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Super Bowl III

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The Mental Skill That Decided the Super Bowl

If you can improve at this skill, you will win in sports and in life.

Impossible Upset

It took the impossible to create the Super Bowl. Forty-six years ago, the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, despite entering the game as 19 1/2-point underdogs. “We’re going to win on Sunday. I guarantee it,” said Jets quarterback Joe Namath, who backed up his words with a 16-7 victory […]

The Biggest Mistakes Competitors Make

Forty-four years ago this weekend, Joe Namath changed our world. By leading the New York Jets to an upset over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts, Namath rescued the Super Bowl and pointed it toward the iconic event we know today. He did it by avoiding the two biggest mistakes people make: underestimating themselves, and overestimating […]

Why the Jets Picked Joe Namath

You can make the case that Super Bowl III, which took place on Jan. 12, 1969, was the single most important sports event in the history of North America. Without that game, in which the New York Jets defeated the heavily favored Baltimore Colts 16-7, there might not be a Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. […]