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The Snake was always my favorite QB. He worked hard, and he played hard. Manziel's a kid for whom everything came easy. He should've spent the bye week in the film room.

I can only imagine the stats that Snake and Namath would have racked up in today's NFL.

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Neither Snake or Namath had easy childhoods.

Namath grew up in coal country so you know his childhood was tough.

Stabler had an alcoholic father who was with the family most of the time. When he was there he was basically AWOL.
He told about dragging his dad out of bars and dives when he was a teenager.
His dad did sober up later in life but Kenny didn’t really have a father until he was grown.
He admitted the reason he and Al Davis had a strained relationship 6was that he was looking for Al to be a father figure, something Al didn’t do.

By the time they got to the NFL Snake and Namath had one good knee between them.
They played with pain that would put most modern QBs on the IR list.
Try to imagine Tom Brady playing with Namath’s knee problems.
We would be saying Tom who?

And Namath and Snake both knew how to play hard in the fourth quarter