I'm (Jets) Green with Envy

A good team having a great day is going to beat a great team having a bad day.

Rodgers had a terrible day last Sunday so the Packers did too

Oh good lawd, the Giants are a game away from the Super Bowl. What happened, Mr. Discount Double Check? Acck! Us Jet fans adopted you as one of our own and we were so counting on you. Sadface.

Part of the fun of being a Jets fan is rooting against the Giants.

"Oh, but you should be happy because they're a New York team!" Why do people who are not from New York believe we all root for both teams? What about the Buffalo Bills? They're from New York, right? Really? So, why would I root for the Giants? Are Raider and Charger fans happy that the 49ers are in the NFC championship game this Sunday? They're all California teams. Was Cleveland happy that the Steelers went to the Super Bowl last year? They're both in the same part of the country and they're in the same division too. No, no, no. Were Giants fans rooting for the Jets the last two years when they were a game away from the Super Bowl? Are you kidding me? C'mon, man.

The Jets are in the AFC and the Giants are in the NFC so their regular season matchups are infrequent.

Half the fun of being a Jets fan is rooting against the Giants. A Jets win is much sweeter if the Giants lose, a Jets loss less bitter if the Giants lose. The opposite of this is true as well. When the Jets lose and Giants win it feels like I got a bad grade on a test and my biggest rival got an A. Oh, the humanity. The Giants stomping the Jets in week 15 of this past regular season the ultimate insult. Their inexplicable success this post season only adding more rock salt into the wound. If you're thinking I think that the Giants are just getting lucky guess what. You're RIGHT!

These brilliant commercials for State Farm Insurnace featuring "The Cheesehead Guy" have become a pop culture phenomenon.

For the record I'm of the opinion the Packers lost that game last Sunday as opposed to the Giants beating the Packers. Aaron Rogers, arguably the best quarterback in the NFL, picking that key game at storied Lambeau Field to have one of the worst games of his career. Perhaps he was tired from shooting the new State Farm commercials. Who knows. Great players do have bad days. Last time I checked they're human just like the rest of us.

The Jets one, ONE shining moment was January 12, 1969 when we beat the Colts in the Super Bowl. Seems like we've been paying for that day for 42 years. And counting.

Years ago when I was in Dallas I had dinner with Preston Pearson, who played on the Dallas Cowboys 1975, 1977 and and 1978 Super Bowl teams getting a ring with the Cowboys when they won Super Bowl XII in 1978. He got his first ring as a member of the Steelers in Super Bowl IV. He also played on the on the 1968 Colts team that lost to the Jets in Super Bowl III. He knows a thing or two about football. And winning and losing big games. I asked him how that great Colts team lost to the Jets. He said bluntly, "Jets had a better day than we did. They were a pretty good team. But, y'know, a good team having a great day is going to beat a great team having a bad day."

Here's to the 49ers having a better day than the Giants on Sunday.