The Jets Have Taken New York. The Giants Don’t Mind By John Fennelly on Dec 03, 2010, 8:42 am Question: are the Giants playing this week….? Giants fans must think this is the off season the way the media has abandoned their team lately. For Jets fans it’s like Christmas morning. In perusing the papers this morning, I was hard-pressed to find any articles or tidbits about Big Blue. They are playing Donovan McNabb at home this week, and with the Eagles’ win over Houston last night, the game has become an important one. Meanwhile, the Jets-Patriots game this coming Monday night is being covered as if it were, well, the Super Bowl… Giants Coverage Has Become Redundant and Boring It’s all quiet here on the Giants front and that’s by design, ladies and gentlemen. The New York Post’s Paul Schwartz gave his daily roundup and posted snippets about DE Jason Pierre-Paul and OC Kevin Gilbride. We covered that also, but on Wednesday and Thursday. Newsday did basically the same thing. The Daily News has a Gary Myers piece scolding the outspoken Antrel Rolle and a Giants roundup by Kristie Ackert that revealed very little that fans didn’t already know. That’s no reflection on Kristie…there really isn’t anything to report, which is exactly what the Times thought since they ran nothing about the Giants in their print edition this morning. The Giants are enjoying the Jets’ success more than the Jets are (I think). While the Jets fall over each other to make headlines, the Giants are doing their best not to – regardless of Rolle’s rants. The Jets’ Media Machine Has Created a Monster Let’s admit, the Giants are a team with lots of problems, both structural and spiritual. At 7-4, the Giants are at a crossroads. Injuries, turnovers and listless play have plagued them all year. With five games to go, they wouldn’t mind a break from the hot New York spotlight while they regain their sea legs. They could use a reprieve. Thanks to the attention-starved (and high-flying) Jets, they’re getting it. The Jets are an organization who’s goal is to emerge from the shadow of the Giants. Endless marketing campaigns and sales pitches are still going strong here in Week 13. Every Jets ad calls the New Meadowlands Stadium “Jets Stadium”. Any Giant ad (if you can find one) simply calls the new building by either NMS or The Meadowlands. The team is also winning in dramatic fashion, taking the impressionable NY media along for the ride. It doesn’t hurt that the Jets’ head coach, Rex Ryan. is a natural in front of a microphone. He’s tailor-made for New York. To Giant fans he comes across like some Jonathan Winters concoction – an act. To others, Ryan is a down-to-earth, fleshy, straight-talking, hard-nosed, old-school football coach. Actually, folks, he somewhere in the middle…. The Jets have based almost every decision on economics. From their appearance on Hard Knocks to their marketing and PSL sales approach to their personnel decisions, the Jets are looking to either save or make money. They can’t be blamed for that. It is a business. But when organizations make the type of decisions the Jets have been making, the model doesn’t stay together very long. That cheap glue doesn’t hold…. So far it has. Long enough for the Giants to work through their problems? Let’s hope so. Let’s hope nobody turns over the rock for a few more weeks….. What have the Jets really accomplished…? So the Jets have achieved their goal. They’ve taken New York. Fireman Ed always said it was there for the taking. Congratulations. The Giants and their fans don’t really care. It means nothing…. Just to warn you Jet fans …..with your new status comes great responsibility. They do not hand out prizes in Week 13. Nor does anyone care where your defense is ranked or how many yards you gain or give up. There are no trophies for those things. There is only one trophy, and that is handed out in early February. When the Jets get that trophy and carry up Broadway, then they will have achieved something. Only then, can they paint the town green….. posting the link to this little bitch's blog but only for anyone looking to verify that he actually wrote the steaming pile of rationalization shit below. Don't give the needle dick the courtesy of the page hits. http://www.giantsfootballblog.com/2010/12/03/the-jets-have-taken-new-york-the-giants-dont-mind/
"Thanks to the attention-starved (and high-flying) Jets, they’re getting it. The Jets are an organization who’s goal is to emerge from the shadow of the Giants. Endless marketing campaigns and sales pitches are still going strong here in Week 13. Every Jets ad calls the New Meadowlands Stadium “Jets Stadium”. Any Giant ad (if you can find one) simply calls the new building by either NMS or The Meadowlands." This whole thing is bullshit. Giants sent out info calling it Giants stadium, and it caused some problems for them. Attention starved Jets?? They aren't starved for it, the attention follows them.
This is the equivalent to members of a huge band that used to play arenas, now after taking a hit in popularity, arguing that they like playing clubs because it provides a "more intimate atmosphere."
It all comes back to what you do on the field. The more you win the bigger your games are, the more hype and the more attention you get. Period. TO and Ochocinco both have their own TV shows but nobody in the football world gives a shit because they're losing games and out of it. This is our week, eventually the Giants will play the Eagles for their division and that will be the big story of the week.
The amount of Bandwagon jumpers this Jets team has now is absolutely incredible.Whenever I go into a sporting goods store everything Jets is almost all sold out and Giants stuff is still sittin around.On Thanksgiving when HSN was sellin football apparel and collectibles Jets stuff was amoung the first to go.Guess I dont mind it so much,Rex,Tennenbaum and Woody have done an amazing job bringin us into the spotlight.
the NFL is about winning not a popularity contest, but still they are extemely corny, we got a cool HC and QB, they got an old man and a peyton manning clone without the personality or skills, i gotta say i kinda always liked osi tho
Say whatever you want jealous Giant man, but the Jets are about winning, everything we do is about winning and then everything else will take of itself. THey are a boring, full of holes, average team and their fan base is crying out in pain
That's pretty funny b/c on the tickets for the Jets it says "new meadowlands Stadium" and on the tickets for the Giants it says "New Giants Stadium".
