My dad will be 90 on 2/20/10. My mom will be 91 on 3/1/10. They both live with my sister, who is a registered nurse in Wilmington. So my wife and I are going to Wilmington for their B-Day parties in late Feb and we'll see them then. As far as the SB goes, if the Jets are in, I am going to try like hell to go to the game with my wife. I don't know how I will get the tix yet (could be in the lottery !!!!) and how I will get a room, but I would like to get there one way or another. This was meant to be. I've got to see one before I kick the bucket (but if I'm anything like my folks, I'll be around for many SBs - LOL). And you'd have to know my dad. He'd definately tell me, "Hey, don't bother coming here for the game. Go to the damned game yourself already. I'll watch it on TV!"
as silly as it may seem being a fan of this team builds character. to see some of the failures we have seen, and for you older guys even more failures than i have seen in my relatively short period of being a jets fan. my first memory of actually watching a jets game is the fake spike game so i still have an idea of what it really is like to be a fan of this team. now i haven't made a lifetime commitment to this team and it's losing like some of you have but i really hope not to get that opportunity for everyone's sake. like i said being a fan of this team builds character because we all get to see that sometimes the world just isn't fair. how could that little bitch that quit on our team after one day go to a division rival and win 3 super bowls? it just isn't fair, but you can't cry about it in football instead you need to do something about it on the field. i feel any true jet fan should have developed a mentality that no matter how big a failure you might encounter you need to keep working just as hard. this jets team has taken that attitude to a whole new level. we the fans keep coming back year after year no matter how heartbreaking the year before was. this jets team just keeps coming back no matter how disheartening a loss was this year. this team lost games in all sorts of ways that many like to refer to as same old jets fashion. this year we have seen one major difference in the team. they continued to come back game after game and fight and stick to the mentality that rex had. the entire locker room is ready to run through a wall for rex at this point and it is really showing in the way that they are playing. i have been waiting pretty much my entire life for the jets to finally get it right. it seems like they might have hit the jackpot with sanchez and ryan as this is just year one! needless to say i will be about as emotional as i ever have been. i mean how many things have we loved for our entire lives? for me its my family and the jets.
I can only imagine how my dad is going to react. He had season tickets for when the Jets played at Shea (and obviously he watched the SB III victory on t.v.). He doesn't show much emotion as it is, but I think that might change come Sunday.
But you guys don't know the rest of the story yet. It gets a little better even. My Uncle Jim lived in Baltimore at the time of the SB. He had been a B-17 bomber pilot in WWII and was shot down on his very first bombing run over Germany in 1943. He was liberated from "Luft Kamp I" (the Air Camp) at the end of the war by the Russians. Anyway, he comes home and goes on to become a lawyer under the GI Bill and he meets a girl on one of the beaches in South Jersey after the war. She's from Baltimore, so he settles in Baltimore and becomes a Colts fan... I fucking kid you not. As fate would have it, the Jets play the Colts in that SB, so my dad calls up Uncle Jim to give him some heat and Jim tells him, "No way are your Jets going to beat my Colts." So my dad tells him "Joe Namath said so" and makes a bet with him on the phone, and after the game I hear him on the phone with my uncle telling him he'd better pay up. Jim is gone now, but I mean, you can't make this stuff up... it was too fucking funny. And I reminded my dad of that conversation last night (and he still remembered it) and we both laughed. And here I was on my way to Vietnam and I remember that conversation like it was yesterday. So yeah, for the Jets to get into (and even win) this SB would be very special.
Yeah it was great seeing the excitement in my Pops. He was jumping around like a kid again, priceless. That's the kinda stuff that makes being a fan worth it.
I just remember watching the Giants win and how most of the Giants fans didnt even seem to give a shit... I was like 'man, if the Jets won I'd light myself in fire and run down the street' I did cry a little bit when I saw us coming back, I called it.. I said 'We held 'em to seven points; at halftime who would you rather have giving that speech? Norval Turner or Rex Ryan?' I think we all know what happened after halftime... I knew we'd come out and wear them down, I knew that they had already been beaten enough on third down to be frustrated into making the mistakes that got us to where we needed to be to physically and emotionally beat the piss out of them.
i almost cried after Greene's TD and the 4th&1 conversion. I have absolutely no doubt I'll cry if we win, especially since I'll be drinking. And then I'm gonna shower myself and whoever's around me with champagne.
I'll be listening to this all week... [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16bvflt53mQ[/YOUTUBE] On that note I literally think I will cry if we win. I've only been a fan for 8 years and 3 weeks but I've seen my fair share of disappointment too.
I'll tell you what...14 of us invaded Park East down here in Hazlet, NJ and were the loudest group of drunken Jets fans people have ever seen. When we made the first down on 4th and 1, we turned our area into a mosh pit.
I cry every time I envision the Jets winning the Super Bowl watching the team, coaches, tannenbaum & woody hoist the Lombardi! Is it Sunday yet?
A win on Sunday would be utterly amazing. Even better is the fact that I live in West Palm Beach and my favorite team would be in The Superbowl, less than a hour from my home.
I was 12 yrs old and in the Hospital For Special Surgery for rehab from spinal surgery when I watched the Super Bowl. Three month earlier when I had the surgery I was in the recovery with Lee White of the Jets who had been injured the same day and needed surgery. That was the day I became a Jet fan . A few years later I was at Hofstra working in the dorm that the team was staying at and met a bunch of the players. Going back will be emotional..
I will be so emotional I will be the equivalent of 40,000 women on their periods at the same time or MBGreen after the Winnipeg Jets left town. Whichever is worse. (latter)
This is a great thread. I don't know what I will do. I never thought I would live to see the Jets get to the Super Bowl again (I am only 44)...would it be one of the "seven signs" that the world is coming to an end? LOL. I probably will cry.
After I left Fiddler's in Times Square at 2am Sunday night I stopped at a nearby McDonald's to grab some chicken McNuggets. I pointed at this surprised Mexican dude in the back cleaning one of the stoves and yelled "YOU DO NOT THROW TO DARRELLE REVIS!" He looked at me with a blank stare and I continued yelling the same thing over and over until one of the people there told me that he doesn't speak English. Then I started saying "Tu no passo el Darrelle Revis-o!" I stormed out of there with my McNuggets and a sense of victory. I can't wait to see what I'd do after we beat the Colts.
Just what I was thinking. i have no friggin idea, but i do know there will be tears. I kept getting choked up for days after the Monday Night Miracle, this would be so much bigger...I just don't know yet.
