The NFL playoffs are underway and my beloved Jets are on their annual post season vacation. The thing that amazes me is the stunned and angry legion of long suffering fans that actually thought this season would be different. Call me cynical, but the story was a foregone conclusion from the moment Brett Favre was signed.
To Recap: Chad Pennington was cast out to make room for Favre, create some buzz and help sell tickets. The Jets won a few games, looked good for a few weeks, there was talk of Super Bowl run, then collapse. The final act which surpassed any Hollywood yarn, featured Pennington the cast-off leading the Miami Dolphins, (who had a record of 1-15 last season) against his old team, beating them with ease and best of all, clinching the AFC division with a regular season record of 11-5. Chad who won the Comeback Player of the Year award and the Dolphins go onto the playoffs (where they got demolished by the Ravens) while the Jets look for a new coach to correct the sinking ship and wait for Favre to announce his retirement.
Not to pat myself on the back, but I saw that "ugly duckling" ending the day Pennington was sent packing, lets be honest, it couldn't have unfolded any other way. Unfortunately that type of ending is all too familiar to New York sports fans. We hope and pray, pay outrageous ticket prices, slurp stale, water-down beers and in the end are left wondering "what happened?"
This is just a thought but maybe "We the Fans" are the problem. Maybe the fans are not appreciating the greatness that comes from choking and losing year after year. Instead of crying about not making it into the playoffs or failing to deliver another champion title after waiting so long, we should celebrate the fact that our respective teams went belly up like the economy. Call me crazy, but we need to look into immortalizing hapless losers as much as we celebrate winners.
Yeah...we could even have a Super Bowl or World Series dedicated to the best of the worst teams, we could call it the Mediocrity Bowl. And lets face it, if there was such a thing, most New York sports franchises would win every year...
Yup, I can see it now, the fans screaming at each other across the parking lots "My teams is worse than yours, where going all the way, baby!"
No Time for Winners.... cause WE are the Losers... of the World!
All hail mediocrity.
To Recap: Chad Pennington was cast out to make room for Favre, create some buzz and help sell tickets. The Jets won a few games, looked good for a few weeks, there was talk of Super Bowl run, then collapse. The final act which surpassed any Hollywood yarn, featured Pennington the cast-off leading the Miami Dolphins, (who had a record of 1-15 last season) against his old team, beating them with ease and best of all, clinching the AFC division with a regular season record of 11-5. Chad who won the Comeback Player of the Year award and the Dolphins go onto the playoffs (where they got demolished by the Ravens) while the Jets look for a new coach to correct the sinking ship and wait for Favre to announce his retirement.
Not to pat myself on the back, but I saw that "ugly duckling" ending the day Pennington was sent packing, lets be honest, it couldn't have unfolded any other way. Unfortunately that type of ending is all too familiar to New York sports fans. We hope and pray, pay outrageous ticket prices, slurp stale, water-down beers and in the end are left wondering "what happened?"
This is just a thought but maybe "We the Fans" are the problem. Maybe the fans are not appreciating the greatness that comes from choking and losing year after year. Instead of crying about not making it into the playoffs or failing to deliver another champion title after waiting so long, we should celebrate the fact that our respective teams went belly up like the economy. Call me crazy, but we need to look into immortalizing hapless losers as much as we celebrate winners.
Yeah...we could even have a Super Bowl or World Series dedicated to the best of the worst teams, we could call it the Mediocrity Bowl. And lets face it, if there was such a thing, most New York sports franchises would win every year...
Yup, I can see it now, the fans screaming at each other across the parking lots "My teams is worse than yours, where going all the way, baby!"
No Time for Winners.... cause WE are the Losers... of the World!
All hail mediocrity.
6 comments:
Funny Funny stuff, and I can relate being a Bears fan!!! Go MEDIOCRITY!
Lisa
Flora's Sista from another Mista!
As a long suffering Jets as well as Mets fan i say truer words have never been spoken.Rock N Roll All Nite
SPEAK FOR YOUR OWN TEAMS. AS FAR AS NY GOES YANKEES ALWAYS WIN & HAVE WE FORGOTTEN WHO WON THE SUPERBOWL LAST YEAR IN THE BEST PLAY OF SUPERBOWL HISTORY....
Well, actually we (New Yorkers) will always be loosers weather or not our teams win or lose. We as a society pay way to much for tickets to any sports venue and quite honestly the enjoyment of the games comes at a price that is way to high. At the rate of the economy our children and grandchildren will only get to enjoy sports while actively involved in television or video games. But to sum up the blog "Hail Mediocrity" who gives a shit, because sports is just a bussiness and less of a fan fare event for pleaseure or enjoyment.
I will call you cynical. You can't help it though you were born that way. At the point it was time for you to leave the birth canal, you said, "Are you sure you want me to go out there? It looks disappointing." As for the Jets they are just simply cursed. They won the first Superbowl as a AFC team and now must pay the witch that cast spell. She delights in continually tormenting their fans.
I've lived in NY my whole life. When you come in any place but first, YOU'RE A LOSER! J.E.T.S. still means: Just End The Season!
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