Let's face it. The Jets are not, nor have ever been, a good team.
They've ALWAYS been talented. Still are. And that's what makes rooting for this team somewhat bearable as time passes and I grow older. But they've never been good. And they're still not good.
Even the teams that made it to the AFC Championship game (game that if you win, sends you to the Superbowl) in 82' and 98', they shot themselves in the foot. Which good teams don't do. Good teams may get BEATEN by another team. But they don't beat themselves.
The 2009 season has contained every shred of hope, excitement, victory, frustration, struggle, and anguish that every other season has since I started watching this talented bad team as kid. Nothing's changed. Nothing.
Sure I'll always be hopeful. I'm an optimist. A dreamer. And I still think the Jets could win a Superbowl. Someday. But it'll have to be a crazy, dramatic, Cinderella type run. Like the Giants had when they won a couple years a go.
The underdog that goes all the way, beating the elite teams at the last second, in amazing fashion, and in the elite team's stadiums. Upsetting everyone and sealing it with some insane play that will go down in football history.
And then they'll go back to not winning another 40 years. But we'll have had our championship. Our parade. And we can all die happy.
And they'll go back to being the talented bad team we love.
Mark J. Williamson
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