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Jets legend Joe Namath is akin to disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, covering up sexual abuse at his facility, according to court papers filed by a man who says he was assaulted there 51 years ago. Philip Lyle Smith, 64, recently told The Post about his horrific ordeal at a Joe Namath Instructional Football Camp, speaking publicly for the first time about claims he detailed as “John Doe’’ in an ongoing Brooklyn lawsuit. Smith said his alleged sexual predator was well-known Brooklyn Poly Prep Country Club football coach Philip Foglietta, later revealed to be a serial pedophile who...

Jets legend Joe Namath covered up sexual abuse at his facility, according to court papers filed by a man who says he was assaulted there 51 years ago. Philip Lyle Smith, 64, recently told The Post about his horrific ordeal at a Joe Namath Instructional Football Camp, speaking publicly for the first time about claims he detailed as “John Doe’’ in an ongoing Brooklyn lawsuit. Smith said his alleged sexual predator was well-known Brooklyn Poly Prep Country Club football coach Philip Foglietta, later revealed to be a serial pedophile who abused scores of students at the tony school. Foglietta, who...

Watching 'Broadway Joe' Namath do Medicare commercials puts a punctuation mark on getting older. It will happen to all of us, but I just remember him after his career, cavorting with various women in the 80s - and then marrying a 22 year-old. Living large. Now he's talking about having meals delivered.

Joe Namath, one of the most charismatic players in NFL history and one of the game's greatest quarterbacks, said today that if he'd known then what he knows now about concussions, he would never have played football. Namath, who has recently undergone treatment for brain injuries, was asked in an interview with Tiffany Kenney of ABC's West Palm Beach, Florida, affiliate WPBF-TV whether would still play the game, given all he has learned about the effects of concussions. "No," he said. "I hate to say that because if I had a child who wanted to play I'd let them play...

One year ago today our nation’s greatest sniper, Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle was tragically murdered. Today at the Superbowl, Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath will honor Kyle at the coin toss by wearing a custom bracelet honoring him. Namath tweeted this out earlier today. See his Twitter picture below. U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle was celebrated for being considered “America’s deadliest sniper” with 160 confirmed kills out of 255 claimed kills. He was shot at a gun range by another veteran on February 2nd of last year. God bless you Chris and all of our fallen brothers and...

Nancy Grace lost her cool today while waiting for the George Zimmerman verdict to come down. During another exchange with Zimmerman friend Frank Taaffe, Taaffe made the assertion that the jury is mostly on the side of acquittal, but there’s one holdout. Grace lit up and demanded to know where exactly Taaffe was pulling that statistic out of, and repeatedly shouted at him to explain as he kept going. At one point, she even cried “Oh, dear lord in heaven!” Taaffe argued that the state never successfully disproved Zimmerman’s self-defense claim, and told Grace he believes the jury is 5-1...

There was a time, maybe thirty or forty years ago, before cable TV and cell phones, where one man could be so impressive in his accomplishments and force of personality, he would almost universally be recognized as the coolest man in America. His field could range from medicine, science, sports, politics or entertainment. Since the advent of the internet, though, this is no longer possible. Who, in your opinion, was the last "coolest man in America"?

TUSCALOOSA | Joe Namath has accomplished some impressive things in his lifetime. In 1964, he led the University of Alabama to a national championship under equally legendary head coach Paul “Bear” Bryant. That same year, he signed with the NFL’s New York Jets for a then-record-breaking salary of $400,000. During his first year in the pros in 1965, he was named American Football League Rookie of the Year, and just four years later, Namath guaranteed the Jets would defeat the Baltimore Colts to win Super Bowl III, and came through on that promise. At 9 a.m. today in Coleman Coliseum,...

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...

Everybody has their favorite memory of Super Bowl III, aka the Game That Changed Pro Football Forever -- everybody who goes back that far, that is. Maybe it's Matt Snell scoring to put the Jets ahead of the Colts, the first time the AFL had ever led the NFL (in a Real Game, anyway). Or perhaps it's the shot of Joe Namath jogging off the field, right index finger aloft. For me, though, it's Curt Gowdy, NBC's play-by-play man, calling Sports Illustrated's Tex Maule a word that can't be used in this newspaper after the telecast was over -- but...

I'm new to the Free Republic... but have been reading for a while now. I don't know if I am posting this correctly... but I was just wondering... I feel like I am really losing it over this election. Is this a nightmare... we may end up with JK as our so-called President? I can't concentrate at all, I am so distracted by the race. Thanks goodness that there are only a few days left, because I don't think I can take much more. I've become a realclearpolictics.com junky... checking it several times a day. I have found some comfort...