That's total hooey about the JWN jinx. All it takes is good management, terrific coaching & finally quality players. Of which presently besides Revis & Sheldon & maybe Wilk we have NONE & have had none for the last 46 years except maybe Curtis who we did not even draft. Just look who we placed in the HOF since inception JWN (SB Team) DM (SB Team) WE (SB Team) That tells U all U want to know of the NYJs since 1960
Champ. I respect you and your age but seriously you are the bad apple here. Sorry but it is the fact. Why do I hate you? I really don't hate you or anybody. But I dislike you and I don't think I am the only one here. Here are my reasons. I don't think you enjoy the good things about Jets. You focus on the negatives and blame some of us who try to see the good in certain cases. Your interactions with others on this board irritates me. You have zero sense of humor and it is impossible to sustain a meaningful discussion with you. But still, I think you are a colorful personality so please don't go anywhere.
What about Klecko? Maybe we can get Brooklyn to sacrifice a nut into Flushing Bay...He stays in the US, maybe the Curse gets broken. Two birds with one stone, so to speak
See I see that U most on this board are total denial of the real facts why the NYJs have been so shitty for so many years & all I attempting to do is advise U of the TRUE FACTS but U & most others are this board do not like TRUE HISTORY. You also said U HATE ME did U not?
There are ZERO good things about the NYJs when year after year they come up losers. Just note how I discuss the 68 SB team which won it all vs every other NYJ team that has been a loser. Somewhere U have to get some smarts to understand that in sports the ONLY thing that counts is WINNING
No. The only other SBIII film I have is the NFL Films recap of the game and it is so NFL-centric it's rediculous. Colts in a last ditch effort put in Johnny U. Unitis really didnt do too much (did have a late TD) but the way NFL Films struck up the "Johnny U. inspirational music," and showed repeats of the same play from a different angle, they practically gave the apperarance that Unitis came in went 10-for-10 Air Coryell on the Jets. Then the clincher was John Facenda's stern voice ending the film with a passing acknowledgement of Namath as a QB who's arrived and then closing with reference to Unitis "as a man!" -- I was almost expecting to hear Jimmy Roger's corny old "Big Bad John" start playing. Other than that, I have the "Super Jets" LP (contains the radio broadcast, that is, Merle Harmon's "Snell at the five, Snell at the three.....Snell, touchdown!.....Matt Snell on a wide sweep to the left, and this crowd is up and cheering as the Jets have drawn first blood!"). Here's Harmon's take on the game: Merle Harmon Discusses Superbowl IIIBy Scott Benjamin Merle Harmon was the voice of the Jets on WABC from 1964 until 1970 Veteran sportscaster Merle Harmon said that although Super Bowl III, probably the biggest sporting event ever broadcast on Musicradio77 WABC, will always be remembered for New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath’s guarantee of victory, the upstart American Football League (AFL) team primarily won because it had more foot speed than the 17-and-a-half point favorite Baltimore Colts of the National Football League (NFL). “I think that Super Bowl III, to some degree, changed how Don Shula did things,” Merle said of the legendary Colts coach, who was just 38 when his team made Super Bowl III. “With the Dolphins No-Name defense, Don put more of an emphasis on foot speed,” he said regarding the unit that helped the Dolphins win two Super Bowls in the early 1970’s. Merle also credited Namath with calling an intelligent game as the under-regarded AFL came of age that day. Through his early years, one of the criticisms of Namath, who had been signed to an unheard of contract of $427,000 following the 1965 AFL draft, was that he tried to throw too many passes instead of attempting to develop a more balanced attack. The AFL was noted during its run from 1960-’69 for high-scoring games, which steadily generated more fan interest. Merle said the offensive-oriented style eventually prompted college teams to play in the same fashion. However, in ’68, Namath threw less frequently, had fewer interceptions and the Jets finished with an 11-3 record. “Joe recognized defenses very well and he attacked with the running game to the right side of the Colts’ defensive line,” said Merle, who became the play-by-play broadcaster for the Jets in 1964 on Musicradio77 WABC and stayed with the team through 1972, although during his last two years the games were carried on WOR-AM in New York City. “Joe knew the Jets could win a low-scoring game,” he said. Jets offensive coordinator Clive Rush also has been credited with devising the winning game plan. The New England Patriots hired him as their offensive coordinator just 18 days after Super Bowl III. Merle said that Ewbank was noted for developing effective defenses. One of his assistants that year was Buddy Ryan, who became one of the highest-profile NFL assistants of all time when he served as the defensive coordinator of the 1985 Chicago Bears team that went 18-1 and captured Super Bowl XX in January 1986. Merle also said that even though Namath had become a celebrity, his teammates didn’t resent him. He said that when he went to the Jets hotel that week, defensive back Earl Christy shook him because he was so excited that Joe had announced at the Touchdown Club that he would “guarantee” a Jets victory even though the Colts were prohibitive favorites. “I think that Joe’s prediction helped the Jets win the game because it got his teammates hyped,” Merle said. Even though Snell was the game’s leading rusher and scored the Jets only touchdown, Namath was named as the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl III. “The quarterback has an advantage in a vote like that,” Merle said regarding the higher profile that a signal-caller usually carries. “I think it would have been fair to make them co-MVPs.” “There was pandemonium in the locker room afterwards,” Merle said regarding the reaction after Namath walked off the field waving a finger in the air to symbolize that the Jets were number one. “I don’t think that they blocked anyone from coming in. The Jets’ owners had foreign dignitaries that were in there.” A record album of the Jets 1968 season was produced a short time later that was narrated by Merle and included some of the calls that he and Sam had made over the 16-game schedule. The Jets win put an exclamation point on the AFL’s quest to gain parity with the more-established NFL. To some, the Jets represented the youth movement that had become prevalent in the late 1960’s as rock music and pop culture took on a higher profile. It also turned Namath into an even bigger celebrity and led to a series of endorsements. Merle has said that there was a crossover between the Jets’ radio audience and Musicradio77 WABC’s Top 40 format, since at the time Namath was the biggest rock star around. Musicradio77 WABC sports director Howard Cosell had predicted on his WABC-TV Channel 7 sports broadcast two days earlier that the Colts would win. The day after the game on his ABC American Contemporary Radio morning sports commentary he said that many people will tell you in the coming years that they knew the Jets were going to win just as there are many people who will tell you that they were at the Polo Grounds when the New York Giants’ Bobby Thomson hit the home run heard round the world in 1951. “I don’t think so,” Merle said when asked if the Jets had been lucky and would have lost a majority of the games if the two teams had played 10 times. “The Jets had found out how to beat them with foot speed,” he said. “I think to some extent that Shula and the Colts felt embarrassed by that game, and I didn’t think that was fair,” he said. “They didn’t lose by very much, and if they had won the perception would have been much different.” He said that he is surprised that the Jets have not returned to the Super Bowl in the years since the Namath guarantee. “The Jets will get there again,” he said. “But I don’t think that you will ever have the kind of circumstances that surrounded Super Bowl III. The Jets victory for the AFL changed pro football.” "But,...but, I have more playoff wins!" "Pffft.....where's your ring Mr. Playoff Wins?"
Well, if you believe champ, we are doomed forever and my left nut is safe. But if the Gods want my left nut before they grant Jets a Superbowl victory, so be it. I just need a divine message so to speak.
"To some, the Jets represented the youth movement that had become prevalent in the late 1960’s as rock music and pop culture took on a higher profile." THE NYJs LAST WON THE SB ON 01/12/69 WHICH IS NOW OVER 46 YEARS AGO OR TO SAY IT ANOTHER WAY "46 YEARS of REBUILDING AND STILL COUNTING...WOODY IS NOW 0-15 IN BRINGING A NYJ CHAMPIONSHIP TO THE NY/NJ/CT METRO AREA." See, that's the thing: the Jets really aren't a team for their fans. They are the team of the underdog. And most of their fans are really just front-running assholes.
