Everyone overrates Namath so much. The Colts were easily the best team that year with Johnny Unitas at QB. Unitas was hurt and wasn't going to play. Claiming you are going to be a Unitas-less Colts shouldn't have been such a big deal.
You are so ignorant. Unitas didn't play a single regular season or NFL playoff game that entire season. His replacement, Earl Morrall, was the NFL MVP that season. The Colts only brought an injured Unitas into Super Bowl III out of desperation. Do yourself a favor and learn about the team before you pretend to be a fan. I wasn't alive back then, so I'll let guys like JWWS and statjeff and others rip your sad, pathetic post to shreds even worse. Because I know you will be stupid enough to reply.
Bingo!!! As much as I would kill for a superbowl, I have a sick love for our problems. There is nothing like this team. I walk around damn proud I'm a jets fan. No better team in the world in my eyes
Really? It's that simple, huh? Guess you should become an ESPN analyst. Rex didn't carry the team with that defense or anything... :rofl: Please explain how else you get Mark Sanchez to an AFC championship without great coaching.
The Jets were hated for decades before Rex cam on the scene..I still say and will always say that it goes back to Broadway Joe signing with the fledgling AFC and then winning the superbowl the third year it was played. That in turn completed the need for the NFC to merge rather then go out of business (I know the process had already started when Namath first signed). Anyway the stoic NFC and their fans have never forviven the Jets for that and will hate them for decades to come too.
The Jets were hated by Al Davis and a few other old boys network owners, and fans of their division rivals. What we are seeing now never existed before 2009.
Because no other player, coach, or owner has ever guaranteed anything in between the Namath and Rex Ryan era. :rofl:
hey, at least there are people in the media pointing out how ridiculous the hatred for the jets is becoming. im not the kind of guy who cant handle people talking badly about my team, but its a completely different story when its just meaningless trash talking meant to get a rise out of people. while it has gotten worse in recent years, there has always been a lot of hatred for the jets. rex really gets under some peoples skin though for whatever reason. i guess they cant understand that its a game. the funniest thing to me though is that no matter how much rex tones it down, everyone still calls him a shit-talker loudmouth blah blah. cant win with these people, so might as well beat em on the field and let the football do the talking
The 1968 Colts were the best team in football in 68 and Earl Morrall started every game for that team and was All Pro in 68. Unitas had nothing to do with the greatness of the Colts in 68. Unitas threw 32 passes off the bench that year. He completed 11 of them, 2 for tds. He also threw 4 Int's. The Jets not Joe Namath beat the best team in football in 1968, a team up until that loss, was widely regarded as one of the NFL's best ever. Most Jets fans who argue how over-rated Namath was never saw him play and most like you don't know squat about football history.
You have to have some context. NYC is the only world class city in the US. It's also the financial, sports and entertainment as well as the media capital of the US. Most Americans are fat, dumb and generally don't live in a place that's a meat grinder. You have to be on your game all the time to succeed. People around the country love when NY or any symbol of NY fails. Namath got into it during SB week with a couple of guys from the Colts. He wasn't bragging he was defending his team that was already in the Championship game. The Jets pulled off the miracle upset. The team leader on the field the QB put a headline in the paper that said to his team that we can compete with this juggernaut. It was the first time anyone on the team saw that in print or heard it in the media. "We can win" The Jets were not a loved team back in 68 but there's always something lovable about a huge underdog. David is still a hero and talked about because of it. Bluster on the other hand, particularly from a New Yorker, isn't a loved trait. Rex is a darn good Defensive coach but if he is going to put a target on his back every year regardless if he has the goods or not, he is going to have to take a ration of shit. Lets face it the overweight, tatted, undereducated, derision of writers and fans who are twirling terrible towels, wearing dog faces or have barbecue sauce dripping from their brand new unofficial Alex Smith shirt wouldn't last 5 minutes in NYC. Of course they hate us. Since I'm a New Yorker, I don't give a shit.
Ever since Willie Joe and the Jets FORCED a merger between the Varsity NFC and the Pop Warner AFC into what's now called the NFL, there's been hard feelings towards the Jets that won't die for another 40 years of wandering the desert.
I didn't see the hatred. There was always a fair amount of disdain, and the beat writers have always had a thing about trashing the team, but never anything on a national scale. Really not until 2011, although there was a lot of fun to be had with Footgate. That probably would have kept going if the Jets hadn't beaten New England in the playoffs in 2010. The jackals were definitely waiting patiently for the Rex Ryan Jets to start losing, especially after his first presser.
I know they've won Super Bowls but is there anything more boring than the NY Giants? I don't hate them ...they are just boring.....and then you throw in Joe Buck with his monotone play by play and it zzzzzzzzzz time........
