I am foregoing our normal weekly format this week to focus solely on Sunday afternoon’s AFC Championship Game. Let’s be honest, you’re really going to sit here and read me talking about the Islanders and Nets or would you scroll straight to me slamming the Jets for the third week in a row?
I thought so.
I encourage you to listen to this song while reading this morning’s article.
This story sounds familiar, doesn’t it? The underdog Jets facing off against the heavily favored Colts. The Jets led by a good-looking, young quarterback that has captured the city. I know. I’ve heard it before. Jets fans would loveeeeeeeee for Mark Sanchez to be the next Joe Namath, but I have news for everyone.
JOE NAMATH WAS NOT A GOOD QUARTERBACK.
His life’s achievements in order of significance read as follows:
- He made a bold prediction and beat a Colts team that didn’t have Johnny Unitas (severe pre-season injuries existed back then, too) at full-strength even though Unitas led the Colts to their only touchdown in Super Bowl III
- He got drunk and made a pass at Suzy Kolber (could’ve chosen someone hotter)
- He wore man fur (like David Putty)
What people don’t talk about Joe Namath are the following facts:
- He threw 47 more interceptions in his career than touchdowns
- He lost more games than he won
- He completed a whopping 50.1 % of his passes in his career
- He did not throw a touchdown pass in Super Bowl III but still won MVP. This is like Trent Dilfer winning MVP for Super Bowl XXXV, except Trent threw a TD.
- He made a similar drunken pass at Ron Jaworski in 1996
Okay, fine I made the last one up but you get my point. Jets fans should root for something more than the next Joe Namath.
What the Colts actually possess is the one, the only, Peyton Williams Manning. They get a full game of a team led by a quarterback who has beaten better teams than this one. We’re not sitting here talking about Carson Palmer and Philip Rivers – both very good football players. This is Peyton MOTHER FUCKING Manning, kids. 4 MVPs, a Super Bowl ring, a rocket scientist’s brain and a rocket for an arm.
I’m familiar with the swagger the Jets fans have developed over the past couple of weeks. I got the same thing during the 2000 and 2007 National League Playoffs. To be a Mets fan is to understand what is like to be a Jets fan. Some (Tom Conway) would disagree, but the mentality is the same. You win a couple of games, people show you a little respect and all of a sudden, you’re king of the castle, man of the year. You’ve got a coach who not only can coach but can fill a quotebook for a decade, you’ve got a power running game that can control the clock, and a defense that can control the scoreboard. But I have a couple of questions for you, Jets fans.
If you’re that good, why did you lose to the Buffalo Bills despite running for over 300 yards?
If you’re that good, why did your vaunted defense surrender a lead with 1:38 left to the Falcons?
These are valid questions. Questions I don’t have answers for if the Jets are who they think they are. It leads me to ask these questions…
Can they score when they need to or will Mark Sanchez make a crucial mistake, as he has in more than one key spot this season?
Can this defense withstand a comeback from the best quarterback who isn’t 6 feet under dirt with a Super Bowl berth on the line?
I believe the answer to both of those questions is a resounding NO. Keep in mind, the Jets only scored on offensive touchdown on the Colts defense even with its starters and key players lifted during the third quarter.
Beating the Chargers legitimized the Jets place in the playoffs. So you won’t hear me say they didn’t deserve to be in the playoffs because the Jets proved their worth on game day, but the fact remains that the Colts team that the Jets “defeated” to qualify for the playoffs is not this Colts team. Good luck on Sunday and may God have mercy on your soul.
Author’s Note:
I like the Jets. I love Rex Ryan and I think Mark Sanchez is going to turn into a very good NFL QB. But the fact that all of a sudden after two playoff wins, Jets fans have gone from hopeful to excited to downright cocky is absurd. It drives me nuts.
Now that that’s out of the way, here are the weekend’s picks.
AFC Championship
Colts – 27
Jets – 6
NFC Championship
Saints – 34
Vikings – 31
A late costly mistake by Brett Favre dooms the Vikes. I just hate him. I had to write that just in case I’m right.
STAMP OF THE WEEK
Reggie Wayne catches a touchdown. With Darrelle Revis on him.
STAMP IT!
you really are an asshole
gotta love the Tom Conway name drop
i just cant get over it. i know ive already commented, but you really have a fucking gift when it comes to being a completely unlikeable douche bag. i would say i was impressed, but i think it might actually be a new feeling that i cant quite explain without the use of severe profanities.
I've gone back and forth a few times about replying since you started this non-sense on facebook. The Tom Conway name drop is uncalled for, but to be expected from you. Regardless, we're Jets fans, we cheer, we get obnoxious, we jump without knowing the future, and ignoring the past, it's part of the job. This is not the first nor will it be the last time Jets fans dive head first into hopes of greatness, only to have our dreams and enthusiasm crushed in front of us like a bully eating your lunch in front of you for the 5th straight day. (We'll know outcome around of this round diving around 8pm tonight.) How quickly we forget how Jets fans talked when we were 3-0 at the beginning of the season, maybe, just maybe it's time we start thinking like rex has the team thinking. Time to move on from the "Same old Jets" mentality. As an aside, I would pick Jets fans over Giant fans any day. Jet fans do not feel entitle, we struggle, we stick together. I've never seen Jets fans fight with fellow fans in Green. I've attended three Giant games and at each Giant fans SAT in there seats, argued with each other and got fellow fans kicked out for standing and being "To Roudy."
To Summarize: J! E! T! S! JETS! JETS! JETS!
The attitude you cite about Giants fans is the same attitude that Yankee fans carry around only on a smaller scale. The Giants are tradition but with dignity, the Yankees are tradition with arrogance. The Mara family is among the classiest in all of sports, and no Mara has been to jail for racketeering like King George has.
The Jets dive head first hoping for greatness, but fumble at the goal line. I repeat it is the same curse that strikes the New York Mets, whether or not they carried New York through the baseball '80s that was 20 years ago and parallels still exist between those Mets teams and Jets teams of the same era that failed to reach what for a time was tantalizing potential.
Much like the Red Sox once did and Cubs currently still do, Mets and Jets fans always wait for the inevitable let down. In case this is unclear – it is inevitable because it always happens. Until history changes, I will wait for the Mets to choke and you will wait for the Jets to blow 10+ point leads in the AFC Championship Game.
Consider your lunch eaten.
1 – Fair your owners maybe classier than the Yankees' owners, but that speaks nothing to your fans. I compared over eager, over excited, loud mouth Jet Fans to Giant Fans who fight with each other. The attitude I referenced was more about internal fighting and being old farts, than entitlement.
2 – I agree with you that the Jets and Mets are similar. I never claimed anything different. My exact sentence, "This is not the first NOT THE LAST TIME Jets fans dive head first into hopes of greatness, only to have our dreams and enthusiasm crushed in front of us like a bully eating your lunch in front of you for the 5th straight day." Pretty sure that agrees with paragraphs 2 & 3.
I didn't eat much lunch this afternoon I didn't have time, and I don't consider it eaten tonight either. Nice try, but we agree on the lack-lusterness of the Mets/Jets, and arguing owners of another team entirely vs. fans doesn't address the rant on Giants fans internal fights. I'll leave it here.