Oh I know, blah, blah, blah... You are tired of the media and the so-called band-wagoneers... Although yesterday someone did complain that the JETS get nol respect on the back pages of the NYC rags.... December 21, 2006 -- IT IS time for us to stop sleeping on our little dream team that is threatening to write the football story of the season. The little dream team with the rookie coach who has tossed aside the star system and made it work in a Page Six-driven town. The little dream team with the quarterback who, against all odds, through the sheer force of his will and love for the game, overcame two rotator-cuff operations and the notion he was too fragile to play an entire season to win Most Inspirational Player award from his teammates, and absolutely be a candidate for Most Inspirational Player in all of sports. The wide receiver who was supposed to be nothing but trouble coming out of Florida State, who exorcised the last devilish demon from his childhood to become, pound for pound, arguably the toughest man in the NFL, and win Most Valuable Player from his teammates. The little dream team that no one imagined would be playing a game with playoff implications on Christmas Night in Miami. The little dream team that does not particularly care that only one of its own - kick returner Justin Miller - made the Pro Bowl. "The focus isn't really Hawaii," Eric Mangini was saying yesterday. "For us it's Miami." For a heart-thumping second there, I thought Mangini had violated his own P Word edict: 37 years later, the first public talk about a return to the Super Bowl site where Broadway Joe backed up his guarantee! Not so fast: Miami is simply the next game on the schedule, which means it is the most important game, the only game, for the little dream team that dares not look past the next practice, that dares not point a finger of blame at the coach, or one of its own. Maybe it's because Mangini is the unquestioned general we thought we were getting in Tom Coughlin. "I don't think Coach Mangini will allow us to ever put ourselves in situations where anybody on this team would become a distraction away from the field," MVP Laveranues Coles was saying yesterday. New York has wasted too much time on the Giants, and the Knicks. If anyone deserves to be hailed as New York's Team, it is the Jets ... the little dream team that plays in Giants Stadium. "I think it's tough for us to be liked as much as the other team because most of the people here are Giants fans. I think this team here is just a blue-collar team that works hard and just does what it has to do," Coles said. "We're not flashy ... I think they probably always get the back page, get the big picture, and we get like two pages in between and there's like eight pages of Giant stuff so ... " Then Coles chuckled. You do not have to be loud and brash the way the Billy-Reggie-Thurman Bronx Zoo teams used to be, the way the Darryl Strawberry Mets used to be; you do not have to have a Namath or a Babe Ruth or a Mark Messier or an LT, to be New York's team. Just play the game the right way, and be all the team you can possibly be, and you will have a chance to be New York's Team. "I think they realize that our team has a blue-collar work ethic ... and we play from the first whistle to the last whistle, and anytime adversity pops up, we have responded really well, and we're a mentally tough team," MIP Chad Pennington said. "As long as we do those two things, New York fans will always respect us." Nick Mangold, one of the two rookies on the little dream team's offensive line, feels the same unity his Ohio State teams had. "We don't seemingly have stars across the ball every week," Pete Kendall said. "In that sense I think blue-collar is an apt label for us, so if Jets fans are the blue-collar fans, then I think that the team and its fandom should be a good match." Same guys every day. Same little dream team every gameday. "We never quit; it's ups and downs in the game, we continue to fight just like the boxing matches we watch," Bryan Thomas said. Cinderella Men. steve.serby@nypost.com
Meh, a little sappy for my taste, but decent on the whole. Make no mistake about it, if we lose this Monday I fully expect Serby to be amongst the first to twist the dagger in our back.
screw this @hole... ive read every post from the beggining of the season to now and he hasnt written a single article on us. Week after week after week he writes some corny crap how eli has to be the mann. hahaaha how fricken clever serby you got the mann from manning, wtf are u in the 3rd grade? when is this piece of crap paper ever going to take its task of reporting the news serious enough to produce some serious work. serby is just another example of an ahole whose run out of eli manning acronyms. imo, i want him nowhere near, our team, let alone righting cheessy things like the little dream team, Fuck you punk, we aint little
The media have been huge bandwagon jumpers. I think of most of the writers I read early on, only that new guy seemed to be a bit objective and gave the Jets a chance to show their stuff. For the most part, the writers were all over Mangini's jock about him being heavy handed and unfair to professional athletes. It is turning out to be they were wide right on that attempt. In fact, they have yet to find a chink in his armor. Hey, media writers - welcome to the party. :smile:
Remember though, for a lot of them it's not their choice on what to write about. The editors go with what they think people will read. I work in the business so I know a few things about it.
Serby's a jerkoff. He's the guy who picks the Jets or Giants for the Super Bowl every year and then is shocked when they didn't live up to "expectations", when he was the one creating the expectations in the first place. My favorite Serby moment remains Richard Todd stuffing him in a locker in 1981. It doesn't get any better than that.
Band Wangon First of all this guy was my favorite jet beat writer but he is a horrible, horrible columnist. Tell him to stick to the Giants and stay away from the Jets or I will do a Richard Todd on him.
I could care less. It's crap. Plain and simple. They should not be trying to figure out what I want to read... they should be trying to figure out "what is the news" and then report it. Unfortunately, the original concept of journalism flew out the window a long time ago.
Since when do the Olsen twins have boobs? Weren't they on SNL a couple of years ago, and weren't they completely flat chested? They may still look like a couple of trolls, but at least they have the boobs to distract what the rest of them looks like. Job well done doctor.
