We’ve had this kind of thing before, in football. Twice the Jets and the Giants have faced each other late in the season with impactful stakes on the table. Twice they have delivered the kind of results fans were talking about weeks and months later.
That should have been the benchmark. Unlike hockey and basketball, where our area teams all actually have met in the postseason, the Giants and the Jets have a similar relationship to that which the Mets and the Yankees have — even if there was that one nuclear collision 15 years ago when the stars aligned and a Subway World Series actually happened.