I also got to see him at the Rockpile in his heyday. So pardon me for waxing rhapsodic, but Joe Namath was the most effortless and elegant passer the game has ever known. His passes were more poetical than mechanical. If they don't belong in the the Halll of Fame, then they belong in the Louvre.
And, lest we forget, he happened to win the most historically significant game in the history of the sport.