Was Muhammad Ali actively ducking Joe Frazier? Joe Namath really wanted to know. (Or, perhaps the newly-minted talk show host just loved working a room.)
The New York Jets legend’s short-lived talk show lasted just one season, but what a season it was. Granted, The Joe Namath Show was never in-line to take home a boatload of Emmys (much less one), but the word of the day (at that time) was “star.”
The bigger the star, the greater the opportunity, and dishing out a talk show to the man who guaranteed victory as 18-point underdogs in Super Bowl 3 seemed like a fantastic idea.