All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Language: English

Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2019

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As new condition white boards/green spine/white spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments. Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs. "If you're not going all the way, why go at all?" - Joe Namath " "I guarantee it." I didn't know those three words would be taken so seriously. I was just trying to shut up a heckler, but the papers dismissed my victory prediction ahead of 1968's Super Bowl III as brash egotism. Sure, I was irritated that the New York Jets were eighteen-point underdogs, but I had studies the films and I knew what we were up against. Besides, my promise was based on confidence steeled by wins and losses in life: a hustling childhood in the Lower End of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; playing football at the University of Alabama under legendary coach Bear Bryant; receiving a record-breaking rookie contract; and having knees so torn up that I couldn't get groceries out of my trunk without cringing in pain. In what people now call one of the biggest upsets in professional sports, my brothers simply took what the Baltimore Colts gave us. We controlled the game and steadily confuses and demoralized one of the best football teams in history. And what came after that victory was glorious, sure. Besides a championship ring, there were pantyhose commercials, glitzy parties, and women I couldn't turn down. Some say I inadvertently ushered in the modern superstar era. But I don't know about any of that. The sensationalism around the nickname "Broadway Joe" made for easier headlines than the torn hamstrings, broker bones, multiple knee surgeries, and weekly shots of mysterious drugs to ease chronic pain. By my last year of pro ball, boy, sprinting the distance of the field without falling over was a crap-shoot. And then came a very public fall from grace. But there's one philosophy that has kept me alive: it's not how you fall down, it's how you stand back up. And, man, have I had a lot of practice being knocked down. So here I am, getting up again, pulling back that proverbial curtain to expose the great and terrible moments in my life, the ones that made me who I am today. Maybe you'll learn something from my journey, or perhaps you'll just find my life story entertaining. But I do know one thing: you'll never think about Joe Namath the same way again. I guarantee it." - Joe Namath, from the front an rear jacket flaps.

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Title
All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Author
Namath, Joe; Mortimer, Sean; Yaeger, Don
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, New York
Publication year
2019
Condition
As New
Dust jacket
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition
Printing
1st Printing
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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