"Hi. I'm Joe Namath."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Joe Namath had many strengths. "Blending in" was not among them.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. He probably has more television hours in his Medicare commercials than in his football career.

He probably has more television hours in his Medicare commercials than in his football career.

[lastlib]

2. It's good to see that, at his advanced age,,,

...he does know what his Namath.

But I wouldn't buy a Medicare plan from the guy.

[FakeNoose]

3. Not dressed for the game? You'd think he'd just stay home

One wonders why Namath is on the bench, when he obviously can't play. Probably injured.

[malthaussen]

9. It was common for injured players to attend the games then.

One might even say "expected." While he couldn't play, he could still observe the other team and learn about its defenses in the event he'd play them later.

-- Mal

[SCantiGOP]

4. His Medicare ads

are one of the few things on TV that cause me to grab the remote and get his obnoxious mug off of my TV.

[Boomerproud]

7. I can turn the channel for literally 10 minutes while watching

MeTV or really any cable channel and come back and the ads are STILL running. It's ridiculous.

[mysteryowl]

8. Those ads of his are horrible!

[Jeebo]

11. Those ads are a con job.

When he says ditching Medicare and signing up for Medicare Advantage "will add up to $140 per month to your Social Security payment" that's obviously a con job because OF COURSE if you're not getting Medicare any more those deductions from your Social Security payment will stop. But you'll still have to pay that in some way OTHER than it being deducted from your Social Security. You'll still have to pay it to whichever Medicare Advantage plan you're signed up for to replace Medicare, you just won't be having it deducted from your Social Security, you'll have to set it up to be deducted from your Visa or checking account or write them a check monthly or somehow. The net effect will not be that your monthly expenses will be up to $140 less, which is what is being suggested. Total con job.

-- Ron

[sorcrow]

5. He visited my cousins' town before the super bowl

Apparently, management wanted to keep Broadway Joe away from the various fleshpots on the way to Miami. He traveled with Bill Mathis and included a stop in Mathis' hometown of Manchester, Georgia. He cut quite a figure in his trademark fur coat in a rural town in middle Georgia.

I thought he was a cool dude. I even had a pair of Joe Namath endorsed Dingo boots in the seventh grade, though I did pass on the panty hose that he advertised.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[mentalsolstice]

10. My late cousin's ad agency created that panty hose ad.

For years afterward no woman in my family was without hose!

[frogmarch]

12. The panty hose ad :)

[CentralMass]

6. Broadway Joe