[/IMG] The Latest Bullshit........ What sinister international conspiracy put the Jets into the playoffs? Must have been a pretty good conspiracy, able to arrange for the Indianapolis Colts to surrender midgame in Week 16, then for the Cincinnati Bengals to roll over and play dead in Week 17. Was it the Trilateral Commission? The Freemasons? Opus Dei? A secret council of international bankers? The Trystero? Zerst?rung durch Fortschritte der Technologie? Perhaps the Jets' postseason invite was arranged by the same sinister organization that tricked Sarah Palin into posing in her running outfit. The conspiracy was so effective, even Rex Ryan did not know of its existence -- two weeks ago, he said the Jets were "obviously out of the playoffs." That's what the conspiracy wanted us to think! Perhaps Dan Brown will now churn out a formula novel about a desperate race to discover the meaning of a 1,000-year-old prophecy regarding the NFL playoffs and an organization far more secret than the CIA. Not up on your hidden hands? The Trystero are the centuries-old conspirators of the Thomas Pynchon book "The Crying of Lot 49." ZFT is the ultra-secret society plotting the destruction of the world in the Fox show "Fringe." The sinister organization that tricked Palin into posing in her running shorts was "the media." In other football news, the playoffs are upon us. Though this is the moment the entire NFL season supposedly is all about -- determining who makes that Super Bowl thing you might have heard about -- paradoxically, at this point every season, interest begins to decline. Twenty of the league's 32 teams just shut it down, and by Sunday night, 24 of the 32 will be done. During the regular season, no matter how bad the team you root for is, there's always next week and the hope of a better performance. Now for 20 teams -- two-thirds of the NFL's fan base -- there is no next week. In Cleveland, Oakland, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington, D.C., and many other places, attention is already turning to coaching melodramas and potential draft choices, though it will be many months before such things matter, if they ever matter at all. There are 11 contests left in the NFL season -- count 'em, 11. Savor them as they recede. Just don't get caught doing mock drafts before Valentine's Day, OK?
Fucking retarded. Funny, still no investigation at the New-England based ESPN about how the refs handed the Pats* the win at Baltimore to keep their "perfect" season intact.
I just wish they would get off of it.....the teams played their plans and now the playoffs will commence and we will see what happens....Certainly the the Jets are playing "playoff Caliber" Football, (at least on Defense)....I think We belong, with out a doubt!!
The Jets can shut them up by advancing to the second week of the postseason. Or they can vindicate them by going one-and-done. Playoff wins tend to silence the doubters.
Um, pretty sure that whole passage was tongue and cheek. And he's very complimentary of the Jets later in the article when he basically says that unless the Jets are overconfident now, the Bengals are in big trouble.
It's satire. The writer (Gregg Easterbrook) does things like this all the time. I actually like most of his stuff, and I've got no problem with this.
New York Jets in playoffs = conspiracy http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/100105&sportCat=nfl I hate that when the Jets win people think it is dumb luck and when we lose we are losers. Funny article though. But the Giants melt down and we win yet we still get poked fun of.
I'll give you one theory on why it's good for the league to have the Jets do well this year: selling PSLs. But if that was really the case, wouldn't the Giants be in the playoffs?
