Joe Namath
Year Title Role
1970 Norwood Joe
1970 C.C . and Company C.C . Ryder
1971 The Last Rebel 'Captain ' Hollis
1979 Avalanche Express Leroy
1980 Marriage Is Alive and Well Brian Fish
1984 Chattanooga Choo Choo Newt Newton
1991 Going Under Captain Joe Namath
1993 Green Visionary Dwight Galbreath
2012 Well Received the Death of an Artist N/A
2013 Underdogs Himself
2015 The Wedding Ringer Himself
Acting career -- Filmography
Joseph William Namath (/ˈneɪməθ/; born May 31, 1943), nicknamed Broadway Joe, is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide under coach Paul Bear Bryant from 1962 to 1964. Namath was an AFL icon and played for that league's New York Jets for most of his professional football career. He finished his career with the Los Angeles Rams. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. He retired after playing 143 games over 13 years in the AFL and NFL, including playoffs. His teams had an overall record of 68 wins, 71 losses, and four ties, 64-64-4 in 132 starts, and 4-7 in relief. He completed 1,886 passes for 27,663 yards, threw 173 touchdowns, and had 220 interceptions, for a career passer rating of 65.5. He played for three division champions (the 1968 and 1969 AFL East Champion Jets and the 1977 NFC West Champion Rams), earned one league championship (1968 AFL Championship), and one Super Bowl victory (Super Bowl III). In 1999, he was ranked number 96 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the only player on the list to have spent a majority of his career with the Jets. In his 1975 autobiography, Bryant called Namath the most natural athlete he had ever coached. [citation needed]
 Namath is known for boldly guaranteeing a Jets' victory over Don Shula's NFL Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III (1969), then making good on his prediction with a 16-7 upset (the win remains the Jets' only Super Bowl appearance).