Jim Turner, who fulfilled Joe Namath’s prophecy that the New York Jets would win Super Bowl III in 1969 by kicking three field goals and an extra point, making him the game’s leading scorer, died on Saturday at his home in Arvada, Colo., a suburb of Denver. He was 82.
The Jets and the Denver Broncos, the two teams Turner played for, announced his death.
Turner played professional football for 16 years, with the Jets from 1964 to 1970 and the Broncos from 1971 to 1979. In the 1968-69 season, he kicked 34 field goals and scored 145 points, setting records that stood until 1983, when the New York Giants kicker Ali Haji-Sheikh broke the first and the Washington Redskins kicker Mark Moseley broke the second.