namath
- Joseph William Namath (; born May 31, 1943), nicknamed Broadway Joe, is an American former football quarterback.
- He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant from 1962 to 1964, and professional football in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) during the 1960s and 1970s.
- Namath was an AFL icon and played for that league's New York Jets for most of his professional football career.
- He finished his career with the Los Angeles Rams.
- He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.
- He retired after playing 143 games over 13 years in the AFL and NFL, including playoffs.
- His teams had an overall record of 68 wins, 71 losses, and four ties, 64–64–4 in 132 starts, and 4–7 in relief.
- He completed 1,886 passes for 27,663 yards, threw 173 touchdowns, and had 220 interceptions, for a career passer rating of 65.5.
- He played for three division champions (the 1968 and 1969 AFL East Champion Jets and the 1977 NFC West Champion Rams), earned one league championship (1968 AFL Championship), and one Super Bowl victory (Super Bowl III). In 1999, he was ranked number 96 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the only player on the list to have spent a majority of his career with the Jets.
- In his 1975 autobiography, Bryant called Namath the most natural athlete he had ever coached.Namath is known for boldly guaranteeing a Jets' victory over Don Shula's NFL Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III (1969), then making good on his prediction with a 16–7 upset (the win remains the Jets' only Super Bowl appearance).
- Already a celebrity, he was now established not only as a sports icon but a pop culture icon.
- He subsequently parlayed his notoriety into success with endorsement deals and as a nightclub owner, talk show host, pioneering advertising spokesman, theater, motion picture, and television actor, and sports broadcaster.
- He remained a highly recognizable figure in the media and sports worlds half a century after his brashness cemented his identity in the public mind.
- In 2019, a survey conducted by the Associated Press of 60 football historians and media regularly covering the NFL voted Namath the league's greatest character, beating out former Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis and fellow Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre.
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