SoFlaJets Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Is the one word that best describes the New York Jets, and I don't just mean one call, one play, or one game, I'm talking about HISTORICALLY. The Jets are the unluckiest professional team in the history of American sports. I can't think of a team that has has worse luck than the New York Football Jets. With the exception of one season. The Jets find the unlikeliest ways to lose football games. I mean the Dolphins, they lose games but they don't lose them the way that the Jets lose games. What I'd like to do with this thread is everybody to put their two cents in and dig into their memory banks and let's discuss this anomly of American sports that the Jets are. I'll start; even when something goes their way in a big way....remember in '98 that game against Seattle when Vinny dove in for a "TD", there was such an uproar with that missed call that the league went so far as to change the rules and institute the replay the next year. How about the Butt fumble? Only the Jets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj meadowlands Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Do you start a histrionic, overly broad thread following every loss, or every other loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drums Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I'm pretty sure the Browns are the unluckiest team in sports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolot Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 After 43 years too many examples to type , the best way I can explain it now is it just a mindset , I have been battered so long I'm fragile , not unlike a dog who flinches when it's owner raises his voice. After every good play on either O or D I expect a flag , every time one of our guys has the ball I expect a fumble , every time we have a lead I expect it to vanish in a horrific way , and as was posted earlier by someone I also prepare myself by reminding my self there is nothing this team can do to me that I haven't survived before, for all the younger fans who will call me a soj fan I don't hold it against you , I actually want and need your energy and enthusiasm and hope you will be proven right and me wrong. I'm sorry for the negative energy but it's all I know , it's all I think about when I watch the games, it's weird to me that not everyone thinks this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsFanInDenver Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I think its the Cubs. Atleast a spectator in the stands did not rob us of a surefire TD which would have seen the JETS go thru to the Super Bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionelRichie Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Is the one word that best describes the New York Jets, and I don't just mean one call, one play, or one game, I'm talking about HISTORICALLY. The Jets are the unluckiest professional team in the history of American sports. I can't think of a team that has has worse luck than the New York Football Jets. With the exception of one season. The Jets find the unlikeliest ways to lose football games. I mean the Dolphins, they lose games but they don't lose them the way that the Jets lose games. What I'd like to do with this thread is everybody to put their two cents in and dig into their memory banks and let's discuss this anomly of American sports that the Jets are. I'll start; even when something goes their way in a big way....remember in '98 that game against Seattle when Vinny dove in for a "TD", there was such an uproar with that missed call that the league went so far as to change the rules and institute the replay the next year. How about the Butt fumble? Only the Jets The "Fail Mary" was one of the worst calls I have ever seen watching the NFL. The Packers went 10-3 in the next 13 games. If the Jets are a good team they will have 14 more chances to win. Being a Jet fan is never easy, but this is a good young team on the way up and most importantly they are primadonna free and likeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted September 15, 2014 Author Share Posted September 15, 2014 Do you start a histrionic, overly broad thread following every loss, or every other loss? do you ever have an original idea that isn't critical of every other poster on the boards? Have you ever added anything relevant to a discussion on JetNation? Do us both a favor and put me on ignore, because I don't care what you have to say about me or any other poster that you decide isn't up to your standards of fandom excellence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted September 15, 2014 Author Share Posted September 15, 2014 and then there's this...like minds...or long time Jets fans know it all too well Richardson timeout just latest chapter in Jets’ history of hilarity Mike Vacarro If you are lucky — and I use that term both loosely and ironically — then perhaps you go back to the originator, to the Heidi Game. Maybe you didn’t realize it then — the Jets did go on to win the Super Bowl seven weeks later, after all — but that was the start of something. Call it an ill wind. Call it a dark cloud. Call it Indi-Jets-ion. But you know it’s there, always lurking. Players come, players go. Coaches, executives, PR flacks — they come, they swear there is no such wind, no such cloud, they sneer at the sheer silliness of it all, they go. And yet every few years, you get Mark Gastineau hitting Bernie Kosar late. You get a Fake Spike. You get a buttfumble. And you get a defensive tackle — keep that part of it in mind please; a DEFENSIVE tackle — calling a timeout while the offense is on the field, a few seconds before the quarterback throws what would have been a game-tying 36-yard touchdown pass. “It’s my fault,” Sheldon Richardson said. The kid was being too hard on himself, really. It’s bigger than that. It’s bigger than him. Richardson was still at Missouri when the buttfumble happened. He wasn’t yet 5 when the Fake Spike happened, wasn’t yet born when Gastineau crushed Kosar The Jets lost to the Packers 31-24 yesterday for a lot of reasons, almost none of them Richardson’s fault: the offense, so brilliant early, crawled into a shell across the final 2 ¹/₂ quarters. Nobody thought it worthwhile to guard Jordy Nelson, who collected 209 receiving yards. Aaron Rodgers, best quarterback on the planet, did things the best quarterback on the planet is supposed to do. So there was that. But there was also this: An interception by David Harris late in the third quarter that could well have rescued the Jets and reversed an avalanche of bad momentum, called back because Damon “Snacks” Harrison was maybe a half-step away from the sidelines (and digging hard) when Rodgers snapped the ball. Penalty. Twelve men on the field. An ill wind. And there was this: The Jets facing fourth-and-4 at the Green Bay 36, down a touchdown, all 78,041 inside Lambeau on their feet, roaring, screeching, pleading, and Smith somehow, someway, finding Jeremy Kerley for the tying score, and … “In my peripheral vision,” Kerley admitted, “I saw something.” “You can tell when a play’s coming back,” receiver David Nelson said. A dark cloud. It’s there on the tape: Rex Ryan standing next to Richardson and then Richardson approaching the line judge. What you can also see is offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg waving his arms as if to say: “No!” Referees are only supposed to grant timeouts to the head coach, but they’re also instructed to keep their eyes on the line of scrimmage so close to a snap. What he heard was Richardson’s voice. Who’s message was he relaying? “I know for a fact it didn’t come from me,” Ryan said. Mornhinweg isn’t permitted to offer his take until later in the week because the Jets would prefer this story linger an extra four or five days. Richardson? “I let the team down,” he said. No. He didn’t. In the small picture, he was well down the list of Sunday’s culprits. Muhammad Wilkerson showed an appalling lack of judgment and poise by getting himself tossed for throwing a punch as the meltdown climaxed with a two-point conversion that gave the Packers their first lead, 24-21. Geno Smith was a completely different player over the game’s final 40 minutes than he was in the first 20, in part because it looked like Mornhinweg traded in his own playbook at halftime for a dusty copy of Paul Hackett’s assemblage of squiggly lines. And Ryan, now in his sixth year, has to find a way to stop the hemorrhaging, and instead of applying a tourniquet he let his team bleed out. In the bigger picture? Richardson never had a chance. He was just another naive newcomer who thought the Jets’ history of hilarity was a fable, a fairy tale, something made up by fans and seized by sportswriters, except if you’ve been paying attention long enough, all the way back to a Swiss lass named Heidi, then you know this merits a proper place in the anthology. You know Indi-Jets-ion when you see it. And feel it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj meadowlands Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgb Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 After 43 years too many examples to type , the best way I can explain it now is it just a mindset , I have been battered so long I'm fragile , not unlike a dog who flinches when it's owner raises his voice. After every good play on either O or D I expect a flag , every time one of our guys has the ball I expect a fumble , every time we have a lead I expect it to vanish in a horrific way , and as was posted earlier by someone I also prepare myself by reminding my self there is nothing this team can do to me that I haven't survived before, for all the younger fans who will call me a soj fan I don't hold it against you , I actually want and need your energy and enthusiasm and hope you will be proven right and me wrong. I'm sorry for the negative energy but it's all I know , it's all I think about when I watch the games, it's weird to me that not everyone thinks this way. maybe the best post ever to appear on JN. i really have nothing to add. that was perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYDzLUH1NE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I think its the Cubs. Atleast a spectator in the stands did not rob us of a surefire TD which would have seen the JETS go thru to the Super Bowl. That'll probably happen at some point in the next few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted September 15, 2014 Author Share Posted September 15, 2014 I think its the Cubs. Atleast a spectator in the stands did not rob us of a surefire TD which would have seen the JETS go thru to the Super Bowl. How about an invisible gremlin that came up through the turf and ripped Vinny's achilles tendon to sheds along with our hopes of another super bowl shot in the first game of the season, oh yea and we didn't even have a back-up QB and had to use the frigging punter-only us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgb Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 How about an invisible gremlin that came up through the turf and ripped Vinny's achilles tendon to sheds along with our hopes of another super bowl shot in the first game of the season, oh yea and we didn't even have a back-up QB and had to use the frigging punter-only us... yup that's my snake bit moment. i was young and optimistic. that's the day i become SOJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetsfan80 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 The Jets are "unlucky" only to the extent that the team has been owned by Leon Hess and Woody Johnson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn306 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Is the one word that best describes the New York Jets, and I don't just mean one call, one play, or one game, I'm talking about HISTORICALLY. The Jets are the unluckiest professional team in the history of American sports. I can't think of a team that has has worse luck than the New York Football Jets. With the exception of one season. The Jets find the unlikeliest ways to lose football games. I mean the Dolphins, they lose games but they don't lose them the way that the Jets lose games. What I'd like to do with this thread is everybody to put their two cents in and dig into their memory banks and let's discuss this anomly of American sports that the Jets are. I'll start; even when something goes their way in a big way....remember in '98 that game against Seattle when Vinny dove in for a "TD", there was such an uproar with that missed call that the league went so far as to change the rules and institute the replay the next year. How about the Butt fumble? Only the Jets The Chicago Cubs say hello Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted September 15, 2014 Author Share Posted September 15, 2014 The Chicago Cubs say hello and the Lions too Shawn and the Dolphins have pretty much been crap for the past 15 years too, what I'm talking about though is a team that finds ways to lose games that defy logic-those are losing franchises too but they lose like a regular team loses not like a snakebitten Jets fanchise. I see a difference and Vaccaro above does too...the darl cloud..the ill wind that you just KNOW that somehow, someway the Jets are going to find a way to lose, either by stupid coaching, blown plays, or bad bounces wind blown punts or bad calls questionable calls that ALWAYS hurt the Jets at the worst possible moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn306 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 and the Lions too Shawn and the Dolphins have pretty much been crap for the past 15 years too, what I'm talking about though is a team that finds ways to lose games that defy logic-those are losing franchises too but they lose like a regular team loses not like a snakebitten Jets fanchise. I see a difference and Vaccaro above does too...the darl cloud..the ill wind that you just KNOW that somehow, someway the Jets are going to find a way to lose, either by stupid coaching, blown plays, or bad bounces wind blown punts or bad calls questionable calls that ALWAYS hurt the Jets at the worst possible moments. The Cubs have been crap for over 100 years and when they have come close you get 1) a black cat walking across their dugout at Shea Stadium while the Cubs are blowing a huge lead to Mets costing them a possible trip to the World Series in 1969. 2) A ball going through the legs of Leon Durham in Game 5 enabling the Padres of all teams to complete coming back from 2-0 down to win the NLCS in 1984. 3) 2003...Bartman, what were they 5 outs away from a trip to the World Series. That there is pain beyond anything a Jets fan has had to endure. You can throw the Red Sox in there as well till they finallly got their own miracle in 2004. How would like to be a Cleveland Browns fan ? You lose a divisonal playoff game on Red Right 88 in 1980 and then go on and lose back to back AFC Title Games on the "The Drive and " The Fumble" They are still looking for their first title since 1964. Are we snakebit at times ? Absolutely, but in my opinion there are some other franchises that blow us away in terms of being snakebit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Blitz Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 The worst part about being a Jets fan over the years isn't the losing, it's that they give you hope, just a little bit and you find yourself believing that this could be it, and then bam! Nope!, Can't believe I turned to my dad after the 1st quarter Sunday and said 'don't worry, we got this' . We'll win next week though....DAMN YOU HOPE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack48 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Is the one word that best describes the New York Jets, and I don't just mean one call, one play, or one game, I'm talking about HISTORICALLY. The Jets are the unluckiest professional team in the history of American sports. I can't think of a team that has has worse luck than the New York Football Jets. With the exception of one season. The Jets find the unlikeliest ways to lose football games. I mean the Dolphins, they lose games but they don't lose them the way that the Jets lose games. What I'd like to do with this thread is everybody to put their two cents in and dig into their memory banks and let's discuss this anomly of American sports that the Jets are. I'll start; even when something goes their way in a big way....remember in '98 that game against Seattle when Vinny dove in for a "TD", there was such an uproar with that missed call that the league went so far as to change the rules and institute the replay the next year. How about the Butt fumble? Only the Jets I missed the crazy ending because my cable went down. It was a crazy finish. But as I sit here today I am not disturbed by it. I was very encouraged by Geno. I feel good about him now. He knows the offense, he has pretty good control of himself. I liked the way he moved guys around. I liked the way he ran the ball. He still has to get better at the deep throw but he has improved the short ones. Would have been nice if Nelson and Salas actually showed up for the game. Our D sucked. But even teams that have good defenses have suck games. We had a little bad luck. Rodgers threw the absolute worst interception imaginable but one of our fatties just missed getting off the field. The ref took a tying TD away from us. What is there to feel bad about. We went on the road against an offensive powerhouse and essentially tied them? Now if Decker misses time or Mo gets suspended, our season could spiral. We are thin at receiver and need our Pro Bowler on D. But right now, all things considered, I feel optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsFanInDenver Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 How about an invisible gremlin that came up through the turf and ripped Vinny's achilles tendon to sheds along with our hopes of another super bowl shot in the first game of the season, oh yea and we didn't even have a back-up QB and had to use the frigging punter-only us... Gotta agree that was pretty up there . Eff that invisible gremlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deucebag Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 How about an invisible gremlin that came up through the turf and ripped Vinny's achilles tendon to sheds along with our hopes of another super bowl shot in the first game of the season, oh yea and we didn't even have a back-up QB and had to use the frigging punter-only us... I am sooo tired of hearing how the Vinny injury cost the Jets the Super Bowl...that team wasnt going to the super bowl with or without Vinny...the Tuna's FA signings were all busts, Eric Green, Steve Atwater and Roman Pfifer. We still only had two WRs (Ward really wasnt that good) and no pass rush. Tuna's draft was a complete bust as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 Cubs and Browns yea they have had some crap luck too but year in and year out the Jets are like a running joke in the biggest market-they get no respect and the league chooses to do whatever it wants with my team and I'm sick of it. When Woody took over we were asked to help further the black coaches in the game so we were given an incompetent ninny for 5 years when I would have much preferred Marvin Lewis if we had to take someone-no great shakes there either but one is still a head coach and the other an announcer. ESPN had to have a policy handed down to stop showing the butt fumbel-the Jets under Woody Johnson are the red-headed stepchild. Hate them if you want but the Dolans would never have let the league do what they do to the Johnsons-they wouldn't stand for it, they would have gotten the stadium. Look, I'm not here to whine, that's not what this was supposed to be about it's supposed to be a conversation between us fans about how the team we love is the Rodney Dangerfield of the NFL and it has never stopped. They playoff game vs Pittsburgh and the year before that vs Peyton's team-the shots that Sanchez was allowed to take would have been roughing the passer calls had they been done to the Golden Boys, the "backward pass" that was a foward pass and run into for a score would have not been called the same way had it been Tom Brady. James Harrison would not have been allowed to unload shots to the head had it not been the Mexican QB for the Jets. We see it year in and year out game after game unpresedented ways of losing, of bad calls that never even up and it has just gotten worse. When I saw it was Walt Anderson's zebra team out there I knew we were going to get screwed somehow, someway. he hates Rex-think back again to that Indy Championship game I think that was his crew too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rillo Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 #SOJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 another week, another bunch of non-calls,dropped interceptions fast whistles to cost the Jets points. It's nobodies fault. This is fate the Jets are luckless. What's even worse is we don't have an owner who will say anything about the 3 consecutive weeks of bad calls that never help his team-he is milktoast and nobody respects Woody enough to change their behavior. The Jets under this ownership will continue to be a joke. When your team plays against another team on MNF and the opponent has an owner who will spend all the available cap money by 25% we are outspent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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