5 Worst NFL Quarterbacks With Super Bowl Rings

Joe Namath, New York Jets – Winner: Super Bowl III, 1/12/69

Let’s start this list off with an eyebrow raiser, shall we? Yes, Joe Namath.

For all the glitz, and all the glamour, and the whole “Broadway Joe” routine, Namath was actually a pretty average quarterback, not only in the Super Bowl, but throughout his career.

He had personality, and and indomitable will to win, but wasn’t the most accurate or fundamentally sound quarterback (kind of like an evil Tim Tebow doppleganger).

Namath finished his career with a 50.1 completion percentage, and 173-220 touchdown to interception ratio, and a 62-63-4 record as a starting quarterback. His numbers against AFL teams as opposed to his stats after the merger are another sign that maybe he wasn’t really all that great (QB rating of 70.1, with 37-23-4 record vs AFL. QB rating of 59.9, with 25-40 record vs. NFL)

His knee and other injuries kept him on the bench for over half the games in five of his 13-year NFL career, and other than that magical 1968 season, his career was fairly nondescript. Were he any other quarterback besides Broadway Joe Namath, he’d have been thought of as laughable.

Super Bowl III was primarily a defensive affair, and the only reason that Namath came out victorious was because Baltimore Colts quarterbacks Earl Morrall and Johnny Unitas threw the ball to the Jets defenders more times than they did their own team, tossing four interceptions in the game between them.

Broadway Joe got the spotlight and helped make the game more popular to the masses, but the Jets defense were the real heroes of that Super Bowl.

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