Two things spring to mind for me around this rumor: 1. I'd get my Sundays back for the first time in 45 years. I only watch the Jets at this point with the occasional Steelers game thrown in to support my nephews. I haven't even watched the Super Bowl (except when the nephews are buying for Steelers Super Bowls) for a decade or so. It'd be a Hallelujah event for me if the Jets moved. 2. God help St. Louis if they move the Jets Curse there. What a misbegotten NFL existence they've had there with only a couple of competitive runs over the last 50 years (three years with Jim Ray Hart and three years with Kurt Warner that produced their only championship.) They lost the uncompetitive Cardinals and acquired the uncompetitive Rams only to lose them also. Jets would the third team on the match is my guess.
This thread deserves to be locked. Jets will move to NYC for thier own stadium before they ever move to some Midwest baseball first city.
The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants both moved after winning championships in NYC. They moved within just a few years of doing that. Anybody who thinks the Jets can't move isn't looking at the situation with a clear viewpoint. I think it's unlikely the Jets will move but the very real possibility that would occur has been with us since the billboards a few years ago. Put up billboards that tell Woody Johnson to sell the team and he probably will do that and the money and desire to buy an NFL team is elsewhere at the moment.
The Dodgers moved to LA because owner O'Malley wanted a new stadium to replace Ebbets Field and the city was not willing to build it. He moved the team for financial reasons. The Giants faced the same issue, playing games in the ancient Polo Grounds. The Jets just moved into a new stadium and are raking in money despite the poor attendance and bad performance this year. According to Forbes,the Jets are 7th in the NFL in terms of franchise value and are on the list in revenues and operating income. There does not appear to be an economic reason for the Jets to move.
The Raiders would be a great fit for NYC. I'd adopt them in a second if the Jets move and they come here. Hell, there's already the connection with big Al being from Brooklyn. Although I can do without all the "black hole" fans dressing up like ghouls and Darth Vadar.
If it happened, which it surely won't, they'd have new ownership, their own stadium, and a new fanbase that's had a team move to their city before and win a championship. The curse may actually be New York/New Jersey and the stigma the location brings with it. It's not a championship city unless you're the Yankees. Players and coaches do not flock to non-Yankees NY teams like fans fantasize about. The eternally snakebitten Browns moved to Baltimore and won a championship almost immediately, and has won another one since then. If a new owner did this, moved the team, the first thing they should do is surrender the uniform, team history and brand to a possible expansion team that would struggle to win 6 games in its first decade of existence.
While most agree the Jets would benefit from new ownership, it would be better served if it were a self made person and not another "born on third and thought he hit a triple" family....
The Rams won with a secretary and lounge singer airhead bimbo trophy wife widow as their owner. It's not the owner and their background, it's how much the owner allows football people to do their jobs. The Rooney family has probably been rich since before your family came to this country. Ownership models don't begin and end with Bob Kraft's self-made barrel company.
But you also got jerrah jones saying fuck the football people I'll do it myself and he's got a team better than anything we've seen here in 60 years Idk what the answer is. But we certaintly don't have it here
