Say what you want about him, you can tell he is a true Jet fan, so for that reason alone I think he's okay.
"Chickening out?" You mean his not having the desire to be confronted by anonymous drunken hooligans?
I like the energy Fireman Ed brought to the team...I really miss not having him around. You can't appreciate what he brought to the team unless you've been at a game and experienced it when we are playing well.
There's many layers and factors with this question. At the stadium he was great. People loved him and he got the crowd going. When he got popular and started to be on tv and all I think that is what turned people off. The new stadium hurt him too. With the coach's club at the 50's and those seats being empty it took some of the noise out of the stadium. Add in PSL's and the price of the ticket and a better game experience in your house true Jet fans were eliminated too. Now it is more corporate so you're not getting as many true die hard fans. By the end of the third quarter the stands are empty. That's two fold the team is bad so why stay and second people want to beat the traffic. (The way they built this stadium has really taken the fun and home field adavantage away from the Jets. The old stadium needed some updating but they should've kept it. Expanded the concourses. Made the bathrooms bigger etc. Just like MSG).
Not sure why people don't like him... I mean its not like you have to hang out with the guy. He's the only guy that really gets the fans to pay attention when doing the JETS chant at games. The other newly anointed "superfans" don't come close. Its sad... games used to be so much fun to go to.
you have people making death threats on your family from other jet fa Hes been a jets fan since the 70's when he was what 12-13 yo. fuck off with that nonsense.
How in the hell is no longer wanting to deal with people hating you for supporting your team, getting death threats after defending Sanchez make him pathetic. He was cornered in the bathroom and threatened. Had food thrown at him for cheering? You but hurt bastards that couldn't stand him due to his popularity and growth as a Jets fan are the pathetic ones. I don't give a shit how much of a fan I am if i can't go to a fucking game without having to worry about me or my family's well being. Then I'm not coming anymore either,
I disagree. I had seats in the next section over from him at the new stadium before he moved to the other side, he was always there. He goes to a lot of away games too, I've seen him in Pittsburgh a number of times. He pays for the tickets, hotel and flights himself. People should enjoy that he's a fanatic and stop the BS that he's looking for attention. He got the attention and used it to get the crowd going, that is EXACTLY what this team needs now. The other wanna be clowns are just there to call attention to themselves with their ridiculous outfits. At the old stadium I was in the next section from the original chant guy with the whistle. He got sick and missed games for a while. His first game back Ed came across the stadium to see him and make him laugh. He's a good guy, yes sometimes he's over the top crazy about the team but who isn't at times?
Im on a ledge? Cause it annoys me that the only thing worse then our all-time ovr record is the scumbags in our fan base. All that dude did was show up to every game no matter how piss poor they did and cheer them on. The vast majority of the parrots on this board more than likely never even had an interaction with the man let alone have a clue what they are talking about.
I'm surprised at the results so far. I assumed most people dislike him like I do. To me, he's a symbol of the league deciding (not the fans) that every team had to have a "leader" of the fanbase and that person would be treated like royalty. Couple that with the J-E-T-S chant being much worse ever since his involvement, and everything we know about him behind the scenes (except for his service as a fireman) being terrible (former Dolphins fan, charges $ to be interviewed or for personal appearances, awful personality) and I have no use for the guy.
Yea man, you’re overreacting. Not everyone has to like Fireman Ed, whether they’ve met him or not. Not liking him or how he may represent himself doesn’t make a person a scumbag. Now, winging a bottle at him or trying to buttrape him in a bathroom is firmly intrenched in scumbag territory, but if you think stuff like that only happens with Jets fans...
He boofed it. Jets fans were always the dirty dogs of NY. We attack and kill our own. Fireman Ed is just another example. I like what Seattle does with the 12th man thing...it's not one person. It could be worse....
Yeah, I guess maybe this, and not your own outlook, is what makes you an unhappy Jets fan. You're coming at this from a place you created inside your own head, not from reality. Your assumption that most people dislike him is a perfect example. What is there inside of you that gets your hackles up about something that doesn't concern you? Why does his existence bother you enough to make comments here that I find embarrassing - for you? Are you really Captain Jet and disturbed that you don't get the same attention? You say the league had something to do with this (not the fans) and you could not be more wrong. The original guy, Dominic something, did it for years - when he no longer could, Ed took over and the chant became something very real - created entirely by the fans, not the team, not the league but the team and the league jumped all over it - because it worked! I suppose that made Ed a bad guy. Your "treated like royalty" line smacks of whining by the kid who got the smaller ice cream cone. You must be the only person who was ever in the stadium (if you ever were) who believes Fireman Ed made the chant worse instead of better. What do you know about him at all that makes him a terrible person? That as a young kid he liked a different team? Holy Crap! What did you do at the age of eight that we can scorn you for the rest of your life? Modell's wanted him to be at store openings and accepting pay for that makes him "terrible?" Do you actually believe this guy should donate his time to commercial endeavors so others can make money off him? Get serious! And have you really ever met the guy and had a conversation with him or are you just imposing the "awful personality" description on him because that's what's going on in your mind? Certainly the guy I met, had beers with and talked to in a group with friends a couple of times does not come close to fitting that description. Without getting into anything too personal there was a time in New Orleans in 2001, November, I think when a few thousand NY cops and firemen made the trip to see the Jets play in the dome. They had had a couple of rough months and a lot of guys just wanted to get away for a few days. Ed was there and a friend of mine who had worked with that guy Dominic who started the chant ran into him and his brother at Felix's Oyster House the night before the game. We shared a few beers and just had the kind of conversation most guys would have with friends and friends of friends. He fully acknowledged that the chant was not his and he kind of fell into leading it when Dominic gave it up. As it turns out he had been there a couple of days and people had been requesting the chant everywhere he went - a good time was had by all and the bars along Bourbon Street were happy to have it add to the festivities. The tide changed on Sunday night though after the Jets won and the street was flooded with celebrating New Yorkers. We ran into him again that night in the backyard of Razoo's as people were still arriving from the Superdome and people were calling for the chant. He was tired (we all were) and somewhat reluctantly stood on a bench and only got to the "J" when a bunch of bouncers who had been promoting the same activity to attract New York fans, and certainly their money, for a couple of days grabbed him around the neck and dragged him out. He didn't sign up for that - who would? He really didn't sign up for anything - it just happened. He's a decent guy who doesn't deserve the nastiness, threats, envy or judgements from people who have nothing better to do.
