![]() As different as they were they actually had a good relationship. (I'm surprised no one took the test for him.) His grades and test scores were not good enough for Maryland so he headed south to Alabama and came under the tutelage of Bear Bryant. His SAT scores were low and not good enough for most colleges. A HS girlfriend did much of his homework. Joe was a bit of a hustler, hung out at the local pool hall and was not much of a student. His HS football coach was an excellent teacher and taught him the fundamentals of QBing. ![]() He also had massive hands which contributed to his ball handling abilities. Joe was a natural athlete with great hand-eye coordination and he excelled at baseball, basketball and football. Joe was the youngest of four sons and an adopted daughter and they all lived in a working class neighborhood. (The Hungarian name Nemet became Namath.) His father worked hard at the local steel mill. Namath's people came to America in the early 1900s from Hungary and settled in Beaver Falls, PA. ![]()
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