Correction

Thanks to an observant reader, and a fellow Jets Fan, I need to make a correction to yesterday's post.

The Jets were 6-10 in 1990. Still not impressive however, looking at their level of competition that year. They beat the following teams:

Cleveland Browns: This was Blair Thomas' first home football game in a Jets Uniform. Too bad it wasn't his last. Cleveland ended up the season in dead last place at 3-13.

New England Patriots: Marc Wilson at Quarterback and Rod Rust at coach. Do I need to say more?

Houston Oilers: This was a damn nice win in Houston that year. Fumble recovery in the end zone clinched the game in the second half.

Dallas Cowboys: A below average Cowboy team that year. Second year for Troy Aikman. Terance Mathis returned a kickoff for a touchdown in that game.

New England: I think my grandfathers dead uncle could've beaten the Patriots that year. Has to be one of the worst teams in history or at least in the 90's. Up there with the '96 Jets.

Tampa Bay: Bad team. Guess who was quarterback? And he was a VETERAN in 1990!!!! Talk about old.

1990 in the NFL wasn't like today. There were bad teams all over the place, and the unbalanced schedule was in high gear.

Joe Walton

An interesting article today in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette. Click here to read it.

New York and Pittsburg are the two places where Joe Walton had the worst years of his professional life. It could be said that it was unfair the way he was treated. You look at the 1989 New York Jets and they had an aging fragile quarterback in Ken O'Brien, and a weak offensive line. What else could another coach get out of those players? Bruce Coslet only had a 4-12 season in the following 1990 season, with the same old Ken O'Brien at quarterback. Only after a couple of high draft picks did this team get a sniff of the playoffs in 1991 at 8-8 (I still want John Madden to shut up about that).

It is true the 1989 team quit on Walton, which is why his firing was so necessary. However, he may have been stricken with the greatest career killers of them all. Bubby Brister and Bad Luck.

Training Camp Date

For those of you who are interested, the Jets open training camp on Thursday July 29th. This is later than normal. I remember in previous years the Jets and other teams would start as early as the 16th of July. However, this year the season doesn't start until the Sunday AFTER Labor Day. The NFL started to do that a couple years ago to try to boost the NFL ratings on the first weekend of the season.

Just so you know...

I will write more on this issue, when I actually begin to have more than a passing interest. However, in case some of you are wondering, I'm still torn on the new football stadium issue.

On one hand, I hate playing at Giants Stadium. I hate playing at someone else's home. (Although, I think the issue of the Jets having NO HOME, has been overblown in the last 10 years). So I welcome the fact the Jets and this new ownership are taking things seriously and trying to find a new home. And I love the fact that it could be in New York City, and keeping those Big Blue idiots on the other side of the river.

But on the other hand...

The atmosphere could be different in that location. What happens to all the tailgaters if most people take a train or boat into the game? What happens to the tailgaters when people are parking in garages? The entire atmosphere is gone... That would be sad. The one thing the Jets don't need is a wine and cheese crowd, like the Giants have.

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Jets Journal

The New York Daily News reported yesterday that the New York Jets have put a hold on "Jets Journal" for the 2004 season. Jets Journal was a weekly, in season, half hour show dealing directly with the New York Football Jets. It had aired on MSG for the past (maybe) 15 years?

I grew up watching that show on my local cablevision in Northwest Connecticut. I used to religiously watch Al Trautwig and Dave Jennings make fun of the Jets, themselves and Joe Walton in order to make a watchable television show about a sad sad franchise. They did just that.

I used to watch Jets Journal on Saturday nights to get me more excited to go to the Jets game the next day with my father. Watching highlights of last week's loss, and a preview of this week's potential loss. Heck, I was a naive child!!!

Anyway, after growing up, I watched less and less Jets Journal. Only really watching it when I would have nothing better to do on a Friday or Saturday night or evening. But the memories of it will always be there. And more importantly, it was the only (Jets only) football show that I ever had the chance to watch. Being outside NYC I would never be able to see "Jets 24/7" and besides that show, Jets Journal was the only other option.

I wished the NYJ's had decided to sell this show to the YES network. I wish they had kept the show alive. For no other reason, than to keep my childhood watching Dave Jennings and Al Trautwig alive... (Marty Lyons came later...).

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This is the Start

This is the start of my blog. Nothing yet... but this will house my thoughts on my beloved New Your Jets, and other issues as I think of them. I will hopefully get this going more during football season. Thanks for dropping by, and hope to see you back here again soon...