Bob Lederer

Beyond Broadway Joe (eBook, ePUB)

The Super Bowl Team That Changed Football

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A celebration of the Jets' 1968 historic Super Bowl team, filled with exclusive insights and stories from the surviving players, coaches, and management

In 1968, Joe Namath, the quarterback of the New York Jets, dominated the headlines as a national celebrity and counterculture figure. The Jets were a vastly talented but underappreciated team that drew constant attention due to Namath, but were not taken seriously by fans. When the Jets earned their way to Super Bowl III to face an eighteen-point favorite Baltimore Colts squad, Namath put all the pressure on himself by shockingly guaranteeing a Jets victory. He fulfilled his promise, but knew he didn't do it alone. As Broadway Joe said in the postgame locker room: We've got the team, brother.

In Beyond Broadway Joe: The Super Bowl TEAM That Changed Football, thirty-six surviving members of that legendary 1968 team share for the first time their funny, poignant, and insightful personal stories about their Super Bowl teammates and coaches, and the historic win that changed football forever. Readers will learn what Namath's teammates thought about his guarantee, find out what Jets coaches discovered on the field early during Super Bowl III that Namath and the defense used to frustrate the Colts, and delight in how the thirty-nine Jets who took the field each week with Namath enabled him to live up to his Super Bowl vow. Author Bob Lederer reviews head coach Weeb Ewbank's never-before-seen player evaluationsthat they didn't know existedand provides a rich history of the Jets franchise, from how these thirty-nine forgotten players became Jets, and the road ten of them took to become AFL all-stars in 1968.

This definitive review of the entire Jets' Super Bowl team is a must for every Jets diehard, for fans of the old American Football League, and for all who love the game.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062798053
• Artikelnr.: 53868948

Autorenporträt

Bob Lederer is a writer and the founder of RFL Communications. A former resident of Flushing, New York, and current Jets fan from the team's inception in 1963, he scrupulously followed the New York Jets through its early ups and downs?and its transformation into a championship contender. The Jets' victory on January 12, 1969, when Bob was sixteen-years-old, was the most exciting sports day in his life. Now sixty-four, he has waited years to learn the full story from Joe Namath's teammates, and can't wait to share the Super Bowl-winning team's story with Jets and football fans. He lives in Illinois.