It can be enriching to mine the memories of those of an esteemed age (by which I mean older folks), because their minds can surprise you. Jack Nicklaus, for example, can describe in detail a round of golf he played four decades ago. Which brings me 'round to a recent conversation I lucked to have with the great Miamian G. Holmes Braddock.
He gave an eye-witness account of the night Joe Namath, in Miami, uttered his famous Super Bowl “guarantee” that helped make the man mythic and that still resonates almost 50 years later.
Mr. Braddock, now 91, spent 38 years guiding the Miami-Dade School board, is a Hurricanes super-fan who has missed all of 12 UM home football games since 1946, and is the only continuous member of the Miami Touchdown Club civic group since its founding in 1959.