If you know anything about the National Football League (NFL), odds are you know that the New York Jets are consistently known as a bad football team year in and year out. Some other fanbases complain about their team’s lack of success, but at least they are not New York Jets fans.
Fans of other teams complain about making the playoffs and not winning the championship, but imagine not even reaching a first-round playoff game. This is the reality the New York Jets have known for way too long.
The Jets have been historically one of the worst franchises in the NFL. They are the league’s laughingstock, not making the playoffs since 2010. This means that the Jets currently hold the longest playoff drought out of any team not only in the NFL, but in North American professional sports. Sitting at a record of 3-9, it looks like the Jets will continue their streak with 14 seasons in a row of not even making a single playoff game.
To make matters worse, fans of the team truly thought that things would change for the better this season after getting star players such as quarterback Aaron Rodgers, wide receiver Devante Adams, and defensive end Hasson Reddick. To sum it up, the Jets have a stacked roster this year on paper that was supposed to contend for a Super Bowl, but instead, they have played like the “same old Jets.”
Die-hard New York Jets fans at Monmouth University are fed up with the team they have supported all of their lives. When asked how it feels to be a fan of the organization Dan Gruseke, senior communication major, said, “Every single weekend I am always enraged by this pathetic organization.”
Ben Vandenacker, senior buisness major, described being a Jets fan as, “Pure chaos.” He continued to say, “If I ever run an organization in the future, I know where to look on how to NOT run one.”
Junior Ortega, Monmouth alumnus, said, “I’ve been a Jets fan all of my life and I had to suffer watching my favorite team suck every year. There are times that I feel proud to be a fan though. This offseason we stacked our team, but eventually did nothing with it. Overall I hate it, but somehow I am still a Jets fan.”
Obviously, Jets fans are not happy with the current state of the organization. No other fan base has been waiting 14 long years to simply watch their team play in a singular playoff game. The NFL team with the second-longest playoff drought is the Denver Broncos, who haven’t made it in 8 seasons. Notably, the Broncos are likely to end this drought and make the playoffs this year since they are currently sitting at a record of 8-5. This gives a perspective that Jets fans have been waiting much longer than any other fan base in the league to see just a small sliver of success.
Every year Jets fans are given false hope and it is simply not okay anymore. Jets fans are some of the most diehard fans in the NFL, but get nothing rewarding in return. At a point, people have to wonder if the Jets are scripted as the “comedic relief” of the NFL for other fanbases to make fun of because watching this team absolutely stink year in and year out just seems too insane.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
