[Alberta's Child]

It's hard to assess Namath's place in history as a quarterback because he played most of his career pretty banged-up, and because the game has changed so much over the years that numbers don't mean much anymore. But if you really want to get a sense of how good he was, leave aside that Super Bowl III game and look at his entire 1967 season.

Namath threw for 4,007 yards that season, and that was in an era when QBs simply didn't do that. That was almost 700 yards more than the second-highest total in the NFL, and it would be twelve years before anyone would do it again (Dan Fouts in 1979, I think).

[Covenantor]

And he did it when the season was 14 games at the time.