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Sunday horror is upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend comes to an end, most of us feel some dread about the week ahead. Anxiety at work manifests itself in a feeling known as the Sunday Dread. However, we’re on the radar of the award here to combat that by bringing the name back. Now we want you to think of horror-oriented work on the site when you hear the term. So let’s continue with another installment of the Awards Radar Sunday Scaries! Today we delve into the world of sports fans, which can be quite the horror show…
A true sports fan knows that you can’t pick the teams you root for. In a very real way, they recommend you. Whether it’s a family member who passes on your adoration or a significant childhood experience, there’s a special sauce that makes a fan. After all, given the choice, why not choose a good team? I say this as a lifelong New York Jets and New York Mets fan. I’ve written about the Mets many times on the site, but today I’m focusing on the Jets.
Jets are the main reason people joke that I don’t like sports (me too, but they’re not on my mind today). Every year they claim to be on the rise, but somehow they turn out to be worse and worse. I’ll be 40 in March and I’ve never seen them in a Super Bowl. Hell, they’ve only been to one Super Bowl, and that was in 1969 (they won, anyway). The Mets even won their last World Series when my mom was pregnant with me in 1986, so if you’re a conservative (I’m not), you could say I was alive for that. Since then, the Mets have been to at least two more World Series and lost four more times in the National League Championship Series. They sometimes come close. airplanes? no no The Jets have been to three AFC Championship Games in my lifetime, in 1999, 2010 and 2011. since then They didn’t even make the playoffs.
The Jets torture me more than the Mets. The Mets break your heart by teasing greatness. Jets destroy you with incompetence and a sense of inevitable failure. Trust me, if I could for better teams, I would. However, I would argue that these crappy teams build character. I do not agree Chris Christie About almost everything, but he’s a fellow Met fan (aka A Bruce Springsteen girlfriend) and her insistence that her children be Met fans while allowing them to root for any team in other sports is a lesson I agree with. as a guest Bill MaherYears ago, Maher, a fellow Mets fan, asked him about his fandom, which led to a story about why his kids couldn’t pick another baseball team. Christie said that when his wife asked him why he didn’t let the kids root for the Yankees so they could actually be happy, Christie said: “No. Life is full of pain and disappointment. They need to learn about it now. “
Here’s the interview where he said it, about eleven minutes into the conversation:
I argue this to show that fans of bad teams know their team is bad, we just choose to learn from it. Why am I raising Jett? Well, I’m in Missouri right now because I traveled to Kansas City to see the Jets play the Kansas City Chiefs. I’ll be there later today with a friend and writer Mike RyanA fan of the Chiefs fan like I’m a Jets fan, too Kate Erblandand a few more. They will all be happy because the Chiefs will almost certainly win and see Taylor Swift Also (although we particularly encountered it last week, as I detailed here on the podcast). me I will spend a lot of money to see my team potentially embarrassed.
Why do we do this? Well, like a horror movie, it’s a curse. I’m damned hoping the Jets turn him around one day. Almost two decades ago, they were seen as a potential emerging power. since then Zero playoff appearances, one winning season and embarrassments like the infamous Butt Fumble. Don’t you know what this is? Get ready to see what can only happen with the Jets:
For most football fans, Sundays are fun. For a Jets fan? He is waiting for the next horror show to appear. Again, I hope that next year will be better. Spoiler alert, there probably won’t be. Even when the Jets traded for a Hall of Famer a few years ago Aaron RodgersThings went bad. When I interviewed an NFL athlete Ian Rapoport Here he insisted that better days were ahead of my team. guess what They feel worse than ever, even if I’m kidding myself into thinking that next year will be the year the Jets finally turn things around.
Spare a thought for me today as I sink the jets. It’s hell to be a Jets fan. I’ll never stop being a Jet fan, so it’s a part of my life…
Stay tuned for another installment of Sunday Scaries next week!
