Football!

When I started this blog, I said I was going to talk about radio and sports; the two things I am most passionate about. Haven't done anything about sports to this point because...well, because it slipped my mind. Yes, I am getting old. (LOL) Every time I had a thought or two about sports worth sharing, I got caught up doing something else. So today, I decided to start the sports stuff by talking about the one team lots of people thought didn't belong in the NFL playoffs; the New York Jets.

People said they "backed in" to the playoffs because the Colts and Bengals chose not to play their best players for the entire game when they met the Jets at the end of the regular season. Is it the Jets fault that those teams decided not to go all out? They were labeled as not being playoff worthy because of something they had no control over.

I would hope that the naysayers can finally come clean and admit that the Jets are in fact, playoff worthy. Beating two division champions (Cincinnati and San Diego) on the road in back to back weeks. I don't care how you slice it; that's impressive. Even more impressive when you realize just how one-dimensional the Jets are from an offensive standpoint. Both the Bengals and Chargers knew the Jets gameplan long before the game started. Hell, I knew it, you knew it, the guy sitting in the cheapest seat in the building yesterday knew it. The Jets were going to run the ball as often as they could and throw it as little as they could. Both Cincinnati and San Diego knew it....and neither could stop it.

That brings the Jets to the AFC Championship game next week and a rematch against the Indianapolis Colts. After playing the Jets once and the Baltimore Ravens (who are a very similar team to the Jets) twice in the last 6 weeks, the Colts probably don't need to look at even a minute of game film to know exactly what they're gonna get on Sunday from New York.

But can they stop it? Can they succeed where Cincinnati and San Diego failed? I see a lot of potential storylines here that have me thinking fate might just be wearing green and white this season. Cincinnati and Indianapolis were the two teams that people said took it easy on the Jets at the end of the year when the Jets were fighting to make the playoffs, and those teams were already assured of the postseason. The Jets quieted the critics who said they got a gift from the Bengals; now they have a chance to do the same to the other team who supposedly handed them a win.

And if they do that, they could be headed to the Superbowl to face the guy who used to be their quarterback last year. You know, the guy who retired and unretired about 15,000 times in the last 3 years? The guy who told us that he really was happy to be a Jet last year....who couldn't wait to get out of town when he had failed to take the team to the playoffs? The guy who may have staged another retirement just to get the Jets to let him out of his contract so that he could go where he REALLY wanted to go? The guy who I'm so completely and totally SICK of that I refuse to even type his name here?

Yeah, I'm hoping for that matchup in the Superbowl. I'd love to see the Jets give that phony the beating he deserves in the game he keeps coming out of retirement to try to win. Maybe that would finally send him into permanent retirement.