But my daughter Jessica, and my best friend Jimmy Walsh gave me a lot of encouragement. “We were stumbling around and the process wasn’t right. I wasn’t thinking about it,” he said of the genesis for his latest narrative.

“The publisher contacted me and I figured they knew a lot more than me. Namath was approached about writing a book on the 50th anniversary of the Jets’ victory over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts that also corresponded with the centennial year of the league.

It made sense.”īut writing this book was more about giving people hope than about any on or off the field exploits. He says that was easy because his co-writer Dick Schaap made it that way. “Cause I Get Better Looking Every Day,” was about football and fun. His first book, “I Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow. Recently he was voted the most interesting character in the NFL’s first 100 years. Namath was one of the most famous athletes on the planet when he helped engineer the New York Jets to the championship in Super Bowl III. It was one of the few parts of the conversation that focused on sports. It taught me humility we don’t accomplish much on our own, that was one of the major reasons.” “It taught me how to deal with life, with people. “Sports taught me a lot of things,” he said when I asked why he decided to write another book, his fourth, in his seventh decade. At 76 years old, Namath said he wanted to share some of his life’s experiences. It’s a line also included in the foreword of his latest book, “All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters.” Calling Joe a “reluctant author” the book chronicles the highest highs and the lowest lows of Namath’s very public life. “We have to learn from each other’s shortcomings and triumphs,” Joe Namath told me this week from his home in Jupiter. Who’d have thought the guy considered the icon of the “Me First” decades of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s is actually most interested in helping others?

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