HELL YEAH JOES GOT GAME I DONT BLAME HIM I LIKE TO MUNCH ON HER COOKIE TOO I BET I COULD MAKE HER PISS RIGHT DOWN HER LEG AS I GAVE HER A GOOD TONGUE JOB.:D
In selling a violent business as family entertainment, TV networks can usually present the NFL as an earnest world largely devoid of boorishness. Occasionally, especially with live TV, viewers see something else. Like on ESPN's coverage of New England's road win against the New York Jets on Saturday night, when Hall of Famer Joe Namath and other ex-Jets were on hand for a halftime tribute. In the second quarter, ESPN sideline reporter Suzy Kolber interviewed Namath. After initially speaking coherently, Namath then used halting language to repeatedly tell Kolber, "I want to kiss you" — before Kolber ended the interview.
Namath, 60, wasn't being quite as boorish as when ex-Washington Redskin John Riggins famously told Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to "loosen up, Sandy baby" at a 1985 dinner in Washington. But Namath was on TV. Jed Drake, an ESPN executive in ESPN's production truck at the game, said Sunday that "hindsight is always 20/20. If we had known definitively he was in that kind of state, we wouldn't have conducted the interview."
Namath couldn't be reached for comment Sunday. And the atmosphere of a stadium, where fans yell things they wouldn't in other venues, isn't exactly known for its decorum. But then, fans needn't feel any obligation to the image of a league that made Namath rich and famous, or make sure that their comments are sanitized for our convenience.
Namath's performance wasn't explicitly noted on Sunday's NFL shows. But Howie Long, on Fox's pregame show, might have made an oblique tribute. "I don't care about today's games," Long said. Then he turned to Fox's Terry Bradshaw to say, "You're cute. I really want to kiss you." Hilarious. Still, TV sports can provide a break from the complexities of adult life.
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