“Beyond Broadway Joe gives great insights into that famous Jets group and those individuals. A great browse for any football fan and mandatory for Jet enthusiasts.” -Rex Ryan, previous New York Jets coach

Over the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the NY Jets’ historic achievement, a nostalgic, inside look from the men who composed the team behind Joe Namath’s Super Dish III win, filled with exclusive insights and tales through the surviving players, coaches, and management of that about Beyond Broadway Joe: The Super Bowl TEAM That Changed Football championship team whose victory changed the landscaping of American football.

On January 12, 1969, the brand new York Jets astonished the nation when they beat the favored Baltimore Colts to win Super Dish III. The main element to the Jets’ achievement was quarterback Joe Namath, whose superstar skill, revolutionary character, cockiness, and appeal made him an instantaneous celebrity. But Namath didn’t get it done alone.

In Beyond Broadway Joe, the associates of that famous team share for the very first time their often funny, sometimes poignant, and usually perceptive personal stories and memorable anecdotes about the Super Bowl team, its players and instructors, and that famous win. They reminisce about how they became Jets, their success over the gridiron-ten of these had been AFC All Superstars that magical calendar year of 1968-and reveal for the very first time the technique Namath used to frustrate the Baltimore Colts’ protection. They speak about their reactions to Namath’s ‘assurance’ of the Jets’ Super Dish victory, and how the ’39 Overlooked’ Jets behind him allowed Joe to satisfy that boast. Furthermore, Lederer provides interviewed members from the Baltimore team, to provide a 360-level account of the game that transformed it all.

The Jets players think about their evolution from a team considered a part of a ‘Mickey Mouse’ league, through the sudden transformation caused by the signing and introduction of Joe Namath on America’s sporting scene. The reserve points out from different angles-including Jets’ game plans-why Jets’ coaches and players were supremely confident going into Super Dish III. Compiled by a lifelong Jets’ fan, Beyond Broadway Joe captures memories-and through never-before-seen material-sheds light on what happened from your 1963 launch from the Jets to the Super Bowl period and in Super Bowl III itself.

This first complete celebration of the Jets’ Super Bowl team is crucial for each and every Jets diehard, for fans from the old American Football League, those that follow the annals of professional football, as well as for all who love the game.