Jake Gyllenhaal: A Regular Broadway Joe
Memorandum
To: Hollywood
From: Scip E.O. Tex, Internet Provocateur
CC: God Loving Free World
Date: This very instant
Re: You are destroying America, motherfuckers

Dear Hollywood,
You've gone and done it now. This is war. WAR!
At what point during your Hotel Bel-Air mid-wine flight post-synagogue movie pitch to Harvey Weinstein did you get the idea that Joe Willie Namath should be played by Jake Gyllenhaal, a confirmed cinematic sodomite?
Right after the course of foie gras, I'll bet.
No David Hasselhoff? No Joe Penny from Riptide? What about, like, Wolverine? You could have offered us the simple courtesy of casting the Brokeback pitcher instead of the catcher. Heath Ledger was masculine and phenomenal in A Knights Tale.
Let's get this straight. Joe Willie is no man's frogurt receptacle. Even in lockup. Or dead drunk at an Erasure concert. If you were to find yourself in the hoosegow with Namath it is you that would be servicing him. Willingly. Cheerfully. Even if you were only in there for a couple of hours for an unpaid traffic ticket.
He played for Bear Bryant! He won the Cold War! HAS EVERYONE LOST THEIR MINDS?!
So, it is war then Hollywood.
Let me list my grievances. First, you toy with me by ignoring Flash Gordon come Oscar time. Max Van Sydow as Ming The Merciless? Ignored. Then you allow Al Pacino to play himself in his last nine consecutive movies. Now this. Namath will be played by Maggie's gentle brother - a dude who couldn't even beat out Toby Macguire for Spider Man and was too pansy to aerate a wog in Jarhead.
Let me tell you something about Iraq. Joe Willie Namath would fuck Iraq. And by fuck Iraq, I mean not in a violent way, but in a making love to an entire nation sort of way; so that the Sunnis and Shi'ias learn to internet date each other on e-harmony and get their heads straight and raise consciousness and do I Ching together. And just what is your sign, Akbar Al-Saliyeh? Let's hug this sectarianism shit out.
But, nooooo, Hollywood. You don't get what Joe means to us. This is primal. This is about manhood. This is about a crippled Joe after 94 ACL surgeries with knees that look like Freddy Krueger's best handiwork limping back into the fray against the Iron Curtain to absorb his 24th sack. This is about a dimple so deep that condors use it as a birdbath. This is Gary Cooper in High Noon. This is Joe I nailed three Braniff stews before breakfast & threw 220 career interceptions & was a 50% career passer but I'm still in Canton so fuck you Namath.
He is the merkin-chested Hungarian, a $400,000 contract signing hamby pamby loosey-goosey, good-lookin' Aqua Velva wearin' sonofabitch who could get away with wearing a full body chinchilla fur to a NFL sideline and pantyhose on a TV commerical. Yes, he's a drunk, but the festive Dean Martin kind of drunk that we used to have in the 1960s, before drinking became "a disease" and everyone had to act horrified about wanting to tie one on and quietly piss yourself to sleep in a barcalounger.

This is the dude who told Suzy Kolber he wanted her to examine his ceiling paint on national television. HE'S A MAN!
What is wrong with you, Hollywood elites? Do you get it? Do you even understand what I'm talking about? Is there no decency? Namath! Namath! Namath, you impotent fools. Our nation's virility is at stake!

Hollywood elites, full of your elitism, I will win this fight using the vast power of internets and my own feeble, badly misplaced outrage. And I will not stop until you cast someone completely and totally amazing. Somone like Joe Penny from Riptide. Or B.A. Barrackus. Or Megatron.
I will win.
I guarantee it.
Thanks for Ishtar,
Skip E.O. Tex
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The scene where Joe Willie and the Bear run the old “69 Right” together is going to get them an NC-17 rating, for sure.
Why do you think they called him ‘Bear,’ anyway?
by Woody Bombay on Nov 28, 2025 8:18 PM CST reply actions
That was outstanding. Of course you realize Hollywood only knows him from the guest appearance on the John Larroquette show.
In my version Namath is played by Vin Diesel and Kurt Vonnegut.
by Doperbo on Nov 28, 2025 10:05 PM CST reply actions
With Jake Gyllenhaal involved, somehow this movie will blame Joe’s knees on America. And Bush.
by CrazyJoeDavola on Nov 28, 2025 11:00 PM CST reply actions
Inspired as always.
I can’t remember the last time you went Ketchum on us and posted a typo so I’ll quietly point out it’s ‘hoosegow’ before someone else does.
Wonder what Joe Willie’s take is on this travesty. Although he’s probably focused on how many extras and production assistants he can nail.
by McLovin on Nov 28, 2025 11:10 PM CST reply actions
CJD — Maybe ‘bush’ more than ‘Bush’ ;)
They would have been far better off discovering a new actor and casting him as Joe. Hell, Matthew McConaughey, short arms and all, would have been a better choice. Then again, the idiot masses might wonder how Joe Namath became the Marshall coach.
by BoilerHorn on Nov 28, 2025 11:13 PM CST reply actions
Flash Gordon was one of the top five movies in history. “NO…Not the bore worms!”
Mr. T would be great as Broadway Joe!
by AustinYankee on Nov 29, 2025 7:59 AM CST reply actions
Ed Asner and Ken Davitian (aka Azamat from Borat’s movie) are auditioning for the part of the chinchilla coat.
by Texoz on Nov 29, 2025 8:59 AM CST reply actions
Flash was a pussy. Joe would have cracked down a three way with Dale & Aura while Tim Dalton tugged on his pud & wept.
ONWARD MY BRAVE HAWKMEN! Let this be known forever as Joe Namath’s Day!
by SeeingRed on Nov 29, 2025 10:31 AM CST reply actions
I shall dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back a new defensive coordinator.
by Scipio Tex on Nov 29, 2025 10:43 AM CST reply actions
Thank you for the kind words, but acutally, Rocky ended the Cold War when he knocked the fuck out of Ivan Drago.
I called Mark Wahlberg personally to go down there and straighten those Hollywood types out - but he said he was too dominatin’ hoes - something I can respect.
by Joe Namath on Nov 29, 2025 11:09 AM CST reply actions
That would imply that “those hoes” wouldn’t have sex with Joe Namath. This would be unpossible.
by rsgfrom03 on Nov 29, 2025 12:48 PM CST reply actions
“merkin”? Did you really type “merkin” in a sports story?
wow.
Go Flash Go.
by Parlin Hall on Nov 29, 2025 3:45 PM CST reply actions
Harvey Fierstine as Unitas?
Rosie O’Donnell as Weeb?
I will carry a javelin, shield and short sword in Scipio’s legion. Lead us, imperator! Roma victa!
by RomaVicta on Nov 29, 2025 3:51 PM CST reply actions
Joe Willie was trying to throw a laser 40 yard cross into Suzie Colber. I bet he did after the game.
by Houston Titan on Nov 29, 2025 6:22 PM CST reply actions
Flash, Flash I love you but we only have 14 hours to find a DC!
by F Bomb on Nov 30, 2025 9:57 PM CST reply actions
You are a disgusting, homophobic pig. Jake Gyllenhaal has more balls than your pathetic little, whiny, ass ever will. You aren’t a man you are a child. Joe Namath oked Jake portraying him. Yeah while he wore fur coats and shaved his legs. Take it up with him and leave Jake, a real man, alone.
by Ugly on Nov 30, 2025 11:02 PM CST reply actions
Oh and you complain about Jake being a pansy who couldn’t aerate a wog. That was based on a REAL Marine, Tony Swafford. Go call him a pansy because HE was the one who couldn’t aerate a wog, not Jake. You can’t seem to realize fact from fiction. You idiot.
by Ugly on Nov 30, 2025 11:14 PM CST reply actions
“You can’t seem to realize fact from fiction. You idiot.”
Oh, the irony.
by Scipio Tex on Dec 1, 2025 1:31 AM CST reply actions
Both the intetional and unintentional humor on this site is top notch.
by Minnesotahorn on Dec 2, 2025 6:16 PM CST reply actions
Do any of you guys remember when Richard “John Boy Walton” Thomas played me in a made for TV movie?
That was the worst casting ever
Once I burn’t my shirt ironing…..oh the irony
by Hank WIlliams Jr. on Dec 2, 2025 7:13 PM CST reply actions
Joe N. chose Jake.
Link
“MAKING MOVIES: Now we know why Jake Gyllenhaal has been seen tossing around a football so much lately. He’s going to play Joe Namath in a film about ‘’Broadway Joe.’’ Also, it seems the idea of Gyllenhaal’s casting was suggested to the film’s producers by the NFL Hall of Famer himself. Namath is a huge fan of the young actor and wanted him for the role over others being considering, including Mark Wahlberg and Josh Hartnett.”
by Joe's chose Jake on Dec 3, 2025 7:57 AM CST reply actions
well, if the competition was marky mark and josh hartnett, then this isn’t really that bad.
by longhornmatt on Dec 9, 2025 10:27 PM CST reply actions
“That was based on a REAL Marine, Tony Swafford. Go call him a pansy”
Email me his phone number, I’ll call him a pansy. I’ll call him names that will make him cry. Like shithead, that always works at family reunions. Grandma gets to talking about how when she was a little girl she had a pony, I just bust out with “Hey shithead, shut the fuck up and eat your vegetables or you’re going back in the basement” and yeah, she shuts up and cries.
Plenty more where that come from.
by WhoooTex on Dec 27, 2025 12:34 PM CST reply actions
Gyllenhaal? Are you kidding? Keanu Reeves must have been busy.
Come on, Dirk Diggler would be a much better choice for Namath. Let’s face you gotta have the cool of Dean Martin while being able to pull off a feather boa.
I’m sorry, but if you can kiss another man as a professional actor and do a sex scene with him, you are in no way qualified to play a drunk macho smirk encrusted skirt hound.
Having Gyllenhaal play Namath is be like having Howie Long being portrayed by Mango.
All we will be thinking while watching the movie is……hey isn’t that Heath Ledger’s rodeo queen up there?
I’ll have to turn away if he licks his fingers before he goes under center. I’m scarred enough already from his handiwork as a cowboy.
I want to watch a football movie, now I’ll find myself enduring another Gyllenhaal flashback cringe flick.
Thanks for ruining westerns for me forever Hollywood, and hey why not throw football onto the man on man campaign for the mainstream…..gack
I think I just threw up a little……
by Eight Seconds on Jan 3, 2026 2:25 PM CST reply actions
I honestly have never heard or seen Gyllenhaal act, but I find it ironic that so many MANLY men on this site are bashing the guy for acting in so many UNMANLY movies they have seen!!
IRONY I say!
by Show Horn on Jan 9, 2026 9:59 AM CST reply actions
David Hasselhoff can delete the Recycling Bin.
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