The New York Jets are 1-8, have lost eight straight and are watching Mark Sanchez start for a playoff team in Philadelphia … sort of the epitome of “sucks to be them.”
It can’t be easy to be a New York Jets fan right now.
Your team is 1-8. The one win is a five-point “thriller” over the one team in the NFL that is actually worse than yours, the winless Oakland Raiders. You’ve lost eight straight games.
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Adding insult to insult: Captain Butt Fumble himself, Mark Sanchez, is now starting for a playoff-caliber team in the Philadelphia Eagles.
Meanwhile, your quarterback of the future—Geno Smith—is now playing behind Captain Just Fumble, Michael Vick.
Comedian Jay Nog donned a Jets hat and shirt and took a five-hour walk around Manhattan, a spoof of the now viral video of a woman walking around Manhattan and enduring harassment from cat-calling males.. It was not pretty.
Fans are flying “Fire John Idzik” banners, trying to get owner Woody Johnson to lose the general manager in any of the swamps in the general area of MetLife Stadium.
Coach Rex Ryan, who has been one of the most entertaining coaches in the NFL during his colorful tenure in East Rutherford, wears the look of a man on his way to have root canal most of the time.
Oh, and did we mention your team hasn’t won a Super Bowl since Jan. 12, 1969? That was eight days before the first inauguration of President Richard Nixon, just to put a fine point on it.
Or perhaps saying it was more than six months prior to Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon captures the spirit of the thing.
In any event, not fun times for Gang Green.
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