# Anyone else sick of Joe Namath insurance TV ads? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [November 30, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848 "2020-11-30T19:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/1 "2020-11-30T19:42:20Z")
He’s on my TV more than Bloomberg was back when he was running. More then Law and Order reruns. CNN seems to run 3 or more per hour. Maybe he gets paid for every ad that runs like TV show actors. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/2 "2020-11-30T19:44:18Z")
I can’t change the channel fast enough. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/3 "2020-11-30T19:44:57Z")
The good news is that those ads are for Medicare plans, and the Annual Enrollment Period for Medicare ends on December 7th – the huge number of ads for various Medicare plans that are on TV right now will largely go away on the 8th. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/4 "2020-11-30T19:45:23Z")
Yeah, they’re obnoxious, as are the Bill Shatner ads and Billy Fucking Graham, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/5 "2020-11-30T20:02:22Z")
Does he think waving his hands around will make him more persuasive? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/6 "2020-11-30T20:20:47Z")
I was sick of Joe Namath back when he was playing football. Now, even more. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/7 "2020-11-30T20:23:22Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > More then Law and Order reruns. I’m sick of ol’ Joe and his too-large teeth. But not as sick as I am of the Braxtons and Love After Lockup and Growing Up Hiphop endless commercials. Don they endlessly advertise Law and Order during the Braxtons? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/8 "2020-11-30T20:26:56Z")
He’s not the only football player. I’ve seen ads with “Iron Mike” Ditka and Joe Theismann, too. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/9 "2020-11-30T20:55:59Z")
you look at his stats and they are not really HOF quality. 50% completion, more Ints than TDs I guess winning a SB and playing in NYC helps a lot. He did not get in on his first time eligible. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/10 "2020-11-30T22:02:16Z")
When’s the last time anyone called him “Broadway Joe”? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/11 "2020-11-30T22:03:07Z")
I saw one of these ads, only one time, with Kelsey Grammer in it. He was trying very hard to be sincere and dignified, but all I could think about was how low he had sunk, and doesn’t he have enough money that he doesn’t need to do that? Or did he get taken to the cleaners yet again by yet another trophy wife? ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/12 "2020-11-30T22:05:49Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I was sick of Joe Namath back when he was playing football. Now, even more. you mean “pa-lay-ing” football, of course I was thinking today as I saw yet another insurance commercial that it would have been hard to imagine the guy in the white fur coat selling insurance back at the time he was a counter-culture icon (compared to flat-topped Johnny U) ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/13 "2020-11-30T22:54:56Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > you look at his stats and they are not really HOF quality. 50% completion, more Ints than TDs I guess winning a SB and playing in NYC helps a lot. He did not get in on his first time eligible. Basically, he did one really cool thing. The Jets were big underdogs in the Super Bowl against the Colts, he called it that the Jets would prevail, and they did. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/14 "2020-11-30T22:56:47Z")
“I took the miracle spring water and God appeared to me and told me Peter Popoff was an evil fraud. Also I got a check for $1500.” ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/15 "2020-12-01T00:15:34Z")
I happened to see Mr. Namath shilling on TV just yesterday. I don’t watch commercial TV on my own, so it was the first time I had ever seen the ad, and it was the first time in many years I had seen Mr. Namath. Did you see his ears? They’re enormous! [https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+namath+2020&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjD6s7Xv6vtAhWiKn0KHZDJB9AQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=Joe+Namath+2&gs\_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIECAAQGDoECAAQHjoGCAAQChAYOgUIABCxA1CJJlikfWCAjgFoAHAAeACAAXiIAaIFkgEDMC42mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=ZIrFX8OoHaLV9AOQk5-ADQ&bih=1005&biw=1920&hl=en#imgrc=jKuY9FcF-CC6eM&imgdii=UHWH9oZyuovqeM](https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+namath+2020&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjD6s7Xv6vtAhWiKn0KHZDJB9AQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=Joe+Namath+2&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIECAAQGDoECAAQHjoGCAAQChAYOgUIABCxA1CJJlikfWCAjgFoAHAAeACAAXiIAaIFkgEDMC42mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=ZIrFX8OoHaLV9AOQk5-ADQ&bih=1005&biw=1920&hl=en#imgrc=jKuY9FcF-CC6eM&imgdii=UHWH9oZyuovqeM) ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/16 "2020-12-01T01:29:53Z")
I dunno. Maybe if he put some pantyhose on? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/17 "2020-12-01T03:48:55Z")
I’ve heard he goes away if you tell him it was just vapor lock. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/18 "2020-12-01T04:14:23Z")
I think Joe Namath resembles Shemp Howard. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/19 "2020-12-01T14:10:48Z")
I remember an ad in one of those Skymall magazines, where he appeared as a spokemodel for some investment house. This was before the on-screen meltdown with Suzy Kolber, so I guess there were still some people willing to hand their money over to an ex-jock who wouldn’t have been doing such ads if he actually knew how to manage money. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848/20 "2020-12-01T14:40:07Z")
this website was created but is now inactive > **[Kissing Suzy Kolber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_Suzy_Kolber)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Kissing Suzy Kolber was an NFL-related humor blog run by a group of unsanctioned sports bloggers. The site began in June 2006 when the founders came together as like-minded commenters from the sports blog Deadspin. In 2006, 2007, and 2008, the site won the Weblog Award for Best Sports Blog. > KSK took its name from an incident during a December 20, 2003 game broadcast between the New York Jets and the New England Patriots, in which former Jets quar... Kelsey Grammer has been married to his 4th wife since 2011. He has 7 kids , 3 are still under 18. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-sick-of-joe-namath-insurance-tv-ads/926848.md?page=2)