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New York Jets
Gang Green: An Irreverent Look Behind the Scenes at Thirty-Eight (Well, Thirty-Seven) Seasons of New York Jets Football Futility
Published in Hardcover by Simon & Schuster (1998-10-05)
Author: Gerald Eskenazi
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A GREAT READ FOR ALL FOOTBALL FANS
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Review Date: 2005-07-07
THIS IS THE STORY OF THE NEW YORK JETS, HOW FAILURE AFTER FAILURE HAS FILLED THEIR HISTORY. THIS STORY DESCRIBES IN GREAT DETAIL THE FEW SUCESSFUL SEASONS AND THE MANY DISAPPOINTING AND TOTALLY PAIN FILLED ONES. THE AUTHOR DOES A GREAT JOB DESCRIBING AND INTERVIEWING THE PEOPLE WHO WERE DURING THESE DISASTEROUS TIMES. FROM WEEB AND JOE TO THE COMING OF THE TUNA, THIS BOOK HELD MY INTEREST AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS FOR ALL FOOTBALL FANS, I FEEL THE JETS PAIN.

A Must For Any Jets Fan
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2002-01-07
This is a well-written history of the New York Jets. It covers the one great accomplishment (Super Bowl III) and the many failures and disappointments. As a fan you love the team and always get your hopes even though you know they will dash them in the end. This book covers those emotions well.

Being a Jet fan can be painful, but fun !
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2001-05-14
Gerry gave a very honest account of the New York Jets.

You'll enjoy the stories of the early years. Recounting the selling of season tickets from the apartment of one of the original owners, Walt Michaels finding a "good practice field" while flying home from a game (it was located on the grounds of a NYC prison), the press' examination of Joe Namath's knee in the restroom of a local restaurant and many others.

Those who were at that dreadful Miami comeback at the Meadowlands in 1994 will relive that sick feeling in the pit of their stomachs.

Parcells has come and gone and we still don't have another appearance in the Super Bowl. This book might expain why.

But we return each season with high hopes of reaching the big game. Reading Mr. Eskenazi's book will remind all of us of the pain we go through to have some fun on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Meadowlands (NJ).

superb writing...and oh, the pain of being a Jet fan
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 1998-12-05
Well written, exciting and very difficult to relive all the abysmal moments in Jets history. END

Now more than ever
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 1999-10-19
Along came Bill Parcells and New York thought its troubles were over. Last year we were a half hour from the Superbowl and now we're in the cellar again. If you find yourself scratching your head and asking why. This book has the answers--the history of the Gang Green struggle and where we went wrong.

New York Jets
Stadium Stories: New York Jets (Stadium Stories Series)
Published in Paperback by Globe Pequot (2005-08-01)
Author: Randy Lange
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Fun Read
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2006-07-14
This is a good introduction to the New York Jets. I consider myself a big fan of the Jets and I really enjoyed the book. It's not loaded with to much information and statistics that would bore someone who is not a die-hard football fan. Easy reading with some interesting information on some of the Jets biggest names, new and old. Also talks about fans, owners,the AFC and NFL.

I love the Jets
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2005-12-11
This is the best sports book to come out ever. Usually I find these books boring, or uninteresting, but this book is completely different. It was a great book, and once i started reading i couldnt put it down. I suggest this book to everyone, even if you usually dont like sports books. This book is different, and amazing.

best sports book
Helpful Votes: 6 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 2005-12-11
This is the best sports book of the year! I Hope he writes another one.

Jets Jets Jets
Helpful Votes: 8 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2005-12-10
i have been a jets fan for many years now, and this is the best jets book to ever come out! Everyone go read it now!

A great inside look at Gang Green!
Helpful Votes: 8 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2005-09-01
An absolute must have for EVERY Jets fan, and a great read for any football fan. This book is not your typical home-team love fest; Mr. Lange regales the reader with stories of triumph and of tribulation with equal aplomb. Book is loaded with facts, stats, and history. Highly Recommended!

New York Jets
New York Jets Team Logo Gift Bag (Large)
Published in Sports by Pro Specialties ()
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EVERYONE LOVED THE BAG
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Review Date: 2007-12-29
This bag is great. I got it for my hubby for christmas. Every one who saw it under our tree loved it and asked where I got it. Highly recommend! Also highly recommend amazon!! This is the best site to buy from, super saver shipping was such a big help, and they ship fast. Amazon prices are lower then walmart on some items I purchased.

Go COLTS!!
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Review Date: 2007-01-24
This is a very nice large gift bag. It is sturdy, colorful and nicely detailed with team logo and name. It was a great b-day bag for my husbands gifts.

New York Jets
Afc East: The Buffalo Bills, the Miami Dolphins, the New England Patriots, and the New York Jets (The Child's World of Sports-NFL)
Published in Library Binding by Child's World (2003-08)
Author: Bob Woods
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Introducing young fans to the NFL teams in the AFC East
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Review Date: 2005-10-10
Notice that the cover of this look at the "AFC East" for the Inside the NFL Series has Travis Henry, still a running back for the Buffalo Bills when this photograph was taken, being tackled by linebacker Tedy Bruschi of the New England Patriots. Bruschi is not in uniform this season, having suffered a mild stroke after the Patriots won their third Super Bowl in four years. The irony that neither player is playing for these teams this year is not what makes the cover appropriate, but that these are the two northern most teams in the division. The only thing that would make the picture more appropriate would be if Bruschi was tackling Henry in the snow up in Buffalo with each team wearing red, white and blue. The New York Jets know what it is like to play in the snow, but the Miami Dolphins have to wonder what they are doing in this cold weather division. In this introduction to the four teams of the AFC East, Bob Woods helps to explain why the Dolphins belong but the Baltimore Ravens do not (although the explanation may well be less than satisfactory).

The story of the AFC East begins more with the AFL than the NFL, since three of the teams were original members of the AFL (guess which one was not). Woods overviews the division as providing some memorable first in pro football history: the Jets were the first AFL team to win the Super Bowl, the Patriots were the first team to win the Super Bowl on the final play, and the Bills had the first 2,000 yard rusher. The Dolphins? They are the first and only team to have a "perfect" record. This sense of history is what important in these books, because the assumption is that young fans know about Tom Brady and Chad Pennington, but they might not know the legacies of Joe Namath, Bob Griese, and Jack Kemp. The team histories are also more important because Travis Henry is not the only "current" player who is shown in the uniform of what is now his former team (although, as in the case of Ricky Williams and Vinny Testaverde, sometimes they actually come back).

Because these teams "only" go back to the old AFL, Woods does not have to go way back in the history of professional football, just to the days of "Cookie" Gilchrist, Babe Parilli, and Gino Gappelletti. Hopefully young fans will enjoy reading about the great players and teams of the past, and fans of the Buffalo Bills will learn about the back-to-back AFL titles they won in 1964-65 and not just the four consecutive Super Bowls they lost in the 1990s. More knowledgeable fans will find it ironic that besides Don Shula the only member of the undefeated Dolphins who gets his picture in the book is not Griese or Larry Csonka but Mercury Morris. But there are still plenty of familiar names from Jim Kelly and Dan Marino to Curtis Martin and Tom Brady.

The back of the book contains several pages of Stat Stuff, where you can see the relatively similar Team Records (the four teams have won 288 to 399 wins). There is a list of the Members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and AFC East Career Leaders (through 2002) for each team, where names from the past like Steve Grogan, Gary Yepremian, and Don Maynard are listed. There is also a Glossary of terms from "Achilles tendon" to "wild card," a Time Line from the AFL being formed in 1960 with the Bills, Titans, and Patriots to New England winning Super Bowl XXXVI in 2001, and a list of books and web sites where young fans can go For More Information about the AFC East and the NFL, with the emphasis on the latter (so if you want to find a book about the history of one of these teams, unless you are a Dolphins fan you have to keep looking). Still, this series does provide a solid starting point for young football fans to learn about the history of the game through the stories of these teams.

New York Jets
Jets: Broadway's 30-Year Guarantee (Daily News Legends Series)
Published in Hardcover by Sagamore Publishing (1998-12-07)
Author: N. Y.) Daily News (New York
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The ultimate Super Bowl III keepsake
Helpful Votes: 6 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 1999-01-21
Sorry you never kept a scrapbook of the Jets 1968 championship season and Super Bowl III win on Jan. 12,1969? No problem! This books reproduces the articles and photos of that magical season as chronicled by the NY Daily News including many "backpages" of the original newspapers. A must for every Jets fan, those who remember and those too young to have been there.

New York Jets
Miracle Year, 1969: Amazing Mets and Super Jets
Published in Hardcover by Sports Publishing LLC (2004-10)
Author: Bill Gutman
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A VERY GOOD READ
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Review Date: 2006-09-02
THIS BOOK COVERS THE 2 MIRACLES CONCERNING THE JETS AND METS OF 1969, WHO BOTH PULLED OF MAJOR UPSETS. HOW THEY ACCOMPLISHED THIS IS WRITTEN IN DETAIL AND DESCRIBES BOTH THE PLAYOFFS AND REGULAR SEASON. ALSO TELLS US HOW EACH TEAM WAS ASSEMBLED AND A BRIEF HISTORY. I STRONGLY SUGGEST THIS FOR ALL METS JETS AND SPORTS FANS WHO TRULY BELIEVE THAT THE UNDERDOG ALWAYS HAS A CHANCE. VERY GOOD.

New York Jets
New York to Rome: jet flight 808
Published in Unknown Binding by Harper & Row (1962)
Author: Leonard A Stevens
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new york to rome jet flight 808
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Review Date: 2007-07-04
I read this book when i was a kid. Excellent story of a TWA 707 travelling from new York to Rome. kind of a narration from the cockpit. Very interesting for people interested in aviation.

New York Jets
Unofficial New York Jets Book of Lists
Published in Paperback by American Sports Media (2002-09-10)
Author: Dan Leberfeld
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J-E-T-S...JETS ! JETS ! JETS !
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2002-11-13
From Maynard and Namath to Parcells, Vinny & Chrebet- this book has it all. Leberfeld probably has more in depth knowledge of Jets football and its history than anyone covering the team today. If you're a Jets fan or know a Jets fan this is a must for the bookshelf collection. Every list you could imagine-David Letterman would be envious!

New York Jets
Nine Lives Too Many
Published in Paperback by Senneff House Publishers (2004-07)
Author: John F. Rooney
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It Bit Me
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2004-09-27
Though the writing in places is rough, this book bit me with its rawness. It was hard to put down for long.

John F. Rooney explores the psychology of a terrorist who is willing to bomb innocents in the name of an unnamed cause, and the thoughts of the American public reeling from the effects.

How can this happen? How do they do it? What is the motivation? Rooney explores these questions in the nine lives of "Felix the Cat". Parts of the story are seen through enemy eyes--just enough to tantalize.

Most of the story is seen from the perspective of a flawed police officer, Denny Delaney. His personal struggles with alcoholism, family illness and a looming divorce hinder his ability to do the job. The raw emotions of 9-11 permeate the story and provide a urgency for Delaney to overcome his failings.

The way Rooney kept placing Delaney in bars as a storytelling device was awkward. Those scenes did not advance the plot but injected a social commentary without all the political correctness everyday life. Delaney is no great intellectual, but he still chews over the political issues of the day, the failings of the FBI and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This action-packed adventure reads quickly. Keep an eye out for more in the Denny Delaney series.

Nine Lives Hits All the Bases
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2004-06-21
The GOP convention is coming up in Manhattan. Wait until the delegates read this book. They'll quake in their boots. A terrorist homicide bomber strikes Grand Central Station, and all hell breaks loose. The bomber is called Felix the Cat, a cunning extremist and a failed screenwriter. His adversary is Denny Delaney, a New York detective fighting his own demons, alcoholism and an inability to connect with his wife Monny.
This book is a grabber; it'll keep you up at night turning pages as Felix and Denny duel in a battle to the death through Felix's nine lives, his nine assaults in New York and Washington, D.C. Felix is fascinating, and Manhattan comes through as a character more than merely a setting. This is a page-turner, a great read. Don't miss it!

Not many first novels rate 5 stars, but this one does
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2004-06-20


I've read many first novels, but this is certainly one of the best I've encountered.

"This is a violent and unsettling novel about terrorists, a cautionary tale, but also the deeply moving personal story of a conflicted police detective." says a blurb from an editorial review. A very good description. Certainly it is unsettling, and "violent" is no exaggeration.

The protagonist is Sgt. Denny Delaney, NYPD, who is assigned to security at Grand Central Station. He has a drinking problem which has estranged him from his beautiful wife, Monica, and he is threatened with suspension without pay for his drinking problem by his friend and supervisor, Big Mac.

The antagonist is "Felix the Cat," a middle easterner, Muslim and Palestinian sympathizer who hates Americans and Israelis. He is also a wannabe film writer, who is writing his Opus Magnus with actual events: he is staging his plot with bombing events, killing hundreds of New Yorkers, ala the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.

This is a well-written thriller. The author, like the protagonist, is of Irish descent, judging by his surname, and both favor vodka martinis--the author, in moderation. according to his biography. He has a Masters from Columbia, and is an excellent writer as well as a great story teller--perhaps a result of the Irish in him. I predict a fine future for him. This book would make a great movie.

I want to read his next one, which I'm told will be a spy story. I can't wait!

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books

New York Jets
Crash of the Titans: The Early Years of the New York Jets and the AFL
Published in Hardcover by SportClassic Books (2003-02-25)
Author: Bill Ryczek
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Good but not great
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Review Date: 2007-10-01
Like the other reviewers I would rate this book 4-star. If you're a Titans or early AFL fan you should read the book. I was a big AFL fan an enjoyed their late Sunday games (eastern time). Where I grew up in the midwest (eastern time zone), you didn't get many late games unless either Detroit or Cleveland played on the west coast. I remember many of the AFL games discussed in the book.

It has many interesting stories about the early Titans including Sammy Baugh & Clyde "Bulldog" Turner. It talks about their troubled times and told me many things that I had ever heard before. I didn't know that the SF Gaints continued to pay their lease on the Polo Grounds, or that there was a ground lease under the stadium. Sammy Baugh went home during the off-season. If you read When Pride Still Mattered you'll learn that Lombardi let all his assistants go home during the off-season and Vince had relatively little to do in the off-season besides making speeches and "negotiate" (defined rather loosely as there wasn't much negotiating) contracts with the players.

Good look at the early years of the American Football League
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2004-03-13
Like the other reviewers, I also found "Crash of the Titans" to be an entertaining as well as informative book. It is very well written and the many interview quotes offered up by the author are woven into the story quite nicely.

It is amazing that the AFL's franchise in the most important city in the league, New York, could have been operated in such a slapstick fashion and on such a shoestring budget for three years. It's a wonder the Titans lasted that long and didn't drag down the whole league with them.

Harry Wismer... what can you say? He was one of a kind, and reading about his exploits will set your head to shaking continuously in disbelief.

I'm glad the author was fair enough to point out that Wismer's presence as an owner was at least in one way beneficial to the infant AFL; by using his connections in the industry he helped the league secure a five-year television contact with ABC. The agreement, which called for all eight teams to share broadcast revenues evenly, was one of the biggest reasons the league was able to succeed.

The author does a nice job contrasting the game as played then and now. Pro football in those days was just as brutal as it is now, but players didn't enjoy the huge financial rewards that exist today. Those guys truly played 'for the love of the game'.

I recommend this book for readers interested in the early years of the AFL and in what pro football players had to put up with then compared to now.

T-I-T-A-N-S: Titans-Titans-Titans!!!
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2002-04-26
The Crash of the Titans represents good, solid sports reporting. It's fun reading. It recalls the first 3 seasons (1960-62) of the New York Titans franchise of the American Football League, now known as the Jets. It reminded me of the more wide open style of football the old AFL played and those late Sunday afternoon games on ABC with Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman. The buttoned up, corporate NFL was never as much fun. The central character is Harry Wismer, famous broadcaster of the 40s and 50s and the original owner of the Titans. Harry was a George Steinbrenner of an earlier day, with all the bombast but sans the dough and without a Yankee Stadium. The old AFL had some extremely wealthy owners; Harry was not one of them. The Titans played in Manhattan's ghostly Polo Grounds just waiting for Nirvana to rescue them. "Nirvana" was the construction of Shea Stadium, which opened too late to save Wismer. The baseball Mets survived 2 seasons in the Polo Grounds, 3 for the Titans were too many. This is sad because the Titans were NOT losers but respectably mediocre with a high scoring offense, albeit no defense. The author's research is impressive, almost impeccable. He interviewed over 50 former players, coaches and other reporters. He had the obvious cooperation of multiple sources. He ably balances the on field action with the off the field. There are some notable omissions. For one, there is an absence of any individual statistics, standings or rosters. There is also a dearth of photos. Since Ryczek had so many contacts, their inclusion should have been easy. The one back cover photo left out LB Larry Grantham of Old Miss (Ole?), a future hero of Super Bowl 3! Four of the SB lll Jets once were Titans ( FL Don Maynard, RB Bill Mathis, K Curly Johnson and Larry). Jets fans, here are your roots! Read Crash of the Titans and discover them! Super Bowl lll began here. We should not look back in life but after reading CT, I regret now I never went to a Titans game. With all those empty seats in the Polo Grounds, I certainly could have gotten in. We Jets fans can easily add a 5th star to the above rating.

Well-needed history of a forgotten team.
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2001-11-28
For some reason, there has never been a major oral history of the American Football League. It is shocking when you realize that this is the only upstart league to merge as an equal partner to an established league with all of its franchises accepted. The AFL won as many Superbowls as the NFL did. And the busts of quite a few players are permanently on display in Canton, Ohio.

One of the weirder franchises of the AFL was the NY Titans. Most fans know the New York Jets, but the Jets was originally known as the Titans. They played their games in the decrepit Polo Grounds. The team was owned by an eccentric man named Harry Wismer who operated the team on a shoestring.

Despite all that, they were a pretty decent team and that is what this book is about, a chronicle of the Titans. While it is not the most entertaining book in the world, it is very well researched and it deserves to be read by every serious football fan.

Now we need an oral history of the entire AFL, as good as Terry Pluto's "Loose Balls", his hysterical oral history of the American Basketball Association.


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