Posted on 11/21/2019 5:50:09 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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.
Saw a picture of Carlos Santana not too long ago. On the cover of AARP magazine. I shall say no more.
Getting old sucks
Broadway Joe, what happened to you?
Is he pushing a Medicare Advantage plan?
Time; the great equalizer.
Yes, Namath does look a bit rode hard and put away wet a few too many times, but it’s the journey; not how we look when we get there.
I’d say Joe has had a helluva journey. I bet he would too.
Yup
He looks OK to me at least for his age.
In his book, Bear Bryant said the best player he ever had was John David Crow. The best athlete was Joe Namath. Now that surprised me. I knew he was a great QB, but Bryant must have coached many, many great athletes.
Am I depressed watching him?
Every 10 minutes, it seems.
The ad is rather deceptive, too, dressed up to closely resemble a Medicare card, although it directs you to salespeople for whichever company he’s hawking.
Well, I guess he needs some dough.
It’s of a piece with the once famous people who sell reverse mortgages. I view those ads as equivalent to the spokesperson taking a reverse mortgage on his reputation, riding it down into the sunset.
None of us get out of this life, alive.
or Mark Spitz selling a heart monitor
Last time I saw him he was hammered at a Monday Nite football game of the Jets hanging on the on field announcer chick that just wanted a ticket on Southwest Airlines. Getting old really does suck.
Darn right! Is he that bad off that he must do lying lowlife commercials? He tells the viewer to call a number, claiming it’s to Social Security to get information. When it’s actually to a (probably scheister) insurance company which will try to finnagle a policy onto poor suckers. Shame on Broadway Joe!
Do what I do. Slip on a pair of mens pantyhose. Put some Noxema on your face. Lie down on your St. Marys Playmaker Bed and Bath collection sheets. And finally drink some Ovaltine. You’ll feel better right away. I guarantee it and so does Joe Namath (in his commercials).
It does not matter to me what he does.
Yes. Like he need a bus ride to a dr appt. unreal!
I wouldn’t post my before and after pix.
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