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1 hour ago, munchmemory said:

One of these days, I'll regale you with my days as an assistant to Scorsese's tailor.  If I never hear the words "inseam measurement" again it'll be too soon.

Ah so that is where your previous comments in a different thread regarding poor tailoring of trousers comes from.

gotta ask because this drives me nuts. Your at a wedding or formal event and a guy is wearing a suit that is somewhat properly tailored with rubber soled black shoes.

do you just shake your head and wonder why?

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The Mud Bowl game when I was 6 Was watching it with my Dad and all he did was scream and curse at the TV. And I said to myself WOW. I want to curse too and act like that if that’s what this team does to you. It was exciting. Than a few years later with the Browns playoff game with Gastineau. Going through the same scenario with my Dad. And I was hooked


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43 minutes ago, Trotter said:

Ah so that is where your previous comments in a different thread regarding poor tailoring of trousers comes from.

gotta ask because this drives me nuts. Your at a wedding or formal event and a guy is wearing a suit that is somewhat properly tailored with rubber soled black shoes.

do you just shake your head and wonder why?

Yes.  After a stern talking to about appropriate soles.

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Grew up free and clear of any family ties to any sports team. In highschool, when i started watching more sports, i wanted a team that was mediocre. At that time they were going 6-10 and 10-6 back and forth, their sponsor on the back drop was Cadillac and herm was giving elite sound bites weekly.  It came down to SD chargers or NY jets. Sigh... hope i picked the right one.

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Short answer:  Wayne Chrebet (hence why I'm Jetsfan80).

Longer answer:  Grew up in northern NJ, and had every opportunity to choose the Giants over the Jets.  My Dad wasn't an NFL guy until I became one, so there was no family-related reason to choose one team over the other.  I just didn't like Giants fans.  I always linked them in my mind to the Yankees, who I hated. 

I know there are wayyy more Jets fans who are Yankees fans rather than Mets fans, but it just seems like there's a wine and cheese pretentiousness to fans who are both Giants AND Yankees fans.  Makes some sense considering that both teams used to play in Yankee Stadium, leading to a lot of old school fans being fans of both those teams.  I liked rooting for the underdog team better, so my affinity was to the Mets and Jets.

I'm an idiot.

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I pumped gas at a Texaco on Route 46 in Parsippany during the Coslett era. The owner was giving away free Jets tickets to anyone who asked for a full tank. No one wanted the tickets so I took them every week. My fondest memory was going to a Cowboys game and seeing Coach Laundry in person. Other than that it’s been pretty painful since the 80’s………

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I saw Football for the first time in 1976 (about 3 minutes highlights of the Steelers v Cowboys Super Bowl) and I was hooked. But those 3 minutes once a year was all I saw until...

In 1982 Channel 4 here in the UK started showing weekly NFL highlights and live coverage of the Super Bowl. By the end of that season I needed to choose me a team. I liked green so my choices were the Jets or the Packers. The clincher was I had family in New York so the Jets it was.

When, sometime later, I got to talk with my NY family about this, I discovered they were all Giants fans...

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9 hours ago, Jetsfan80 said:

I'm an idiot.

I think that goes for all of us lol...

Simple it was the triumvirate for me in 69, METS, JETS, and KNICKS. Who would have guessed so much pain and suffering since then.

I have dropped watching baseball after the 86 METS, and basketball since Patrick Ewing retired, but I'm still drawn into the JETS for some reason, and I'll never be able to explain it.

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14 hours ago, munchmemory said:

That area of Manhattan is like a mall or Disney Land today.  You're right.  Back then it as all hookers, porn theaters, or clip joints where you might get rolled or knifed.

Walking along side you, serenading you to “loose joints, hash, speed, ludes”.  While the hookers just asked if you wanted to go out. 

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pretty simple.  people, imo, become fans of teams that are successful during their ages from about 10 to 15 or so.  in my case it was the jets, celtics and dead sox.  each of those teams were in championship games between ages 11-14 and being in the ny/ne market, you just couldn't watch any sports without those teams being prominently displayed.  why no giaints?  because they were going through the allie sherman years and a serious decline.  patsies?  pretty much an afterthought after the jets.  yankees?  also going through a decline after the mantle years.

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My father grew up an old AFL Brooklyn Dodgers football fan and got shlt from pompous Giants fans.  He couldn’t root for the Giants when the league disbanded so he rooted for the Browns of Paul Brown, Jim Brown and Otto Graham until there was another NY alternative him to root for.  

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When I started watching football(1966) the Giants were on Sunday's at 1:00 PM. Not only did they stink, but their games were usually boring, like 10-7. Then, at 4:00, you'd put on NBC, channel 4, and you watch the AFL, and see all the great QB's and high scoring games, and when I realized that the Jets and Joe Willie shared Shea with my beloved Mets, I was hooked. Going into season 43 of season tickets. You definitely CAN'T teach an old dog new tricks.?

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Starting at 8 years old, I was going to Shea several times every year with my Grandfather and occasionally some of his friends.  With good weather, we would drive about a mile and park at Terrace on the Park and then walk thru Flushing Meadow Park, past the zoo and pitch & putt, to Shea.  That lasted all the way to age 14 when they moved to Florida.  

I got my own season tickets in my 20's.

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9 minutes ago, Dcat said:

Starting at 8 years old, I was going to Shea several times every year with my Grandfather and occasionally some of his friends.  With good weather, we would drive about a mile and park at Terrace on the Park and then walk thru Flushing Meadow Park, past the zoo and pitch & putt, to Shea.  That lasted all the way to age 14 when they moved to Florida.  

I got my own season tickets in my 20's.

Same here, at 22.

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When my mom married my stepdad, he was on the waiting list for season tickets.  I figured if I’m gonna be around this dude for a while, might as well be a fan of the team if he gets the seasons.  All downhill from there - he never got tickets and I did when the new stadium was built.  Worst set of decisions in my life.

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