CHICAGO — The Jets’ checkered history with first-round draft picks is no secret. Neither is their fans’ frustration, which usually manifests in a flurry of boos inside the draft hall each spring.
So when Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the N.F.L., stepped to the lectern inside the Auditorium Theatre here on Thursday night to announce the Jets’ first-round pick, the sixth over all, Joe Piacente and Isaac Reichman were ready. Sitting in the third-floor balcony, the two Jets fans had ESPN cameras trained on them, and a pact between them.
“If they didn’t pick Kevin White, we were going to boo,” Reichman said.