HP--You do a great disservice to Koufax by comparing him to Namath. I do see where you\'re going with this--both were ouchy, had supreme tools and a short period wherein with those tools they achieved a level(s) of brilliance. But as brilliant and clutch as Namath was that one SB season, his overall performance that year or any other for that matter was never on a par with the brilliance of Koufax from what 1962-1966. Those five years he was arguably the best pitcher in baseball bar none--the argument,if there was one, was whether Marichal (underrated), Gibson, Drysdale or any other in that period even came close to Koufax that year. Remember Gibson\'s nosebleed season was I think 1968. That\'s an argument that Namath never got involved in--he wasn\'t the paragon by which others were measured at least not on the football field.
Namath was flamboyant and talented like Favre. Also like Favre, he had tendency to think his arm strength and desire could overcome bad decisions. Of course, they didn\'t.
But Koufax in that five year period was on much higher plane of accomplishment.
