New York Jets Football Team
The New York Jets Football TeamHaving achieved mastery with the Baltimore Colts in the 1950' s, Owbank began a patient construction programme that got a big transformation on January 2, 1965, when Alabama's advertising woman Joe Namath joined forces with Joe to sign a $400,000 deal. Namath's signature was an important milestone in the end of the AFL-NFL football campaign in the sixties.
New York's AFL hopefuls culminated in the 1968 campaign, when the jets, led by Namath, Don Maynard and a variety of other key players, rushed to the AFL East with an 11-3 success to the game. Beating the Oakland Raiders 27-23 in the AFL Championships, they left the sporting community numb with a 16-7 win over the stunningly favoured Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.
One of the two most important matches of all time to increase fans' excitement for professional football. In 1969 the Jets won the AFL East again, but in the first round they played a play-off against Kansas City and did not seriously try to win a division title for 12 more years.
In the next ten years, the jets returned to the play-offs five-fold in 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986 and 1991. The flood markers in those years came in 1982 and again in 1986 when they reached the first round of play offs. The jets moved into the AFC competition in the 1982 reduced campaign and lost 14-0 to Miami.
As a result of all this, the jets reached an outstanding number of visitors. Since 1964, their first year at Shea Stadium, they have not dropped below the 54,051 visitors per match averages. Jets now playing at MetLife Stadium on the other side of the Hudson River in New Jersey didn't have a match that hadn't sold out in more than 25 years.
oach Ewbank (1978) and three outstanding gamers in the jet's story were voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.