Jets football Gameday!

Yes, just the Jets today. The Giants play on Monday soooooooooooo fuck them.

The future is here Jets fans, Bryce Petty, the second year phenom out of that dirty school of Baylor, is the new starting QB. With Ryan Fitzpatrick out with an injury it's Petty's start today vs the Rams over at the New Meadowlands at 1pm. Of course should Petty stink or get hurt the new NEW future arrives in the form of former Penn State QB Christian Hackenberg. Either way both look better than the god-awful idea the Rams had to draft Jared Goff who according to reports out of Los Angeles say he's just not good.

This is a hard game to get a prediction grip on as there are reports nobody's happy in LA and also there are reports all is not well in Jets-World as there are rumors of discipline issues coming tot he fore. Here's what Johnny will base his pick on. Todd Gurley was supposed to lead a battering Rams (heh heh) running game after last season's huge success but Gurley has no 100 yard rushing games this year. While the Jets have missing pieces up front they are still 4th against the run in the NFL We just do not see Case Keenum lighting up the Jets secondary in a way a top-flight QB might do even with lesser receivers.

The Jets simply need to play great positional football, stay away from stupid penalties ie early starts, offside, too many men, etc. They can't screw up special teams like last week. Can't happen. If the Jets follow these easy to follow Johnny rules they're going to get that 4th win of the year:

Fearless Forecast:
New Jersey Jets 21
Los Angeles for the time being Rams 10

Johnny can officially pick up his 'Jersey' card

He managed to beat the bots and secured some good seats to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on their River tour in August somewhere in the swamps of Jersey.

Color Johnny fired up!

New Jersey Jets football gameday!

This will be short for all you Jetropolitan fans as you head over to the New Meadowlands. Rumor has it the Denver Donkeys stayed at the Westin this time like they didn't do during Super Bowl week. They high-tailed it over to the Westin so they could stay where winning teams stay, like the Seattle Peahens.

OK, so there you go, there's your drama. The Jets are a sucky mess with no hope at QB and the other team today has Peyton Maning and a highly operative team and game plan. What would you like Johnny to tell you Jets fans? That no game is ever played on paper? Ok, no game is ever played on paper. That being said...

Fearless Forecast:
Denver Donkeys 36
New Jersey Jets 13

New Jersey Giants football gameday!

After two weeks the Giants can't get out of their own way. The offense is a mess and the defense got beat last week by a backup QB who hadn't played since 2010. They are 0-2 and if they get to 0-3 Johnny predicted Tom Coughlin's demise. Giants fans know exactly how last year started and with a loss to Houston today they are halfway there. Still, hope remains.

Eli has looked lost in the new Green Bay-type offense. He's a good QB and given time he'll pick up what needs doing. Time isn't something he has however. The quality of those running the rest of the cheese-based offense needs help, help that isn't coming in the form of Odell Beckham Jr. this week either. If Manning were going to be chased around by J.J. Watt and Jadaveon Clowney there would be no hope the way the Giants offensive line has played. Clowney however is out. So is top flight RB Arian Foster. The Giants ARE at home for what that's worth on this steamy September Sunday. At some point this team has to decide if they are going to make a stand or chase the Washington team to the bottom of the NFC East. Sure it'd be better if Jacksonville or Tennessee were at the New Meadowlands today but Houston it is. Sorry friends.

Fearless Forecast:
Houston 28
NJ Giants 17

The Super Bowl hype machine is up and running and you know what Johnny's noticed?

NYC seems SO desperate to let people know THEY have something to do with it. Yes, with NJ thinking they'd be the ones overlooked by the media and getting no attention for their events the script has completely flipped. Did anyone watch the NYC news reports the last couple nights? Read the blogs and newspapers? They seemed almost pained to say everything for the next few days was Jersey-centric. From the non-stop team reports here in Jersey City on the NFL Network and ESPN where the Broncos and Seahawks are both staying, to the media day at the Prudential Center in Newark, to the kickoff concert.

It's the New York City media outlets looking desperate for attention.

They continually showed their big Broadway football NFL experience in Times Square thing where nobody was. New York media outlets are talking up NYC events that frankly aren't drawing. Lots of fans here for the kickoff concert at Liberty State Park last night. Look at the pictures in the link, lots of fans hanging outside the hotels here in Jersey City.

As hard as Roger Goodell and his NFL lackeys might have tried to minimize New Jersey in the whole Super Bowl run up it appears that New Jersey has become the star and New Yorkers are left trying to photobomb us.

Never let them forget it either...

No tailgating at the Super Bowl

Because TERROR! Yep, security concerns have caused tailgating before a football game, the supposed biggest game of the year to be 86'd. From the article:

"...because space will be so tight in the parking lot thanks to all the security checkpoints and TV crews, even the lucky ticketed few might be banned from (literally) chilling in the parking lot pre-game."

So no tossing the football around in the parking lot before the game either. So no tailgating, no tossing the ball around the lot, no football-type actions of any kind.

"Children of Sombertown, your playing days are over!!"

Who the hell would want to go to this if your team wasn't playing? There's nothing football about this game. You do realize while you aren't allowed to grill a burger or eat a hot dog outside the stadium walls, inside the muckity-mucks will be enjoying the finest food and yes, some of it grilled on site. Again, you really want to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on this? If so you're not one of the fans sitting in snow and single digit wind-chills in Green Bay, Cleveland, the New Meadowlands, Buffalo, Baltimore and New England today. In essence, if you want to pay all that money for puffery and no real football feel, you're not a football fan Johnny wants at his tailgate.

Fog Bowl today at 4:25pm

The Jets are in Buffalo. This does not affect them. It could be snowing 15 inches in Buffalo right now, this is about fog.

Let's hope this thick fog hangs around for the 4pm ballgame at the New Meadowlands (When Snoopy wants to pay Johnny he'll call it the other name) and looks all cool on teevee when the Giants clash with the Packers. The Giants are on a winning streak. The Packers are now without Aaron (Dislocated double check) Rodgers. The Packers are always a tough team to beat but maybe, just maybe the Giants can get luck to be a lady in the fog today.

Fearless forecast:

It's not snowing in Buffalo. Wait, that's not it.

New Jersey Giants 27
Green Bay Gorgonzolas 23

Jets 16
Bills 14

NJ Transit and Coach USA -- You can cancel those extra busses on Friday

Friday night there is a big soccer match at the New Meadowlands (Johnny's not getting paid to call it by the corporate name so it's the New Meadowlands) between Ecuador and Argentina. Oh, did we catch your eye there with Argentina? Well here is the bus info:

Between 5 and 9 p.m., a No. 353 NJ Transit shuttle bus is to provide service from Secaucus Junction to Lot C at MetLife Stadium, next to the Meadowlands train station.

Coach USA also is scheduled to operate a No. 351 bus from Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan to the stadium.

Bus service from the stadium is set to continue from 9:30 p.m. until an hour after the match ends.

Now just go ahead and release those busses back to doing other jobs, they won't be needed. Lionel Messi, the greatest player ever and Argentinian talisman is injured and won't play for two months. Nobody is gonna go to this match of two South American teams in mid-November in New Jersey. Not without Leo Messi they're not. So as we Barcelona fans sit back and wait for Messi to get back in form, here's a clip of what you will NOT be seeing Friday.

Giants football Gameday!

The Steelers are flying in today for the game as the hotel they were staying at here in Jersey City had no power and NYC had none available. Certainly an odd gameday routine for Pittsburgh but then again, oh well. Johnny's gonna have a football watching houseful today for Giants fans who have no power. Anything to be a good neighbor and all.

Quickly, we see the Giants winning this game. They are playing well and playing consistently well in the three phases of the game. The Stoolers are no pushover, this will be a slog, but in the end Big Blue fans head home happy.

Fearless Forecast:
NJ Giants 27
Pittsburgh 20

If you're kicked out of an NFL game peeps, get ready to go back to school

The NFL has decided that drunken louts, or maybe just regular louts need some schoolin'. Should a patron get kicked out of the New Meadlowlands (again, we're not getting paid to promote a corporate entity), or the Patriots home digs you'll need to attend a class and pass a test to be allowed the "privilege" of seeing NFL football live.

Look, we're all seen people who make us uncomfortable at sporting events. We've seen it again and again and again.

Is a class really going to make someone behave better?

But Johnny, the NFL says if you don't take the class you can't go to another game. Yeah, right, pull this one, it plays jingle bells. If you want tickets to a game yet you can't access your regular season tickets because the privilege of paying The Ballclub a personal seat license has been revoked there are a myriad of ways to get them, no class needed (hey a little joke there).

Again, the NFL uses fairy dust on a real problem and then tells everyone they are out ahead of said problem. No, they are not. Johnny quit going to NFL games at the end of 2008 after years of enduring years of loutish and drunken stupidity (In Detroit and Cleveland) which became so bad one afternoon in Cleveland Browns Stadium he physically had to punch out drunken toads who became violent after using racial slurs after pouring beer on Johnny, his wife and an African-American couple next to them. Getting to the point where you must physically protect yourself and your wife was the last straw. Think those group of guys who pulled that are having any trouble seeing Browns games?

It ain't worth it, class or not. The NFL has a horrible problem they refuse to address, booze inside the stadium after hours spent drinking outside. When you want to discuss THAT NFL then Johnny may consider going back to an NFL game. The inmates run the asylum at these events and threatening a fanbase with a bad behavior class will change nothing. It only gives the NFL a fallback.

Giants football gameday!

Well New Jersey pigskin fans, the New Jersey Jets are on a bye week this week and so are the New Jersey Giants as they play 0-6 Miami (snork) at the New Meadowlands for a 1 pm kickoff. We can make this gameday thread pretty quick by simply saying that at 4-2, if the Giants lose at home to the 0-6 Dolphins Tom Coughlin shouldn't last 'til Tuesday. Run the ball Giants. Keep running it. When you're tired of running it on Miami run some MORE.

The Giants will benefit from Dallas playing Sillydelphia tonight where someone is guaranteed to take a loss. So long as the G-Men win in the snow decorated New Meadowlands, Giants fans can sit back and know they have put the hay in the barn early today and can cheer for Dallas and the Shegals to kill each other tonight.

Fearless forecast:
Giants 31
Dolphins 10

Giants football gameday!

When first looking at the schedule early this year when they first came out, no doubt many Giants fans ticked today's game at the New Meadowlands against the Buffalo Bills as a 'W'. It made sense, the Giants were supposed to be a contender in the NFC East and the Bills have been pretty woeful. Well the Giants nor their fans can look at the game as it sets up today as a 'W' and in fact the suddenly stout 4-1 Bills could be called a favorite today.

The Giants can't afford to lose touch with the Redskins in the division. Losses like last week Seattle makes that tougher. To lose to Seattle and Buffalo on back to back weeks at home might just be too much to rebound from. The Giants are 3-2 and not in dire straits like say the Shegals or a weaker than advertised 2-2 Dallas club but they need a big signature win at home. Today presents that opportunity.

The Bills can't stop the run. The Giants can. Sure Buffalo's running attack is a very good one ranking high in that stat. But Buffalo doesn't pass well. The Giants should just fill the box and make the Bills throw to win.

If the Giants are committed to running today (and we mean committed as in the chicken is INVOLVED with your breakfast whereas the pig is COMMITTED) they can shorten this game and get a needed 'W', the one they expected out of this game last February. The Giants also normally follow a terrible effort with a good one.

Fearless forecast:
New Jersey Giants 20
Buffalo 17

It's all about the U2 show at the Meadowlands tonight

The rescheduled U2 concert from last year, when Bono needed back surgery, is tonight at the Meadowlands with Interpol as the opener. Fans tonight are in for a REAL treat as the original U2 lineup will be performing; Bono, The Edge, Kenny Loggins and Sammy Hagar. What's not to love?

Now, GETTING to the concert and back again could prove to be an issue for those taking NJ Transit (Like Johnny). NJ Transit has put out some helpful information tonight and IS planning on running more trains and that quality info can be had here. Your best bet is to stay off the trains (and help Johnny along) and all pile into one or two cars. Certainly you've all seen how clowns do it at the circus, just follow their lead.

A primer for tonight:

So who is headed out to the New Meadowlands tomorrow for the big USA vs Argentina soccer match?

Since international football is taking a couple week break so that their biggest stars can play for their country in friendly matches around the globe that means the top US players as well as the top Argentinian players will be on the pitch tomorrow night. Sure it'll be chilly but you'll get to see USA heroes like Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, goalkeeper Tim Howard, midfielder Michael Bradley among others. Of course when you mention the Argentina side you have to mention the best player in the world, Lionel Messi, who will also be out there tomorrow night (well actually if you're an autograph hound the Argentina side is staying at the Westin in Jersey City).

Johnny will bring you full coverage of the match with some incredibly bad iPhone shots, the kind you've come to know and cringe over. Let's hear it for Team USA!

One giant goal, one reaction from the stadium in South Africa, the other from a bar in California....Amazingly similar. Tell Johnny again how Americans hate this game.

Sucks to be a Jets fan right now

No tailgating right now, no tossing the football around, no comfy stretching out in your seat at the new stadium before the game, no, it's a run for shelter on the concourse. Tell us if you think this whopper of a storm blasting through town is an omen for the NJ Jets.

Heading over to the new Meadowlands stadium for the Giants game at 1pm?

Take an umbrella or some kind of rain gear. The forecast calls for showers most of the day. Of course, Eli Manning, that's no excuse to not have a good game but the Giant fans will want to dress rain-ready.