Super Bowl III

January 12, 1969 - Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida - Super Bowl III, the day the AFL gained some respect. Super Bowl III pitted the AFL Champions, the New York Jets, against the NFL’s heavily favored Baltimore Colts. The most famous artists of this game may have been the confident promise of the ever-trend-setting Jets Quarterback Joe Namath, who declared in pre-game interviews that the Jets would win the game, according to the Bleacher Report. He gave it as a guarantee! It was almost a laughable joke at the time as the Colts were loaded with Johnny Unitas at quarterback, and his backup was the legendary Earl Morrall. The Colt's head coach was Don Shula, how could they lose to this team from what many considered an inferior league? The Jets, of course, had Colt's former coach, Weeb Ewbank, at the helm, who once led the Baltimore squad to the NFL Title in the Greatest Game Ever Played, the 1958 NFL Championship against the New York Giants. Well, Namath backed up his claim of victory by setting the football world on its ear as the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts, 16-7. The MVP of the game was one of Joe Willie Namath of the NY Jets; how appropriate that was!

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