The 2024 New York Jets - S.O.S (Please Help!)

I think it's time to admit I need help.

Ok folks here we are, the 35 year old, married, father of two, math teacher, writing his first blog. If you read the title and first sentence and haven’t already clicked the back button or X’d out then I thank you for your service.🫡

And speaking of things no one cares about, how about the 3-9 New York Jets. The Jets have and will always be my #1 team. The Mets are an extremely close 2nd, but there is something about a once a week, 17 game season, that just makes football king! In baseball you lose a game or two and you just get 'em the next day, not football, it’s a long 4-8 day stretch (sometimes longer with the bye week) that you get to listen to all your favorite sports analysts shred your team and talk about all the things they need to change to win.

So, you may still think I am stupid or crazy, and thats OK, you just don't get it then. If you were a "football guy" that makes sure your Sunday's revolve around your favorite team even though they are dog shit every year, then I think you'd understand. If you converted your wife who supported a good football team (Steelers) before being with you, and then raised your kids to be excited to watch your favorite team every Sunday, only for them to ask why we watch because all they do is lose and make you mad/yell, then I think you'd understand.

Let me explain my life in terms just about anyone can understand. Here is a quick non-football analogy of what it's like being a Jets fan. Let's say you are someone that loves milk, but where you are from, you can only get a certain type of milk, processed a certain type of way, and this specific milk makes you throw up and want to kill yourself every time you drink it. It is some of the worst milk out there, but you love milk, and the company manufacturing the milk keeps telling you they will get new cows or farmers, but every new cow or farmer they bring in hates being at this company and still produces the same shitty milk that makes you throw up and want to kill yourself. Even when the company brings in a prize cow, they can't produce good milk because the company ruins the life of anyone or anything that is involved with it. So then you say, forget it, I love milk, but I just can't keep doing this to myself every week, but you still do it. Every Sunday (sometimes even Thursday or Monday) you drink the milk knowing you are going to throw up and want to kill yourself, but hoping for a different outcome. It's called insanity or being a Jets fan.

I feel like I have tried everything to make this situation a little better, I even tried betting against the Jets every week to hedge my happiness, but it doesn't work, just feels like dirty money that I end up losing later anyway. And you know what makes things even worse, as Jets fans we can’t even be like the Browns or Panthers fans and understand losing and/or rebuilding, we think because we are from the biggest city in the country, that somehow will make every player we get be a stud and change the luck of this God forsaken franchise. But it will never happen. At 35 years old, I can finally see that it doesn't matter if we have Aaron Rodgers, or any other HOF QB, we are a loser franchise and always will be.

Well thats it, thanks for reading if you got this far. I am going to "drink the milk" now and watch the Jets get destroyed by the Dolphins. Please pray for me. And since you're here, let me know what I should do for the rest of the season.

What should I do on Sunday's for the remainder of the NFL season?

• Be a sicko and keep watching the Jets (drinking the milk)
• Do something else with my family and forget about the Jets