[extmenace]

As much as i like seeing the media constantly talking about the jets this coverage is getting insane. For christ sakes...Pete "i hate the jets" prisco has the jets ranked as the number 2 team in his latest version of his power rankings. ESPN has a new jets topic ever 10 mins. Everyone is talking up this team up. Super bowl talk!? its week 13 and people are putting this team into those conversations? Also over the last few seasons while living in tallahassee i would see just a few jets fans (5 tops) at the local sports bar but now the bar is filled with jet green favre jerseys. Are we the new bandwagon team this season? In some aspects it actually makes me feel really uncomfortable...I don't like it. Is it me or does all this exposure and attention kind of give an uneasy feeling. Now the jets not only have to focus on winning games they have to try and deflect the madness around them. There is to much hype! this team better stay grounded and just do what they have been doing. We are the jets...this just does not feel right.

[The Reverend]

We're just not used to being legitimate contenders. This is just the baggage that comes along with it.

[JetsFan1]

As much as i like seeing the media constantly talking about the jets this coverage is getting insane. For christ sakes...Pete "i hate the jets" prisco has the jets ranked as the number 2 team in his latest version of his power rankings. ESPN has a new jets topic ever 10 mins. Everyone is talking up this team up. Super bowl talk!? its week 13 and people are putting this team into those conversations? Also over the last few seasons while living in tallahassee i would see just a few jets fans (5 tops) at the local sports bar but now the bar is filled with jet green favre jerseys. Are we the new bandwagon team this season? In some aspects it actually makes me feel really uncomfortable...I don't like it. Is it me or does all this exposure and attention kind of give an uneasy feeling. Now the jets not only have to focus on winning games they have to try and deflect the madness around them. There is to much hype! this team better stay grounded and just do what they have been doing. We are the jets...this just does not feel right.

Well here's how I see it.

Either we're legitimate superbowl contenders and being talked about all the time because we haven't had a good run like this in awhile.

or

Would you rather be a 4-12 team getting no attention except for when they ask who's the crappiest team in the NFL?

I'll take all the attention and hype every day, I could care less. Our team doesn't seem to be phased by it.

[extmenace]

fair enough lol. this is just going to take some time to get used tol. its weird but its a good weird.

[Merenguito]

A team that has won ALL of their divisional road games AND has put together back to back wins at tough stadiums against a team we despise and that has been our daddy over the past few years and the other team was undefeated is not a team that will let a thing like media hype get to them.

Ill say this right now, I am not gonna guarantee or claim the Championship right now but whomever it is that beats this Jets team will be because they play their A game and not because the Jets f*** up because I honestly feel that when the Jets beat the Patriots, that made the team feel like they can go out and beat any team.

Also, the many veterans on this team starting with Favre will not allow media bullshit cloud the youngsters and letting them lose focus. If anything, its only gonna make this team hungrier for more!

I have been salivating for a season like this since the day I became a Jets fan...since the days I got laughed at when I wore my Adrian Murell jersey to High School during that 1-15 season. I mean I know the older heads here have suffered more than me (fan since 1994) but the feeling is the same....we crave this....and deep down, we love it!

Lets Go Jets!

[FlyHiJets]

While part of me is enjoying the added attention our Jets are getting, a bigger part of me wishes that we stay in the background & in the shadows. Every time this team seems to be in the forefront, we receive disappointment in the end. I like being the underdog. We were just 5.5 pt underdogs against Tennessee & look what happened. This team needs to be the underdog. It fuels the hunger to prove everyone wrong.

While I feel the team is hungry for more, I'm just afraid of the success going to anyone's heads. Most people say favre is responsible for this. He may be partially reasponsible, but this has been an all around team effort to got from 4-12 to our current 8-3 record. I don't like all the SB talk. Not until we actually get there. With the success we've had so far, the Brett favre experiment isn't a proven success yet. Without the SB win, it's a failure in my opinion if he doesn't plan on coming back next year at minimum as all of the confidence & swagger the team currently has will be gone if his successor isn't equally successful.

[S-Dubb]

Bro whether we make the superbowl or we don't, enjoy the ride.

I'm going to share something with you guys. I got a friend of mine (jets fan) who works in this factory. Anyways, he's got a few buddies he chills with at work. Ones a Steeler fan, ones a Colts fan, ones a Giants fan and He's a Jets fan. Now if you believe in fate this is our year. As I listed those teams thats the order in which they won it. He said to me after the Giants won thats it's our turn next. I told him last year that we'll never win with Chad and we got issues and then I told him, I guess it stops with us. However!!!, we traded for all these veterans. Paid 160 million or so all together. Acquired Brett Favre and now we are 8-3 and nearly at the top of our conference.

Do you believe in fate?

[FlyHiJets]

Bro whether we make the superbowl or we don't, enjoy the ride.

Can't remember the last time it felt this good to be a Jets fan. '98 was good, but then all fell apart on us. It is funny that the last time we went far into the postseason (1998), we trounced on tennessee during Week 12 back then too 24-3 winning by the same margin of victory.

You were questioning if it was fate?

[S-Dubb]

Can't remember the last time it felt this good to be a Jets fan. '98 was good, but then all fell apart on us. It is funny that the last time we went far into the postseason (1998), we trounced on tennessee during Week 12 back then too 24-3 winning by the same margin of victory.

You were questioning if it was fate?

Interesting!

[kenxnice]

As much as i like seeing the media constantly talking about the jets this coverage is getting insane. For christ sakes...Pete "i hate the jets" prisco has the jets ranked as the number 2 team in his latest version of his power rankings. ESPN has a new jets topic ever 10 mins. Everyone is talking up this team up. Super bowl talk!? its week 13 and people are putting this team into those conversations? Also over the last few seasons while living in tallahassee i would see just a few jets fans (5 tops) at the local sports bar but now the bar is filled with jet green favre jerseys. Are we the new bandwagon team this season? In some aspects it actually makes me feel really uncomfortable...I don't like it. Is it me or does all this exposure and attention kind of give an uneasy feeling. Now the jets not only have to focus on winning games they have to try and deflect the madness around them. There is to much hype! this team better stay grounded and just do what they have been doing. We are the jets...this just does not feel right.

dont worry my friend, it's a DIFFERENT feeling you're getting, it's the feeling pat fan and cowboys fan been feeling for years that we'd jet to experience, it's alien to us this feeling.. get use to it

[santana]

I can't take all this media exposure and dick riding.

OMG GET OFFF MEEEeeee

[TheFuture]

Santana, whats wrong with the media exposure? Everyone bitches including myself that we always get shit on and never got any positive comments. Now that we are playing extremely well and garnering some attention you don't want it? This wasn't trying to call you out, but almost every Jets fan I know doesn't like the media nut riding us

[gmany3k]

Gee I wonder if Ron is in on the Hype he is our Nostradamus .ask him how you should feel.

[KSUpilot]

I guess it just comes with the territory. The media will build them up so in the end they can say "see we told you they were good", or they can call them the biggest failure of all time. Either way they get a good story.

The bandwagon fans will make me sick. Luckily most of my time is spent in the Cleveland, OH area, and if people there haven't left the Browns yet, I dont think they ever will. Those are some loyal fans there.
But NJ is going to make me sick...I was the guy on the bus way back wearing the Jets starter jacket when everyone else had coyboys shit. I took the abuse when we were 1-15 with Kotite.

[JettingAwayAC]

See? You get respect when you DONT suck. Next time the Jets are 4-12 and people are whining about getting no respect. Remember 2008.

[ROBJETS]

Can't remember the last time it felt this good to be a Jets fan. '98 was good, but then all fell apart on us. It is funny that the last time we went far into the postseason (1998), we trounced on tennessee during Week 12 back then too 24-3 winning by the same margin of victory.

You were questioning if it was fate?

Maybe so but I seriously doubt Denver will make it to the AFC Championship game this year and even if they did they couldnt shut this team out in the second half.Let alone beat this team in the playoffs.Also we wouldnt have to watch the game in Denver either.
Whatever similarities to 98 so far will be completely different this year.

[ROBJETS]

As much as i like seeing the media constantly talking about the jets this coverage is getting insane. For christ sakes...Pete "i hate the jets" prisco has the jets ranked as the number 2 team in his latest version of his power rankings. ESPN has a new jets topic ever 10 mins. Everyone is talking up this team up. Super bowl talk!? its week 13 and people are putting this team into those conversations? Also over the last few seasons while living in tallahassee i would see just a few jets fans (5 tops) at the local sports bar but now the bar is filled with jet green favre jerseys. Are we the new bandwagon team this season? In some aspects it actually makes me feel really uncomfortable...I don't like it. Is it me or does all this exposure and attention kind of give an uneasy feeling. Now the jets not only have to focus on winning games they have to try and deflect the madness around them. There is to much hype! this team better stay grounded and just do what they have been doing. We are the jets...this just does not feel right.

You think it is bad now?If this team won the Superbowl there would be millions of fake bandwagon fans everywhere.
My cousin is a big Denver fan and living in Maryland he doesnt see alot of Denver fans.When they won the Bowl in 98 all he said is how loads of people were suddenly wearing Denver apparel.He felt weird as hell.

Look at it this way though it is a good thing even if they are fake because it will suck in more true fans to our cursed franchise

[Smedsthejet]

Santana, whats wrong with the media exposure? Everyone bitches including myself that we always get shit on and never got any positive comments. Now that we are playing extremely well and garnering some attention you don't want it? This wasn't trying to call you out, but almost every Jets fan I know doesn't like the media nut riding us

That's because the Jets have been so incosistent over the past few years and hardly put together consecutive winning seasons.

As JettingAway says, it's because the team is winning that they are getting respect, and that's how it should be.
We always got shit on because, let's face it, the team was never anything better than mediocre. Yes, we made the playoffs a few times but then there were the miserable seasons in between those appearances.