I asked because I wanted to know why you called it "trumped up." It's not a trumped-up game in my opinion. If I follow your logic, I am led to believe that any team that doesn't win its division does not belong in the playoffs.
Just keep in mind that the leagues merged on June 8, 1966. 1966 was the last year where there was a separate NFL draft and an AFL draft.
Just because we saw a championship the losing after that hurts us just as much. Let see you say you went to the 1st game @ 8 actually I gave you 7 since I took my son to his 1st game then & now he is 35 so he has suffered for 28 years. Now let us say you are 40 that means you have been suffering for 33 years. Now I am 66 so I have been suffering for 38 years. So how can you say you have suffered more when I have suffered longer? Now if you want to say you suffered longer then my son based on the equation I layed out then I accept that theroy since you suffered 5 years more then my son
back to Chad ------- I was one of those thrilled at the Joe Montana comparisons. Of course at the time we had an Oline comparable to the 49'ers Oline, a RB in Curtis Martin better than Roger Craig, and some pretty exciting WR's but not in the class of Jerry Rice. IMO even if Pennington's arm injury hadn't made his weakness even weaker - teams had discovered how to stop the Jets by forcing them to throw deep. Yes we'd have been more successful if Chad had not been injured, but the way defenses game plan today going along with the abundance of tape, etc. means Chad never would have been Montana regardless of injury. What does that mean today? No Super Bowls for the Jets under Chad, before the injuries - and none under Chad after. I hope he does well leading a rebuilding team - but for us to get over the hump we will need a stronger armed QB to lead us to the Super Bowl. Good luck Chad in 2006 ---regardless I am behind you!
but now you're measuring suffering quantitatively. true, you've suffered longer (in length of years). but perhaps the suffering is worse - albeit the length of suffering (in years) is shorter for someone younger than you - for those who haven't witnessed a Superbowl Championship. what i'm getting at is, the length of your suffering is somewhat negated by the fact that you got to see your team crowned champion; whereas there are those of us who haven't seen the Jets champions yet. cheers
That is ONLY because Vision said he suffered longer. BEFORE replying read back thru this thread so to insure you have all your facts straight
See this is why reading and fully understanding the point someone is trying make is extremely important on a MB.. I never once said I suffered longer only that the suffering is worse for the 35-40 year olds who have suffered for nearly as long without seeing a championship. Bah who really cares anyway, all Jets fans suffer, that I'm sure we can all agree..
Because Mr. SLW wants to keep the thread derailed as long as possible. Either that or he really has a schoolyard mentality of "you haven't suffered longer, I've suffered longer". I might have Grandpa Munster over there on my ignore list, but unfortunately I still get to read his pearls of wisdom when someone else quotes him :sad: Back on topic... When I read the original poster, I never once thought he was completely serious, but was intending the post to be optimistic, yet humorous, all at the same time. It just seems too many people thought he was being serious and started criticizing him. I think it was meant all in good fun, that's all. Might as well get the humor out of the way now before the games are actually played :beer:
