afosomf Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 i will go first I was a bama fan and my idol was JWN, this coincided with family moving from Haverhill M******* to Eastern LI I quickly became a Mets and Jets fan Gawd i could have been a Soxs fan growing up, not so sure about pats lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
124 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 My uncle and father, due to the fact my name was Joseph William (and it was that way partly because of JWN), bought me a ton of Jets and Namath gear and it was all over from there. Got season tickets and starting attending home games at the age of seven, and then it went from being a fan to being an addict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowmoe57 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 i will go first I was a bama fan and my idol was JWN, this coincided with family moving from Haverhill M******* to Eastern LI I quickly became a Mets and Jets fan Gawd i could have been a Soxs fan growing up, not so sure about pats lol A good friend of mines father was Big Tennesee fan but for some reason he loved Namath as well. So in turn he also loved the Jets. My dad was a huge Giants fan til the day he died but for some reason I fell in love with the green and white. A love hate releationship to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 yeah, 12 yrs old & I was everything joewilly. the rest is history, a sad,gutwrenching history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggis Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 It was 1985, Channel 4 started showing American Football in the UK. And in a hotel lounge in Largs I was watching tv with my visiting dad. It was Jets V Miami. Jets won, I became a fan. I've stayed loyal ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afosomf Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 It was 1985, Channel 4 started showing American Football in the UK. And in a hotel lounge in Largs I was watching tv with my visiting dad. It was Jets V Miami. Jets won, I became a fan. I've stayed loyal ever since. i bet you rue that day:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green DNA Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Just plain old dumb luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbro22 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I was born on LI in '87 and didn't have a preference over Jets or Giants for the first 10 years of my life. Didn't care much about football in general when I was that young. But when I was 10, my family and I went on a vacation to FL. My older brother had brought his friend with us, and his friend had a VHS of the '97 Jets Yearbook. We watched it in my parents huge conversion Van on the way to FL, and the rest was misery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECURB Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 When I was 5 or 6 a family friend got me a JETS jacket and told me I didnt have to wear it to school if I was embarrassed by it... I said screw it and wore that thing everyday... they were a HUGE JETS fan... Should I be mad at them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gg Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 my dad..who was a ny titans fan and then a jets fan.. so ... there it goes.. thanks dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthCoastJetsFan Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 If I could remember that, seeing as how it was 45+ years ago, I would kill the person responsible. I was always an AFL person, it was much more exciting than the old drab NFL. Living in NY, the Titans were the team. A lifetime of frustration, except for one magical game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyHector Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Grew up in the shadow of Shea Stadium... it was my grandfather's fault for getting off a boat and settling in Queens, as I am now saddled with two of the most infuriating teams to root for in the Jets and Mets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEJet Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 As a kid was a Cowboys fan....then mom got me this Watched Jets games from that point forward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 JWN's prediction and the Jets SuperBowl victory did it for me but it was hard to follow them out of state with no internet/ESPN/NFL Network. Then I got transfered out east and that cemented it. Especially when it seemed like every person I met was a Giants fan. I should have listened to them. Nah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECURB Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 JWN's prediction and the Jets SuperBowl victory did it for me but it was hard to follow them out of state with no internet/ESPN/NFL Network. Then I got transfered out east and that cemented it. Especially when it seemed like every person I met was a Giants fan. I should have listened to them. Nah. NJ you must be the only person here who understands my pain of being a Bulls and JETS fan right now... lol In the past however at least the Bulls have given us much pleasure... Thank you MJ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afosomf Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 My 2nd favorite team growing up was the Detroit Lions I have fell off their bandwagon lol I am scarred for life!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I played a lot of sports when I was in elementary school. My father didn't follow any professional sports. When I hit high school, I felt out of the loop so I decided when I was 15 that I was going to pick a football team and stick with them. One of my uncles was/is a huge Giants fan but he had 2 sons that were also with big gay blue. My other uncle was younger and didn't have any children yet and was/is a diehard Jet fan. So I decided to even the family up a little bit. Btw the time of that decision was August 1998. I didn't really even know who Bill Parcells was. That season felt like magic and I was so happy at the time that I had made the correct decision. I actually remember watching my first football game from start to finish. It was that heartbreaker in San Fran (oh the irony) where Garrison Hearst cracked off a 99 yard run in OT to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbro22 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I played a lot of sports when I was in elementary school. My father didn't follow any professional sports. When I hit high school, I felt out of the loop so I decided when I was 15 that I was going to pick a football team and stick with them. One of my uncles was/is a huge Giants fan but he had 2 sons that were also with big gay blue. My other uncle was younger and didn't have any children yet and was/is a diehard Jet fan. So I decided to even the family up a little bit. Btw the time of that decision was August 1998. I didn't really even know who Bill Parcells was. That season felt like magic and I was so happy at the time that I had made the correct decision. I actually remember watching my first football game from start to finish. It was that heartbreaker in San Fran (oh the irony) where Garrison Hearst cracked off a 99 yard run in OT to win. I decided to commit to the Jets just before the 98 season as well. Lucky me:face: Good enough to suck me in for the rest of my life that year. With the exception of winning the division after that its been pretty miserable thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyHector Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I decided to commit to the Jets just before the 98 season as well. Lucky me:face: Good enough to suck me in for the rest of my life that year. With the exception of winning the division after that its been pretty miserable thus far. I'm sure there are at least a few guys here who started rooting for the Jets in the early 70's that would like to punch you in the face... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Bit Special Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 My father hates his children so he made them Jets/Mets/Islanders/Knicks fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyHector Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 My father hates his children so he made them Jets/Mets/Islanders/Knicks fans. Same here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Bit Special Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 My father hates his children so he made them Jets/Mets/Islanders/Knicks fans. And my 50yd line seats sure helped seal the deal.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Bit Special Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Same here... its ok.... come here you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 dad couldn't get giants tickets, so he took me to a jets home opener and wesley walker caught a TD or a bomb or something thanks dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 My Uncle was a stud QB all through high school than played college and pro-baseball. He attended Broadway Joe's football camps all through school and had countless pictures of the two of them on his wall and in my moms house(where i grew up). When I was about 8 my Uncle brought me to meet him and really just ever since that day I considered myself a jets fan. I didn't start watching all of the games until a few years later, but growing up in a family that is all Giants fans, who despised the COwboys..grandpa called them president killers... I always thought it was funny I was the only Jets fan. Now I don't find it funny so much as I do annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boynton Beach Jets Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Bad luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rillo Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 IDK, my father was always a Giants/Mets fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsis Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 When I was like 7-8 I used to go fishing with an uncle who was a jet fan. I don't speak to him anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor99 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 The older brother of a friend played for the Jets. I've hated that guy ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Boy Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I just took to them when I was a kid. I didn't start really following them until the late 80's though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faba Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I just followed my father watching the Jet games growing up- he was a Jets/American Football League man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiFtheOracle Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Daddy doesnt love me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaspegs Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Followed my dad:rollseyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afosomf Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 Common theme here Our parents raised us like crap!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn306 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Neither of my parents are sports fans. An uncle took me to my first game back in 1974. New York Football in the 70's was a joke. So I had a choice. The Jets with Joe Namath or the Giants who had nobody. Easy choice if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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