Joe Namath says the drunken interview with ESPN’s Suzy Kolber saved him
Rock bottom for Joe Namath came as so much of his life in football did: with a national TV audience watching.
It happened during a 2003 interview with ESPN’s Suzy Kolber during a game between the New York Jets and New England Patriots, when a clearly drunk Namath leaned in and told her, “I want to kiss you.” Kolber, ever the trouper, tried to steer the interview back onto the game, but Namath added that he “couldn’t care less” about what was going on out on the field. Namath, whose boozing and carousing ways were the stuff of legend when he played for the Jets, suddenly was ridiculed, the interview becoming a meme-worthy national story, an embarrassment for a then-60-year-old father of two.
Published at Wed, 08 May 2019 16:28:31 +0000
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