New York Jets Books
Related Subjects: Fan Pages Players News and Media
More Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Used price: $3.12
Collectible price: $49.99

A GREAT READ FOR ALL FOOTBALL FANSReview Date: 2005-07-07
A Must For Any Jets FanReview Date: 2002-01-07
Being a Jet fan can be painful, but fun !Review Date: 2001-05-14
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 fanReview Date: 1998-12-05
Now more than everReview Date: 1999-10-19

Used price: $0.01

Fun ReadReview Date: 2006-07-14
I love the JetsReview Date: 2005-12-11
best sports bookReview Date: 2005-12-11
Jets Jets JetsReview Date: 2005-12-10
A great inside look at Gang Green!Review Date: 2005-09-01


EVERYONE LOVED THE BAGReview Date: 2007-12-29
Go COLTS!!Review Date: 2007-01-24

Used price: $25.86

Introducing young fans to the NFL teams in the AFC EastReview Date: 2005-10-10
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.


The ultimate Super Bowl III keepsakeReview Date: 1999-01-21

Used price: $1.53
Collectible price: $24.95

A VERY GOOD READReview Date: 2006-09-02
Used price: $6.22

new york to rome jet flight 808Review Date: 2007-07-04


J-E-T-S...JETS ! JETS ! JETS !Review Date: 2002-11-13

Used price: $0.15

It Bit MeReview Date: 2004-09-27
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 BasesReview Date: 2004-06-21
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 doesReview 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

Good but not greatReview Date: 2007-10-01
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 LeagueReview Date: 2004-03-13
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!!!Review Date: 2002-04-26
Well-needed history of a forgotten team.Review Date: 2001-11-28
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.
Related Subjects: Fan Pages Players News and Media
More Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16