Dear friend Lenore is writing a column this week for the NEW YORK SUN about what people think about the Jets, the Jets vs. the Giants, the Jets/Mets connection, and other things that New Yorkers want to read about since their team is inexplicably in the Super Bowl this year. So even though the sports scene in New York is about as important to me as the intracacies of insurance law (i.e. NOT AT ALL), I had to reply...
As a native of Baltimore, I hold within my genetic makeup a dark, unrelenting hatred of the Jets, given what Broadway Joe and his team did to our beloved Colts and all-but-elected-to-sainthood JohnnyU, aka Johnny Unitas in that famed Super Bowl of January 12, 1969...Super Bowl III...when Joe Namath, appearing at the Miami Touchdown Club, guaranteed a victory for New York.
Yuck. Ouch. Shudder.
Now how a playboy who would be remembered by more people for appearing in a pantyhose commercial IN PANTYHOSE than for his exploits on the gridiron, how this pot-sparkler (just invented that term...substitute "flash in the pan") beat the Great Unitas, well, it's beyond human comprehension.
So, I could give a rat's intercourse about the Jets. I like the Giants a lot more. One, they had the good manners to lose to our Baltimore Ravens (YEAAA, RAVENS, GO BALTIMORE, GOD BLESS CHARM CITY AND EVERYBODY ELSE CAN GO TO HELL!) in Super Bowl XXXV, many thanks Giants. Second, because I like this Eli Manning. Nice kid. Class act. Having had an older brother myself, I know about the whole sibling rivalry thing and it would be neat if Eli could out do brother Peyton and bring home that shiny trophy this Sunday. Two Super Bowls in the same family, a neat trick. Of course, that would spoil the first ever perfect season in the NFL, 19-0 with a Super Bowl for the Patriots, that would be neat too. So I wouldn't mind if the Patriots won. Either way I'm happy on Sunday.
The Mets/Jets connection? Easy. The names rhyme. That makes New Yorkers smile and laugh alot. You can get the same reaction by dangling keys in front of most New Yorkers. You can have your typical Yankee fan laughing for weeks with the whole "gotchya nose" bit.
Hint: Baltimoreans don't like New Yorkers. It's more baseball-oriented hatred though. If I need to explain it, you'll never understand. I mean, who can be a YANKEE fan? It's like cheering Goliath or the Germans when they invaded Poland. I mean, COME ON...
I know this probably doesn't help you, but I thought I'd share. We do that in Baltimore. More often we're sharing STDS or gunfire, but that's Bawlmer, hon...
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