Jet

As I have previously mentioned, I am NOT a fan of Paul McCartneys' solo band Wings. But this song title fits the rant I have this week, so here it goes... For the most part, football songs SUCK Big Time! They are written by sports nurds who have zero talent for song writing. Back in the Bill Parcells era of the New York Giants, Howard Sterns' crew wrote a song to the tune of "Summer Time Blues". called " Big Blue Wrecking Crew" That was the best of all the parodies I've heard before and after. Today, Janurary 23rd, 2011 The New York Jets will play the Pittsburgh Steelers for the AFC title and a chance to go to the Superbowl. That's great, I'm all for it, but since the Jets no longer play their home games in New York State, I'm a shade ambivalent about it. For weeks the hype haqs been nauseating and even worse, a slew of truly HORRIBLE songs hacve cropped up and the idiots who have the power to say how badly these tunes Bite The Bag, are playing them like mindless idiots. Some starving, wannabe, song writer from Great Neck wrote a Goddawful hip-hop song about the Jets that was featured on CBS TV news and the moronic newscasters actually LIKED it! YUK! The local Classic Rock radio station has been playing a heap of garbage called " Rex Machine" after the abhorrent disco tune "Sex Machine" which also blows BIG Time! The D.Js promote the hell out of it, and all that does is inspire me to change stations before my eardrums are assaulted by this crap. Doesn't anyone have any taste about music anymore? Why can't a Disc Jockey actually say, "Nice try, but this is below listenable standards!"?
Some fireman came up with a chant that has taken off at Jets games where the rooters will all call out the letters, " J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!" All I can say is that this is also high on the lameness scale, and as far as creativity goes, it's in the negative column. It makes me wonder if we had a team name with a lot of letters in it, would these neanderthals be able to spell it? " C-R-U-H-S-E-R-S, nope wait...C-R-S-H-....no that's not right...C-U-S-H- no wait...C-R-U-S-H-E-R-S, what's that spell?......uhhhhh I think....ughhhhh...maybe it's uhhhhhh......." I'm a football fan but I refuse to subject myself to the idiocy of going to as sports bar to miss a game. I'm always amazed at the stupid things I hear my co-workers saying on Monday mornings. If I want to hear a bunch of dolts talking about what shoulda, coulda, woulda been, I'd listen to WFAN. I don't need a heard of iliterate doofuses at work expounding on the faults and flaws of the games.
I wasn't a believer that the Jets had what it takes to go the distance, and I am being proven wrong, that's cool I hope they can do it, but if I have to listen to the endless stream of hype about it, when there's much more important stuff being sidelined in the news because of it, I might go bugnuts and send stink bombs to the News broadcasters, just to highlight how shallow they've become. The Jets going to the playoffs should be covered in the sports section of the news and that's IT! It isn't a world changing event if they win or lose! It's a goddamn GAME, that's all! Learn to live with it!