Jets and Giants football gameday!

Two New Jersey teams in desperate need of a victory take to the gridiron today with vastly different opponents standing in their way. The Jets are in Washington D.C. to take on the mostly hapless Redskins (does John Riggins still play for them?) while Big Blue has a markedly different task on the other end of the NFL power rankings. The undefeated and well rested (off since Thanksgiving Day) Green Bay Packers will bring their so-called invincible road show to the New Meadowlands for a 4:15 kickoff.

So New Jersey and New York football fans -- Can the Jets push the 'Skins around the park and get Mark Sanchez in some kind of rhythm? Can the Giants come roaring out of the tunnel and play nose to nose with Green Bay?

Johnny knows this, he wouldn't want to be on the Acela coming back from D.C. later this afternoon and early this evening. With all those Jets fans the bar car will run out of booze early. Then the Amtrak insurrection will begin. The cabin announcements won't so much be informative tidbits about stops and schedules but rather a screaming into the captain's microphone later translated to police as "J-E-T-S JETS! JETS JETS!"