Perhaps the most overrated player of all time. Yes he did win the SuperBowl, but when you look at his career statistics and his win percentage throughout his career, the guy was hardly great.

A slightly above average, injury prone quarterback with a set of balls the size of watermelons for guaranteeing SBIII.

Namath is almost entirely product of NY media hype. Take out the Super Bowl year, which he deserves praise for, and he's nothing special. 

The only jets qb I ever thought was worthy of hall of fame

Would warrant a much higher rating if he could have stayed injury free, he was hurt too much.

OVERRATED! Yes, he has balls big enough for a dump-truck for SP III. Yes, he was a phenom. But check the numbers - N.Y. sportswriters never mention that Broadway Joe had more career interceptions than touchdowns. He had two real bad knees and only 3 or 4 real good seasons. Look, '69 was a dream but Joe Namath has been a pure east-coast sportswriter creation. I give him respect for his Super Bowl game - but this is an all-time QB list and Namath isn't even close.

The guarantee alone makes him a legend.

Being a Jets fan since birth you basically learn two things growing up: #1 Broadway Joe is the greatest football player to ever lace up a pair of cleats #2 if anyone attempts to support the crackpot notion that someone else is with all their fantzyschmantzy statistics you revert them to rule #1. The impact he had on the game of football is similar to that a player like Ruth had on baseball. After signing with the Jets in 1965 out of Alabama he quickly turned the loser Jets around. In only his second season he became the first QB to pass for 4000 yards in a season and in just his 3rd year led the Jets to a Superbowl victory over the highly favored (by 18 points actually) Colts of the perceived superior NFL in a game he guaranteed the Jets would win. The victory secured his name in the history books and gained him legendary status. His career unfortunately was marked from college by a series of injuries including numerous reconstructive knee surgies that hampered his career statistics. He still passed for almost 28000 yards and completed over 50% of his passes 173 of them for TDs. Broadway Joe doesn't fall in the top ten all time quarterbacks due to his abreviated career but there is no greater all time Legend.

Until knee injuries wrecked him, Namath was enjoying a stellar career. Rookie of the year in 1965, 4000+ passing yards in 1967, MVP in 1968, and the historic Super Bowl III triumph in 1969. As great a pure passer there was in a day when football was much more vertical, unlike today's dinky west coast offense, where QBs simply execute handoffs with short tosses.

joe willie saved the AFL by giving the league credibility at superbowl III

Get a life and lay off Joe! He's had a tough divorce and his alcoholism is a disease and nothing to laugh at! His one embarassing TV moment and/or his entering rehab does not detract from his being one of the greatest quarterbacks in AFL or NFL history. I've met him personallymore than onceand he's a decent, kind human being. Personally, I'm glad to see that this older man still has no problem with his libido!

Joe Namath's stock is falling after his interview with Suzy Kolber this past week. He was so drunk that he looked like he couldn't stand up without falling over, and then he says he wants to kiss Suzy Kolber not once, but twice. Its pretty sad that an older man is embarassing himself like that on national television.