(Originally published by the Daily News on August 18, 1969. This story was written by Norm Miller.)
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Aug. 17 - Broadway Joe and the Jets won the city of New York today in a poker game in New Haven. With all the prestige of the championship of the city as table stakes, Joe Namath and the Jets cleaned out the Giants and left ’em for broke, 37-14.
Before an SRO crowd of 70,874 at steaming Yale Bowl, the wise guy from Beaver Falls, Pa., made this first Fun City Bowl 60 minutes of misery for the fall guys in Giant uniforms.