Posted on 08/16/2007 4:45:21 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
It's weird to have the name Joe Namath and the word "grandpa" in the same sentence, but there it is.
Football legend Namath, the 1970s sex symbol and fur-wearing pop culture icon, has been made a grandfather with the birth of a little girl to his little girl.
Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath visits with his new granddaughter, Natalia, and her mom, Olivia, and Natalia's Aunt Jessica (right). Natalia was born May 21 at Good Samaritan Medical Center. Grandpa Joe says he's 'very happy.'
Olivia Namath, 16, quietly gave birth to Natalia Namath on May 21 at Good Samaritan Hospital in WPB. Both mom and baby are doing fine.
Broadway Joe deemed himself "very happy" when Page Two caught up with him at his home in Tequesta to ask about his granddaughter. Wearing only a T-shirt and shorts, the overly tanned Namath quieted his four dogs, including a Weimaraner and a Chihuahua, on the steps of his Intracoastal home before flashing a huge Pepsodent smile.
"There are some things in life that are wonderful, and this is one of them," the 64-year-old former New York Jets QB and actor said. He transformed a wing of his home, in the Bay Harbor neighborhood, for Olivia and baby Natalia. "I'm just happy that everyone's healthy."
He declined to answer more questions.
Olivia is Joe Willie's youngest child with ex-wife Tatiana, whom in divorced in 1999. They have another daughter, 21-year-old Jessica.
Joe Namath is mostly known for guaranteeing a victory in Super Bowl III in 1969 against the overwhelming favorites, the Baltimore Colts. The guarantee quickly entered NFL lore, and Namath was among the era's most prolific pitchmen and TV analysts.
Namath, whose love for New York's nightlife was legendary, is semiretired after a boozy sideline TV appearance during a 2003 game in which he put the moves on female reporter Suzy Kolber.
I find it really cold to say, “Well this is better than getting an abortion.” It is also better that beating the child to death, torturing him, etc. etc.
Yes, but it really is better to be alive than dead. There’s no getting around that.
“He declined to answer more questions.”
They might have been asked... heh
Apparently the stigma of out-of-wedlock birth seems to be disappearing.
Look at the celebrity mags. Angelina, Jodie Foster, now Nicole Ritchie — having children without marriage.
Years ago Ingrid Bergman was censured for such a pregnancy. Now we’ve become inured.
Though I’m glad Namath’s daughter didn’t have an abortion, I wonder if she has become a chip off the old block. Copying her father’s behavior, perhaps?
I don’t think he could care less about his strug-uh-ling.
The reporter could have put it in, and an editor drone could have taken it out. Impossible to know. But yes, that should have been in the story.
Oh come on.
There are a lot who look worse at 20! He don’t look so bad.
Bill Maher once said, in answer to critics of Sammy Davis Jr., “give me 64 of Sammy’s years to 90 of the average puritan”.
I’m just saying...he don’t look so bad.
Sure, I noticed there was something missing. They never mentioned his pantyhose.
You posted this now what do you think is missing you should answer and not run away!
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