subject: The New York Jets Tickets :the Jets Continue To Spiral Downward Before Enjoying A String Of Success [print this page] The New York Jets are a professional Football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). In a unique arrangement, the Jets share New Meadowlands Stadium (located in East Rutherford, New Jersey) with the New York Giants.
The team's training facility and corporate headquarters, which opened in 2008, are located in Florham Park, New Jersey. In addition, the team holds training camp on the campus of the State University of New York at Cortland (SUNY Cortland), in Cortland, New York.The team previously headquartered and trained at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, on Long Island for a span of forty years.The Jets hold the distinction of being the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game when they defeated the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.
On August 14, 1959, the first organizational meeting of the American Football League would take place.Harry Wismer, who was the representative of New York, was granted a charter franchise that would later be named Titans of New York.The Titans would play at the Polo Grounds during their first three years of existence and struggled financially before a five man syndicate headed by Sonny Werblin saved the team from certain bankruptcy.
Renamed the Jets, the new owners would bring in Weeb Ewbank as the general manager and head coach Ewbank and 1965 draftee Joe Namath led the Jets to prominence in 1968 when New York defeated the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III and solidified the AFL's position in the world of professional football.
When the AFL and NFL merged in 1970, the team fell into a state of mediocrity along with their star quarterback Joe Namath who only had three successful post-merger seasons after injuries hampered much of his career. The Jets would continue to spiral downward before enjoying a string of success in the 1980s which, included an appearance in the 1982 AFC Championship game. The early 1990s would see the Jets struggling. After firing coach Bruce Coslet, owner Leon Hess would hire Rich Kotite who sent the team into a complete tailspin leading the team to the NFL's worst record for two straight years.
Ultimately, this would lead to the hiring of former Patriots head coach Bill Parcells in 1997 who led the team back to relevance and would coach the Jets back to the AFC Championship in 1998.In 1999, owner Leon Hess passed away while the team, led by Parcells, was plagued by injuries that produced a four win record. Parcells later departed and named Bill Belichick his successor who ultimately abandoned the team in favor of the New England Patriots.
In spite of this period of instability, the franchise would obtain a new owner in Woody Johnson. Additionally, though the 2000s the Jets would visit the playoffs five times under the direction of three different coaches. The Jets' current head coach, Rex Ryan, was hired in January 2009 and a new home field, New Meadowlands Stadium, opened in April 2010.
The Jets' flagship radio station is WEPN, 1050 ESPN,with "The Voice of the Jets," Bob Wischusen as the play-by-play announcer and former Jet Marty Lyons as the color analyst.Wischusen, who joined WABC in 1997, took over the play-by-play role in 2002 after Howard David left the organization earlier in the year.
