Things are going well in Jets land. Eric Mangini's wife had a baby. The child has the middle name of Brett and shares a birthday with the Jets' starting quarterback. The team is coming off a bye its biggest offensive output in recent memory. To make things better, the 0-5 Bengals that are coming to face them will be without Carson Palmer thanks to an elbow injury. So a team that made the Cowboys and......

Although the Jets gave their fans a partial reprieve from personal seat licenses by not including upper deck season ticket holders in the scheme, the Jets are charging PSLs for 2,000 of the best seats in the new, under-construction stadium. The Jets have launched a new TV ad to entice fans--and it includes a familiar face: Uh-huh: The Donald (Jets owner Woody Johnson is friends with him). Jets vice-president Matt Higgins tells the Post the......

Florida 4 Mets 2: Where do you go from here? While 2008 is not as bad as 2007, the fact is the Mets blew a 3-1/2 game lead with 17 to play. For all the talk about the bullpen, or lack thereof, they managed only five runs during the final weekend series with the Marlins. Some changes have to be made, but it seems stupid not to officially hire the manager who led them to......

Chargers 48, Jets 29: Talk about blown out of the water. David Barrett's interception return gave the Jets a 7-0 lead. Then the Chargers got a field goal and another quick touchdown before Antonio Cromartie returned a Brett Favre interception -- one of two on the day -- for a touchdown. The Jets errors in this game included a lost fumble, a missed onside kick and generally sloppy defense. The final score reflects a wide-open......

When ESPN secured this game for Monday Night Football, the network couldn't have dreamed that it would be a Brett Favre showcase. It also wouldn't have bet that the Chargers would be 0-2 after losing two of the most heart-wrenching games possible. The 1-1 Jets will be facing a team that all but needs a win to keep its season alive. Eric Mangini's club looked just good enough in Miami in Week 1 and more......

Patriots 19, Jets 10: Brett Favre got a rousing welcome from the Meadowlands faithful, but after his introduction, things turned sour. The Jets -- who got plenty of love following a Week 1 win -- played a sloppy and uninspired game against the Tom Brady-less Patriots. Whether it be Jay Feely's missing a 31-yard field goal or Favre taking a 20-yard sack, the Jets put forth a C effort. The Patriots defense, as old as......

Let’s face it, the minute the Jets traded for Brett Favre, today’s game became one you circled on the calendar. It was going to be a measuring stick to see exactly how good the Jets really were. Play a competitive game against the Patriots at home and you would feel that the trade was worth it. That all changed in the first quarter of last week’s Patriots game. As Tom Brady limped off the field,......

With the amount of love lost between the Patriots and Jets, don't think Eric Mangini and Co. sent a condolence card to Foxborough after Tom Brady's knee got torn apart. But also don't count on the Patriots' rolling over and dying in the 2008 season. They may have lost one of the game's top all-time quarterbacks, but they still have one of the game's all-time coaches in Bill Belichick. Even without the tangible benefits of......

Yesterday afternoon, the Giants and Jets announced it ended talks with Allianz, a German insurance company that was interested in buying stadium naming rights at the new stadium. Earlier in the week, the NY Times suggested that Allianz was a frontrunner in the rights race and detailed Allianz's Nazi ties, such as insuring Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps and not paying life insurance policies of Jews. Yesterday, the president of New Meadowlands, Mark Lamping, told......

As the Giants and Jets consider possible companies to buy naming rights to their new stadium, one serious suitor appears to be German insurance and financial services company Allianz. Some say a 30-year deal could go for $25 million. However, the NY Times' Richard Sandomir has an article about Allianz's "disturbing connections to Nazi Germany. Allianz insured facilities and personnel at concentration camps like Auschwitz and Dachau." It also refused to "pay off the life......

Reports that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady suffered a torn ACL suggest that he may be out for the season. Brady went down on the 16th play in the Patriots' home opener against the Kansas City Chiefs yesterday-- he screamed in pain when Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard hit his left leg. Pats receiver Randy Moss said the team is ready to embrace backup Matt Cassel, who led the team to a win, but Moss added that......

Jets 20, Dolphins 14: They didn't make it look easy, but the Jets took down the Dolphins to get the Brett Favre era off to a solid, if not resounding, start. Favre, came out of retirement and got traded to the Jets from Green Bay, threw two touchdown passes. The first, to Jerricho Cotchery, was a well-executed play on both ends. The second, to Chansi Stuckey, was not. On a fourth-down desperation play, Favre simply......

Photo of Brett Favre during his first pre-season game with the Jets by Bill Kostroun/AP With the Jets in Miami to start their 2008 season, Brett Favre is ready to play football again. After retiring and unretiring -- and reportedly turning down $20 million from the Packers to stay inactive -- Favre forced a trade to the Jets. The Packers legend will face a new test in the green and white of the Jets, but......

Some good news for Gang Green fans: Only some Jets' season ticket holders will have to pay the personal seat licenses for the new stadium while those in the upper decks won't have to pay PSLs. Because the Jets and Giants are building a stadium without public subsidies, the teams have resorted to asking their fans to kick in more. The Jets' PSLs, which range from $4,000 to $25,000, have been a source of controversy......

Yesterday, the Jets beat the Giants 10-7 in their pre-season meeting (and only meeting until, if they are lucky, the post-season). The new defensive line was great in stopping the Giants, but it wasn't all great news for Gang Green: The Jets' offensive line had many penalties, leading the Daily News to proclaim, "Brett Favre, Jets' offense take step back in sluggish performance." However, Brett Favre told reporters he's ready for the regular season, "I......

Right now at Giants Stadium, there is a rally to protest a seat-license policy which will charge Jets and Giants season ticket holders thousands of dollars in a one-time fee for their seats. Both teams are implementing the fee to finance half the construction costs of their new stadium. Jets fan Steve Kern organized the rally and thinks that the fees should be limited to the most expensive seats or season ticket prices should be......

Photo of Brett Favre during the first quarter of his first pre-season game with the Jets by Bill Kostroun/AP It was one of those rare instances when a debut actually lived up to the hype. Brett Favre looked like everything the Jets want him to be last night. The problem is, the game didn’t count. But, for fourteen plays, Favre showed why he is a legendary quarterback. He had no problems running the Jets’ offense......

Jets fans, are you upset by the cover of Madden NFL 09 that has Brett Favre in a Green Bay uniform? Well, EA Sports has a solution for you! You can now download a new cover with the future Hall of Famer in a Jets uniform. All you have to do is print it on some glossy paper and 'BOOM!' you've got yourself an up-to-date game. Wii owners, no cover update for you, but you're......

The Meadowlands has released a new code of conduct cutting back the amount of time fans can tailgate before a game from seven hours to five. That means no more 6 A.M. Bloody Marys for Giants fans looking to get an early start at combating the stadium's strict alcohol policy which does not allow beer to be sold after halftime. The new code of conduct also requires fans to abstain from "foul or abusive language......

Photograph of a Jets fan contemplating a Favre jersey at the ets store at the Jets training facility in Hempstead, NY by Ed Betz/AP A record crowd showed up Saturday for Jets’ training camp. NFL.com broke a sales record when 3,200 Brett Favre New York Jets jerseys were sold in a day. The Jets’ website crashed because too many fans wanted to get their own jersey. So, the business side of the Brett Favre......

Mayor Bloomberg welcomed new Jets quarterback Brett Favre to New York City at a City Hall press conference yesterday. However, Bloomberg did not give Favre a key to the city--just a keychain, "You win a Super Bowl, and I will make sure you get a key to hang on your Transit Authority key ring." He did give Favre a Broadway sign--"Broadway Brett has a nice ring to it"--plus a $4 Metrocard, some Junior's Cheesecakes and......

Above photograph of Favre showing off his new jersey and below photograph of Favre on the sidelines by Mark Duncan/AP Brett Favre may help the Jets this season, but he's certainly not helping the environment. Thursday's 6 p.m. press conference in Cleveland, where the Jets downed the Browns in their preseason opener, capped a whirlwind day that saw Favre travel from Mississippi to New York and then to Ohio. It was on the shores......

Photograph of Brett Favre during the 2008 NFC Championship game by Mike Roeme/AP It was just over 30 years ago that a franchise, in the midst of a falling out with their star quarterback, traded him and brought an era to an end. It is amazing how similar that trade, where the Jets sent Joe Namath to the Rams, is to today’s announcement that Brett Favre is on his way to New York from......

The drama of quarterback Brett Favre continues as ESPN reports the Jets have received permission to talk to him. Now, the Jets already have Chad Pennington, but one GM told the Daily News that Favre "would give the Jets legitimate hope." Not to mention a little pizazz. But Jets coach Eric Mangini said today he was "happy with the quarters we have." And fun: Deadspin titled its post, "Favre Might Ruin The Rest Of His......

Sports fans are by nature traditionalists. Some older baseball fans still bemoan the day that the American League abandoned convention and invented the designated hitter. The phrase “In my day” leading off a sentence is a signal for the younger fans in the room to prepare themselves for a long lecture about how the game has changed for the worse. In some instances they are most certainly right and in some they are wrong,......

After just making the All-Star roster last week, David Wright stopped by vitaminwater's Homers on the Hudson event. The contest gave people the chance to hit a ball off a tee 150 feet into an inflatable glove (on top of an inflatable vitaminwater bottle, of course) on a barge in the Hudson--if successful, they win $1 million. It wasn't very easy, for Wright or Jets safety Kerry Rhodes or any of the non-professional athletes, but......

Don’t look now Jets’ fans, but it sounds like seats at the new stadium are going to cost more- a lot more. In a survey sent to season ticket holders last week, the Jets asked fans if they would be “interested” in paying prices between $1,200 and $30,000 in order to guarantee their seats. The holder of the seat license could then sell that license at a future date for a possible profit. Sounds like......

After the first day of the NFL Draft, the Jets and Giants wrapped up their drafts yesterday by filling some needs and taking some chances. The Jets added Dwight Lowery a cornerback, Marcus Henry a wide receiver, Nate Garner an offensive tackle and Erik Ainge, the QB from Tennessee and the nephew of Danny Ainge. In many ways, Ainge is similar to Chad Pennington, so it is an interesting pick to say the least. The......

Photograph, above, of Vernon Gholston, 6th NFL Draft pick overall, at Radio City Music Hall by Jason DeCrow/AP; photograph, below, of Jets fans cheering the pick by Julie Jacobson/AP Being the sixth-worst team in the NFL has its advantages come April. The Jets had the sixth pick in this weekend's NFL Draft, and, despite hopes that Arkansas running back Darren McFadden would fall to them, ended up taking talented Ohio State defensive end Vernon......

The Jets made a big splash in free agency and they hope to make a big splash in the draft. Sitting at number six, the Jets could go in a number of interesting directions. Darren McFadden, the great running back from Arkansas could be the selection, as could Matt Ryan, the QB from Boston College. Ryan is the top-rated QB in the draft. If the Jets don’t select him, the Patriots (picking at 7)......