He says that was easy because his co-writer Dick Schaap made it that way. “Cause I Get Better Looking Every Day,” was about football and fun. His first book, “I Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow.
Recently he was voted the most interesting character in the NFL’s first 100 years. Namath was one of the most famous athletes on the planet when he helped engineer the New York Jets to the championship in Super Bowl III. It was one of the few parts of the conversation that focused on sports. It taught me humility we don’t accomplish much on our own, that was one of the major reasons.” “It taught me how to deal with life, with people. “Sports taught me a lot of things,” he said when I asked why he decided to write another book, his fourth, in his seventh decade. At 76 years old, Namath said he wanted to share some of his life’s experiences.
It’s a line also included in the foreword of his latest book, “All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters.” Calling Joe a “reluctant author” the book chronicles the highest highs and the lowest lows of Namath’s very public life. “We have to learn from each other’s shortcomings and triumphs,” Joe Namath told me this week from his home in Jupiter. Who’d have thought the guy considered the icon of the “Me First” decades of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s is actually most interested in helping others?
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