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Link: Darrelle Revis, Brandon Marshall Engage In Fistfight At Jets Training Camp
No broken jaws or hands, apparently.
Someone asked me a question the other day I could not answer: what came first -- the Jets, or Jets fans? The issue seems to be that a black hole of pathological codependency (Jets fans) had to exist for the pitiable franchise to manifest. Something like a festering wound coalescing into a scab. In this case, the scab never fully heals: a new season rolls around, the scab is picked at, gets inflamed and then festers again, scabs over during the off-season, etc. year after year. Almost 50 years -- a half-century -- of gangrenous festering woundedness in the swampland.
My goodness.You're right. There has to be an environment.
I suppose that most societies have peripheral elements who resist all attempts to turn them into useful and productive citizens, who spend their time stealing hubcaps, ingesting cough syrup and having sex with inanimate objects.
But it's only the Jets that leads them to coalesce and crystallize into a single seething corpus of self-destructive futility. What invisible hand makes the team and their fans harmonize with one another so perfectly?
It is a mystery that is too deep for me.
I think you're on to something. In other words, the franchise functions sort of like a homeless shelter or methadone clinic.My goodness.
I have to believe Jets fans came first because then you could say that the Jets franchise was created in order to satisfy and direct some of the Jets fans' behavior that would otherwise seep into the rest of society. It is the answer to the question that haunts mid-level politicians when faced with roving bands of Gravesend miscreants, "Who's on First?"
We do know that the Jets fans have evolved like the human who had no tail centuries ago and now does. It's one of my favorite Ken Burns' documentaries, 'What Survives a Nuclear Fallout?' My favorite scene is the one where Burns is interviewing a Jets fan at the end of another failed season and he asks the fan what will he do now. The fan, apoplectic, just keeps screaming (the red visible beneath the puke green face paint) "Ax me nudder kweshun! Ax me nudder kweshun!" Until fatigued, he falls back into his Meadowland seat and smashes his $12 watery beer. What a life.
I think you're on to something. In other words, the franchise functions sort of like a homeless shelter or methadone clinic.
Someone asked me a question the other day I could not answer: what came first -- the Jets, or Jets fans? The issue seems to be that a black hole of pathological codependency (Jets fans) had to exist for the pitiable franchise to manifest. Something like a festering wound coalescing into a scab. In this case, the scab never fully heals: a new season rolls around, the scab is picked at, gets inflamed and then festers again, scabs over during the off-season, etc. year after year. Almost 50 years -- a half-century -- of gangrenous festering woundedness in the swampland.
The residuals of CTE at work....
Geno disagrees... lmaoFormer Jets hero (broke Gee-No!'s jaw) suffers serious injury with Bills. Dude can't catch a break.
Link: Ryan: Enemkpali suffered “major” knee injury
Former Jets hero (broke Gee-No!'s jaw) suffers serious injury with Bills. Dude can't catch a break.
Link: Ryan: Enemkpali suffered “major” knee injury
Former Jets hero (broke Gee-No!'s jaw) suffers serious injury with Bills. Dude can't catch a break.
Link: Ryan: Enemkpali suffered “major” knee injury
There must be something in the water in Jetsland. Mevis just said that the Jets have a good shot at the Superbowl this year. Is he being traded back to the Pats