Riding the bandwagon into Jets country

I think I picked a good football game to watch after having ignored the sport all season and for most of the last decade or so. I’m not a football fan, as most people know. But I grew up a Jets fan and I think I’ve earned the right to bandwagon the team this year, given how bad most of the teams I’ve followed have been for most of my life.

So, I watch a game in which my team tosses an 80-yard TD pass to open the scoring in the second quarter, makes a couple of impressive stands deep in the Colts’ zone (including a goal-line stop) and generally plays some good ball. Not that the Colts have been slouches.

So far, it has been a great game and I’m glad to be back on the bandwagon in Jets country, at least for one game (and, hoepfully, one more).

As they say in the land of the green, J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.