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Haven't followed football ever. As a physically slight boy, who got buried in a pileup once, I lost all interest. But I admired OJ Simpson, who turned out to be a cocaine abusing wife beater and murderer. I admired Joe Namath, who apparently was just as bad. I also admired Bill Cosby the rapist. Sports and entertainment icons cannot be trusted (Nobody better tell me any dirt about Flip Wilson, or I'll freak).
1 posted on 11/20/2023 1:37:48 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Everybody’s an “FN” victim these days.


2 posted on 11/20/2023 1:39:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Flip was a cross dresser. /rimshot

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3 posted on 11/20/2023 1:39:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Cue the Bongino rule. Wait 72 hours before commenting.


4 posted on 11/20/2023 1:41:03 PM PST by cyclotic (It's a great time to live in America. It's like the collapse of the Roman Empire except with wi-fi)
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So 50+ years ago, Namath let his name be associated with a camp for young people. Now HE is responsible for something someone did? This is just a torpedo shot into the legal system hoping to make a buck.


5 posted on 11/20/2023 1:42:06 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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What did Joe do to pi$$ off the Democrats?


6 posted on 11/20/2023 1:42:09 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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“I admired Joe Namath, who apparently was just as bad.”

Based on what? The man says Namath “should” have known. Is that evidence? Maybe in the 13th century.


7 posted on 11/20/2023 1:46:05 PM PST by odawg
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Accused of being aware of something someone else allegedly did 51 years ago.

Sounds like a shakedown.


10 posted on 11/20/2023 1:47:09 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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Very few people in the world get to be on top of the world without being a fundamentally bad person or compromised. Being compromisable is the gate to worldly wealth.


12 posted on 11/20/2023 1:50:45 PM PST by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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I admired Joe Namath, who apparently was just as bad.

Get bent, loser.

14 posted on 11/20/2023 1:56:23 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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The Post should hang its head in shame that it has to print such crap. This belongs in the National Enquirer or such other trash publication if at all.


15 posted on 11/20/2023 1:59:20 PM PST by KC Burke
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I went to a Joe Namath camp, all I remember was the bad food, tuna salad, all the time.

No molestation, it was at a Western Maryland college, everybody was professional.

I had worse experiences in my family home.

16 posted on 11/20/2023 2:00:18 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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So this guy continued going to that football camp for another 2 years after the abuse. I don’t know what’s up with him but if I was 12 and some grown man came on to me I would have stopped him immediately in no uncertain terms. This guy apparently went along with it because he was receiving special favors. Now he wants to blame Joe Namath looking for money. It’s not Joe’s fault this little punk went along with his fag abuser. If anything he should have sued the abuser.


18 posted on 11/20/2023 2:01:49 PM PST by jimwatx
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“Smith alleged that Namath’s negligence is analogous to that of the late Paterno”

From Smith: Namath should have known. Not analogous. Paterno knew and was active in the coverup.


19 posted on 11/20/2023 2:01:55 PM PST by TexasGator
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I see a lot of folks here defending Mr. Namant, expressing doubt about the story, and wanting to see actual evidence before slamming him.

That’s all well and good. Even NFL scumbags deserve justice rather than kneejerk condemnation.

I urge “ALL” to remember the same desire for real justice when the accused is a member of a group you don’t like or of which you disapprove.


23 posted on 11/20/2023 2:04:55 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Okay not knowing anything But what this guy and his lawyer are alleging in court filings it is a large leap to conclude anything

Question is what did Namath know and when did he know it.

Penn State had zero ability to claim they didn’t know after the Rose a bowl
Incident… so any claims of ignorance are lies

I am not saying Namath did not know, but it’s a far cry from
Allegation in a civil suit seeking damages, and what actually was known.

If Namath knew and turned a blind eye, then he deserves to be castigated. However just because someone accusing him of knowing does not mean he knew.


27 posted on 11/20/2023 2:08:57 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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The story is very disturbing, considering how many people in the Camp worked together to allow certain things to happen, assuming that they ever did happen. I almost wish I hadn’t read it, but nothing in what I read directly implicates Namath.

He did a lot of favors for the football camp staff back then. Little things to adults, but a big deal to kids. Joe would throw a ball to certain kids during practice, he would invite some kids to the lunch table every so often and others maybe not at all. He would autograph photo of him in uniform. Joe would do these things simply because the Camp staff asked him to. Probably made no difference to him.


29 posted on 11/20/2023 2:10:00 PM PST by lee martell
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https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/bill-cosby-supreme-court-appeal-conviction-overturned-1235197877/

Watch your mouth A-hole


31 posted on 11/20/2023 2:15:42 PM PST by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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You were saying?


33 posted on 11/20/2023 2:32:54 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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51 years, eh? Seems a long time to wait. Why not report the pervert earlier? Might have saved some other boys. If it happened at all.


36 posted on 11/20/2023 2:37:40 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Why did the kid go back three years in a row?


37 posted on 11/20/2023 2:37:47 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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