Joe Namath

Hollywood Joe?

He should get a good hair piece.

I have to spend 4 or 5minutes with him everyday. The way he pronounces “automatically “ is a crime. He adds a syllable somehow. All this just to see if Richie, Ralph and Potsie can raise enough money for football tickets.

Ah, but Joe fifty years ago!

R1. That would be Broadway Joe.

He looks like a fucking MUMMY.

OP, it sounds like you watch TV that's geared to very old people.

Broadway Joe.

Joining Pat Boone...ugh.

He was big deal and handsome too. Except for those giant fur coats he used to wear.

CORRECTION; Still wears.

He’s a good spokesman for old dudes because he was a hero to them in their youth. I wonder who our generation (X) spokespeople will be when it’s our turn for these types of commercials? “Hi I’m Matthew Broderick..... etc”

Gay or nay?

According to Miss Janis Lyn Joplin, Dick Cavett was quite well endowed and put Broadway Joe *quite* in the shade.

I heard that too but Dick C loves the dick. You’ve heard the tape of him with a prostie right? He’s into nips. Joe came onto a reporter while drunk at a football game. Video of that is also available. Girl reporter

Now some rival company is using fellow NFL quarterback has-been Joe Theismann to shill their Medicare scam.

Joe was sexy back in the 70s:

Egads R17, my eyes burn. That is NOT sexy. Looks like a satyr.

Leave Joe alooooooone!

I had a huge crush on him when I was younger. He's also a friend to the gays.

R18 You'd have been all over him.

The pride of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

OP, he was a star in the NFL back when they didn’t really make that much money, especially compared to today. His only thing of value now is his name.

At least he hasn’t yet gone the June Allyson route.

R16, is it not the same company? A clear case of Joe vs Joe!

Joe & Ann-Margaret in 1970 “CC & Company”

I had a friend who says he was picked up by Cavett. There was no reason not to believe him. He rarely made those claims.

You have to remember that they weren't paid like current professional athletes, even adjusting for inflation. He was a superstar at the time. I recall an interview with him on 60 Minutes or similar a few years ago and he just seemed like the nicest, most centered fellow. Not a huge ego as one might think. He lived in a very nice waterfront house in Florida but it wasn't Mega-Mansion like you see the current athletes buying.

He was my hero!

He broke his leg!

Also : isn’t he on the golf circuit? Those.Guys make a mint playing with business men

Rawhide!! What was the leather bar in the meatpacking that had a boot on it? It was the leather light places - some queens wore gucci (ok. I did. But it was leather & i wasn’t about to wear flannel)

Ignore that R30 i posted on the wrong thread

Namath was a HUGE star back in his heyday.

But, the reality is that athletes in the 60s and 70s didn't make the kind of money that people today do.

[quote]The St. Louis Cardinals selected Namath 12th overall in the NFL Draft, while the Jets selected him with the first overall pick of the AFL draft. When meeting with executives of the Cardinals, Namath's salary request was $200,000 and a new Lincoln Continental. While initially appalled at Namath's requests, the Cardinals told Namath they would agree to his requests, but only if he would sign before the Orange Bowl, which would've made Namath ineligible to play in the game.[26] The day after the Orange Bowl, Namath elected to sign with the Jets, which were under the direction of owner Sonny Werblin, for a salary of US$427,000 over three years (a pro football record at the time)

A player today with his stats would be paid much more - that $200K in 1964 is only $1.7 million in 2020 purchasing power -a fraction of what players who had careers like his would make.

What happened, did Dick Cavett hit on Broadway Joe?

[quote] OP, it sounds like you watch TV that's geared to very old people

I'm not the OP, but I've been working from home the last 3 months and Joe's commercials are on 2 to 3 times an hour, every hour

No R33 dick C has a big cock. Someone above felt joe doesn’t have a big cock.

I cannot stand that commercial and how he sounds so whiny. Like Joe Namath has to worry about where his next meal is going to come from or needs transportation to his next medical appointment.

I wouldn't have minded, back in the day, how small Joe's cock was, R35. He had perfect rugged working class sexiness.

"Audo-madically"

r34 Even more often than that. Between that and the incessant commercials for Hershey's products (they seem to rotate every day between s'mores (Hershey Bars) Rolos, Almond Joy ("Tropicalling"), and Reese's ("NOT SORRY!") They must spend a fortune on advertising. (These seem to be most prevalent on LOGO, of all places.)

Oh well-- at least they're not Trump ads.

I've commented before on Namath's ludicrous script in those Advantage Plan commercials. He claims he called Medicare and they immediately told him he qualified for enhanced benefits. Uh uh, a multi-millionaire former pro football player called fucking Medicare.

He didn't say he called Medicare -- he called the scammy company he's shilling for.

[quote] Oh well-- at least they're not Trump ads.

The first commercial at every single break is the trump commercials saying biden will abolish the police

Flip Wilson's "Geraldine" character sure loved her some Broadway Joe back in the day, too...!

6:30pm Happy Days A MIND OF HIS OWN After having been in several fights recently, on the advice of the Cunninghams, Fonzie agrees to see a psychologist. A compromise is made, and the family lets him fight Joe Namath.

If you watch CNN, you'll see this commercial multiple times per hour. It drones on and on. He looks pathetic. Yeah, seeing some of these old pics, I get it that he was the BOMB back in the day. How the mighty fall.

Those ads are so cringey along with Tom Selleck pushing reverse mortgages. I get the sense they're ting to scam old people. Lol, TS just came on my TV as I'm typing. Sure you're not trying to steal my house Tom.

He was the original "sex on a stick," and he single handedly made the AFL a thing.

R46, those are the worst. I’ll take a Joe Namath Medicare commercial any day over Selleck’s hard-sell reverse mortgage pleas.

It's a job. Wouldn't you take it?

Thanks, R43.

That was hilarious.

Hasn't anyone posted THIS yet?? This is one of the things Joe was best-known for back in the day.

R51 That commercial was so famous! Poor guy - jokes about Joe Namath wearing pantyhose went around for years after that.

I had read he was paid around $1 million for that - a huge paycheck in the 1970s.

Speaking of Namath and Cavett, here they are on the Cavett show in 1969. You might recognize DL fave Joan Rivers too. Joe Namath also had his own interview show in 1969, he could barely talk, but he was so big he got his own talk show.

Besides football, Namath promoted himself as a womanizer - it was part of his legend that straight guys idolized him for. In real life he married once, to a woman 20 year his jr when he was around 40. She eventually left him, one of the main reasons was his drinking. Namath was an alcoholic going back to his playing days.

6:30pm Happy Days FONZIE'S OLD LADY Fonzie meets an older woman whose car he fixed and agrees to meet her the next day for doubles tennis at a country club. Mrs. Cunningham becomes jealous and tries to take incriminating photos when she discovers the lady in question is an Heiress. Doubles, anyone?

He looks like Bela Lugosi...

What's going on here?

He had that All American Boy look back in the day.

r16 I remember working on a car spot with Joe Theismann in Washington in the late 70s; he was very professional, friendly, and had his arms around my shoulders as we left the field. Very handsome, and no, we didn't . . .

R57 That is NOT an All American Boy look. He looks like a New Jersey guido.

[quote]It's a job. Wouldn't you take it?

Nope. I could never take a job that involves scamming or cheating people. I wouldn't take any kind of job in sales. I worked my entire life as a mid-level bureaucrat with the Federal government.

R59 Definitely All American. If he was an NJ guido, he'd have greasy hair and a gold chain around his neck.

You leave Joe alone! Joe was huge and sexy and funny and sweet and humble.

He got $400,000 which was huge back then.

Joe will always be my hero - I won $18 - all $1 bets from relatives - when the Jets beat the Colts in Superbowl III.

And it was the AFL v the NFL then. What happened to the AFL anyway?

He IS a satyr, r18!

Fucking sexy as hell back in the day. Yes, ugly and hairy but damn! The way he moved and behaved around other people was very charming.

Very secure in himself. Yes, he's a satyr. You say that like it's a bad thing!

Not in the 1960s, R61. I agree with R59. There was something chunky and ethnic about Namath. He had a surly look even as a youngster starting out with that broken nose...and the mustache, jeez! I believe that because he was NOT the typical all-American boy gave him an added appeal to many.

Hey, JMac at R62, are you who I think you are?

6:30pm

Happy Days

TIME CAPSULE

Richie and the guys organize a time capsule for a school project. Howard agrees to let them use the vault at his store for the capsule, and Potsie accidentally locks them all inside. They are saved when the Fonz shows up with his contribution - - the Pulaski Twins!

Looks like The Home left the door to the computer room unlocked again, R66

[quote]And it was the AFL v the NFL then. What happened to the AFL anyway?

Merged, although the two leagues kept the NFL name.

Florence Henderson said he was her favorite guest star and she spent the week drooling over him.

HAF.

OP here: Yeah, he WAS HAF, I am with ya on that. Saw ANOTHER iteration of his Medicare scam commercial today -- I mean, you can't escape them if you watch CNN -- and someone has coached him on how to appear more animated or something. It was even MORE cringe-worthy to watch. And then at the end, someone coached him to act more excited about this rip-off plan he's shilling and he tries to raise his voice and it . . . cracks. Pathetic. Paw-paw probably didn't have it in him to do another take!

LEAVE JOE ALONE!

Warren Berlinger and Linda Henning Guest Star

6:30pm

Happy Days

THE PHYSICAL

Richie, Fonzie, Potsie and Ralph receive notices from the Army to report for physicals. Can the team of Mrs. Cunningham, Laverne&Shirley, and the Pulaski Twins extract the boys from the military industrial complex?

Too bad Joe played when he did. Today's mediocre players make the kind of money a superstar like Joe made in his prime.

r71 They're not selling plans -- they're selling a "service" that will supposedly find the best plan for you.

Carmine Ragusa helps the Fonz out!

6:30pm

Happy Days

JOANIE'S WEIRD BOYFRIEND

Thinking her life is dull and that she's always treated like a little kid, Joanie wants to join the Red Devils gang. The gang gets word of the all night initiation and flips! The Big Ragu has a hot ass, but can he live forever?

6:30pm

Happy Days

FONZ-HOW, INC.

Howard comes up with the idea for a trash compactor, and Fonzie becomes his partner to help him build it. They become very excited about the success they could achieve and present "The Gulper" to a corporation for consideration. The investors are impressed, but want to change the name of the gadget to “The Insatiable Bottom.”

Early Joe’s Cro-Magnon beauty.

6:30pm

Happy Days

SPUNKY COME HOME

Fonzie gets a dog, and she escapes when Ralph and Potsie accidentally leave the gate open. Ralph tells Fonzie that the dog, Spunky, was stolen. Tragedy occurs when everyone realizes that the entire town is covered in Spunky!

Everyone loved his choice in undies.

Rookie Joe.

6:30pm

Happy Days

JOANIE'S FIRST KISS

Joanie is set to go on her first car date, so Fonzie and Richie show her how to counter any advances her date may make toward her. Joanie says she may not want to counter his advances and would like to experience her first kiss. Worried for Joanie, Ralph and Potsie attempt to explain how to Present Hole with dignity!

Who is this fool who has ruined this thread?

Honey, this thread started off with half a tank of gas - at best! And now? Well, it’s done.

The good moments were many. We had some pictures of Joe, the firm he does commercials was discussed, and Joe Theisman showed up! All in all, a decent diversion. As my friend Tractor would say, “good job, men.”

Will you forgive me a corana compulsion?

6:30pm

Happy Days

MARION'S MISGIVINGS

When Marion's friend is dumped by her husband for a younger woman, Marion begins to think that Howard may do the same to her. Her delusions gain traction when, upon a surprise visit with sandwiches, she finds Howard selling a hacksaw to Jenny Picallo! Will Marion finally run away with the Fonz? Ride to Live, Live to Ride!

Agreed r83, r84. The fake Happy Days synopsis aren’t funny or even related and the author thinks he is high-larious.

What nationality is Joe? he looks a little like Travolta in his early years.

I think Shaq has him beat. I genuinely thought this was real when I stumbled upon it.

Does he have CTE?

R87, he’s American

Those choppers need upgrading

Stop R90 you know what I mean

Namath is the son of Hungarian Catholics and grew up in steel country PA

6:30pm

Happy Days

SECOND WIND

Al is to receive a man-of-the-year award from the Sons of Italy, but he doesn't have a date. Fonzie sets him up with a meter maid, and she agrees to go with him to the banquet. Sicilians in attendance don’t know how to take Al’s newest menu item - Don’s Big Dago! Lenny and Squiggy show up, and pretty soon everyone is slapping dicks!

Joe Namath is to football what Neil Patrick Harris is to gay men. Both made the playing field respectable.

6:30pm

Happy Days

JOANIE'S DILEMMA

Joanie is unsure about whether she wants to go with her boyfriend to "The Alamo," a special section of Inspiration Point. As they approach the lineup of super masc ex-marines, who does she see in her place?! The Big Ragu! Can the Fonz and Mrs. Cunningham work it out?

Tune in!

Because it's not 1968 anymore, op?

6:30pm

Happy Days

HOT STUFF

Chachi accidentally sets Arnold's on fire, with Fonzie, Potsie, Ralph, Richie, and the Malachi Brothers inside. It’s up to Mrs. Cunningham and the Pulaski Twins to quell the fire and keep the boys from surrendering to their basest desires! Hot Stuff!

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6:30pm

Happy Days

A POTSIE IS BORN

Potsie secures an audition as a singer for a local club. The potential success goes to his head, and he treats those around him as inferiors. He receives his comeuppance when Joanie finds out how he really got the gig - suck jobs!

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I didn't know any of Marilyn Monroe's husbands were even alive.

6:30pm

Happy Days

IT ONLY HURTS WHEN I SMILE

Fonzie comes down with a terrible toothache but refuses to see a dentist. Meanwhile, Howard is upset about Joanie's choice of attire for a wedding she's attending. Will Joanie change her dress? Who will fill Fonzie’s cavity?

Swinger.

When Joe was on the cover of PEOPLE, we saw his third nipple.

I've been binge watching shitty 70's drive in movies and Namath turned up in some biker movie called "CC and Company".

For those hating on Broadway Joe, just watch him for a few minutes. He is sexy AF. A real, live satyr. Not too many of them around anymore.

Joe will be the new Colonial Penn spokesman!

6:30pm

Happy Days

CHACHI'S FUTURE

After a day of fishing with Howard, Chachi gets to thinking about his future. He leaves the house determined not to come back until he finds a career that would be sufficient to support Joanie should they get married one day. He lands a job as a pool boy for a notable news commentator. Things go swimmingly, until Chachi realizes his boss’s needs are less than conservative!

Guest Star: William F. Buckley

I watch his hands on those commercials.

6:30pm

Happy Days

SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU

Roger's old flame from his school days shows up, and Roger cannot resist her. Fonzie attempts to prevent her from breaking his heart again by employing ‘da suck jobs.’ Roger passes out after the action, and Richie sings Blueberry Hill.

Tune in!

R53, Young wifey left Joe because she wanted a Show Biz career and even changed her first name in anticipation, after her marriage. Joe just wanted a wife and family by then.

R20, from that angle, and that age -- yes, he was sexy. But from the side, he was all NOSE.

He must be about 80 now. I was shocked to see how old and leathery he looks,

[quote]He had that All American Boy look back in the day.

No, R57, it was the Travolta / goomba look. The chicks loved it!

6:30pm

Happy Days

MAY THE BEST MAN WIN

Fonzie is the best man at the wedding of an old pal, but the bride-to-be stops the ceremony after spotting Fonzie. Meanwhile, K. C. awaits word about a part in the school musical. Follies is the production, and everyone has their eyes on the part of Phyllis - - even Mrs. Cunningham!

Tune in!