Ken O'Brien was in sixth grade, circa 1972, when he attended his first New York Jets practice. He was in from California on a family vacation, and his four uncles -- all single, all New York City police officers -- were charged with showing him a good time one summer afternoon. So they drove out to the Jets' training camp at Hofstra University on Long Island and young Ken wound up in the players' parking lot, sitting on a shiny new Cadillac.
"Nobody was going to mess with us because we had four badges with us," O'Brien recalled.