Audible: Crazy Jets Fans
Posted on November 5th, 2009 by Bassett
OK, so let’s hear ‘em, Harris52ChampionshipDefense asked, and we thought it was a good idea … we want to hear your list of “Craziest Jets Fan” experiences … let’s keep them non “Gate-D” in nature …
I don’t really have any great ones, but I will say whenever I sat in my godfather’s seats, there’s a guy who sits behind him that, by the end of the first quarter makes me want to jam icepicks into my ears. During the game, he yells helpful information to the team on the field about how to proceed.
Such as. “Sack duh qwattaback!!!” “throw duh bawwwl!!!” and “tackull ‘im!!”
On. Every. Single. Play.
Your turn.
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Ha. Good one Bassett! Just this year at the Bills disaster, there was a guy behind me, probably 50 years of age, who would blow a whistle. On every single defensive third down, as if that game wasn’t bad enough. Then, there was a guy who decided to climb down six rows of seats to “get at” some Bills fans who had the audacity to wear their jerseys to the game. He slipped on row #1 however and fell headfirst down the last five rows, landing with his feet straight up in the air. As the entire section laughed at him “BAH HA HA HA HA!” style, a voice behind me yells at “O’DOYLE RULES!” Classic. Then the lunkhead decided to sit next to me and share the strategies he wished the Jets would employ, such as, “Run the *&^%ing option with Sanchez!” or “Go Wildcat!” It wasn’t only Sanchez’ fourth INT that caused me to leave at the start of the fourth quarter!
back n ‘05 i was late to he jets saints game at the end of a lost season. it was the second quarter and i was heading to my seats in 127 and i saw security tusseling with a jets fan, then the jersey mounties came over and started slamming him against a wall. there was a guy in a pennington jersey staghering around and he turned his head and i saw he was leaking blood, another guy took off his beanie was was bleeding, turned out both had been stabbed by the guy. they didnt sell beer at the meadowlands the following week.
also this year i was at the jets pats, looking over an ushers shoulder to watch the game as i waited for my friend to leave the bathroom, and out of nowhere this jets fan grabs the usher by the head and smacks his head into the wall, another ushers jumps in and they wrestle the guys down
http://lolanewyork.com/photography/party-at-the-meadowlands
scroll down for the photos of it.
Too Many to List!!!
Pre-Parcells, when the tickets prices were dirt cheap, my section was awesome. Hardcore fans, drunk, and at the game to have a good time. Back in those days there wasn’t much turnover in my section-I knew all the guys, when I was a kid they brought me and my sister halloween candy and holiday presents.
I remember the fights against dolphins fans (in those days security would wait for the dolphins fans to be pounded before escort only the dolphins fan out).
I remember the blow up dolls that used to be batted around the stadium.
Who from the Leon Hess days doesn’t remember the firsbee dog/baby race halftime shows?
The Houston Game in ‘88, when we beat em 45-3…I was 8 and I remember going home with a sore throat from chanting, with 80,000 people “Houston SUCKS” for an hour.
I remember the guy who used to sit next to me, now deceased, who would bring a slighshot and bolts to assassinate the pigeons that would perch over us on the I-Beams.
Up in the 300 section there is an individual who talks to himself the whole game at full volume – specifically at the jets/pats game this year, in the first quarter he hated rex ryan, the second quarter he hated sanchez, in the third they were alright and at the end of the game they were geniuses and couldn’t believe how amazing they were…
And my favorites, the guys who yell “SNAP IT OVER HIS HEAD!” whenever the opposing team kicks – they yell this not once or twice, but upwards of 15-16 times a try….
http://www.sofantasyfootball.com/nfl/f2/alcohol-sales-banned-jets-pats-monday-game-3442/
Well, last year, i remember the car fire in the parking lot.. that was fun…
My first game was in 89 (maybe it was 90).. but Marion Butts ran his ass off on us.. Chargers won 39-3.. I heard a lot of words that i had never heard before that day..
I remember being at the Jets/Pats game in Foxborough in 01 when Mo Lewis put the hit on Bledsoe.. That whole day, those boston *ssholes hassled me the whole game.. Victory was ours though! Too bad Brady was ‘born’ that day..
And then.. last year’s Bills game.. the end.. Elam and Ellis getting that fumble…awesome.. I like watching our fan base go from “What the F” to “holy ****” in a matter of seconds… That was a nice celebration afterwards..
Im not sure if there are too many crazy ones, but there have definitely been some characters. I remember Captain Jet coming down to my section once. He is a brave man for wearing that superhero gear. Makes the old Adam West Batman look like he was in great shape.
We used to have someone sitting a few rows behind us from 2004-2007 that just constantly used to sarcastically scream “Cmon Chad” everytime the Jets had the ball and Pennington was playing. He was not a big fan. We also used to have a guy that would blow a whistle all game long close to us for a few years. He eventually gave the whistle up. There was the Fireman Ed impostor from 2005. Somehow the cameras decided to pick him up since he was in the same section and Ed was not at the games due to a back injury. He ended up buying one of those awful gameface shirts in the middle of the game as he thought he was the new chant leader.
But my alltime fave may have been at the Bills game a few weeks ago. Some kid was so drunk that he friends had to prop him up at the entrance gate to hope to get him in since he could not stand on his own. Sadly security turned him away before all kinds of fun stuff would have happened in the stadium.
Not so much a crazy story, but sadly my only story (only been to one game). The year was 2005 and the Jets were looking ugly. It was against the undefeated Buccs at the time and this was when all the jets fans started wearing Leinart over the Pennington jerseys. I remember people all wanting us to have the number one pick and then we go out there and pull of a win against the Buccs lol. Although it made for a great game, we went to go what 4-12 that season.
God I need to get to another game, I’m hoping when I come home from college for Thanksgiving to maybe go to the game against Carolina.
Dating myself, but as a young kid at Shea, there was some guy behind us about 10 rows who shouted stuff too, but was kinda funny. As usual, Jets were bad that at Shea and during a lull, he belts out a minute long, drunken boo. Seriously, it was such a long boo people started turning around. For whatever reason, that always sticks in my head as maybe not the craziest, but most memorable and appropriate Jet-fandom moment.
Does anybody remember a game in 1977 (+/-) at Shea, during half time Minoela Hobby Shop put on a dispaly with a radio controlled “flying lawnmower” and they lost control and it hit some guy in the head in the stands? Complete chaos for an hour. Delayed the start of the second half. I can’t be the only one who knows about that.
Oct 17, 1988 Monday Night against the Buffalo Bills. “The Pumkin Game”. Cambell Soup gave out Jets painter’s caps with the Cambell soup logo on them. The Jets were getting killed by the Bills at half time 31-7. That’s when the fun began- Multiple small bond fires (burning Cambell soup hats) broke out in sections across thh upper deck. Security (known as killer bees because they used to wear the yellow jacket with black lettering) were waliking around the upper deck with fire extinguishers. Trying to put out fires while breaking up fights throught the stadium. The most memorable part was the inflatable pumpkin (instead of a beach ball) that was being hit around the stadium. When it was hit from the stands and land onto the side lines people were throwing it back into the stands. Then some killjoy took the pumpkin and brought it into one of the tunnels. This led to a loud stadium wide cheer of “We want the Pumkin” that lasted quite a while until some unknown savior came running from the tunnel with the pumkin and threw it back into the stands. – One of my fond Jet memories
Johnny Hector,
I was also at that game. I remember it just like you said.
I was at that Pumkin’ Game, too! I remember before the fires, the caps were being tossed off the upper tiers in disgust.
If I remember right, it was because of that debacle that the Jets weren’t on MNF for about a decade (until Parcells came back).
Jets-Pats in ‘06 or ‘07, one of the last home games of the year. 15 minutes before kickoff, I’m sitting in my seats when a guy walking up the steps takes his shirt off (this is December, mind you) and starts doing pushups in the aisle. Just bangs out like 50, then puts his shirt on, screams, and continues to walk up to his seats.
Bonfires, I remember those. Also relay races around the upper ring of the 300s during halftime and the weather delay after lightning struck midfield a few times in a game against the colts (was it?) a few years ago.
From snopes.com:
“As the lawnmower-shaped craft plummeted into the seats, it struck two spectators, 20-year-old John Bowen of Nashua, New Hampshire, and 25-year-old Kevin Rourke, of Lynn, Massachusetts.
Both men suffered serious head injuries from the incident. Kevin Rourke received emergency room treatment for a concussion and was admitted to a hospital for additional observation, while John Bowen, whom one observer at the scene described as looking “like he had been attacked by an ax,” underwent emergency surgery that evening. Although Rourke recovered satisfactorily and was eventually discharged from the hospital, Bowen died of his injuries four days later.”
Ramble, I was at the flying lawnmower game too. I didn’t know what happened at the time, only that there was some commotion in the stands close to the field. When I got home that night and heard the news I nearly cried – and I was 14 at the time.
Mine goes all the way back to Shea when the unfortunately named Charlie Winner, Weeb Ewbank’s son-in-law, was the head coach. He blew a game, how exactly escapes me now, but I was livid. I was walking down the ramp, alone, muttering to myself as I left the park when I see Weeb and Phil Iselin, the owner, trying to open a door that was obviously locked. They were by themselves and it wound up just the three of there for a few moments. I let them both have it, yelling at Weeb that his son-in-law couldn’t coach a girls volleyball team, etc. etc.. They must of thought this lunatic was going to do them in. I just walked away, now satisfied that I had the fan’s ultimate fantasy; boy if I could just tell the GM and the owner what I think!
during one game (forget which), i was sitting in 127, covered by the balcony above, and a paper airplane made out of a program struck me just below the eye, drawing blood. had a been a little shorter i would be short an eye right now! rememember 300 sectioners, your airplains have tangible effects!
Mmm well i can mind the first time i came over to the states and seen them, it was in miami ‘86 they were on a 9 game win streak i followed them 4 4 weeks touring the country and proceded to watch the team totally disintgrate, what a jinks !!
I bought a tee shirt from a Jets fan at the miami game who proceded to be arrested for selling me it, but i did manage to get my change before he was led off
Sitting in the endzone at Jets/Pats maybe 4 years ago? 5 years ago? It was December and b*lls cold… Nothing like a stabbing, just a punch/beer/verbal lashing throwing Pat’s fan was making it extremely difficult for security to escort him out. I was surprised as it was the first quarter, but no matter.
Needless to say I wasted zero time in getting a solid “Na-Na-Na-Na Hey-Hey-Hey Goood-bye” started. It made me pretty cool!
Info on the flying lawnmower game:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/lawnmower.asp
Here’s one. I was in high school so it happened between ‘87-’89. The Jets were playing the Seahawks and the halftime entertainment was the band from my high school (from a nearby Jersey town.) I’m watching through binoculars as kids I know play their hearts out to a mostly indifferent crowd. They finish to a smattering of applause and start to walk off, waving. Meanwhile, here comes the Seatle kickers looking to sneak in some extra practice like both teams always do right after halftime. Only this idiot punter starts booming 50 yarders – right towards where the band is still marching off the field. I turn to my Dad and say, “He’s coming awfully close.” I started following the trajectory of each punt with the binoculars like I was an ‘Inside the NFL’ camera man. Sure enough, he drills one 50 yards up and 50 yards out and it comes down right on this girl’s head. It knocked her big fuzzy band hat right off and she went down like she was shot. It was a totally egregious act on the punter’s behalf. Normally I could care less about the band, but that pissed me off! I wanted to kill that friggin’ punter! Plus the girl he hit was hot! Easily the best looking girl in the band and one of the hottest girls in school. Poor girl wound up in a neck brace for two months. Not sure if she sued or got any money but she should have. Meanwhile, I’ve been to hundreds of games since and every time there’s a band and the kickers come out to practice, my dad and I remember the Seahawks incident.
(spentmiles I’m an idiot…)
Monday night against Miami 10/27/1980 Shea Stadium.
A fan runs out onto the field to get on tv. The cops begin chasing him. He takes off and makes a mad dash for the stands. One of the cops (who ran like a deer) catches him in stride just before the stands and slams the guy’s head into the wall. The cop who caught him along with another cop pick up the fan with blood pouring from his head and face and drag him off the field.
I was with a large group of people that night and one of our drunk friends sitting in a different section also decided it was a good idea to run onto the field and yell into the ref’s face. Being to drunk to notice the cops were near by, he was caught and dragged off the field. Once under the stadium out of site from the public eye the cops beat him pretty good and through him out of the stadium. That’s back when cops got away with instant justice. He got what he deserved and took a bunch of verbal abuse from our group after the game.
Didn’t we do this thread last year or so?
Last one for me.
Dec. 10 1983- Last game @ Shea. Loss to Pittsburgh Steeler 34-7.
Near the end of the game they changed the score board to read “New Jersey Jets”.
Fans believing their seats were literally their seats begin disassembling them to take home a souvenir. Some people brought tools to the stadium for this purpose others were kicking the seats apart. It was the only time I remeber security (Shea employees) patting down people to get out of the stadium if you looked like you had a bulge (seat back) under you coat. I still remember the small mountain of seat parts near the exit when we left the stadium.
Earlier this season – having to explain to my 8 yr. old son son why the fans call him “Dirty Sanchez”.
My answer, “he does not shower after the game.”
There was a guy who sat behind me and my father for years who was obsessed with Glenn Foley. He apparently thought Foley was the answer to all of the Jets problems. For a few years that he was the backup QB, this guy would yell “BRING IN THE KID”, the entire game. The guy stopped coming to games about 5 years ago but its still the joke with people that sat around us.
Now we have another annoying guy in our section who yelling “Throw it to GREEN” every time the opposing QB drops back to pass. He does it the entire game and it gets really obnoxious. Haven’t seen him yet this year.
Other Sports/stadium memories
1. Old hamden park, glasgow- prior it British stadums going all seated we stood, and at this one u really did need to have eyes in the back of ur head due to total lack of toilet facilities
2. Under 16 world cup in Tynecastle park saudi arabia were playing 30000 capacity, there were about 40 of us there total.
3. Prague- machine gun welding baton bashing police never going back there
4. Lords cricket test match zzzzzzzzzzzzzz, worst seat in the house couldn’t see a thing…acually that worked out ok
5. Trying to get 8 pints back to the seats at murrayfield using cardboard trays in the pishing rain
DOES anyone remember “Grizzly”? Every home game in December in sec.316 (approx) there would be a “We want Grizzky” chant…..The guy was about 300lbs.
would walk down to the edge of the section and moon everyone….Hysterical! Also, remember the true originators in the upper deck (approx sec 320-321)…..would blow the whisltes before the games and throw out candy to everyone….Being 8 yrs old…I could not wait to catch the candyevery home game!
I was sitting in my section where there were some new fans around that I did not recognize. Anyway this one dolphin fan would continue to yell, “Fumble!” on every snap. This would be followed by heckeling from the lady in front of me, classic jersey accent yelling, “I like your punters socks, I’ve seen a lot of them”
Then later a charismatic jets fan got up and told this dolphin fan, “remember the monday night miracle, this will be similar but more poetic”. Def Jam Poetry continued as the mode of communication between the two for the next 15 min……
The Spike Game is obviously not a happy memory. But I’ve got a fun story from the aftermath.
Jet fans were filing out of the stadium in depressed silence. As I was walking down one of the corkscrews, this geeky Dolphin fan – glasses, attempted beard, dressed head to toe in their despised pastel colors, your usual Miami fan loser – starts running down the ramp, tapping Jet fans on the shoulder and screaming “hah” in their faces. So he passes me and is about 30 feet ahead, and repeats his routine to yet another fan. The Jet fan takes no apparent notice, but, as Dol-Dork passes by, puts his hand into the small of the guy’s back and shoves him, hard, into one of the concrete support posts. The guy hits the post like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, and slowly slides down the post to the ground.
Well, there’s not much that could’ve made me laugh that day, but I, along with the rest of the people on the ramp, absolutely cracked up. Don’t know what happened to loser-boy Dol-fan; brain damage would have been an improvement.
Oh, and another one from a more recent Dolphins game; a Miami fan is there with a frankly pretty hot girl in a Jets jersey. So the guys in the section are giving him absolute hell, the guy wasn’t too quick on his feet and was just getting abused. One guy in particular is just killing him, finally calling him “a loser.”
At which point the girlfriend turns around and says, “yeah, well, he’s getting laid after the game tonight, and you’re going home alone. So who’s the loser?”
Absolutely silenced the entire section. Just no comeback for that.