Glauber: 17 years later, will Jets history repeat itself?

Bob Glauber

Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — When Bill Parcells signed Vinny Testaverde as a backup a few weeks before the Jets’ 1998 season began, the coach fully expected the veteran quarterback would simply be a good insurance policy in the event his young starter, Glenn Foley, was injured.

“I thought Vinny was a good quarterback. I’d played against him before, and he did a good job,” Parcells told Newsday Wednesday from his home in Jupiter, Florida, reminiscing about what turned into a truly memorable season. “I don’t know that I looked at it like he would have the kind of year he…