You may be right about Champ. I sympathize with him tho because I've been a Jets fan as long as he has and the decade following that game would prompt any fan to contemplate suicide. I remained loyal to the team along with some buddies and we shared season tickets. After one more good season ('69) followed by the heartbreaking loss to the Chiefs in the first- ever wild card game, the team went on a downward spiral that lasted 11 LONG years. The Jets' record from '70 through '80 was 57-103. We're talking barely above the expansion NO Saints for the entire decade! Not only injuries to stars (Namath, Philbin, Eliot) caused it but bad drafts, year after year. Then add in the "could only happen to the Jets" moments. There was no free agency back then but somehow we managed to lose Verlon Biggs, an all-pro DE, uncompensated to the Redskins after '70 at the prime of his career. Did we learn our lesson?. Sigh... After the end of the '75 season John Riggins, our all-Pro RB (and the first Jet to exceed 1000 yards in a season, on his last carry in his last game as a Jet) left, again as an uncompensated free agent and again to the Redskins. And there's more from that period. I sat in a snowstorm on Dec.16,1973 and watched OJ Simpson run for 200 yards and become the first 2000 yard rusher and the only one to d0 it in 14 games. That was Weeb's last game as coach and I watched as he was booed and pelted with snowballs the entire game. I watched Namath go down season after season until he was a shell of himself, and still saw the front office try to build around him. I thought it was a good thing when the team brought in Lou Holtz in '76 after Weeb's son-in-law and hand-picked replacement continued the Namath charade for a couple more years. When Holtz wrote a Team Song and made the players sing it I started having my doubts. It only got worse as that 3-11 season (2nd out of 3 in a row) drew to a close. After week 11 or 12 a defiant Lou gave a rah-rah speech to the press that he knew what he was doing, had a 5 year contract and wasn't going anywhere. After week 13's game he resigned. Whew! After typing this far I'm too depressed to continue. Suffice it to say it was embarrassing to be a Jets fan for over a decade. The only saving grace was that the '70s Giants were just as bad, also rivaling the Saints for worst team of the decade, so I was still able to show my face in public. My point about Champ- yes, there actually is one- is that he may have completely burnt out on failure after failure, embarrassment after embarrassment, year after year, until he finally lost it. That I understand and that's why I sympathize with him.
The 70s were brutal I am sure, Luckily I wasn't around for those years but at least most got to see a SB before the decade.
I'm right there with you. That's why I continually say that young fans have no right to criticize or judge us older fans. They have no clue what we suffered through with this franchise.
If U were 2 at the time of SB 3 that makes U today 48 which makes this post from a grown person to be one of the most childish posts I have seen here & I have seen plenty of them
That comeback against the Texans a few years ago was unreal. I walked out of WingHouse thinking the game was over, and turned it on in my car to finish listening and to listen to the postgame.. They started driving down the field, and I flew back to the WingHouse and caught Sanchez throwing that pass to Santonio in the corner of the endzone and was losing my mind. People looking at me like I was nuts. Good times.
Rather than respond and clutter up this thread, I am just going to put you on ignore. Enjoy your misery - you've earned it.
I always remember the bomb Sanchez threw to Edwards along the sidelines in the Colts playoff game, 2010? Or when Shonn Greene put the icing on the cake in the Pats game and Rex ran to the end zone.
Unfortunately we lost that Colts game but that was a beautiful throw w/ Freeney in his face for 80 yds. The Greene play was great in that it ended that game, what a feeling being in that Stadium at that moment.
I wouldn't trade my life for Champ's miserable excuse for an existence for a dozen VLTs for the NYJs.
Color me miserable too... Every once in a while I consider the fact that the NY Jets may not win another SB title before I'm dead & buried. At this point, it's a race against time.
I wasn't alive, I have never seen a SB. the worst that Jet fans have it are the ones that started watching early 70s but if you were alive and can remember SB III you have had it better than any other Jet fans that were not. Family made me a Jet fan.
Yeah. Me too...family had a part. Namath sold me. He made the NY Jets relevant. That's one thing you never get. I had the pleasure to spend three working days with him. I have a b&w picture around here somewhere. A nicer gentleman you could not meet. Pure class.
