By: Boonie McShnoogle

Boonie McShnoogle — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:06:15 +0000

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!

By: small schools

small schools — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:09:28 +0000

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.

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