With most posts being dedicated to the game I thought I would throw this question out there. I have a friend who moved to my town from Flushing Queens, I have always known him as a life long Met Fan. To my surprise when I went by his house last night the place was littered with Yankee PinStripes. I asked what happened and he said "you know what I can't put my 3 boys 6,4,2 through the same hard ache the Mets have put me through, its never gonna change". I want them to be Yankee fans not Met Fans. I have a 3yr son who looks to me for everything. He has his Jet Hat, Banner and Jersey, too young to understand what is going on but certainly is well on his way to bleeding Green like his old man. Can anyone out there tell me, have the pathetic Jets encouraged any of you to consider switching Allegiance or at the least steering your children on a different course. I have been a Jet Fan sense 1980, I was lucky enough to follow the Raiders a bit before that but when I was old enough to realize that trips to Oakland were not happening, I became a Jet Fan. Do I want my son to root for this same team? Is it not child abuse? Can anyone shed light on this or tell me what they have done.
how old are you???? Do you have children?? Be honest do you regret you followed in his footsteps??? Do you believe like me that when we win it it will be so much sweeter because of all the suffereing?
Take it from a knicks and jets fan, it sucks and ur heartbroken most of the time, but on the rare occassion u win its that much sweeter.
C'mon man. Your friend is a typical Yankee fan. Those who stick by the Mets and the Jets (and God it freaking sucks sometimes) are gonna have so much more to revel in when we finally do win it, then all these "dynasties" that have their bandwagon fans bred to really expect a championship every year.
I believe you I am a knick fan also, 41 yrs old, when did we win????? I happen to grow up in the town with the Lawyer who represented all the Islanders in the late 70's and 80's so got to meet many of the players and enjoyed a 4-5yr run like know other team has had in the past 40 years, but that is a long long time ago.
If you're talking to me, I'm 16, so no kids. No, I don't regret it. If I wasn't a Jets fan, I'd be a Dolphins fan, living in Miami. I just kind of wish he had chosen the Giants over the Jets all those years ago. And yes, when (if?) we win an SB, it will be so sweet for me, but I can't even imagine guys like champ, and my father who have been around so long to see it happen again. NYC might just explode.
I joke with my wife all the time that I should raise my little ones as Giant fans so they can at least have the potential for some "football happiness" but I just cant do it. As Jet fans we all know pain comes with the territory. Shit...my earliest football memories are my grandfather sitting on his recliner yelling..."Fucking OBrien"..."AHH...fuck you Marino!!" We all suffer but this team has been more dedicated to winning these past few years than ever before. We are gonna get one. I think Sanchez will get us at least one. My biggest fear is that the Jets will eventually be dominate for a strech of years and my kids will jsut take it for granted and just come to expect it.
No chance in hell I'll convince my kids to be Jets fans. One of the worst decisions of my life from an entertainment/ perpetual happiness standpoint. Only my perserverence and loyalty outweigh my frequent disgust for this heartbreaking franchise.
To answer your question I am second generation Jets fan and I have already started my son on the path to heartbreak. I am also a 3rd generation Mets fan although technically my grandmother was a Brooklyn Dodger fan until they broke her heart and she could never root for the Yankees. I've often thought about it though and my son could root for whoever he wanted to except the Phins, Pats, Raiders and Broncos. My guess is he'll see another team in LA in his lifetime and he'll grow up following them. If not for the Devils and Liverpool FC I would not have seen any of my teams win a championship in 23 years. 23 freaking years and I'm 30.
I'm a second generation Jets fan. I will make sure that my sons/daughters will be die hard Jets fans. And Mets fans. Called me a bad future father all you want...
Same here, and my kids are third generation fans (6 and 4 years old). The difference is that I'm teaching them to be less emotionally invested in wins and losses. Losses used to ruin my week, and I'm making sure my kids don't take the games as seriously. It's so not worth it, especially after watching inexplicable crap like 2 KO returns for TDs. F***, I still can't believe that happened.
by the time I have kids old enough to know what's really going on, the JAGS will be in LA, so I guess I'll hand down the same torture my dad handed me
When I do have kids they damn well better be Jet fans. If they aren't then there no kids of mine. My newphews live in Mass and I'm pushing them to bleed jet green from 300 miles away. Selfish?? Maybe That's why I'm keeping the PSL's too, for my future kids. Memories of any kind with your/my kids are still memories. When I was a kid going to games with my Dad, my fondest memory was after the fake spike game on the way out. The recording saying, "we hope you enjoyed you stay at the meadowlands", and all Jets fans cursing out a speaker. Funny stuff.... well maybe not my fondest memory. lol
i'm 1st gen, having grown up in Flushing when the Jets played @ shea. I have a 5 yr old girl in kindergarten now and, b/c we now live in Mass, I no longer require that she root for the Jets (I let her go with the Red Sox instead of the Mets a long time ago). I don't need her catching a bunch of shit like her dad does from these asshole Pats fans up here.
get some glasses or a bigger computer screen. I'm on my phone, so please excuse my sentence and paragraph structure. edit: that better? Look at all the space. edit2: you were talking to me, right?
Be careful what you push for. My nephew lives just outside of boston. His other uncle pushed him to be a yankees fan. That doesn't go so well for him. He gets picked on quite a bit.
The BIGGEST favor I ever did for my son was buy him a John Elway jersey in 1985 when he was nine years old. He has been a huge Bronco fan ever since and thanks me all the time.
