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VANITY: Anyone else depressed watching Joe Namath do Medicare Coverage Helpline commercials?

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.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: adultdiapers; aging; jets; joenamath; medicare; newyork; newyorkjets; nfl; sports
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To: neverevergiveup

I am not depressed. I am sick of him.

He was all so slightly before my time. I mean I always like the guy, but this commercial is suck a late night scam quality commercial I am sure are a bunch of old folk getting screwed on their medicare supplemental because of him.

He should know better.


61 posted on 11/21/2019 7:24:31 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: neverevergiveup

I’m 58 and probably one of the the younger ones here.


62 posted on 11/21/2019 7:44:54 PM PST by ebshumidors
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To: Robert DeLong

They must look like their mother.


63 posted on 11/21/2019 7:47:02 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: neverevergiveup

Probably the same as how I felt when I saw Cheryl Ladd (from the original “Charlie’s Angels”, not the woke feminist garbage currently in theatres) pitching menopause meds. “I’m now officially old”, I announced to the room.


64 posted on 11/21/2019 7:51:06 PM PST by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: Billthedrill

I saw good ol’ Carl in a Che shirt. That was enough to make me lose my lunch.


65 posted on 11/21/2019 7:54:09 PM PST by Rastus
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To: neverevergiveup
Lee Majors. The Bionic Ear.


66 posted on 11/21/2019 7:56:54 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: neverevergiveup

Once is enough; having to view this day after day rapidly increases the speed to our old age.

Same feeling when Tom Selleck is seen in ads for the reverse mortgage people. Old age = something we live to be. (period)


67 posted on 11/21/2019 7:58:11 PM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: zeebee

Mark Spitz used to be my neighbor.


68 posted on 11/21/2019 7:59:28 PM PST by just Grace (If I canÂ’t get there on two wheels, I probably donÂ’t want to go!)
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To: RummyChick

Perhaps getting older sux, but getting better does not. Exercise, eat right, avoid prescription meds....


69 posted on 11/21/2019 8:42:41 PM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: RummyChick
“Getting old sucks.”

No doubt, Carlos Santana would much rather be Jimi Hendrix/s

70 posted on 11/21/2019 8:46:37 PM PST by daler
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To: neverevergiveup

Not so much depressed as disgusted.

But at least he isn’t pushing ‘Reverse Mortgages’...

Yet.


71 posted on 11/21/2019 9:39:47 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Pearls Before Swine

You beat me to it, and said it better.

Remember the old days when commercials could entertain and make you desire something... now all they do is push fear, despair, greed and perversity.


72 posted on 11/21/2019 9:43:04 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: neverevergiveup

Joe wrote a book in his glory days with subtitle “I can’t wait for tomorrow because I get better looking every day”.
Well. tomorrow has come , Joe, and I think you have disproved your theory...but I still think you’re a good guy.


73 posted on 11/21/2019 11:00:37 PM PST by chuckee
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To: neverevergiveup

I caught an interview of Joe N. on Fox News about a week ago.

He openly talked about how he had been addicted to alcohol for years but finally, with help, became sober.

He was very lucid and seemed very “normal”.


74 posted on 11/22/2019 2:33:39 AM PST by octex
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To: Equine1952

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.

That was the incident that pushed him to quit using alcohol. I heard him on that same Fox News interview. I have a new respect for Joe Willie.


75 posted on 11/22/2019 2:41:36 AM PST by greenishness
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To: neverevergiveup

Better that than pantyhose.


76 posted on 11/22/2019 3:02:14 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Michael.SF.

well she would only be 45.....not quite old enough for menopause...some precursors maybe!


77 posted on 11/22/2019 3:03:40 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: neverevergiveup

This reminds me of a member of an earlier generation feeling sad that Joe Dimaggio was hawking Mr. Coffee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7Q8t9m4Ns


78 posted on 11/22/2019 3:19:38 AM PST by xp38
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To: neverevergiveup

I find the idea of Broadway Joe needing meals delivered and rides to medical appointments to be hilarious.


79 posted on 11/22/2019 3:51:17 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Civil War II has begun, but only one side is fighting.)
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To: neverevergiveup

What about Eric Roberts and the walk-in tubs?
Kind of funny how age sneaks up on one - i don’t remember being as old as a lot of the oldsters that do the ads these days - but the calendar says I am.


80 posted on 11/22/2019 4:17:29 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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