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“You know what? If you carry yourself with respect and you’re knowledgeable and you ask good questions, that’s all anybody wants,” she said. “I love the game. I love it and respect it and they know it.”
So what about Namath? Her profile skyrocketed from that. She realized it, but saw the incident differently.
“I never thought I did anything special,” she said. “I was just being me. You know what? Joe was being Joe. And Joe, unfortunately, one of his worst moments happened to be caught on national TV. But it doesn’t make him a bad guy. He’s such a good guy. And that turned out to be the silver lining of his life. That’s when he realized he really needed help. He didn’t have another drink after that. He got his life together.”
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