JetNation Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 By Joe Brod This is it! This is our year! We’re finally gonna do it! The Jets are going to win the Super Bowl! Not so fast. For some odd reason, I don’t seem to share the enthusiasm of the majority of my fellow Jets fans going into this season. It’s not that I don’t think they are that good – they are. It’s not that I don’t believe in Rex Ryan – I happen to base my life on his teachings. It’s not even that I don’t believe in Mark Sanchez – hell, anyone who knows me thinks I am his personal PR man. It’s because I am a Jets fan. I know, I know. Most who know me will now say, “but I thought you didn’t buy into all of that ‘same old Jets’ stuff?’” Well, I don’t. I do not believe in karma. I do not believe that this franchise is cursed. I do not believe that there is some strange, evil metaphysical force preventing the Jets from winning. Hell, I hardly even believe in bad luck. This isn’t even really about them, it’s about me. Well… maybe it’s kind of about them. Let me explain why I feel this way: I feel this way because one of my earliest memories of Jets football is the “Mud Bowl.” This was the AFC Championship Game loss to Miami that got Walt Michaels fired as head coach. And if that wasn’t enough, the Jets replaced him with Joe Walton, who at his introductory press conference announced his intentions to “rebuild.” Rebuild what? You just came within a game of the Super Bowl. What the hell is there to rebuild? You’re right there! I feel this way because of the “fake spike.” A terrible moment which to this day means I should probably never meet Dan Marino because if I do, I will kick him squarely in the nuts. This precipitated the firing of Pete Carroll, not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself but it was followed by the single darkest moment in Jets fan history. The moment that gives Jets fans the ultimate trump card in suffering. Whenever a fan of a another traditionally moribund franchise tells me that I don’t understand how bad they have it, I look them dead in the eye and ask them “has the owner of your team ever stood at a podium, announced that he was ‘tired of losing’ and that he ‘wanted to win now’” and then proceed to hire Rich freakin’ Kotite? The Jets lost 28 of their next 32 games – so much for being tired of losing. And finally I feel this way because of “Vinny’s Achilles.” 1999 was absolutely our year. We had just lost the AFC Championship Game after leading at halftime. John Elway was retired and out of the picture. We were primed and loaded and then came the first series of the regular season. We couldn’t even get teased for seven or eight weeks. Our world came crashing down less than five minutes into the season. To give you an idea of what that felt like, my father is fond of telling people that he only hopes I have the same look on my face the day he dies that I did when Vinny went down in a heap on opening day. It was that bad. These are specifically the reasons I can’t seem to get myself too excited about this being “our year.” I, personally, don’t seem to see them running roughshod over the rest of the NFL on the way to what some seem to feel is their guaranteed eventual coronation. It’s not the same old Jets. It’s the same old me. </img></img> View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Super Bowl or bust! I am far from a grinning optimist, but I never got caught up in that same old Jets mentality. Too many things have to fall into place to win the super bowl. I guess what I am saying is that I don't see the guaranteed eventual coronation, but I fully expect to be running roughshod. That's enough for me.**** some teams up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE ILK Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 You're sittin' in your seat And then you stand and clutch your breast Our music drives you wild along with the rest You watch me singing this song You see what my mouth can do And you wish you were the one I was doing it to And you watch me playin' guitar And you feel what my fingers can do And you wish you were the one I was doing it to Well, listen You've got great expectations You've got great expectations You're dying to be seen And you wave and call my name But in the day it seems that I'm a million miles away You watch me beatin' my drum And you know what my hands can do And you wish you were the one I was doing it to Well, listen You've got great expectations You've got great expectations You've got great expectations Then you feels these eyes from the stage And you see me staring at you And you hear between the lines, my voice is calling to you Well, listen You've got great expectations You've got great expectations You've got great expectations, do you want to play the role You've got great expectations, you'd even sell me your soul You've got great expectations You've got great expectations You've got great expectations, do you want to play the role You've got great expectations, you'd even sell me your soul You've got great expectations, as long as you can play the role You've got great expectations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsFanInDenver Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 By law of averages all our schitty luck is behind us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klecko73isGod Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Super Bowl or bust! I am far from a grinning optimist, but I never got caught up in that same old Jets mentality. Too many things have to fall into place to win the super bowl. I guess what I am saying is that I don't see the guaranteed eventual coronation, but I fully expect to be running roughshod. That's enough for me.**** some teams up. I wanna see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Hey Topper, whatcha reading? Great Expectations. Is it any good? It's not all I'd hoped for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiFtheOracle Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 The Jets will win the Super Bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertjenney Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 The Jets will win the Super Bowl. yah . jets would do it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack48 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I really don't like night games. I wish this were a 4 o'clocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HessStation Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 "my father is fond of telling people that he only hopes I have the same look on my face the day he dies that I did when Vinny went down in a heap on opening day. It was that bad." That's a great quote, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klecko73isGod Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 "my father is fond of telling people that he only hopes I have the same look on my face the day he dies that I did when Vinny went down in a heap on opening day. It was that bad." That's a great quote, lol. It's 100% true Hess. He says it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Good stuff Klecko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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