I’m not a Jets fan but out of all the episodes of America’s Game, this one is the best RIP Don Maynard

I met Joe Namath, a true gentleman, very bright, articulate, extraordinarily insightful & spiritual, funny, he was a boyhood hero, always admired him for his guts and grace under pressure on the field. I asked him about The Super Bowl, and what he said amazed me: "99 times out of 100 the Colts would beat us, they were clearly the better team. But on THAT day, they were just a little overconfident and we were just a little bit better, a little bit quicker off the ball, and that made all the difference". He was a star, but he was 100% about his TEAM.

I do really admire Namath but I'm so glad the late Earl Morrall went on to play such an important part in the Dolphins' Perfect Season as well as winning rings in Super Bowl V and VIII. A vastly underrated quarterback.

Chiefs fan here from Wichita, Kansas, almost age 70. About 2:45 into this, there's a clip where Namath scrambles and downfield he and Bobby Bell hit head on! Bell is Hall of Fame linebacker who originally played in the Chiefs defensive line. Namath keeps running while it is Bell who is knocked to the ground. Namath was a tough football player, and stronger than most remember.

43:55 Namath wagging his finger and going into the light. Iconic NFL moment for me.

I'm 68. I remember the game and I remember the moment! The greatest game and the greatest win!!!!!!

My Dad took me SB II...Joe was sitting 4 rows in front of me...got his autograph...became a Jets fan for life (Iknow, I know...sigh)...then I got to go back for SB III and witness the upset!

My Beloved Mom suddenly dies in my arms 6 weeks B4 my Law School Finial Exams; 1 exam, 5 topics over 36 weeks of lectures/topic! @ her wake, I gave a heart felt eulogy to the great Ppl that attended. Before I concluded my eulogy, I said: "Joe Willie Namath once said, & now I'm going to say it, 'I Guarantee' that 6 weeks from today, I will walk across the stage for my Law School Graduation..." .........& I did! Thank you Joe Willie Namath for saying that. Your words inspired a entire generation of good American people.... To this day, my Federal Taxation Final still wake me up in a cold fucken sweat. A Final grade of 79% was required in order for you to pass her class, & I scored a manly 79.8%. During the Fall Semester, @ the beginning of Federal Taxation class, the Professor decided to pick on me. We met for class on Mon/Wed/Fri, & class lasted 2 hours/class. 5 minutes B4 class ended, she would take roll-call. 3 unexcused absences, & you were automatically dropped. One day she walks in, looks @ me directly & said: "Mr. Murillo, why don't you enlighten us all, are you planning on Passing!?" She said that because during the semester I was completely lost & all my open class answers were always wrong! It was during the Football Season, & I didn't have the time to even watch a quarter of Football, & it was slowly killing me inside. I responded to her & said: "ABSOLUTELY NOT, I'm gonna drop back 15 yards & PUNT!" The classroom exploded with laughter, & many students started to pound on their table tops. @ that moment, It became a class filled with unruly 7th graders, all while the Professor & I just stared @ one another, as she never moved, still holding her brief case in hand. As the explosion from the laughter grew louder & louder, she walked out of class. Before she did that, she gave me a look of: 'I'm gonna get your Ass on the Final Exam." 3 years earlier, 545 students started Law School, & only 102 graduated... Joe Willie Namath damn near got me killed! Still loving you Joe Willie....

That NFL music is so epic man. Has me feeling like I’m watching a war documentary and I need to go salute my team or something 😂

Just showed this recently with my Dad Toughest and best guy I know Huge Jets fan When Don Maynard cried he started to almost bawl and I’ve seen him cry only a couple times but never like that And he said to me “God they need to win again.” They will pops For sure :)

Gotta love Broadway Joe Namath. Not only was he a fine QB, he was a fun guy. And whether you like him or loathe him, if you're honest, you have to admit, Joe made football the nation's most popular sport.

Joe Namath played 3 years longer than he should have. There were rumors that he would either retire or jump to the WFL following the 1974 NFL season but Namath re-signed with New York when the Jets made him the highest paid quarterback in the league. Namath took a physical pounding in 1975 & 1976 playing for two very bad N.Y. Jets squads and as a result his interception totals ballooned. By the time Chuck Knox brought him to the Rams in 1977 he was basically finished. However, it is a testament to Namath's courage and dedication that he played 13 years with knees so badly damaged that he was given a 4-F rating and a deferment from military service after coming out of Alabama. Jets team doctor's said he would be lucky to play 4 years. While Namath would miss 28 regular season games between 1970 and 1973 due to injuries, it is his body of work between 1965 and 1974 that made him a Hall of Famer: 1965 - AFL Rookie of the Year (UPI, SN) - AFL All-Star Game MVP (offense) 1966 - 2nd Team All-AFL QB (NEA) 1967 - 1st Team All-AFL QB (NEA) - 2nd Team All-AFL QB (AP, UPI, SN) - AFL All-Star Game Co-MVP (offense) - First AFL/NFL QB to throw for 4,000 yards in a single season - a feat that wouldn't be equaled until Dan Fouts did it in Week 16 of the 1979 season 1968 - 1st Team QB AFL/NFL Combined All-Pro Team (unanimous) - 1st Team All-AFL QB (unanimous) - AFL MVP (AP, UPI, Pro FB Weekly, SN, PFWA N.Y. Chapter) - AFL All-Star Game selection - AFL Championship Game MVP - Super Bowl III MVP - N.Y. Jets Team MVP - Hickok Belt Award Winner (Most Outstanding Pro Athlete) 1969 - 1st Team QB AFL/NFL Combined All-Pro Team (NEA) - 1st Team All-AFL QB (NEA, Sports Illustrated, N.Y. Daily News) - 2nd Team All-AFL QB (AP, UPI, SN, PFW) - AFL MVP (Associated Press) - AFL All-Star Game Selection - N.Y. Jets Team MVP - George Halas Award (Pro Football Writers Association) - Selected as First Team QB on the All -Time AFL Team by the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Jan. 1970) 1972 - Consensus 1st Team All-NFL QB (NEA, Pro Football Weekly, Pro Football Writers Association) - 2nd Team All-NFL QB (AP, Football News) - Consensus 1st Team All-AFC QB (UPI, Pro Football Weekly, Sporting News, Newark Star-Ledger) - NFL Pro Bowl Selection 1974 - NFL Comeback Player of the Year - 2nd Team All-AFC QB (Newark Star-Ledger) - N.Y. Jets Team MVP Playing in windy Shea Stadium, Namath finished as the AFL's 2nd All-Time ranked passer (1970 Official AFL History manual published by the Sporting News - page 112). It was a different era when Namath played. Only 3 of the top 9 all-time AFL rated passers threw more TD's than INT's and only Namath and Len Dawson finished with completion percentages over 50% (1500 or more attempts). The AFL was all about throwing the ball deep - not like the shorter passing game of today. When I look at the top 25 all-time rated NFL passers I see names like Chad Pennington, Matt Schaub, Andy Dalton, Tony Romo, Dante Culpepper and Colin Kaepernick but not Johnny Unitas, Roger Staubach, Otto Graham, Bart Starr or Terry Bradshaw. Something is wrong with that picture. The rating system does not take in to account qualities like courage, dedication and leadership - all traits that Joe Namath possessed. An added note regarding passer ratings (from the NFL website): "It is important to remember that the system is used to rate passers, not quarterbacks. Statistics do not reflect leadership, play-calling, and other intangible factors that go into making a successful professional quarterback." Namath quarterbacked the Jets to the most significant triumph in pro football history. It was a game changer that finally brought credibility to the upstart American Fooball League. Criticizing Namath for not throwing a pass in the 4th quarter is ridiculous. The Jets were controlling the line of scrimmage and most importantly the clock, so why should he have thrown a pass? Ask Pete Carroll about how well things worked out when Russell Wilson threw an ill advised pass in Super Bowl 49. Recommended reading: www.footballperspective.com/joe-namath-has-become-footballs-most-misunderstood-quarterback/

It's great that Namath wears his ring ever day. It really means something to him.

Happy 85th Birthday to Don Maynard.

When I was a kid, when we played football, someone always wanted to be Joe Namath. I wanted to be Don Maynard. Don was why I was a wide receiver and wore #13.

This is one of the very best of these. So emotional. You really get a feeling of what this meant not only to the Jets but the whole AFL. Maynard crying at the end almost got me

" Rather I catch 1 or 10 winning is all that matters to me " - Don Maynard The man didn't catch one pass in the Superbowl and was still the happiest player on the field. Now that's being a GREAT teammate.

What a class act. he let everyone know, there's no "I" in team... He gave the credit where credit was due...

Gotta love Broadway Joe. He played the game when you played hurt. You played pre-dome in the weather. You played tough. On top of that, Joe with his flash, but never b*tchy or complaining, made Football accessible for those who never cared for the game. Joe was a unique champion.

Anyone else looking these up and trying to watch them in order? It's really cool seeing just how much football has evolved throughout the decades

Don Maynard seems like a bloke I'd wanna have a beer with.

"Hey Namath this week we are wearing green" a great line from Philbin

This might be the greatest pro football video I have ever seen. I remember the Heidi game, the '68 Super Bowl.

This documentary of America’s game is the most interesting one to watch. It talks about true underdogs, how football was a true tough sport, lots of controversy to look back (Heidi game), and that ANYONE can win the super bowl.

The Jets in 1968 did lean on their run game (3rd in attempts, 8th in yards, 9th in yards per carry, 1st in touchdowns) but their passing offense was still tremendous for the era (3rd in attempts, 3rd in yards, 4th in touchdowns, 4th fewest interceptions). The offense finished 2nd in points and 3rd in yards. The defense was 4th in points, 1st in yards, 2nd against the pass, and 1st against the run. Here's a quick rundown of the Jets statistical leaders (note that a player that missed game will have games played next to their name): QB Joe Namath: 3,147 YDS, 15 TD, 17 INT, 72.1 RTG (All Pro, Pro Bowl) FB Matt Snell: 747 YDS, 6 TD HB Emerson Boozer: 441 YDS, 5 TD (Pro Bowl) (12 Games) HB Bill Mathis: 208 YDS, 5 TD WR George Sauer: 66 REC, 1,141 YDS, 3 TD (All Pro, Pro Bowl) WR Don Maynard: 57 REC, 1,297 YDS, 10 TD (Pro Bowl) (13 Games) TE Pete Lammons: 32 REC, 400 YDS, 3 TD (13 Games) Edit: Rest In Peace Don Maynard

This was one of the best things that I have seen in my lifetime. I watched them win it when I was 15 years old. Great to see it again. Hope the Jets can do it again before I leave.

"We did it!" Joe Namath.

Jets linebacker Larry Grantham grabbed that game ball at the end - I wonder where it is today? Probably worth about $5 million to some crazy Jets fan.

Great footage of 1960's NFL football. I love these videos. Thank you!

This was the game that made Football Football. Quarterbacks today with their high flying stats wouldn't be able to compete in this era with that defensive players were allowed to do to QB's back then. Real men then... I know I sound like an old man (I am 50) but it is true.

I was 15 years old in high school and me and two of my buddies bet on " Joe Willie" and the Jets ! My dad and his generation hated the long haired hippie with the white shoes and fur coats ! Namath running off the field holding up his " We're number one !" finger stayed with me forever ! He was , and still is , The Man ! Love ya' Joe !

"Joseph, this is show business"

What a time this must have been to be alive. Simply an amazing era in jets history #12.

For any person who lives in New York City that reporter that said that Joe Namath is King of the Hill he was a young SAL MARCHIANO from Eyewitness News Ch.7.

Im not a jets fan and was born way after this but man what a story of a legendary team.

A 7 year old kid from Pittsburgh emulated Joe Willie's classic dropback and quick release. Namath himself said that he threw the football better than he ever did. The young man's name was Dan Marino.

When Joe makes that fist, smiles and looks at his ring... goosebumps!! Goddamn right, Joe...you did it. Fuckin jets are gonna make me go to my grave never seeing another Superbowl ring. I was only 8 months old in 69. I didn't even get to see that one!!

When a tough SOB like Maynard cries you realize what a championship means to the warriors who compete for it.

The only problem I see with this program is that the trophy shown at the beginning is the wrong trophy. It wasn’t the Lombardi Trophy then, it was the AFL-NFL World Championship trophy with the logos of both leagues engraved on it.

This is the best of America's Game the Super Bowl Champions

Thank you New York Jets. When you won that Super Bowl you didn’t just win it for your franchise, you won it for the AFL. You have to wonder how things may have been different if The Jets and The Chiefs didn’t win Super Bowl 3 and 4. You did a great service of putting the AFL as a even talented league with the NFL.

Watched that Super Bowl as a young kid growing up on Long Island. Jets fan ever since. Thanks for a great video

About half those hits on Namath today would result in targeting penalties.

Matt Snell didn't get enough credit.

Joe Namath will be cool cat until the end. You have to watch some film on his passing to appreciate how good he was. He had a cannon of an arm.

Lmao Philbin is an absolute savage.

Namath is in the HOF, and most certainly deserves it. His oversized persona got the attention. Also well deserved. Matt Snell was a guy that got the job done. Big tough durable backs often don’t get the love they deserve. Reminds me of #22 with the Titans, Derrick Henry. He’s 6’3” and 250 lbs and can run like a RB. Now that’s saying something. But just like Snell he isn’t getting the love he should. He’s a great back.

In the span of a year 3 teams from Baltimore -Colts ,Orioles and Bullets -lost championship games to 3 teams from NYC -Jets , Mets , and Knicks

Another component of this was the fact that the Jets' legacy started with the New York Titans, who went bankrupt in '62 while playing in front of family and friends at the decaying Polo Grounds...a whole lot of terrific players were brought in to surround and complement Namath, and Weeb Ewbank and a cache of great assistants "coached 'em up"...

Who's here for the 50th anniversary of the Jets' Super Bowl III upset victory over the Baltimore Colts? Because I am.

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I used to go up to the Peekskill Military Academy every day after work to watch the Jets practice in 1965. Joe would hang out downtown and was as nice a guy as you can imagine! The '69 Super Bowl was the best game I have ever watched!

I was in the Us Navy at Lemoore NAS that weekend and was on duty. I was a young man that loved that game. Joe you are a winner.

1968 jets was one of the greatest team to ever win a Super Bowl . And the greatest upset in nfl history

Gerry Philbin was under rated.

We've got the team brother! We're king of the hill!

50 years ago today, The NY Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16 to 7 in Superbowl 3.

I loved football when it was played in the dirt and mud.

427,000 was outrageous in 1965

Proud to say I've seen every superbowl! Maybe not to many left in this ole body. But it was something

Straight NFL history. Changed the future of the league forever!! I got news for ya buddy were gonna win the game, I guarantee it...

I swear, Alec Baldwin makes everything he narrates sound like a piece of history.

"We Did it "

I was in 8th grade in Baltimore that year. If I'd understood betting at that age, I could have cleaned up. Baltimoreans were so confident in a Colts victory.

I’m an 80s boy and I love football this team really had guts and was a 21 point underdog and kicked the Sh@&& out of the Colts biggest upset ever I enjoyed as a former Wide Receiver Don Maynard and Joe Namath wish I had a QB like him.

Watched this game I was absolutely stunned, the Jets won. Had friends who the entire time before the game were talking about how the Colts would kill the Jets,(TBH that's what every one thought)after the game, those SAME kids said "I knew the Jets would win!" Any way this & SB 4 proved the AFL was on par with the NFL. IMO. I was 11 years old then, my how time flies.

This was the last time I was truly excited about the outcome of the Super Bowl - my favorite teams from each league were in it, so it was a win-win!

Namath called 80% of the plays at the line, you can hear him at the line, blue 10 five-one right, ready, set

I meet Joe one day in Hollywood, Ca. We had lunch. I was a 15-year-old run-away from Indiana. It was 1969 or so. The great Joe Namath still had time for a homeless rage-tag street kid like me.

This is what's missing in modern sports: today We're a Team." Joe Namath.

"If they were as good as what they said they were, they should come out and beat the shit out of us. They didn't do it" Gerry Philbin was right Baltimore couldn't back up their statement

50 yrs ago today, the Jets pulled off one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history.

The entire team needs to get due credit,including the coaches.

I remember watching and thought the game was in the bag for the Jets. When the network put a message up during a commercial break of the movie we didn't believe it until the next days paper arrived!

I also enjoyed Gerry Philbin and that defense holding the Colts to 7 points

Namath and Maynard were obvious choices for this episode, but I came away very impressed by Gerry Philbin

Gee wizz mister, that Maynard is one hell of a stud

3:07 "Joseph - it's show business." Wiser words are seldom uttered.

Joe Namath talked his team into learning Transcendental Meditation!!! Normally before a game the players were yelling, growling & punching helmets & shoulder pads! But before the Super bowl they were reading books & playing chess!!! Their minds were focused, unified!! Thats how Joe gaurenteed a victory!!! He meditates to this day!!!

Ralph baker recovering the fumble sealed the win.

As a surviving Baltimore Colts fan I always hated Joe after this game. When Stan White blitzed and blindsided him in a regular season game and seperated his shoulder a few years later 65000 at Memorial Stadium stood up and cheered. But as I have entered the twilight of my life I really like the guy. His reverence of Unitas and Eubank is probably why. In sports you can win all your regular season games be the MVP but if you can't win in the post season well your Fran, Marino and Kelly. Winning is everything......Vince Lombardi

I wish Johnny U would of came back and won. He was so close too.

I was born in 1970 and i didn't pick up on Football first until the early 80s. But i reckon what Joe Namath meant for Football, was the same way as what Maradona did for Soccer: A magician!

The Jets had tougher game against the Raiders then they did against the Colts SB was anticlimactic

After watching most of these programs, one thing I've noticed is how much tougher these old school players are. I dont think 90% of the league today could hack it.

Matt Snell should've been named the MVP.

with the late hit calls today on the QB'S, and improved surgical techniques especially on knees, imagine what his career could have been.

An amazing story. RIP Mr. Don Maynard.

Don Maynard was burning dudes in his day

Namath to Maynard whew untouchable unstoppable

Don't mess with Philbin

No speakers in the helmets, very little shuttling of players carrying in the calls from the sidelines...this was when football was almost pure.

Look at that shot.

joe namath is one of best ever in football my hero since I was knee high to a duck

Isn't it something that I envy AND feel bad for my fellow Jets fans who witnessed this game... I feel bad because they've endured the suffering for 50+ years that I have grown accustom to in my life as a 27 y/o fan... It is almost as if they never won one...

Sauer had a great game.

Damn I notice that buddy Ryan was in jets team

The Championship wins by the JETS and the CHIEFS changed Pro Football .... In fact, I wish the AFL & NFL had never merged, so EVERY Super Bowl would feature the champions of both leagues going head-to-head for it ALL ...

MANY PLAYERS WERE ASHAMED OF THEIR SALARIES BACK IN THE DAY

Memo to Jets: Go back to these uniforms ASAP!!!