Hi Steve — I’m a big admirer of your work. I really like your writing and think you do a great job.
I’m a Giants fan, so the Jets aren’t always relevant to me, but every team needs strong writers, and Jets fans deserve someone like you. I hope you stick it out.
My example of sticking it out when things are at best mediocre and hopeless and will not be rewarded is the Rams but at least anyone over 35 has memories of the Greatest Show on Turf teams and some of us may still remember the NYT sportswriter who referred to "the St. Louis Rams, a point scoring machine". Also I do not have to suffer through actually watching the Jets games because they are not on TV here.
This morning the Athletic Pulse judges the Jets fan base to be the most miserable in the entire league and writes: "The Jets are the worst of both worlds here: an embarrassment with no chance of earning the No. 1 pick. Yesterday’s blowout loss to Drake Maye and the Patriots was the low point of an extremely low year."
Steve, like you I’m getting a little long in the tooth and I share your disappointment for sure. I always liked AG as a Jets player and from what I’ve read and heard I feel safe feeling he’s a good man. Unfortunately to be a successful NFL HC you need to be more than a good man. I think with over $100m in cap space and as many as 14 draft picks he probably gets a shot to turn this around next season. Now, if the first 5,6 games goes along theses same lines I’m not sure he makes it past that point. I’m resigned to my fate. I’m gonna stick it out not matter what! The wife and I had season tickets the whole Jets tenure at the Meadowlands. When the new stainless steel mausoleum opened Woodie demanded a $40k PSL fee for my 2 seats at which point we decided to become full time tv spectators 😂 but we are still here and I manage a FB group with over 800 other idiots that refuse to concede. I hope you reconsider as I enjoy your columns. Be well sir. Happy New Year!
This was so personal, I feel bad, this is the reason why I love watching Football as a neutral, makes you appreciate the game without being too invested in a franchise that may quite possible not give a damn about me.
I don’t blame you Steve. I start to tune out as the season winds down, which is good for my sanity, but then always get my hopes up again. Like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown I believe the next time it will be different. The rational part of me knows this not to be the case!
I am at the point I was with the Mets a few years ago, call me when the Wilpons sell. Woody ain't selling. But I continue to watch the games for the comedy. When is the next Butt Fumble? Fair catch at the 3? Can they make it 17 games without an interception? Will Glenn say they had a great week of practice? This might be the year they don't win a meaningless late season game to mess up the tank. I have been a fan since the late 60s. Mougey has shown some competence. This might be my last of the endless rebuilds before I quit also. Then again, I am watching the Bills be the Bills, the team that squandered the few years the Pats sucked and blowing it in the year with Mahomes, Burrough and more not standing in the way. Sometimes I wonder what is worse rooting for a perpetually bad team or a good team that always chokes.
Sorry to hear that, Steve, but I totally understand. Woody is an idiot and I doubt anything ever gets better as long as he owns the team. I've been a Jets fan since '64, and I blame Joe Namath for that. I was a happy Packer fan until the Jets drafted Namath.
I've given the team until 2027, but if Glenn is back in 2026 (as he most likely will be), if they don't have a great FA and draft during the offseason, I'm done. I've wasted entirely too many minutes reading and posting on Jets fan sites for the last 30 years or so. I lived in NYC for 16 years but moved back south 23 years ago. I went to quite a few games while I lived in NYC including the Monday Night Miracle at the Meadowlands. My local CBS affiliate never broadcasts the Jets so the only time I get to see them is when they have a prime time game. Thankfully, there haven't been too many of those over the years, with the exception of when Rodgers was with the Jets and I'm lucky that I didn't have a stroke or break my TV during those games. I don't know how anyone has watched that crap over the last 20 years.
61 years of mostly misery in my life due to the Jets and the clueless owners Leon Hess and Woody Johnson is enough.
Namath lured many a kid of our generation because he was the epitome of cool. But I don’t blame him. The downfall can be traced to Johnson buying the team. We had two outlier years amid a quarter century of misery. Happy New Year to you too!
Hi Steve — I’m a big admirer of your work. I really like your writing and think you do a great job.
I’m a Giants fan, so the Jets aren’t always relevant to me, but every team needs strong writers, and Jets fans deserve someone like you. I hope you stick it out.
My example of sticking it out when things are at best mediocre and hopeless and will not be rewarded is the Rams but at least anyone over 35 has memories of the Greatest Show on Turf teams and some of us may still remember the NYT sportswriter who referred to "the St. Louis Rams, a point scoring machine". Also I do not have to suffer through actually watching the Jets games because they are not on TV here.
(Also any team coached by Mike Martz will be fun to watch even if they are objectively not very good)
This morning the Athletic Pulse judges the Jets fan base to be the most miserable in the entire league and writes: "The Jets are the worst of both worlds here: an embarrassment with no chance of earning the No. 1 pick. Yesterday’s blowout loss to Drake Maye and the Patriots was the low point of an extremely low year."
Steve, like you I’m getting a little long in the tooth and I share your disappointment for sure. I always liked AG as a Jets player and from what I’ve read and heard I feel safe feeling he’s a good man. Unfortunately to be a successful NFL HC you need to be more than a good man. I think with over $100m in cap space and as many as 14 draft picks he probably gets a shot to turn this around next season. Now, if the first 5,6 games goes along theses same lines I’m not sure he makes it past that point. I’m resigned to my fate. I’m gonna stick it out not matter what! The wife and I had season tickets the whole Jets tenure at the Meadowlands. When the new stainless steel mausoleum opened Woodie demanded a $40k PSL fee for my 2 seats at which point we decided to become full time tv spectators 😂 but we are still here and I manage a FB group with over 800 other idiots that refuse to concede. I hope you reconsider as I enjoy your columns. Be well sir. Happy New Year!
This was so personal, I feel bad, this is the reason why I love watching Football as a neutral, makes you appreciate the game without being too invested in a franchise that may quite possible not give a damn about me.
I don’t blame you Steve. I start to tune out as the season winds down, which is good for my sanity, but then always get my hopes up again. Like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown I believe the next time it will be different. The rational part of me knows this not to be the case!
I am at the point I was with the Mets a few years ago, call me when the Wilpons sell. Woody ain't selling. But I continue to watch the games for the comedy. When is the next Butt Fumble? Fair catch at the 3? Can they make it 17 games without an interception? Will Glenn say they had a great week of practice? This might be the year they don't win a meaningless late season game to mess up the tank. I have been a fan since the late 60s. Mougey has shown some competence. This might be my last of the endless rebuilds before I quit also. Then again, I am watching the Bills be the Bills, the team that squandered the few years the Pats sucked and blowing it in the year with Mahomes, Burrough and more not standing in the way. Sometimes I wonder what is worse rooting for a perpetually bad team or a good team that always chokes.
The perpetually bad team with no hope of getting better is worse.
Yeah, that is true. Then Allen blows an easy 2 point conversion channeling his inner Jets.
Jet fan since 1963, I’m 77. Too old to change
Easy questions for you, Does Glenn deserve to be fired
Does Woodhead fire him
Yes.
No.
Sorry to hear that, Steve, but I totally understand. Woody is an idiot and I doubt anything ever gets better as long as he owns the team. I've been a Jets fan since '64, and I blame Joe Namath for that. I was a happy Packer fan until the Jets drafted Namath.
I've given the team until 2027, but if Glenn is back in 2026 (as he most likely will be), if they don't have a great FA and draft during the offseason, I'm done. I've wasted entirely too many minutes reading and posting on Jets fan sites for the last 30 years or so. I lived in NYC for 16 years but moved back south 23 years ago. I went to quite a few games while I lived in NYC including the Monday Night Miracle at the Meadowlands. My local CBS affiliate never broadcasts the Jets so the only time I get to see them is when they have a prime time game. Thankfully, there haven't been too many of those over the years, with the exception of when Rodgers was with the Jets and I'm lucky that I didn't have a stroke or break my TV during those games. I don't know how anyone has watched that crap over the last 20 years.
61 years of mostly misery in my life due to the Jets and the clueless owners Leon Hess and Woody Johnson is enough.
Happy New Year!
Namath lured many a kid of our generation because he was the epitome of cool. But I don’t blame him. The downfall can be traced to Johnson buying the team. We had two outlier years amid a quarter century of misery. Happy New Year to you too!