Namath. Forty years later, Joe Namath's still Super Read.

TAMPA - Forty years later the biggest role of the big quarry is still Joe Namath of the Jets. It's not because he was the best quarterback to ever have fun in the Super Bowl because he wasn't. If you are looking at everything, the best quarterback in the description of the plot is Joe Montana, who played four Super Bowls and won them all and threw 11 touchdown passes in those games and still hasn't thrown an interception. If you want to bosh about one game, then it is perhaps Phil Simms, who was 22-for-25 one adjust in Pasadena.

Still the biggest unparalleled is Namath. Terry Bradshaw won four Super Bowls, Montana had his four. Troy Aikman had three. So does Tom Brady. Namath only had the one. And come hell it remains the one.

For one Sunday at the Orange Bowl 40 years ago, Namath was Ali and Babe Ruth combined. Nobody ever proved that Ruth absolutely called his guess in that World Series against the Cubs. Namath called his. People have been making predictions get a kick out of Namath's ever since. His is the one citizenry remember.

He had so much facilitate that day, from his continuous backs and receivers and the guys blocking and all the forgotten heroes of the Jets' defense. But he dominated the daytime with cockiness and style, the headway Ali could in those years. And all this lifetime later, it is the only prepared advantage talking about for the band he played for, the New York Jets. January 12, 1969 has now become what 1940 was for the New York Rangers.

The Giants have won three Super Bowls now, played in another. The Jets, who won as an material design for their caper as the Colts did in that sudden-death championship ploy against the Giants in 1958, have not been back. Even though the Cardinals are not a enormous victim against the Steelers, we still blather about the other inauspicious champions today.

It is always function of Super Sunday and the palaver always starts with the Jets of Super Bowl III, who shocked the the human race that Sunday in 1969, if not themselves. Because the more Namath and the catch of them looked at the film, the more they were undeviating they could gain the game. "Weeb wasn't thrilled with me," Namath told me one set in Miami, when the big profession had gone back there and Dick Schaap and I went and sat with Namath one afternoon.

Namath smiled then and said, "But I'd been raised to certain the truth." He is as much "The Franchise" as Tom Seaver is with the Mets. He is still the greatest quarterback in Jets history. There were others who had some years.

Vinny Testaverde had a vast year for Bill Parcells and was as much an MVP as anybody in the combine the terminating age the Jets made it to a championship game, against the Broncos. But there was just the one Super Bowl. Even Namath never made it back before his knees were from start to finish shot.

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