franchise history. The AFL Champion Jets shocked the world White Kelechi Osemele Jerseys , upsetting the heavily favored NFL champion Baltimore Colts 16-7 at the Orange Bowl in Miami.Matt Snell scored the game’s only touchdown in the second quarter to open the scoring. It gave the Jets a lead they would never relinquish. Joe Namath was named the game’s MVP, throwing for 206 yards.I think this is a happy day and a sad day for Jets fans.It is happy because we get to celebrate an iconic moment for the team. And it doubled as one of the most significant moments in the history of the sport. The Jets’ victory provided legitimacy for the American Football League, the first time its champion defeated the champion of the more established National Football League in the Super Bowl. The circumstances surrounding the game add to its lore. The Jets were 18 point underdogs when their star quarterback guaranteed a win sitting by a pool in Miami. Many players have guaranteed wins in significant games since then. None have ever resonated like the original.While we celebrate the 1968-69 Jets today, it also is a bit melancholy. This day is also a reminder that five decades have passed since the last time our team has won a championship. Most of us have no idea what it is like to watch the Jets win the sport’s ultimate prize. The lucky among us who do are either at or approaching retirement age. It is a very long drought. In the same city, the New York Rangers once went 54 years without winning a championship and were thought to be cursed. The Jets are now just four years away from matching that level of futility.There isn’t any one reason a team goes 50 years without winning a championship. There has been a lot of bad football. There has been bad luck along the way. There have even been a few championship-caliber teams who just couldn’t get the job done in the end for whatever reason. It’s always a combination of things when a fanbase is forced to wait this long.Three years ago we saw the longest championship drought in North American sports end when the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. While 50 years is bad, the Cubs went from 1908 to 2016 without winning a title, an incredible 108 year stretch. Generations of fans came and went without seeing a championship.During the Cubs’ run in 2016 I saw a video frequently pop up.That came during the final game of the 1991 season. Legendary Cubs announcer Harry Caray assured Cubs fans that one day the team would eventually see glory.That day came 25 years later. Sadly, Harry Caray didn’t get to see it. He died in 1998.If you follow sports Kelechi Osemele Jerseys 2019 , you know that all championship droughts eventually come to an end. So I’m here to tell you that one day the Jets will win the Super Bowl. I don’t know when it will be. I don’t know whether it will be with Adam Gase or Sam Darnold. I certainly hope it won’t come 18 years after I die.But it will come. And all of the suffering Jets fans went through to get there will make it sweeter. FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Rishard Matthews didn’t like his diminished role in Tennessee’s new offense, so the wide receiver gambled on himself.He asked to be traded or released — and the Titans cut him. Matthews then waited for a team to sign him.It took four weeks to find another job. Now he’s a member of the New York Jets , eager to help his new squad in any way he can.“I fully understand the position I’m in,” Matthews said. “I put myself in this position. I expressed that as well. I played special teams to make it in this league. I don’t mind doing that, I don’t mind taking reps off the guys throughout the week so they could be fresh for the game. Whatever I’ve got to do to get their trust and contribute, I’m all for it.”The 29-year-old Matthews comes to the Jets to provide a potentially big boost to a receiving group that needs some help.Quincy Enunwa will miss his second game in a row with a sprained ankle that could keep him out a few more weeks.Robby Anderson hasn’t practiced this week, also because of an ankle injury that coach Todd Bowles described as “kind of in between” a high and low sprain. Terrelle Pryor was released last Saturday with a groin injury.That leaves only veterans Jermaine Kearse and Andre Roberts White Jamison Crowder Jerseys , who’s New York’s primary returner, along with youngsters Charone Peake and Deontay Burnett.“No. 1, he’s a veteran,” offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates said of Matthews. “He really likes the game. He’s been here studying his tail off, and he’s got great size, got great length, he’s been productive in the league and he just understands the professionalism of the sport.”Matthews signed a one-year contract extension with the Titans in August after leading them with 1,740 yards receiving and 13 touchdowns combined over the past two seasons.An undisclosed injury caused him to miss offseason workouts Jamison Crowder Jerseys 2019 , minicamp and the Titans’ first three preseason games. He was activated from the physically unable to perform list before the regular season, but never found a consistent role in new coordinator Matt LaFleur’s offense. He had just three catches for 11 yards in three games before Tennessee released him when it couldn’t deal him.“That’s just a situation that’s in my past now,” Matthews said. “It is what it is. That situation happened and I wish nothing but the best for those guys.”Matthews had workouts with the Jets, Browns and Cardinals in the weeks after he was released, but wasn’t immediately signed. He said in an interview that he thought he probably wouldn’t be signed by anyone this season.“I wouldn’t say surprised,” Matthews said of joining the Jets. “I guess I was just letting my feelings out at that given moment. Yeah, that was last week and I’m happy to be here and I’m just trying to learn as much as I can so I can contribute right away.”Matthews has been putting in extra work on the field with Sam Darnold, trying to quickly build a bit of a rapport with the rookie quarterback.There are some familiar faces for Matthews in New York. He and Kearse were roommates at the NFL combine in Indianapolis in 2012 — Matthews was a seventh-rounder by Miami; Kearse went undrafted before signing with Seattle.Jets linebacker Avery Williamson played with Matthews for two years in Tennessee White Spencer Long Jerseys , and is happy to have the receiver on his side.“He had a lot of great catches, man,” Williamson said. “You put the ball in his area, he’s going to go up and get it. I’m definitely glad to have him out here. Once he gets back and used to playing again and continues to learn the system, I feel he’s going to be a great asset for us. I mean, he’s a tough guy. I’ve seen him make some catches where he takes some tough hits and he holds onto the ball well.”Matthews has 228 catches for 3,147 yards and 21 touchdowns in six-plus seasons. With the Jets so thin at receiver, there’s a good chance Darnold could be looking for Matthews plenty in Chicago on Sunday.“I didn’t know much before he came here Spencer Long Jerseys 2019 , but I know that he is a great player,” Darnold said. “I know that we can kind of fit him everywhere. We can kind of put him in different spots and he’s able to so far just in the first days. He’s learning the offense like crazy.”NOTES: C Spencer Long missed his second straight day of practice with knee and finger injuries. If he can’t play Sunday, Jonnothan Harrison or Dakota Dozier would start in his place. … CB Trumaine Johnson (quadriceps) remains sidelined. … CB Morris Claiborne (shoulder/foot) and LT Kelvin Beachum (back) were limited after sitting out Wednesday. … Also limited were: S Marcus Maye (broken thumb), CB Buster Skrine (concussion) and LB Kevin Pierre-Louis (foot). … Darron Lee was a full participant after missing practice with an illness.