It might be an army, navy, or marine one, or a baseball, football, or basketball one - it’s up to you’”Īfter Namath’s high school football team won the 1960 Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League championship, he received a flurry of offers from Major League Baseball - sweetened with bewitching bonuses of $15,000 to $50,000 - that were rebuffed. Dads often said, ‘Son, you’re going to get a uniform when you get out of school. “Sports were taken very seriously in my area - they were a way to get into college and a better life. And though all of the siblings were skilled athletes, Joe was the early, luminous standout in basketball, baseball, and football for that, and more opportunities in the future, they pushed him to excel and win:
They could have showed me once and left it at that, but they wanted me to do it perfectly.”Īccording to his new memoir, All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters, Namath’s hometown of Seneca Falls, Pennsylvania, was a baseball-loving community. “Bob and Frank were the ones who taught me how to throw a football from the ear to get a quick release…Bob played quarterback until he quit high school so he played the position best…Frank even developed his throwing style from studying Bob…Growing up with rough, all-American brothers, they were going to teach me things, sure, but in a rough do it now and how I tell you style. Joe Namath’s cosmic quarterbacking career with the New York Jets and the Los Angeles Rams might not have happened without help from his three older brothers:
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