He Knows Something You Don’t Know
With the Super Bowl approaching, I thought that I would deliver a commentary on Super Bowl III. As a New York Jets fan, this is definitely the Super Bowl that goes down as my favorite. Joe Namath, the Jets quarterback, led his team to the 1968 AFL Championship after dominating the AFL East, finishing a whopping four games ahead of the Houston Oilers at 11-3. In the AFL Championship game, they faced the defending AFL Champion Oakland Raiders, and won in a dramatic 27-23 game capped by a fourth-quarter pass to Don Maynard after giving up ten points in the fourth quarter to go behind 23-20.
Their opponent was the Baltimore Colts, a team that went 13-1 in the regular season before dominating the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns (the one team to beat them in the regular season) in order to earn the right to represent the NFL in the Super Bowl. The Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls, dominating the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I (35-10) and the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl II (33-14), and the 1968 Colts were considered to be even better, so the Jets were 18-point underdogs. Joe Namath thought otherwise, and the rest is history. Here is more information on the game:
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January 29th, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Hi Steve,
Have to admit I have no idea when it comes to American football, being a foreigner as I am, so most of the details of this post are way over my head!…
Nonetheless, Athletics and sports stars and coaches can provide massive inspiration for life. Like Joe Namath in your example here, knowing something that no one else knows gives an awesome competitive advantage.
Thanks for sharing this lesson!
Jym
PS. It says here that you’re CommentLuv plugin needs to be updated…
January 29th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Thank you for your reply, Jym! I don’t know how much American football compares to Australian rules football, but he knew because the team saw game films and saw the Colts’ weaknesses, and the Jets adopted a plan to use Maynard as a decoy deep (even with a leg injury, he could still beat the Colts deep, and he almost caught Namath’s long pass earlier) while making a lot of short passes and runs to wear down the Colts. I don’t know how much it will help, but here is part one of a series of videos on YouTube that shows Super Bowl III in its entirety.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBe3_2HG0pE&feature=related
PS Thank you for letting me know about CommentLuv. I’ve had some problems on other blogs, so I guess it’s fallen off my radar. Thanks for letting me know! I’ll go ahead and fix it now.
January 30th, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Hey Steve,
Here’s another bit of information about Joe Namath and Superbowl III that most people don’t know: Joe believed in meditation and was good friends with Deepak Chopra who I’ve studied with.
Joe told Deepak after the that the game, during the game it was like he was watching himself from a distance making all those great plays and passes, just like he had meditated and visualized.
Meditation is very powerful…
Coach Freddie
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January 30th, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Hi Steve,
Although I do like to watch football every now and then, I cannot say I knew, nor do many others, of being aware of all the facts stated here.
With Joe Namath knowing strategic information, it helped in getting ahead in the game.
Apparently, knowing your information too in order to explain what happened in Superbowl III with Joe Namath goes to show your having an advantage as a leader when it comes to discussing football history.
Thanks for sharing.
Nelly
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January 31st, 2011 at 10:41 am
Thank you for your reply, Coach Freddie! I did not know that about Joe Namath. I still remember one of the most amusing things about that week was when one of the Jets players told Weeb Ewbank, the Jets head coach, that they should probably stop watching game films for fear that they would get overconfident. It is amazing what happens when we can see what others can’t.
January 31st, 2011 at 10:44 am
Thank you for your reply, Nelly! I’ve read quite a bit about sports in my day, and it never ceases to amaze me how much Super Bowl III changed everything in American sports. It is always a good idea to know what you are getting into, and the Jets clearly did that day, while the Colts thought they did, but all of the turnovers and missed opportunities shows that they did not.
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