Hahaha ohhh what a great day today is....
After lying awake in bed until 1:30am and then waking up at 5am (unable to fall back asleep), I’ve had plenty of time to contemplate last night’s Hindenburg remake. The fact that the Jets lost to the Patriots doesn’t bother me so much....depsite hoping for a victory, in my heart-of-hearts, I believed the Pats would win. What does bother me is that it had to happen with every football fan in America watching. This game was hyped as the 2 best teams in the NFL playing. What we got was one of the best teams in the NFL and another whom all of NFL-fandom is now declaring: “We are who we thought they were.” On these boards posters are constantly clamoring for respect. Well, the opportunity for respect was last night. If we lost the game in the 4th quarter, like the Ravens did 1 night earlier, we would be able to hang our heads high today. Instead, the team was exposed (whether you believe it or not....perception is reality) as a bunch of pretenders. And nobody is more devastated than this loyal and tortured fanbase.
Many here will poo-poo the notion that it is Same-Old-Jets. Some of these posters are living in denial, some are too young to have lived the horror, and other incorrectly equate SOJ to the Kotite years. Same-Old-Jets is a team that raises expectations as high as possible only to crush them in the most horrific of ways. Same-Old-Jets is the Fake Spike. Same-Old Jets is a roughing the passer penalty leading to a double-OT playoff loss. Same-Old-Jets is blowing a 10-0 lead in the AFC Championship Game. Same-Old-Jets is Doug Brien. And Same-Old-Jets is going into the most hyped regular season game in 20 years and limping out an absolute embarrassment.
The problem for Jets fans is that we are like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. We know Lucy will pull it away, but dumb-asses that we are, we try and try again. I can pretty much write the script for the rest of this season. We will beat Miami. I believe we will beat the Steelers (it wouldn’t be nearly as SOJ-ish without this). And then the hype will begin to grow. NE will stumble in one of their games and we will have a chance to retake the division. And that’s when it will happen again. We will lost some stupid way to Chicago or worse yet....to Buffalo at home in week 17. SOJ’s once again. But we’ll win a playoff game or two and then have to go back to NE (I can just see the redemption headlines). But like always, a crushing defeat will be waiting for us.
Even though I know how this will end....once again we’ll all play Charlie Brown and will try to kick that football, believing that this will be the time things are different. We are Jets fans....it is what we do. At least misery loves company.
DBJ
