Broadway Joe and the Super Bowl

Every Super Bowl, every year, brings back the memory of when Greenville's own Dan Foster, Sports Editor of the Greenville News, had to defend his Super Bowl story in a telephone conversation with none other than Broadway Joe Namath.
For anyone who has been a vacuum for decades, when Deion Sanders and all the other NFL trash talkers go into their routines, they are but a pale copy of the ultimate and original trash-talker --Broadway Joe Namath.
Namath came out of Beaver Falls, Pa, and made a national name for himself by playing quarterback for Alabama under coach Bear Bryant.
Joe cut a wide path, both on and off the field but he arrived, truly arrived, when his Jets were going to play the highly-favored Baltimore Colts and quarterback Johnny Unitas in the Super Bowl.
Never the shy one, Namath announced, long and loud, how his Jets were going to do things like wipe up the field with the Colts, In other words, he predicted victory.
This brash and totally unvelievable act was taken to task by football purists everywhere, including Dan Foster. Never one to shy away from a turnstyle or hesitate to spend company money, Foster was one of the many nationally-recognized fooball expert-scribes to attend this Super Bowl, and Foster took Namath to task for running his mouth, saying outlandish things, and a lot of othe stuff. The only think Foster didn't touch on was Namath's family.
Of course history proves Namath and his Jets really did put a whipping on the Colts a beathing that put the AFC and NFC divisions of the NFL on a much-mor even keel.
While the world was shocked, that wasn't the good part.
That night, that very night, way up in the night, Foster's hotel room telephone rang. Already asleep, Foster was roused to answer and was shocked by talking to none other than Broadway Joe Namath, who took Foster to talk over the contents of his newspaper column.
Now, think about it. Dan wrote for the Greenvlle News, the last time anyone checked on the map is still right in the upstate of South Carolina. History will prove the News did not have a newspaper rack anywhere in Florida, especially Miami. How in the Wide Wide World of Sports could Broadway Joe even hear of Greenville, much less be offended by a newspaper article that picked the wrong side.
The cold hard facts are -- Broadway Joe never, ever heard of Dan Foster or the Greenville News. Even if he had, it would have been just one more in a huge pile of articles that didn't give the Jets a chance.
The idea what Namath had not read, nor care, what he had written never occurred to Foster.  He could understand completely how Namath would see and be insulted by the article. He attempted to defend himself.
And Namath pulled him through the hot coals. It was a long conversation when, finally, Foster got Namath cooled down enough to talk in a civil tone. 
Somewhat appeased, the conversation between the Super Bowl Hero and the Upstate's finest scribe ended.
As far as I know, Foster never mentioned the telephone call to anyone. It was something he must have kept to himself to the grave.
Maybe you are wondering how I found out about it. I could say Namath himself brought it up one day while we were havin lunch in the bar the NFL made him close, but that wouldn't be anywhere near the truth. I did meet Namath  at a meeting of the Easley Football Jamboree not too long after this, but I didn't learn about the converstation, then, either.
The way I found out was by talking to the REAL caller, who only said he was Namath.  It was the Sports Editor of another Upstate newspaper.
 It sounds just like something I would have done,though.