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Glory Glory Hallelujah!

My whole life I’ve been subject to that horrible phrase “except in New York.”

A month ago I prayed to the Blogods when I wrote It’s 2008 Can We Have The Doubleheader?

Today my prayers have been answered.

Here in NY where we are often subjected to horrible games while you folks in the flyover states get to see mutliple games, we not only got two games at 1pm, we also got two games at 4pm.

I believe this is a first.

Here’s the part I want the NFL to notice:  the Jets game is still sold out!  There’s no need to have silly blackout rules.   The Jets fans are at the stadium.   The Jets fans are glued to CBS.   If a few of us sneak over to Fox to peek at Cowboys-Eagles the world won’t end.  In fact you’ll wind up with more people more interested in your league.

I really can’t believe this is happening, but thank you NFL, and let’s do this every week next year!

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Wow I really have the anti-Jets venom today.  Truly the greatest moment in Jets history.

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A month ago I brought up the silliness of the NFL Doubleheader rules – as if Jets fans were going to blow off today’s Dolphins game to watch 49ers-Redskins.   As if Giants fans who are expected to spend $20,000 for PSL’s are suddenly going to give up season tickets so they can watch Lions-Packers games.

Finally there’s some hope!  According to the Houston Chronicle:

The NFL is waiving the home team blackout regulation Sunday, which means both CBS and Fox will be allowed to show doubleheaders here on the regular season’s final weekend.

Bears-Texans will air on KRIV (Channel 26), with Matt Vasgersian and JC Pearson calling the action, and KHOU (Channel 11) will be allowed to show Patriots-Bills, which has playoff implications, in the noon window.

A league spokesman described the blackout lift as a limited experiment.

Cowboys fans also will benefit Sunday. The league’s decision to switch kickoff for Cowboys-Eagles to 3:15 p.m. means it won’t clash with the Bears-Texans game and, thus, will air on Channel 26.

You mean the league won’t fold if some people watch Patriots-Bills?   Does that suggest the Giants season ticket waiting list would go from 50 years to a half empty stadium if CBS New York were allowed to show a 1pm game?


Come on NFL, loosen up the rules.   Neither the NFL nor the networks will go bankrupt.   While you’re at it encourage more cool web features like what NBC is doing with Sunday Night Football (check that out if you haven’t).   

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Ah Jets, how I enjoy your misery (read this if you missed it:  I Hate The Jets ).

Another disastrous Jets season and another lame Jets-pun headline.

Today will be so sweet.

A month ago uppity Jets fans were talking about the Super Bowl and even going as far to ask the NFL what they would do if both the Jets & Giants were hosting conference championship games.   Silly Jets.  (The answer was that one game would be played Monday night by the way).   Everyone buy your tickets for Tampa for the Swampway Super Bowl!

Brett Favre made the Namath on the Rams mistake.  He made the Jerry Rice on the Broncos mistake.   The Unitas on the Chargers mistake.  The Willie Mays on the Mets mistake.  He didn’t get off the field with the legend intact and stayed one year too many.  (Props to Mike Mussina for realizing it was a good time to get out.)

Now the Jets are faced with the Dolphins.   The Dolphins led by of all people Chad Pennington.  How great will it be when Pennington clinches the division at the Meadowlands.   Your home-grown QB that you kicked off the street for a hired gun.   That never works out in sports – even Joe Montana couldn’t lead the Chiefs to the Super Bowl – but you went for it.   Now your castoff will send you to the off-season, with the help of your former savior Bill Parcells.   I love it, and Parcells rhymes with PSLs so get ready to write Woody Johnson some checks so you can enjoy another 40 years of misery.

Go Dolphins!

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A friend sent me this link:All time NFL Franchsie Rankings which you guessed it, ranks the franchises by the Misery-to-Joy index.

While the Jets are not say the Chicago/St.Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, they are pretty far down the list.   I think the most telling stat is that Weeb Ewbank who won the two most important games in the history of the NFL (the “Greatest Game” in 1958 and Super Bowl III) was under .500 with the Jets.

Here’s a taste:

Save for one fleeting afternoon of glory in Miami 40 seasons ago, it’s just never quite clicked for the Jets. They’ve fiedled some very good players, but few that were ever great. They’ve had some very good coaches, but few that were ever great. They’ve had some very good seasons, but fewer that were ever great.

On the player front, even their most iconic players lean woefully to the overrated side: Face-of-the-franchise Joe Namath is in the Hall of Fame purely for the win over the Colts. His overall career numbers otherwise mediocre at best, even for his era.

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