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Totally Clutch Athletes
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Joe Namath, New York Jets
Before Super Bowl III, Namath made the most famous guarantee in sports history -- that his underdog Jets would beat the powerful Baltimore Colts -- and then he went out and, on January 12, 1969, in Miami, Broadway Joe and his Jets backed it up.
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Joe Namath
Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1970
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