Cleveland on the Hudson or The New York Jets

Turned the heat on for a bit this morning. 

Day three of Jets week (Jesus, Jets week).

The Jets are such an odd franchise. They're perpetual sad sacks, seemingly a pathetic backwater team. But the Jets don't play in Cleveland, they play in New York. Which is part of the problem. With the exception of the Namath era more than 50 years ago, the Jets have always been overshadowed by the New York Giants. In college a dear friend asked, 'So the Jets are a rivalry game for you?' We shook our head and replied, 'No, nobody gives a crap.' Only in 2011 did anyone on the Giants care about beating the Jets because they were the Jets. That year Rex Ryan, the Jets' morbidly obese head coach, wiped the crumbs from his mouth and said they wanted to make New York a Jets town. The Giants trounced him. Click the link, reader(s). Click it! That's right, the Jets covered up the Giants' trophy case.

Today the Jets share Met Life Stadium with the Giants, but before the current arrangement they rented Giants stadium. The Jets logo was put in the end zone, and green bunting was hung around the stadium, but every Jets fan was greeted with, 'Welcome to Giants stadium.' A lot of people thought this was a reason for Jets' futility. Before that the Jets played at Shea Stadium, home of the Mets. But they weren't very good then either. In the 2000s Mayor Michael Bloomburg talked about building a Jets stadium in Manhatten, which would have been a traffic disaster for the island, but great for the Jets' identity. This plan was preparatory to an NYC Olympic bid, which was more madness from Bloomburg. It was not to be, thank god.

Update: Colin Kaepernick has asked to join the Jets practice squad. A toxin, a cancer, Kaepernick wasn't that good. Frankly, the league figured out Kaepernick and he didn't adjust.  Not even the Jets are inept enough to sign Kaepernick right? Right?

In World War 1990: Norway, the Swedish intermission is coming together nicely. We have pilot POVs, and a Swedish AWACs giving readers a birds eye view. That AWACs is Hambo Control, Hambo being a Swedish folk dance. It's a reference. Who remembers Tango Control? [Hey, how bout some pet references from The Dam Busters?-Ed] No thank you. Hmmm....the chapter is getting low brow with a bunch of Polish jokes. Are Polish jokes still a thing? Oh don't give me that racial bigot crap (another reference, Mr. Heston). We like Poland just fine. Just click this.

Okay we read through the Crimea/Ukraine chapter in World War 1990: The Final Storm. Meh. Not great, not terrible? The problem is that we've gone over these chapters so many times there's no way of seeing them fresh. To put it as Jewishly as possible, it is what it is, Maury. Give me a plain toasts bagel with cream cheese to go. Anywho, on to the Australians and Japanese. [Sounds like you're bored-Ed]. To death, yes.