Now…history on the Green and white…I have seen it mentioned about the Jets being green and white because of Hess….that is spot on.

The Jets were called the Jets, because they were playing at Shea Stadium…and the Jets from Laguardia flew over every game.. As far as being green and white, when Werblin bought the team..it is not much remembered that his partner was Leon Hess…and the jerseys reflect that. Look at the original jerseys…the green is much lighter than it is now…exactly the same green as in every damned Hess station.

Remember boys and girls…It is Leon Hess that took the Jets out of new york..where they belong…so i wouldn’t be all that married to green and white.

But green and white is what we have…so we bleed it…

Now, to those who long for the dismal jerseys of the 80′s/90′s…this was a time period where, besides moments of success..like when they almost made it to the superbowl…if not for a purposely rain soaked field in Florida…was mostly a bust, where the Jets lost focus, lost their identity. Part of the reason? those uniforms. Look closely at those jerseys that many people long for…look familar? Change the double green stripes on the sleves, outlined in black, or plain green as they originally were…to a royal blue color..either outlined in black, or plain blue…and change the number color to blue as well..what do you have? They are the Dallas Cowboys jerseys…just color changed and put on the Jets.

I for one was estatic when Parcells changed the jerseys back to a traditional look. Yes, they are somewhat of a throwback to the early Jets jerseys…but they are more the evolution of what they shoud have been all along, without the Dallas Jets shoved in the middle.

Bottom line…I like the current Jets Jerseys….and still have a fondness for the white shirts…because of superbowl III. As joe namath said…the good guys always wear white… But having said that, I do like the “titans” jerseys as well…and really look forward to the white version. I know I will get one as soon as they become available…I just wish they would let you order one with “maynard” on the back and his old #13…(yeah, I’m old)

The Jets are green and white because Sonny Werblin was born on St. Patrick’s Day. He was the principal owner after he bought the team out of bankruptcy before the 1963 season, he changed the team name from Titans to Jets (because it sounded modern and rhymed with “Mets” because they were going to share that “state of the art” facility, Shea Stadium in 1964) and personally chose the team colors. Leon was one of the money men backing Werblin, but Werblin was the front man and, as rich as Leon became, the other money men weren’t exactly poor. They were all silent owners and I seem to recall that when the money men took over in 1968, Leon wasn’t the front man and didn’t take control until the mid-70s.