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"Brilliant ... definitive and hugely entertaining." —Chicago Sun-Times"Elegantly told ... Kriegel has written a remarkable book: a feel-good sports story still abundant with insight and social commentary." —Publishers Weekly, starred"...a story so taut and true it pulls at your heart." —Richard Ben Cramer, author of Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life"Mark Kriegel has written an extraordinary biography of an extraordinary American." —Pete Hamill"Irreverent and highly entertaining." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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About the Author
Mark Kriegel is a former sports columnist for the New York Daily News and author of the novel Bless Me, Father.
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Product details
Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (July 26, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780143035350
ISBN-13: 978-0143035350
ASIN: 0143035355
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
88 customer reviews
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#169,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Rating:5 of 5 stars (outstanding)Review:Football fans of all levels, from casual to hard-core, have heard of Joe Namath in some way. Many know of him for guaranteeing a win for his team, the New York Jets, over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III (which was not called by that name yet). Others may know him from his high risk, high reward style of play in the old American Football League before it merged with the established league to create the National Football League. Yet others may remember him for his commercials (the segment on his famous panty hose commercial is worth reading or listening to twice), his hard drinking, his love of the ladies and just being a rebel in the 1960’s and 70’s.No matter what aspect of Joe Namath intrigues the reader, he or she will enjoy this well researched, well written biography of the man by Mark Kriegel. Kriegel,’s time with the New York Daily News gave him insight into the complex character of Namath that others who did not see him during his glory days with the Jets may not have.While the chapters on his exploits on the field are very good, the best research and writing were in the chapters about his time at the University of Alabama and his post-football life when he eventually did settle down, got married and raised two daughters. Some may have a hard time picturing “Broadway Joe†doting on two little girls, but that is exactly what he was doing at the time.The other reason that I felt this was an excellent book was how Kriegel related to the reader how Namath’s character was developed. This was a complete description of that process, from Namath’s childhood with divorced parents, how Coach Paul “Bear†Bryant became his surrogate father at Alabama to his hard partying, perpetual bachelor lifestyle as a pro quarterback to his life as a married man. That is a lot of changes and complexities, each covered in detail.The audio book was a very good version of this work, with excellent narration by Scott Brick. He, like the author, covered the book in an even keel, never putting too much emotion or acting into his delivery. This was one of the most complete sports biographies that I have enjoyed, and the balance of each aspect of Namath’s life is why I believe every sports fan should pick up this book.Pace of the book:The narrative seemed to flow freely and because it followed a chronological timeline, this made the audio book easy to follow.Do I recommend?Yes, especially for football fans who recall “Broadway Joe†and his fearless style of play. However, this is also a good read for people who like celebrity biographies, especially as Namath’s celebrity status lasted long after his football career was over.Book Format Read:Audio book
Unfortunately I was only able to see Joe play at the end of his career but this book let's you relive the career and glamour of Joe Namath. It's probably as good a biography about the man as can be done without the access of someone who is actually a very private man. While some may argue his football greatness compared to other great quarterbacks, it can't be argued what he did for football, how he made the AFL relevant, and did it all on knees that would have forced most players to retire. It makes you wonder what he would have accomplished without first hurting his knee at Alabama.
He had a howitzer for an arm, a mind for the game, a sybaritic likestyle, a disregard for anything that interfered with his wants, including teammates and coaches, and one big accomplishment. Predicting that his upstart New York Jets would defeat the old guard Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, Joe Namath quarterbacked them to victory, although the win was rooted more in the Jets' running game and the creakiness of the aging Colts than in his passing.Most of all, he had star power. Signed out of college to a then-astounding $400,000.00 contract by Sonny Werblin, who before owning the team was a high-powered show business agent, Namath took every advantage of the times to become a symbol different from what professional football had seen before. At a time when the bleatings of youth about oppression were taken seriously by some of their elders and a good deal of the press, he appeared as something new and exciting, Broadway Joe, The Rebel of the Gridiron.He, unlike Unitas and Starr, let his hair hang over his forehead, wore a mink coat, and grew a Fu Manchu mustache. Although coming from a small town in Pennsylvania, he affected a strange accent, part steeltown and part southern, as if he had been raised in Alabama instead of just skipping class there while playing for Bear Bryant. There is nothing wrong with taking advantage of the moment. Celebrities are in the main concerned about their staying power, and their continuing ability to make money. The shelf life of fame can be a short one. Especially if you have nothing else to fall back on.And it is his image that earned him a place in the Hall of Fame. He lost more than he won. He threw more interceptions than touchdown passes. The man who led the equally upstart Kansas City Chiefs to victory in the next Super Bowl, Len Dawson was statistically a far superior quarteback. But Dawson, friendly, articulate, sober and whole, and also enshrined in Canton, never stood up and thanked "all the broads" in Kansas City for the championship win the way Namath thanked them in New York. Dawson just played football and didn't seem much different from a middle class businessman except for working in cleats rather than Florsheim's. But Namath played in America's media capital, put fannies in the seats, and in part, was a reason television networks began paying such large sums to broadcast games on Sunday afternoon, and eventually, Monday nights. He had flair and style, in addition to terribly damaged knees and a selfish asttitude.But Joe Namath, in Mark Kriegel's biography, doesn't seem quite real. Like a plethora of talented athletes, he attracted many to do his bidding, anxious to latch onto his name and fame for their own purposes. But there is in Namath a plastic quality, as if reality never set in, that responsibility was for somebody ele.It ended on a damp field in Chicago for Broadway Joe, a wrecked statue in a mid-season rain, fearing the rush behind his offensive line, the last two-thirds of his career in decline because of injuries and boozing night and day. He did some acting, and made an effort to learn the craft, but the occasional parts never amounted to much. He was awkward on camera, both in movies and on television, and wound up doing regional theatre, the producers using him to attract a few more patrons than usual. Roone Arledge thought that he could analyze football games, and he became part of the worst pro football broadcast team in history, making it necessary for fans to reach for the Monday Night Mute Button.Marrying a tightly-wound, confused and strangely self-conscious younger woman as he reached middle age, he tried mightily to please Deborah Namath. Suspicious of those who participated in his wilder times, she essentially ordered that they all be put out of his life. He complied to the extent that they never heard from him again. He took fatherhood seriously, becoming, it seems, the better parent. The marriage failed. Deborah, who considered herself a serious actress, produced a Chekov play in a basement theatre, and much to her discomfort, the limited actor who played alongside her, in white beard this time rather than green jersey, received the better reviews. Changing her first name a couple of times, she left him for a plastic surgeon whom she considered an "artist" who "wears his hair long." Perhaps Deborah-turned May-turned-Tatiana would have found marital bliss if she had been wed to Salvador Dali.Like DiMaggio, Namath, because he was always treated differently and expected nothing less, ccould never be one of the guys, even decades after he took his last snap. A former Jet teammate and recovering alcoholic,Sonny Grantham, runs a yearly golf outing in support of a charity aimed at helping addicts on the way to sobriety. Many who played the game appear gratis, a nice day to whack the little white ball around the course for a good cause. Never having participated, Namath, who had himself gone into treatment for alcoholism after making a fool of himself on television, expressed delight one year in being invited. And told Grantham to call his agent, a lawyer who hooked onto Namath at Alabama and never let go. He demanded more for Namath's appearance than the charity would have taken in for staging the event. Joe Namath it seems, never has had a mind of his own when it comes to doing the right thing. Image is everything.
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