New York Jets

New York Jets

▪ American football team
 American professional gridiron football (football, gridiron) team based in Florham Park, N.J., that plays in the National Football League (NFL). Behind the play of future Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath (Namath, Joe), the Jets won a historic upset in the 1969 Super Bowl over the Baltimore Colts (Indianapolis Colts). The Jets share a home stadium with the New York Giants in East Rutherford, N.J.

      Established as one of the founding teams of the upstart American Football League (AFL) in 1960, the franchise—known as the Titans until 1963—was marred by financial struggles and athletic mediocrity as the team competed with the older Giants franchise (New York Giants) in the New York market. One of the lone bright spots in the team's early years was wide receiver Don Maynard, who joined the team in its inaugural season and would set most major receiving records during the course of his Hall of Fame career. In 1963 the newly renamed Jets hired head coach Weeb Ewbank (who had guided the Colts to championships in the late 1950s) and in 1965 acquired Namath, which marked the beginning of the team's move to respectability. Known as “Broadway Joe,” the famed quarterback's good looks and late-night partying won him both adoring fans and commercial endorsements. Namath's swagger was most memorably on display when, in the week before the 1969 Super Bowl, he guaranteed a victory over the heavily favoured Colts of the NFL, which was widely considered to be the superior professional football league and had easily taken the first two Super Bowls. Namath made good on his promise as the Jets defeated the Colts, 16–7. The Jets' victory showed that the two leagues were on an equal footing, helping to ease owners' concerns prior to the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.

      Namath was waived in 1977 after a long play-off drought that began in 1970. Led by a fierce defensive line nicknamed the “New York Sack Exchange,” the Jets returned to the postseason in 1981 and advanced to the American Football Conference (AFC) championship game the following year. The Jets were intermittently successful throughout the remainder of the 1980s and the early 1990s, but the team experienced its greatest extended period of success beginning in 1998. That season ended with the Jets—led by coach Bill Parcells (who had earlier led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories) and featuring running back Curtis Martin and wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson—losing to the Denver Broncos in the 1999 AFC championship game. The Jets qualified for the play-offs in four of the following eight seasons, but they never truly contended in the highly competitive AFC. In the summer of 2008 the Jets traded for former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre (Favre, Brett) in hopes of improving the club's fortunes.

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