Tag: Joe Namath

ESPN ‘College GameDay’ crew picks winner between Oregon and Texas Tech

ESPN College GameDay picks are in for Oregon vs. Texas Tech.

Oregon Duck fans might have felt a bit left out in Week 1 of the college football season. While it was nice to have a full slate of games back in front of our eyes after a long offseason, the Ducks weren’t being talked about very much. Because of the opponent, Portland State, the point spread was astronomically large, and there was no talk about Dan Lanning and his Ducks.

That changed this week, though. With Oregon flying to Lubbock to take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders, the Ducks are back in the conversation. All week, we have seen predictions set and picks be made. Finally on Saturday morning, the ESPN “College GameDay” crew broke things down and gave their opinions on the matchup, making ultimate picks for the outcome.

Take a look at who they picked:

Alabama legend Joe Namath selected as College GameDay picker

College GameDay selects Joe Namath as Alabama’s guest picker

This Saturday the Alabama Crimson Tide will host the Texas Longhorns in one of the marquee match-ups of the 2023 season. On top of the Longhorns football team, Tuscaloosa will also be the host of College GameDay this weekend as well as a handful of other broadcasting shows.

Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide are no strangers to hosting GameDay, but every single time it is special nonetheless. There are plenty of storylines that make this game so intriguing for even the casual college football fan.

Quinn Ewers played the best ball of his collegiate career in the first half against the Tide a season ago before suffering an injury, can he pick up where he left off?

Steve Sarkisian returns to Tuscaloosa for the first time since helping guide Alabama to a national title in 2020. Saban has been dominant against former assistants throughout the entirety of his career.

How will Alabama quarterback, Jalen Milroe, look in his first start against a top-15 team?

There is nobody better to have in town for this kind of monumental weekend than Broadway Joe! Joe Namath will be the guest picker for the Tide this weekend on College GameDay as Tuscaloosa is going to be BUZZING!

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Who could be Alabama’s guest picker for ESPN College Gameday this weekend?

A few candidates could represent Alabama this weekend as the guest picker on ESPN’s College GameDay. Who would you like to see?

There will be plenty of media personnel on hand for this weekend’s matchup between Texas and Alabama. Several familiar faces will be in Tuscaloosa prior to the game. One of those is the ESPN College Gameday crew. It will be the 17th time that the crew has broadcasted live from the University of Alabama campus.

Each week, there are guest pickers who join the set to pick games alongside the rest of the crew. In the past, Alabama has been represented by former Alabama quarterback Joe Namath and former Alabama golfer Justin Thomas.

Roll Tide Wire takes a closer look at some of the potential options to be the ESPN College Gameday guest picker this weekend.

The top high school QBs of all time: East region

That inlcudes the eastern region, where some of the greatest pro quarterbacks of all time played their high school football.

While some states are better known for producing great athletes than others, the truth is legendary competitors can come from anywhere. That includes the schools in the east, where more than a few of the greats played their high school football.

As the 2023 high school football season and opening Super 25 nears, we’re looking back at the best players of all time, beginning with the quarterbacks.

To create this list, we selected QBs who played at schools in the following states: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Virginia, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine. This format follows our breakdown for Super 25 football regions—East, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West.

 

Joe Namath turns 80 years old Wednesday

Happy birthday, Joe Namath!

Broadway Joe has reached another milestone in his life. The legendary Jets quarterback celebrates his 80th birthday Wednesday.

The man who guaranteed that the Jets would defeat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III is now an octogenarian.

Namath was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. He was a second-team All-Pro and Pro Bowler in 1972, as well as a four-time AFL All-Star before the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.

ESPN’s Rich Cimini wrote a great piece on a day with the legend in Florida that you can read to help celebrate his birthday.

Namath will get to see two more Jets legends join him in Canton when Darrelle Revis and Joe Klecko are enshrined as part of the Class of 2023 on Aug. 5, as well as seeing the Jets play the Cleveland Browns in the Hall of Fame Game on Aug. 3.

Happy birthday, Joe.

Aaron Rodgers on number change: ‘To me, No. 12 is Broadway Joe’

Aaron Rodgers wanted to keep No. 12 with Broadway Joe

Aaron Rodgers has a new team and he will have a new number. The Jets’ new quarterback will wear No. 8 this season, going back to the number he wore in college at California after 18 seasons wearing No. 12 for the Green Bay Packers.

No. 12 was available to the Jets in the sense that Rodgers was given the blessing by Joe Namath himself, for whom the number is retired. However, despite getting the go-ahead to wear Namath’s number, Rodgers wanted to keep the honor of having the number retired.

“To me, No. 12 is Broadway Joe and I didn’t even want to go down that path,” Rodgers said at his introductory press conference Wednesday. “I’m excited about going back to my college number.”

Rodgers clearly has a ton of respect for Namath and the history of the No. 12 for the Jets. His goal now is to make some history with the No. 8 and add a second Lombardi Trophy to the Jets’ mantle, especially since Rodgers noticed the Super Bowl III trophy was “looking a little lonely.”

Aaron Rodgers’ expected New York Jets jersey number, revealed

No. 12 is retired by the Jets, and though Joe Namath granted Rodgers permission to use it, the 39-year-old is opting for a change.

After a long wait, the Aaron Rodgers saga finally reached a conclusion on Monday afternoon.

The longtime Green Bay Packers quarterback is heading to the New York Jets as we all expected. In addition to swapping first-round picks in 2023, the Jets will receive a fifth-rounder this year while the Packers get New York’s second and fourth-round picks in 2023 as well as a conditional 2024 second-round pick, which becomes a first-rounder if Rodgers plays on 65% of the team’s offensive snaps this fall.

With all that out of the way, one major question remains: What jersey number will Rodgers wear in the Big Apple?

The 18-year NFL veteran has worn the same No. 12 jersey throughout his professional career, the entirety of which has been spent in Green Bay. But coming to New York threw a bit of a wrench into things.

The Jets have retired the No. 12 jersey, which was worn by Joe Namath, the only quarterback to lead the team to a Super Bowl championship. Namath actually apparently granted Rodgers permission to bring the jersey out of retirement, but instead, the 39-year-old has something else in mind.

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Rodgers will don No. 8 with the Jets in 2023, which he wore in college with the California Golden Bears.

As one of the top quarterbacks in football prepares to begin a new chapter in his career, he’ll be doing it with a different jersey number as he hopes to end a playoff drought that dates back to 2010.

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All-time Notre Dame NFL draft selections: New York Jets edition

Notre Dame’s ties with the New York Jets aren’t exactly extensive…

The New York Jets came into existence in 1960 as the New York Titans of the AFL.  They kept that name for three seasons before switching to the Jets in 1963 and their AFL and Super Bowl championships in 1968 played a huge part in the eventual AFL-NFL merger.

History hasn’t been so kind to the Jets however as they’ve never gotten back to the Super Bowl since Joe Namath’s famed guarantee over the Colts in January of 1969 and they’re a franchise that went just 6-27 from 2020-2021.  Last year saw a turn however as they still finished in last place in their division, but won seven games.  Could a playoff spot be in the picture this year?

It hasn’t happened often but perhaps a Notre Dame player could be on their way to get drafted by the Jets.  It’s something that has happened just four times before.

Here are the four former Notre Dame players to ever be drafted by the New York Jets:

Joe Namath says he’ll allow No. 12 to be unretired if Aaron Rodgers joins Jets

A new No. 12 in New York?

There’s no New York Jet more famous than Joseph William Namath, better known as Broadway Joe. When you talk about the New York Jets, Namath and his guarantee are the first things that come to mind.

Namath’s Hall of Fame career is why he is one of just five Jets players to have their number retired. It’s Namath’s No. 12, Don Maynard’s No. 13, Curtis Martin’s No. 28, Joe Klecko’s No. 73 and Dennis Byrd’s No. 90. At least, that’s how it is for now.

Namath, like everyone else in the world, knows his Jets will be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. One of those potential quarterbacks just so happens to also wear No. 12.

That someone, of course, is Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who is mulling over the decision to return for a 19th season in the NFL and whether he wants to play in Green Bay if he does return next season. If he wants to join another team, the Jets could certainly be in play. If, somehow, Rodgers does ends up in New York, Broadway Joe is willing to give up his No. 12 for the new No. 12.

Namath recently appeared on “Tiki & Tierney” and made the comment that he would allow Rodgers to wear No. 12 for the Jets if he does happen to join the team.

“I hope it can come true but it’s farfetched: I know Mr. [Jets owner Woody] Johnson’s trying to get a quarterback. If there’s a way he can get Rodgers,” Namath told the show. “I’m a big Rodgers fan, and I noticed that he wears number 12 of course. Man, if we get him, is he still going to wearing number 12? Because that number was retired years ago
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Namath added he wants Rodgers to wear his number and that “God almighty, yeah, it’d be great to have him in New York.”

Could the Jets actually have a new No. 12 leading the charge, almost 40 years after the number was retired? Broadway Joe would seem to guarantee it.