classic. I saw the feature, and I liked it. If only for Rex's appearance, and his air of confidence. When he said, "What curse, its not like we traded Babe Ruth?!?", I felt better.
your attitude is commendable, but we were all like this when we were 21 as well.... give it another 20 years of Jet follies and you'll understand where the unbelievable amount of frustration anger etc come from if you're 21 you were, what, 9 or 10 for the AFC championship game in 98...that means for most of your life as a fan, you've seen a relatively good period of the Franchise history and only a small dose of the misery mixed in. by the way, the Eagles have been in so many NFC championships in the last decade or so I lost count...they've also been in 2 Super Bowls in my lifetime...those accompishments alone far outweigh anything the Jets have done in their entire history it actually kind of ironic that the younger generation gets to witness undoubtedly the second largest francise mistake in history (first being to move to Giants Stadium)....the second now being to choose to build a new stadium with the Giants...which will start a whole new string of misfortune, just like the first one did
We've had awful moments for sure but there are many teams who have never won a SB and we have, there are teams like the Lions who have something like one playoff win in 40-50 years, the Chiefs have 2-3 since 1970. There are fans that have had it MUCH worse than we have.
That's why I refuse to pin the misfortune's on SOJ or a curse. I've seen teams lose like the Jets. The Redskins loss to the Saints comes to mind. A chip shot field goal? A DB get loses an INT and its returned by a Saints WR for a TD? Its something very Jets like. I find SOJ to be very a "fishbowl" point of view. As if these things don't happen to other teams.
I have seen the best since the 60s and the sack exchange, and I wish I could understand the misery from the 70s and 80s but I can't, I don't know any better. I hope I keep this mentality for good, because I really don't want this team to wear me down. Perhaps, just maybe, they'll win one and reset all this bullshit that they've been doing for decades. The Eagles come close but never win. That's why they are the Cubs of football. I love the misery they go through - its worse than the Jets. They actually think they're going to win a SB. those fans are embarrassingly delusional. I lived in their territory for a whole year. Tons of dopes. Maybe two smart fans out of a thousand on average.
I work down in South Jersey, and you are 100% correct. Did you see the NFL Films piece though? The Jets history is more colorful/tragic than the Eagles' history. I think the main reason why Jet fans get a bad rap is the Draft. Its nationally televised, and every NFL fan gets to see the some good Jet fans, but usually a lot of degenerate Jet fans as well. For many people, what they see at the draft is what they think Jet fans are as a whole, and that is not necessarily the case. Watch the show today at 2:30 if you can. Its pretty good.
This would imply that we were good at Shea Stadium, which isn't the case. A couple good years in the 60s and two in the 80s right before we moved. For the rest of it we were worse than we've been at Giants Stadium.
that' the whole point though......they were just coming into their own in the early 80's.....Sack exchange etc.....then boom, we move, in the middle of what was developing into a really good team, and things were never the same
december 27, 1981 Good call Jilozzo. In fact, the NFL Films piece begins there exactly... and that the recurring theme of heartbreak recycles every 5 years or so....
I believe we have a better win % at the meadowlands than we did at Shea. people forget that we missed the playoffs for an entire decade- I wasn't old enough to watch and remember them in the 70s but we went 0 for the 70s and all 10 years we played our home games at Shea(though i think we played 1 reg season home game in NJ).
I didn't like the move for the same reason, but remember they also fired Walt Michaels after he took us to the AFC Championship Game and then traded Richard Todd a year later when he was in his prime. We wasted another year getting Ken O'Brien up to speed while the rest of the team was veterans, kind of like what we have now except O'Brien missed some of camp and didn't start games until November. So while the stadium move took away some home field advantage, changing the head coach and QB after we finally became a good team had more to do with it. Remember we went 7-1 at Giants Stadium in 1985 with essentially the same team once O'Brien got going, the only loss to the great Bears team 19-6.
yeah, I hear ya...the Walt Michaels firing, another brilliant move. but the 85 season was again, typical Jets ending in the eventual fiasco in Cleveland...you gotta love this team. were they really 7-1 at home that year, I could sware I was at a game against Pittsburgh late in the season that was one of theie 5 losses to end the season Either way, I tell ya, we sure have the right to bitch and complain all we want...a lot o' crap (just checked it out, i'm getting 85 and 86 confused)
Just saw the show. I remember the highs and lows vividly back to the Mud Bowl, but wow, to see them lined up in a half hour like that. You gotta just shake your head and laugh - just watching Bill turn down the job again and take the NE job - the climax of Jet history - ha!! Sometimes I forget that really happened! Jeez.
just set up the dvr to record this.......I need to make my wife watch this so she can understand the context of what drives me so bat shit each Sunday. i don't think she really gets it yet
