[153fishes]

Hey there, newbie here trying to learn more about the Jets. Wasn't sure where to post this. I'm not from New York so maybe some of the local fans can answer these questions about the Jets and Giants. I'm trying to better understand the dynamics between the two teams and their fans.

1. Is the difference between the two fanbases geographical? Are Giant fans from NYC and Jet fans from NJ? Which team has the larger fan base?

2. Is there a cross town rivalry between the two teams? If so, how fierce is the rivalry? Do fans of one team hate the other team?

3. Jets or Giants ... which team is considered the better franchise by the press and public in general? For example, Yankees obviously rule supreme over the Mets. No offense to Mets fans haha.

TIA!

[ReMarker]

The Jets and the Giants are not unlike the Yankees and the Mets, fan wise and not limited to geography. The rivalry is huge. Using the word hate may be a nice way to describe their mutual feelings.

Franchise wise, the best franchise is in the eyes of the beholder. Personally I don't like Coughlin or Eli (Miss St) and the Jets are doing some things that have me excited to see some football. I think the Jets are way better than the Giants. Now we must spank them and shut 'em up.

Go Jets!!!

BTW, Welcome

[canadianJET]

Remarker you are one hundred percent a tebow fan.

[roperdoug]

Just about everybody is a fan of a player. Why else would they wear Jerseys with numbers on it and a player name on the back? You may like his personality or he's from your area. He may have graduated from your favorite college. There are all kinds of reasons you pick a player.
I wonder how many NY Fans are NY Fans because of a player or they are just New Yorkers who had to choose the Giants or the Jets and deep down why did they choose the Jets? The color, the history or do they just like the game.
Florida has three NFL Teams; the Miami Dophins, Tampa Bay Bucs and the Jacksonville Jags. I was born and raised (62 years)in Jacksonville and never was a Jag fan, or at least not enough to buy Jag memorbila. I now live in Charlotte, NC and I'm not really a Panther fan. I inherited the love for the Florida Gators from my mother and neither one of us attended the University of Florida.
So demographics doesn't always determine a fan.
Not much different than a movie fan. You like certain actors or maybe producers or type of movies.
NFL Football is pure intertainment. Why do we watch football? Is it the violent contact or the finest of well executed plays. Movied producers produce movies to attract movies goers and reap in the money. They go through great lenghts to produce something we like and hopefully they may win an Emmy.
So really....why are you a Jets fan?

[bourbon02jets]

Originally Posted by roperdoug

Just about everybody is a fan of a player. Why else would they wear Jerseys with numbers on it and a player name on the back? You may like his personality or he's from your area. He may have graduated from your favorite college. There are all kinds of reasons you pick a player.
I wonder how many NY Fans are NY Fans because of a player or they are just New Yorkers who had to choose the Giants or the Jets and deep down why did they choose the Jets? The color, the history or do they just like the game.
Florida has three NFL Teams; the Miami Dophins, Tampa Bay Bucs and the Jacksonville Jags. I was born and raised (62 years)in Jacksonville and never was a Jag fan, or at least not enough to buy Jag memorbila. I now live in Charlotte, NC and I'm not really a Panther fan. I inherited the love for the Florida Gators from my mother and neither one of us attended the University of Florida.
So demographics doesn't always determine a fan.
Not much different than a movie fan. You like certain actors or maybe producers or type of movies.
NFL Football is pure intertainment. Why do we watch football? Is it the violent contact or the finest of well executed plays. Movied producers produce movies to attract movies goers and reap in the money. They go through great lenghts to produce something we like and hopefully they may win an Emmy.
So really....why are you a Jets fan?

Thats not necessarily what draws a fan into liking a team. Jets come first. Every season, I buy 1-2 Jerseys of the players on the TEAM who I feel I have gained the most respect for and/or performed well. Case in point, I bought a David Harris Jersey this year and a Kyle Wilson Jersey. Harris because in my humble opinion is the soul of the defense, and Wilson because I think he has great potential.

As for the differences of fans between the franchises, its what you like. NY has many teams. Me being a native New Yorker I tend to generally support ALL New York area teams, but I'm no fan of them all. It'd be rough. Gotta be able to smack talk with somebody i guess. In a town with so many teams its like, take your pick ya know.

My teams.... JETS, Knicks, Yankees, Devils.

[ReMarker]

Originally Posted by canadianJET

Remarker you are one hundred percent a tebow fan.

Thank you.

I wouldn't dislke Coughlin so much except he's to religious (and mucked up the Jags). I'm not crazy about the fish either. TB got my attention for a few sundays when Sapp was going wild but Dilfer messed that up. Dungy is cool.

Actually, I'm a Gator first but I've begun to enjoy watching some Gators play football on Sundays, like Harvin. Tim is taking my Sunday attention span to a whole new level.

[153fishes]

Originally Posted by ReMarker

The Jets and the Giants are not unlike the Yankees and the Mets, fan wise and not limited to geography. The rivalry is huge. Using the word hate may be a nice way to describe their mutual feelings.

Franchise wise, the best franchise is in the eyes of the beholder. Personally I don't like Coughlin or Eli (Miss St) and the Jets are doing some things that have me excited to see some football. I think the Jets are way better than the Giants. Now we must spank them and shut 'em up.

Go Jets!!!

BTW, Welcome

thanks for the welcome.
Were you on the Broncos board? I lurked over there and recognized some of the same posters here. haha.

Appreciate your input.

Any New Yorkers care to chime in?

[ReMarker]

Originally Posted by 153fishes

thanks for the welcome.
Were you on the Broncos board? I lurked over there and recognized some of the same posters here. haha.

Appreciate your input.

Any New Yorkers care to chime in?

Yeah, I was on their boards some. Same username.

[Jets337]

Originally Posted by 153fishes

thanks for the welcome.
Were you on the Broncos board? I lurked over there and recognized some of the same posters here. haha.

Appreciate your input.

Any New Yorkers care to chime in?

We can identify the truly brilliant posters when they end a sentence with "haha".

Always works to impress all.

[butterscotch]

Originally Posted by Jets337

We can identify the truly brilliant posters when they end a sentence with "haha".

Always works to impress all.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."HAHA"