I'm as excited as anyone about this team's chances to be one of the great Jet teams of all time, but is it too much to ask that we at least get in the playoffs before we all start talking SB around here? It's really getting ridiculous, especially with the media talking about a "Subway Super Bowl." But the NY Times, in the midst of a breathless article hyping that possibility, does note: Also remember 1986, when the Jets were 10-1, the Giants were 9-2 and Las Vegas oddsmakers were posting 15 to 1 on a Big Apple Super Bowl. It never happened. The Giants kept soaring to their first Super Bowl, while the Jets, with their defense riddled by injuries, lost their last five games to fall to second place. In the playoffs, they beat Kansas City but lost in Cleveland after a costly roughing-the-passer penalty on Mark Gastineau. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/sports/football/25anderson.html?_r=1&em So let's not get ahead of ourselves, unless we all want to be especially miserable if we fall short.
Why can't fans get ahead of themselves? I don't understand this logic, isn't that part of what makes talking about sports so enjoyable. This is the second time in all my years as a Jets fan that I can say the Jets are the favorites to get to the SB this late in the year without coming off sounding like Raiderjoe. Embrace it, the New York Jets are SB favorites with 5 games left in the season. Obviously they still have to do it on the field but I won't be any more disappointed if they don't because I was talking about it now.
There is more than a quarter of the season left. We have to take care of business Sunday against Denver. Thats all that matters right now.
We rarely get a chance to think that far ahead without appearing foolish, so why not have some fun? It's exciting as all hell thinking about a Giants/Jets Super Bowl.
the players and coaches have to worry about making the playoffs. the fans thinking ahead will not affect the teams performance one way or the other.
Could not have put it better myself. Let the coaches and players worry about the next game only, we can talk about anything we want. :jets:
Exactly. I'm getting tired of these "jinxed" fans trying to tell others to stay focused. We are FANS not the players and coaching staff. They are the ones who need to stay focused and they will. If you get can't get excited about the possibilities as a fan, why even bother? On top of it all, why bother with won loss predicitions at the beggining of the season. geez we may jinx ourseleves, one game at a time, etc.
People like that are why our home stadium is like 78,000 people on a psychiatrist's couch most of the time. Jet fans need to get pumped so the stadium and the team is pumped. That's what home field is about, that's how we beat Indy 41-0 in 2002 and destroyed Jacksonville in 1998, that's why we want home field.
Excellent point! Might as well tattoo it in... with lots of colors so it would be too expensive to undo.
The Jets have to take care of business on Sunday at Denver. Not actually being on the field, WE get to have some fun and dare to dream about the improbable. (I've been a darksider so long, I actually wrote impossible instead of improbable!)
Still got 7 or 8 games to play before the Super Bowl... I'm excited and all that, but gotta keep the movement moving first...
Exactly. How about we beat Denver this Sunday? Sorry guys I'm not going to drink the Gang Green NYJ Kool-Aid until we get in the playoffs, but glad everyone is excited.
Does anyone else remember 1986? 10-1, then losing the last 5 games and backing into the playoffs? I was 11 at the time, but I still remember all the hype and hoopla before that backslide. I'm not saying don't enjoy this season so far, but keep it relative for your own sakes.
I think injuries to Mehl, Gastineau and Klecko had more to do with that collapse than people getting excited and talking Super Bowl.
