Namath: A BiographyIn between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the few sports heroes to transcend the game he played. Novelist and former sports-columnist Mark Kriegel’s bestselling biography of the iconic quarterback details his journey from steel-town pool halls to the upper reaches of American celebrity—and beyond. The first of his kind, Namath enabled a nation to see sports as show biz. For an entire generation he became a spectacle of booze and broads, a guy who made bachelorhood seem an almost sacred calling, but it was his audacious “guarantee” of victory in Super Bowl III that ensured his legend. This unforgettable portrait brings readers from the gridiron to the go-go nightclubs as Kriegel uncovers the truth behind Broadway Joe and why his legend has meant so much to so many. |
Contents
A Distant Fabled Land | 1 |
The Lower End | 7 |
Play Ball | 12 |
Boy at the Top of the Stairs | 18 |
PintSized Quarterback | 25 |
Magic | 32 |
Joey U | 42 |
SmallTown Hero | 52 |
The Points | 256 |
Super | 272 |
Americas Hero | 282 |
The Undesirables | 292 |
The Joe Namath Show | 302 |
Bigger Than the Game | 313 |
The Agony of Defeat | 322 |
The Score | 335 |
Higher Education | 61 |
The Tower | 69 |
Colored Water | 74 |
Stud | 80 |
Of Southern Comforts and the Schoolhouse Door | 86 |
Jimmy | 95 |
Sippin | 99 |
Doylestown Redux | 107 |
Harry Wismers Titans of New York | 114 |
Sonny as in Money | 120 |
Happy New Year | 130 |
Four Hundred Grand | 140 |
Mistress Meniscus | 147 |
The Beauty of Joe | 216 |
Bosses | 227 |
Student of the Game | 233 |
Fu Manchu | 240 |
Disheveled but Happy | 249 |
Nobodys Perfect | 343 |
Dont Trust Anyone Over Thirty | 349 |
High Concept | 356 |
Magic Six | 361 |
Garden City Joe | 369 |
Hollywood Ending | 375 |
Thats Entertainment | 386 |
Sound of the Soul | 392 |
Deborah | 399 |
Old Joe | 404 |
Fiji | 409 |
Tatiana | 417 |
A Vinculo Matrimonii | 423 |
Classic Sports | 430 |
Acknowledgments | 443 |
Source Notes | 449 |
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