I woke up this morning feeling a little nostalgic about one of my favorite AFL turned NFL teams of the 1960s, the New York Jets. As I look back on it now, to have been a kid when Joe Namath was the QB of the Jets was pretty special.
In our backyard games of tackle football, all of my friends and I relished playing the QB position because it gave us a chance to emulate “Broadway Joe” and his brash, cocky, quick as a New York minute release. “Joe Willie” had a unique way of holding the ball at his waist with both hands and after spotting his open receiver, cocking the ball in an abrupt twitch and then bang, letting it rip in one powerful, forward thrust.