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Post by Peebag on Dec 11, 2014 20:55:49 GMT -5
My old man had season tickets at Shea but gave them up when they moved to NJ. Saw my first game their last season there. I blame Freeman McNeil for roping me in. Freeman was the best running back we ever had.
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Post by Jets Things on Dec 11, 2014 21:08:44 GMT -5
My old man had season tickets at Shea but gave them up when they moved to NJ. Saw my first game their last season there. I blame Freeman McNeil for roping me in. Freeman was the best running back we ever had. I think I was too young to really appreciate him, but he definitely got me hooked, along with Toon and Walker.
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Post by greengeek on Dec 11, 2014 21:50:54 GMT -5
I was born in Baltimore Md and was initially a Colts fan. As I was leaving to grad school, Robert Irsay broke agreements with Baltimore's mayor and Md's Governor, and moved the team out secretly in the middle of the night. While in grad school (U Rochester, physics), I didn't follow any sports. After a postdoc (Yale), I got a professorship at Stony Brook University.
When my son was Middle School age, he took after my father (played center in college) and became a starting center and defensive end. Apparently talent in sports skips a generation in my family. I decided to follow a team (no history with the new Baltimore team) and noticed that the Jets had just hired Parcells. So I started to follow the Jets at that point. I read about the team avidly and eventually saw a link on the team's web site for JI.
Today, the Jets remain a centerpiece of my relationship with my son. We watch all games together, text the latest news, and share the heartache of this team. This Christmas, one of my gifts to him will be a Jets-green hat knitted by our own VTN.
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Post by Jets Things on Dec 11, 2014 22:11:52 GMT -5
I was born in Baltimore Md and was initially a Colts fan. As I was leaving to grad school, Robert Irsay broke agreements with Baltimore's mayor and Md's Governor, and moved the team out secretly in the middle of the night. While in grad school (U Rochester, physics), I didn't follow any sports. After a postdoc (Yale), I got a professorship at Stony Brook University. When my son was Middle School age, he took after my father (played center in college) and became a starting center and defensive end. Apparently talent in sports skips a generation in my family. I decided to follow a team (no history with the new Baltimore team) and noticed that the Jets had just hired Parcells. So I started to follow the Jets at that point. I read about the team avidly and eventually saw a link on the team's web site for JI. Today, the Jets remain a centerpiece of my relationship with my son. We watch all games together, text the latest news, and share the heartache of this team. This Christmas, one of my gifts to him will be a Jets-green hat knitted by our own VTN. Great story! But I'm glad Irsay did what he did. Imagine having to face Brady and Manning twice a year (if the realignment never happened)?!
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Post by greengeek on Dec 11, 2014 22:15:09 GMT -5
I was born in Baltimore Md and was initially a Colts fan. As I was leaving to grad school, Robert Irsay broke agreements with Baltimore's mayor and Md's Governor, and moved the team out secretly in the middle of the night. While in grad school (U Rochester, physics), I didn't follow any sports. After a postdoc (Yale), I got a professorship at Stony Brook University. When my son was Middle School age, he took after my father (played center in college) and became a starting center and defensive end. Apparently talent in sports skips a generation in my family. I decided to follow a team (no history with the new Baltimore team) and noticed that the Jets had just hired Parcells. So I started to follow the Jets at that point. I read about the team avidly and eventually saw a link on the team's web site for JI. Today, the Jets remain a centerpiece of my relationship with my son. We watch all games together, text the latest news, and share the heartache of this team. This Christmas, one of my gifts to him will be a Jets-green hat knitted by our own VTN. Great story! But I'm glad Irsay did what he did. Imagine having to face Brady and Manning twice a year (if the realignment never happened)?! We might have had to get a top QB...
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Post by adpz on Dec 11, 2014 22:21:49 GMT -5
Born in Flushing. Raised in Nassau. So was green and white all over from the start!
Moved into Manhattan in my teens and had Jets-love reinforced by all the douchey kids I met who were Giants fans.
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Post by adpz on Dec 11, 2014 22:23:48 GMT -5
Early 80's in Jackson Heights, where we'd play football, before and after school and all weekend with a football, a tennis ball or a quarter on the lunch room table, is where i got my start. I got hooked on them as they were winning and I still remember listening to '82 championship game grocery shopping with my Mom in the local King Kullen. Went home and watched the rest of the debacle but that was enough to hate Shula, Duhe and the rest of those in that putrid Aqua and Orange. Oh lolz. That was the first game I ever had my little buddies over for a 'football party'. I practically cried . . . (or perhaps I actually cried). But that's okay for 9-yr-olds:)
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Post by Jets Things on Dec 11, 2014 22:52:34 GMT -5
Great story! But I'm glad Irsay did what he did. Imagine having to face Brady and Manning twice a year (if the realignment never happened)?! We might have had to get a top QB... Right, but who's worried about that now?
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Post by greengeek on Dec 11, 2014 23:00:03 GMT -5
We might have had to get a top QB... Right, but who's worried about that now?
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Post by HawkeyeJet on Dec 11, 2014 23:07:01 GMT -5
My entire immediate and extended family are Bears fans. At about 7 years old when I was getting into football I wanted to be a fan of a different team for whatever reason. My favorite color was/is Green. The Jets played a Monday night game(practically the only time they would be on TV in Iowa in the late 80s/early 90s). The rest is history. Sad, lonely, unwavering history.
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Post by RobR on Dec 11, 2014 23:09:24 GMT -5
I was born in NJ but my parents moved out to the Island in 73 when I was a year old. My old man never liked sports unless it came to the NY Arrows in the old MISL and that is what fostered my love of the NVMC. Hence my love for the NY Islanders. My grandfather who was the true sports fan always rooted for the Giants and Yankees. With my rebellious past and love for the underdog I gravitated towards the Jets and Mets. After playing the game and watching all of the Jets practices at Hofstra I was sold on this downtrodden franchise. Should have listened to grandpa and enjoyed the spoils of multiple championships......instead I'm a Jets fan. Just give me one......that's all I ask for.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Dec 12, 2014 7:13:53 GMT -5
Parents had just moved to the tri-state area, Jets had just won the SB, father ‘randomly’ decided we would be Jets fans.
FML
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Post by leftturn3 on Dec 12, 2014 9:12:03 GMT -5
When my (step) father married my mom when I was 4 he watched a lot of football, big Giants fan. I was a few months from 5 and it was towards the end of the season when they married and he moved in. Once he moved in I watched with him every game he watched and being towards the end of the season the Jets won their only SB, the Jets where the highlight in New York. I sat with him and watched the Jets win the SB and I was semi hooked. My father, from then on would would bring me Jets memorabelie including signed pictures of the players from the SB team, yes even Namith.
My father, yes he is my Father, my bioligical dad was just that, bio-dad, but agin, my father died this past Sunday of that fucking cancer, I said my final goodby's to him yesterday. Selfless man, perfect example, he Marie's this lady with three young kids and raises them his own, big Giants fan and supports 100% me being a Jets fan, even taking me to Jets games while the Giants where playing. I know I should be cursing him but he was doing what I wanted.
thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Post by ftljetfan on Dec 12, 2014 9:16:01 GMT -5
Was born in North Jersey and was a fan at four years old after going to my first Jets game. I am now 42. I joined the military at 19 and missed my share of games then got staioned in FL and was down in Miami for the Monday night miracle watching the game at a friends house and 3/4 of the way through the game a buddy and I said F it lets go out and get drunk as the Jets were talking a beating. We went to a local bar that was showing the game so as the jets starteded to come back and then eventually won there was alot of shit talking between Jets fans and Fish fans. I had my Jets gear on and the angry dolphins fan statred to talk shit to myself and several other Jets fans in the bar next thing I knew it was Jets fans against dolphins loud mouths, fight lasted until we all were picked up buy the local PD. I hate the dolphins more than any other team in the NFL since.
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Post by Lithfan on Dec 12, 2014 9:43:18 GMT -5
I was born in Baltimore Md and was initially a Colts fan. As I was leaving to grad school, Robert Irsay broke agreements with Baltimore's mayor and Md's Governor, and moved the team out secretly in the middle of the night. While in grad school (U Rochester, physics), I didn't follow any sports. After a postdoc (Yale), I got a professorship at Stony Brook University. When my son was Middle School age, he took after my father (played center in college) and became a starting center and defensive end. Apparently talent in sports skips a generation in my family. I decided to follow a team (no history with the new Baltimore team) and noticed that the Jets had just hired Parcells. So I started to follow the Jets at that point. I read about the team avidly and eventually saw a link on the team's web site for JI. Today, the Jets remain a centerpiece of my relationship with my son. We watch all games together, text the latest news, and share the heartache of this team. This Christmas, one of my gifts to him will be a Jets-green hat knitted by our own VTN. I feel the same way. My son married and moved to Iowa this year, so we don't get to watch the games together anymore, but we are constantly talking Jets throughout the season and offseason and texting during games. We do at least one road trip to see the Jets every year and those trips have really become special -- they are something I never want to give up.
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