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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      Non-Film Score Discussion: Joe Namath hyperbaric treatment   Last Post   Posted:   May 17, 2015 - 2:33 PM     By:   dragon53   (Member) I thought you Namath fans would be interested in this article. Link: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/joe-namath-gets-results-from-hyperbaric-chamber-treatments-for-concussions-164511928.html    Posted:   May 19, 2015 - 7:42 AM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) Namath played in an era when opposing teams were out to put you in the hospital. Hard hitting was legal. Late or not. While Namath was the ultimate playboy athlete of his time, he was one of the toughest players on the field. And he was respected for it. If Tom Brady played in the 1960's and early 1970's he would have had a rude awakening. There would be no whistles and penalties to protect his pampered ass. When Namath led the Jets to victory in Super Bowl III he gained a ton of respect from the players in the old AFL who were sick and tired of being referred to as "the inferior league" by those in the already established NFL. Namath's knees were already bad in his early years, and after that Super Bowl victory there was an "understanding" amongst AFC defenses that when they hit Namath they would hit him above the waist and spare his knees. Not all teams subscribed to this policy however, as the salty mustachioed Oakland Raiders of that era would still look to put Namath and other quarterbacks on the ground (or in the hospital) by whatever means necessary. Namath's body took a lot of punishment over 10 years. Sports medicine was still in the dark ages. He was reduced to wearing the old heavy metal leg braces of the time under his uniform pants to support the knees. He was a fast runner and mobile in his youth, but as you can see in the videos below as time went on he could barely move other than to drop straight back in the pocket to launch a bomb with that rifle arm. Namath had the greatest dropback into the pocket and throwing style I've ever seen. It was art. I'm glad to see that Joe has survived all these years after the toll pro football took on his body. Many of his counterparts from the 60's and 70's were not so fortunate. Namath and the Jets road to Super Bowl III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHbjNL4S3Y    Posted:   May 19, 2015 - 11:12 AM     By:   dragon53   (Member) ANZALDIMAN: Namath suffered his legendary knee problem at Alabama during a game against my alma mater, NC State University, when he was running to avoid being sacked and his knee gave way.    Posted:   May 19, 2015 - 11:55 AM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) Hi Dragon. In this video from his 60's days at Alabama you can see how quick Joe once was on his feet. He could move from the pocket with ease, throw accurately on the run, and even execute the jump pass. You rarely if ever see the jump pass anymore in the NFL. He was nimble. Watching him in college and then watching him as a Jet is like night and day. Had his knees stayed healthy Namath had the tools to have been right up there with the greatest of quarterbacks in history when he was through. The sad part in watching him in the early 1970's was that he was basically reduced to being a thrower. His offensive line trying desperately to ward off any hard hits against him. And being immobile cost him better looks downfield. His body betrayed him and by the mid-1970's he missed a lot of time and was basically done. By that point it was not just the knees. His entire body was battered. That footage of him thin, and in a Rams uniform laying out flat and motionless on the turf after a hard hit on a rainy night on Monday Night Football is a sad moment for anyone who appreciated what it took just for Namath to continue to suit up at that point. Like many Jets fans I prefer to forget that one season he spent with the Rams. It was painful to watch. Joe was stubborn and thought he could still play a while longer. He retired after that game.    Posted:   May 19, 2015 - 10:25 PM     By:   dragon53   (Member) ANZALDIMAN: Many years ago, I saw a video of the play where Namath hurt his knee against NC State. Unfortunately the video isn't on Youtube. Here's what Namath said about his knee, "When I was playing at Alabama, our football shoes felt too light on my feet, flimsy; and when I ran, they would turn out on me. So before every game, I taped them up for support, which made them heavier, until they felt like they were kind of part of me. Well, the one game I didn't tape them up was in my senior year against North Carolina State, when my knee collapsed. I wasn't hit on the play; my knee just went. So I've been taping them up ever since, including when I got to the Jets..."    Posted:   May 19, 2015 - 11:36 PM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) The seriousness of the injury was originally misdiagnosed. Which is where a lot of the problems began. Namath ran a fever after it happened, and yet the doctors were all set to let him play the next week! Can you imagine that stuff happening today with all the millions at stake and the guaranteed contracts? Sure, send a guy with torn ligaments in his bulging knee right back out to play. Go boy! Go get em! That was the way it was back then. You can almost imagine some bizarre scene out of Green Acres with a couple of country bumpkin doctors in lab coats surrounding the bed. About all they did was stick a needle in and drain fluid from it before games and tape him up. Eventually it was both knees. And it goes back to what I said about the dark ages of sports medicine. That Namath even got (at the time) the record setting contract from the Jets considering the extensive damage done to his knee in college was a miracle in itself. It makes for a great story, but Namath was in constant pain throughout his career and for decades afterward until he eventually got the double knee transplants.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Joe Namath hyperbaric treatment    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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