Let’s recap your opinions
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- January
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During the course of the season, I asked a lot of questions on the so-called democracy poll. The rules were simple, you were only allowed to answer once, and you had to pick one of the four answers provided. I tried to make it so write-in votes counted, but it never seemed to work.
First up though, the Jets still need to pick a QB coach and a D Line coach. Then it’s on to players and free agency starting on Feb. 28.
Anyway, thought you might find it interesting to see what you thought, here are about half of the questions posed over the season.
May 5: Which Draft pick will have the most immediate impact? Vernon Gholston.
May 16: Who should be the Jets’ starting quarterback? Kellen Clemens.
July 24: Do the Jets even need a new stadium? Yes, they can’t play in Giants Stadium.
Sept. 30: Who do you think will make the biggest impact upon return? David Clowney.
Oct. 12: Which receiver will have the most impressive year? Jerricho Cotchery.
Nov. 6: Favre and another year? If the Jets do well, he’ll be back.
Nov. 18: What do you think the Jets will end up? 12-4.
Nov. 28: Five straight wins, what do you expect from the Jets against Denver? Jets struggle against a pass-heavy offense, but win.
Dec. 2: Now what? Is the loss to Denver a bad sign? Jets win out.
Dec. 17: The Jets have an NFL-best 7 players selected for the Pro Bowl. Your first thought? If Mangini can’t make it to the playoffs with this, he’s in trouble.
Dec. 25: The future of Brett Favre? Back mowing his own lawn in Hattiesburg after retiring next week.
Dec. 31: Oh Brett, sigh. Let’s give this another shot. I think we can make this work.
Jan. 5: Being a Jets fan is… A fan is a fan, you can’t just bail out if things don’t go your way.
Well, have you learned anything about yourselves?
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Jane McManus 
Lucy Van Pelt is holding the ball and we are lining up for the kick every time….
And always hoping the kick will go well every time!
Well, Jane… I don’t know if I’ve learned anything about myself, but, your findings seem to corroborate my sense, that Jets fans seem to just follow the Media spin.
Actually, that’s just our society these days, people tend to follow rather than think for themselves.
How anyone would want Favre back, other than from a PR standpoint, is beyond me.
Ha ha…speaking for myself, I’ve never been one to follow “media spin”. As Alex and I have discussed in the past, I just try to be more of a glass half full guy, stuck in a glass half-empty world. Mind you I can be a pretty cynical half-glass full kind of guy, but I make an effort to stay a couple of drops above the positive side. If that makes me a sucker…well, so be it.
For the record, I really wasn’t a fan of bringing Favre in at the 11th hour and I personally would rather see them move on without him also. I won’t necessarily, burn him in effigy, if they drag him back though. As fans, we are stuck to either play along with the hand we’re dealt or hold our breaths until we turn blue for a season.
I think this is what we should learn about ourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjXUgxR4Z10
http://jets-lag.blogspot.com/
go to the blog Jets-Lag at google blogger
I’m like David, pretty much. We both even reside in Billsland.
But I did notice that at some point in time, according to the poll, I was far from being the only Clemens booster. Where did everybody else go?!
What might 2008 have been like without Favre? I’m already ducking for cover from those temporary Jets’ “fans”!
Hey Alex, which of us is deeper into enemy territory? I’m in Rochester.
I’m about halfway between Ithaca and Cortland (about 40 miles south of Syracuse, as the crow flies). That’s not as deep as you are, but deep enough that I don’t get Jets’ games without paying through the nose for them. I was living in Queens when SB3 happened and Namath and Co. drew me into the curse of a lifetime! I blinked and forty years went by.
How’d you get hooked?
Hey Alex,
At the risk of carbon dating myself…I was 6 years old when the Jets won the SuperBowl and that is when I was just beginning to appreciate the sport. Broadway Joe, cursed me into it! If you’re between Ithaca and Cortland, you must be nestled into some beautiful countryside. I love the Finger Lakes region. Cheers my friend, and enjoy the game tonight!
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David,
Six years old is when Rex became a Jets’ fan too, right? I was a fan a year or two before January 1969, but not a very knowledgeable one. I was a bit older than you, so I was already wondering what it was like for Namath to spend the night with Suzy Storm! I recall running outside after the SB3 win with two friends and lots of newspaper to tear up as pseudo-confetti. I don’t know how long we were whooping it up before we noticed that . . . no one else was! The streets of Queens were completely normal. No jubilant fans except us. Even Queens was mostly Giantsland or NFC land back then.
So, were you living in the Rochester area then? If so, what led you to the Jets instead of the Bills? Was it purely Namath?
Great superbowl game yesterday. When was the last time a speedy Jets’ receiver split the defense and galloped for a TD the way Fitzgerald did yesterday?
Finger Lakes area is very beautiful, but very snowy. Seems like at least an inch or two every freakin’ day. Not good to have a long, steep driveway!
At that point in my life, I was living in a small town called Phelps. I’ve moved quite a bit, but always lived within a 50 mile radius of Rochester. Not that it’s stopped me from traveling or anything, but home is where the heart is and I guess it’s just always been grounded to this region.
The Bills just never did it for me. I guess when you are young and impressionable, seeing the Jets make that run was enough to cement my fate for life. Rex was 6 also (though methinks I look much younger than Rex)...all the more reason to like him.
Well, back to my daytime number crunching. Happy Monday!