Jets Super Bowl legend Joe Namath is getting blitzed by a former UPS driver who claims he was attacked by the grid great’s three dogs while making a delivery to Namath’s Florida home.
David Gunter, in a lawsuit filed in West Palm Beach, says Broadway Joe’s German shepherd, Weimaraner and Labrador retriever caused him to suffer “vicious and serious personal injuries” during the 2007 attack in Tequesta.
Gunter’s lawyers say that he hasn’t been able to work since then and that he needs four operations to repair his neck, back and a knee, The Post’s Rich Calder reports.
Namath’s lawyer didn’t respond to e-mails and telephone messages.
Namath’s dogs have caused trouble before. Other complaints were previously filed against two of them, and one, Leo the Labrador, was ordered last month to be muzzled and leashed full-time.
Before filing his suit, Gunter went before a special magistrate last month. “I was basically in fear of my life,” the ex-delivery man said.
At the hearing, Namath, 66, tried to claim that his dogs aren’t dangerous. “I have pictures at home of them with children,” he said. But WPBF-TV in Florida reported Namath also conceded, “They may be aggressive at times,” since “they’re dogs.”
Namath — who famously led the Jets to a 16-7 victory over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in 1969 at Super Bowl III — defended his pooches:
“You’re talking about people aggressively attacking . . . I’ve had people come up to my kitchen window, up to my front door, and I don’t know who they are,” he said. “I say ‘Go away.’ I get fired up. My dogs infer that fired-up [attitude.]”