Today’s Journal News
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- August
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Among the 4,000 or so fans that came out to watch the last Jets practice at Hofstra University, I found a few diehard locals fans who can not wait to move to Florham Park, N.J. so they don’t have to drive through Long Island traffic anymore. Here’s the story.
Here we have the Kowalski cousins of Spring Valley, Michael, 5, Jack, 4, and Paul 14, and cousin Joe O’Reilly, 12.
The Jets practiced today, getting ready for this Saturday’s preseason game against the Giants at the Meadowlands. WR Laveranues Coles, still not talking, practiced more and coach Eric Mangini said there was a 50-50 chance he’d see some action in the game. Shaun Ellis is back in pads as well, and Mangini was equally noncommittal about playing him.
As for quarterback Brett Favre, Mangini wouldn’t say how much he expected to play. After saying he had 30 to 40 plays going into the game against Washington and that it hadn’t changed much.
“No, it hasn’t doubled,” Mangini said. “But the thing you can do is by changing the formations, the looks, the shifts, the motions, even though it’s 30 base plays, you can dress it up a lot of different ways. You could easily turn 30 to 90 just by how you get to the play. But the concepts I wouldn’t say have doubled. It’s going to be incremental each week.”
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Jane McManus 
This is a depressing day for me. I grew up on Long Island and went to Hofstra summer camp until I moved to Westchester in fifth grade. Players lived in my town, frequented our delis, got in barfights in my neighborhood (Jumbo Elliot). The Jets were always Long Island’s team, same as the devils belong to Jersey and Brooklyn once owned the Dodgers. Most of the nine metro sports teams draw from the whole area, and the jets certainly don’t lack fans on the mainland, but Long Island had a special connection with them that is lost now. I can tell you from experience, most Long Islanders have at least a two hour drive if they want to go to a football game, and the jets training camp was always a way to make up for that. Not that I can complain with a 50 minute drive from Westchester, but I remember what the Jets meant to us when I was a kid. Even the Yankees, my favorite franchise, didn’t have that ultra-local feel, and neither did the Mets, since they battle each other across the tri-state for fans (and most of them live in Westchester/CT/Manhattan anyway). The Islanders sucked, and it’s easier for Long Islanders to take the train to Rangers games than drive to nassau colliseum anyway. Only the Jets lived amongst us. Today is a sad day.
Jane,
any word on whether chad pennington will start against us in the opener? I’m going to be in Miami and I’m going to the game. Maybe I’ll see you there!