great post sir. may i also say: i'm thrilled to see 2008 in the rearview. not just the jets, but it was a shite year. that said, in terms of pain, the best and most familiar is the pain the jets bring yearly to me. it's like david letterman so brilliantly said: it's that good kind of pain.
I wanna go ahead and get this in early.... I told you F--ing So!!! :lol: Only the Jets could land themselves in the F##ed over position as they have this year. If we win, the Pats are in (providing the Pats beat Buffalo), if we lose the Dolphins are in. It's like 2 c*cks and one @$$hole. This freaking blows. Then this evening I see this headline: Favre mum on future, but says arm may be issue and I'm thinking that only in the bizzaro world of the Jetsland could we release a wounded duck, twice shoulder-injured QB, to pick up what is arguably one of the NFL's all-time rocket-armed QB's only to have him ending the season on a 1-6 skid (TD/INT) and it be because of a bum shoulder. It's like ever Jet fan just got a lump of coal in their stocking for Christmas. :shit:
Merry fucking christmas from your favourite sons from New England, the AFC East Champions again once you beat the Dolphins, just think when your winning we are all cheering for you to help us so we can taunt you after we win another AFC East crown, merry xmas Jet fans from your owners and daddys in NE.
Would you like me to point to 3/4 weeks ago when there was talk of 13-3, 2nd seed and Superbowls on here? :rofl:
I want this win more than almost anything else in the world. I'm only 19 years old, but I've experienced enough losing in my life as a Jets & Mets fan. My earliest baseball memories were making the 2000 World Series and having my Mets lose and being ridiculed by Yankee fans. The last TWO Mets seasons have ended in elimination from playoffs on the LAST game of 162 freaking games. It's unbelievable. Over the past few seasons, I've become a big hockey fan. A fan of the New York Rangers. Last night, I got to go to my first ever Rangers game. I was sitting 5 rows from the ice at the legendary Madison Square Garden. Thanks to holiday bullshit causing train delays, I missed the first 13 minutes of the game, and subsequently the first THREE Rangers goals. After my arrival, the Rangers got outscored 5-1 and blew a 4-0 lead to lose in overtime, 5-4. And, of course, there is the Jets. First, you should know why I'm a Jets fan. My dad, my uncle, my mother, my cousins, my grandfather... they're all Dolphins fans. Yeah, Dolphins fans. Genetically, I'm rooted in the Miami Dolphins' fan base. So, how did I become a Jets fan? Rewind to 12 years and 2 days ago: December 22nd, 1996. I, having just recently turned 6, didn't really understand sports or anything, really. I didn't have any favorite teams. I couldn't even pretend to care. However, what I DID know, is that my dad was very loud when watching that "football" stuff. And that never sat well with me. Him yelling at the TV made me anxious and upset. I'd cry or hide or whatever when he did. So, imagine this: my dad is being really loud and yelling at the TV, and then suddenly he isn't so loud. I ask him why. He tells me that his Dolphins are losing to a "1-win garbage little league team", 14-0. He says that it's embarrassing and pathetic. This "1-win garbage little league team," of course, was the eventually 1-15 New York Jets under Rich Kotite. Me, being a clueless kid, decided that if these "green guys" can make my dad stop yelling at the TV, then I like them. So there you go. Thanks the the Jets jumping out to a 14-0 lead (and eventually losing 31-28), I became a New York Jets fan. I never really became a "die hard" Jets fan until I was 12. At that point, I was beginning to really understand and follow football. Otherwise, I'd just say the Jets and Mets were my favorite teams without actually knowing anything besides Wayne Chrebet and Mike Piazza. So now, fast forward to 2002. The Jets are saved by someone who'd become my favorite player for a while before devolving into my most hated player to date: Chad Pennington. Chad Pennington takes over for Vinny Testaverde, and, as I called him, the Jets' "Messiah" was born. I had a new second favorite player (Chrebet was still #1). I like what he did for the Jets. I don't really have to go into detail, but basically I loved and supported Chad until after the 2005 season. That season was enough to put a sour taste in my mouth. I started realizing that he is nothing more than a duck-armed, injury prone sissy. He'd continue to break my heart (like so many of my sports teams have), and I couldn't defend him anymore. And I started to loath him for what he did to me. I thought Chad was the best thing ever, and now he was stabbing me in the back. When his time with the Jets finally ended, I was so, so happy. Sure, I didn't like Brett Favre (although I did support the trade), but Chad Pennington was no longer a Jet. No more wounded duck passes, no more floating the ball down field, causing the receivers to catch the passes as if they were fielding punts, none of that. No more season-ending injuries, no more false hope that Pennington would revert to his 2002 form after having time to finally heal his injuries and still fall flat on his face. NONE OF IT. All gone! No more Chad! Then, he went to the Dolphins, the fucking Miami Dolphins of all teams. It's not like I had really wanted to wish him well anyway after all of the pain he caused me, but going to the Dolphins made it even worse, just because I did worship him in the past. My hero-turned-villain just went from a villain to the ultimate antagonist in my football life. Even though the Patriots have been the most god-damned irritating team over the past few seasons, the Dolphins were still my most hated team because of the family roots. And of course this is going to happen: Chad Pennington becomes very successful in leading a 1-15 Dolphins team to a rebound season with a pretty damn good chance of winning the AFC East. The AFC East that should have been won by my New York Jets. Not even a full season removed from my team, Chad Pennington is back to break my heart yet again, this time with his abilities rather than his lack thereof he showed the past few seasons. At my annual family Christmas Eve dinner tonight, it was unlimited trash talking and razzing by my father, grandfather, and uncle about the Dolphins and Chad Pennington. It was all in good fun... for them. For some reason, it was really, really getting to me. I was stuttering in arguing back at them, and it was starting to really, really piss me off. I finally had to get up and go to the kitchen to help set the table before I got really pissed off and left. Why? BECAUSE IT'S NOT RIGHT. Chad FUCKING Pennington is going to fucking win the AFC East for the Miami Dolphins against OUR team, OUR 8-3 TEAM that won BACK TO BACK ROAD GAMES AGAINST NEW ENGLAND AND TENNESSEE. It's not right! It's downright cruel and UNFAIR. I'm not trying to sound like a whiny bitch, but I guess I am. I'm only 19 and I've already had to put up with so much bullshit from sports. Like the fucking Jets and the fucking Doug Brien game against the fucking Steelers. What the hell?! And Chad's continuous injuries and the ensuing heartbreak. And Mangini's first year, where he FINALLY beats the Patriots just to get demolished in the first round by that damned team. And the Mets having a 7-game lead with 17 games left and MISSING THE DAMN PLAYOFFS. And this past season with the Mets. And the Rangers game I went to last night!!! They, they being the sports teams I like, fucking ruin me. It's not just a game. It's an important facet of life. Yet, I can't let it get to me. I'm going to enjoy Christmas and my time with family and friends. But come Sunday, all of that is out the window. Fuck it. The Jets NEED to win. For me. For all of us. I don't care if the Bills and Jaguars both lose. Well, I do care. But if they don't, the Jets knocking the Dolphins out of the playoff and being able to say WHAT NOW?! to my family is still a god damn good Christmas gift. I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. I hope I did enough to articulate my point of how much emotion I have invested in this game without sounding like a total jackass. I live and die with my sports teams, and right now I've been dying pretty hard with all of them. Merry Christmas everyone, and GO JETS!! SQUISH THE FISH!! :finssuck:
Merry Christmas As 40 year fan I'm used to the jets screwing up their fate. Let's just hope the Pats loose and we beat the fins. I know it isn't probable but hey maybe Santa will be kind to us Jet fans. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday.
Another great post. I'm with you and Winston on the insane Dolphin Hate. I've posted about this in excruciating detail before on this board but the first Jet game I ever watched was the Marino fake spike game in 94 that sent our beloved team into a two and a half year tailspin. (I was only 9) Since that game, I have been a die-hard Jets fan and there hasn't been a professional sports team that I have despised more than the Miami Dolphins. I hate them with every infinitesimal part of my being. I detest their very existence. I even abhor their generally cocky, ignorant, and obnoxious fans. Fuck the Dolphins, forever and always. Go Jets.
I'm with you 117 and WB great posts, I don't care if the Pats get in, we need to beat the Dolphins. We beat ourselves this season and have no one else to blame.
this is the best post ive read in a long time!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you friends a GG:finssuck:
Winston; you've done it again. I must admit as my avatar would indicate, I have been very pained by what I have seen over the last 4 weeks. And yet, next year, even with the extra-hard schedule, I will be back for more. For me, there will be no other team, but the Jets; that is how it will always be. The only thing that will do me in is if I strongly suspect the NFL scripts the seasons and the refs are paid to move the games in the direction the NFL wants them to go; I know, pretty stupid; but, I have thought about it more than once. Merry Christmas. F'ing GH.
FYI, about a month ago my sister-in-law saw Marino sitting in first class of a Miami to Newark flight and said he had a "prominent gut." Once a fatty, always a fatty.
Great posts ^^ I'm amazed anyone could root for the Chadfins, but those who are sympathetic to the Dolfags this week are being blinded by their Chadlove. Hey Chad Lovers! Some of you may have missed this little tidbit, but we'd all be thinking 1982 was the last Jets SB if it wasn't for Don fucking Shula and his skullduggery in 1982. In 82 our team had beaten two great teams on the road in the playoffs: The Raiders and the Bengals; heck we blew the Bengals out in sub-zero weather in Cincy. We were peaking at the right time and were a juggernaut. When we arrived in Miami, Shula had ordered the OB staff to keep the field uncovered in a monsoon in order to slow down Freeman McNeil, our great cutback running back. This let a fucking nobody JAG become a hero and steal our SB appearance from us. Meet AJ Duhe, beneficary of Shula's treachery: The fucking Fins stole a Super Bowl appearance from us, and now a handful of pussies on this board want to see Chad "get his revenge"? Fuck you all. Belly has nothing on Don Shula when it comes to cheating. Hey Don, go choke on a piece of gristle from your overpriced steaks at your shitty restaurants. Go Jets!
Great Post! Merry Christmas. I have had this strange feeling all week that the Bills are going to beat the Pats. Bills will have Edwards and Lynch going apprently. It is supposed to snow or at least rain. Bad weather favours the underdog because anything can happen. They only lost 20-10 in NE earlier this year (I think?). Bills are my least hated AFC East team, I still don't like them but their like our loser cousins, I feel for them sometimes.
