New York Jets

New York Jets
Current season
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Established August 14, 1959; 65 years ago (August 14, 1959)[1]
First season: 1960
Play in MetLife Stadium
East Rutherford, New Jersey
Headquartered in the Atlantic Health
Jets Training Center
Florham Park, New Jersey[2]
League / conference affiliations
American Football League (1960–1969)
  • Eastern Division (1960–1969)

National Football League (1970–present)

Uniforms
Team colorsLegacy green, legacy white, legacy black[3][4][5]
     
Websitenewyorkjets.com
Personnel
Owner(s)Woody and Christopher Johnson
ChairmanWoody Johnson
CEOWoody Johnson
General managerPhil Savage (interim)
PresidentHymie Elhai
Head coachJeff Ulbrich (interim)
Team history
  • Titans of New York (1960–1962)
  • New York Jets (1963–present)
Team nicknames
Championships
League championships (1†)
† – Does not include 1968 AFL championship won during the same season that the Super Bowl was contested
Conference championships (0)
Division championships (4)
Playoff appearances (14)
Home fields
Team owner(s)

The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The Jets play their home games at MetLife Stadium (which they share with the New York Giants) in East Rutherford, New Jersey, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of New York City. The team is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. The franchise is legally organized as a limited liability company under the name New York Jets, LLC.[6]

The team was founded in 1959 as the Titans of New York, a charter member of the American Football League (AFL); the franchise joined the NFL in the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The team began play in 1960 at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan, the former home of the football and baseball Giants. Under new ownership, the current name was adopted in 1963 and the franchise moved to Shea Stadium in Queens in 1964, then to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey in 1984. The team's training facility was located at Hofstra University on Long Island until 2008, when the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center[7] opened in Florham Park.[8]

The Jets advanced to the AFL playoffs for the first time in 1968 and went on to compete in Super Bowl III where they defeated the Baltimore Colts, becoming the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game.[9] However, the Jets have never returned to the Super Bowl, making them one of two NFL teams to win their lone Super Bowl appearance along with the New Orleans Saints, and one of five teams never to win a conference championship since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970, along with the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, and two expansion franchises, the Jacksonville Jaguars (who began play in 1995) and the Houston Texans (2002). Since 1970 the Jets have won the AFC Eastern Division only twice, in 1998 and 2002, the fewest division titles among NFL teams in the post-merger era. They have qualified for the postseason 12 times, and reached the AFC Championship Game four times, most recently losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010.[10] The Jets have not qualified for the playoffs since then, and currently hold the longest active playoff drought in the NFL and in all "Big 4" North American sports leagues.[11] The Jets also have the longest championship drought among New York's major professional sports franchises, having eclipsed the New York Rangers' 54-year drought (from 1940 to 1994) in 2023.

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  2. ^ "General FAQ". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  3. ^ "Jets Unveil New 'Legacy Collection' Uniform Ahead of 2024 Season". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. April 15, 2024. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  4. ^ Edholm, Eric (April 15, 2024). "Jets unveil 'Legacy Collection' uniforms, updated primary logo". NFL.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  5. ^ "New York Jets Team Capsule" (PDF). 2022 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. July 20, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  6. ^ "Privacy Policy". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on May 27, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  7. ^ Lange, Randy (April 16, 2008). "Training Center by the Numbers". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved December 5, 2021.
  8. ^ "New York Jets Corporate Headquarters and Training Center-Florham Park, N.J." ENR New York. December 2009. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  9. ^ "Year In Review: 1969". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  10. ^ "New York Jets Playoff History". Pro Football Reference. Archived from the original on January 22, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  11. ^ Riccette, Billy (December 17, 2023). "Jets now have longest active playoff drought among four major sports". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved July 31, 2024.