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BUMP!!!!

Say Goodnight, Gracie!!

It is evident fu-k'n fate had chosen to postpone his cruel behavior for today!! If only we could have gone into the half with that 17-6 lead starting the 3rd Q with the ball. If only Vinny could have capitalized on the chance of building that 10-0 lead to 17-0 at the half. If only's are our montra.

Of all the teams I root for, its this one where I'm absolutely the biggest sore f@##king loser. You'd think I'd be used to it by now. There is no such thing as "moral victories" to me. You, as well as I, have been around long enough to know that this year's "building block" is next year's preseason crippling injury. This year's now inconsequential "referee friendly" game against the Bengals will be next year's "touch foul" on a Brady or a Manning season killer.

We ain't Jet fans Lucky, we're the football equivilent of Eeyore!!!

I guess if we are to feel fortunate about SOMETHING it would be that at least for these last four weeks we had a welcome diversion to that baseball abortion we call the Mets.

Wonder if Revis can cover centerfield!

Great idea,Red! I am sure he can. I also am sure he would get his spikes caught in a divet,tear up his knee,avoid surgery and rest for 10 months on the advice of Jeffrey Wilpon,DOIM(Doctor Of INFERNAL medicine)!!

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Originally posted by Sufferah:
I'm not sure why you keep on bringing back this post from the graveyard. At least for this season, the Jets proved that they're not the "SAME OL MOTHER F!@!CKIN JETS!!!"

I debated over bumping up this thread again. After all, it was a more positive than negative season. I though that posting this would make me seem impatient, entitled, or just a plain old bad sport. However, after thinking about it abit I came to decide, "what the hell", I deserve to because:

1)I'm a sore loser when it comes to the Jets. No other team. Just them. Maybe it has something to do with this long time exile to the promised land that we Jet fan's have. It's been since 1969 that we have JUST PLAYED in a Super Bowl let alone win one. Personally, I think I paid enough emotional dues over the years and I did back them up for the better part of a decade when I had seasons seats back during Re Todd Years. Oh what fun they were.

Yet, even though the past has been rocky you may think that I'd embrace this season as a building block and maybe look for brighter days to come but I'm a Jet fan and realize that the past was........

2)41 seasons of fits and starts, hope after one year destroyed the next. How many times did we see things here look like we're going in the right direction only to have the rug unceremoniously pulled out from underneath? Within the last 12 years we have had new head coaches come in here and look pretty good their first year or so, so much so that we annoint them as team saviors wayyyy too soon. After Parcells, Herm brought an energy, Mangini was LOVED after his first season and the same with Rex. Yet, everyone of Ryan's predecessors fell short almost IMMEDIATELY after first taste of sucess. Then there's the injury factor that robbed us of what was to be a "sure thing" going into the regular season. I still wince when I think of that fateful September day when Testaverde came up lame on the field. Out of nowhere. Our promising season utterly shattered before it had a chance to start. All the poor officiating. All the badddd draft picks. All the poor coaching. Time management, poor tackling....After a while it's gets to blur altogether and each season's ending is just measured as one of yet another failure no matter how much it may appear to be a positive one overall.

Now you may think that I'd realize that we just lost to the best quarterback in the league and I should take some solace in that but.......

3)As a Jet fan I hate Peyton Manning. I think he's a nice enough guy, great sense of humor. Admire him as a guarterback but the fact that he could have been a Jet irks me no end. Like many of his coworkers he could have left college a year early and been a Jet. How's that for a thought? Manning in green? Instead Peyton stays in college and we get a nice but nowhere near great possession receiver on our overall one. It wasn't the first time. Hell, we had a shot at Marino and opted for O'Brien. Even worse, imo, we were THIS close to Brett Favre but instead had to take Browning Nagle. Have to wonder though, if a guy like Manning actually played on this team how it would work out for him? With our luck he'd probably start out like an Al Toon, a real good player but destined to have his career cut short by injury.

Anyways those would be some of the reasons I keep bringing up this thread. To me, its theraputic.

Lucky, I keep seeing that 1972 Lion preseason game over and over in my mind. It was heartwrenching for me. Maybe one of my top ten worst moments of being a Jet fan.

We coulda been a contenda!

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Lucky, I keep seeing that 1972 Lion preseason game over and over in my mind. It was heartwrenching for me. Maybe one of my top ten worst moments of being a Jet fan.

We coulda been a contenda!

I can remember that game like it was yesterday,Red. That team with a healthy Namath,Snell and Boozer,Philbin,Elliot,Biggs, Jim Hudson along with a blossoming Rich Caster to go with Maynard,Sauer and Lammons looked to be primed for dominance. Then of course the usual s-h-i-t fell from the heavens!! I look back at that game however and conclude that is when our shocking bad karma began!

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Lucky, I keep seeing that 1972 Lion preseason game over and over in my mind. It was heartwrenching for me. Maybe one of my top ten worst moments of being a Jet fan.

We coulda been a contenda!

Here's abit of trivia to break up the misery,Red. The Lions had a wide,yet mobile defensive tackle in that game by the name of Alex Karras,who 15 years later,was better known as 'Mongo' and resorted to punching a horse!!!

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If only Vinny could have capitalized on the chance of building that 10-0 lead to 17-0 at the half.

It seems everyone is under the misconception that the Jets had a 10-0 lead, AT THE HALF, in that Denver championship game. I read several posts on these boards saying that, and even Jim Nantz mentioned it today. The Jets DID NOT have a 10-0 lead at the half in that game. It was 3-0. Not that it makes any difference anyway, but I just thought I'd set the record straight. I was begining to think I was the only one that was aware of this fact.

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If only Vinny could have capitalized on the chance of building that 10-0 lead to 17-0 at the half.

It seems everyone is under the misconception that the Jets had a 10-0 lead, AT THE HALF, in that Denver championship game. I read several posts on these boards saying that, and even Jim Nantz mentioned it today. The Jets DID NOT have a 10-0 lead at the half in that game. It was 3-0. Not that it makes any difference anyway, but I just thought I'd set the record straight. I was begining to think I was the only one that was aware of this fact.

You are correct,but that made the disappointment even worse,being that the Jets built the lead up to 10-0 in the 3rd Q. I think fans such as myself over time only remember the height of that game rather than the point it was reached.