NY Post · Dec 29, 2015
Jets get to hog spotlight like this about once per generation
Ryan Fitzpatrick signals for the Jets at the line.This is a Giants town.
It was a Giants town in 1964, when the boys in blue went 1-12-1, and in 1973 and ’74, when they went 4-23-1, and in 1983 when they were 3-12-1. It was a Giants town in 1968 and ‘69, when the Jets went 11-3 and then 10-4 and won a Super Bowl and a Yale Bowl showdown in between, and when Joe Namath was the most talked-about athlete in American sports.
It was a Giants town in 1998, when Bill Parcells took the Jets from a 1-15 mess to the AFC title game within two years. It was a Giants town in 2009 and 2010, when Rex Ryan came barreling into town and led the Jets to back-to-back appearances in the AFC Championship Game.
