New York Jets Milestones

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How the New York Jets franchise timeline works

This deck is a run of Jets franchise moments, each with a sentence of description under the headline, and your job is to put them in order of year. You start with one card placed and dated. Each new card goes into the gap you think is right. If it is, the year appears; if it isn't, the card still moves to its real slot, and you lose one of three lives.

Jets fans will recognize the shape of this deck: one towering triumph, plenty of memorable oddities, and many fresh starts with new coaches and quarterbacks. Those fresh starts are where you'll go wrong, because hires and quarterback trades from different eras sound alike. Stadium moves and named games give you firmer footing, and the descriptions often hint at who was under center.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Franchise founded as the Titans of New York Harry Wismer's charter AFL club set up at the Polo Grounds
Titans played their first season Slingin' Sammy Baugh coached the debut year
Renamed the Jets under new owners Sonny Werblin's group bought the bankrupt Titans and hired Weeb Ewbank
Moved into Shea Stadium Shared brand-new digs in Queens with the Mets
Signed Joe Namath The Alabama star's $427,000 contract shook pro football
Namath threw for 4,007 yards The first 4,000-yard season by any pro quarterback
Lost the Heidi Game NBC cut to a children's movie as Oakland scored twice in the final minute
Won Super Bowl III Namath guaranteed it, then beat the mighty Colts 16-7
Played in the first Monday Night Football game Fell to the Browns in the broadcast's debut
Drafted John Riggins The Kansas fullback went sixth overall
Joe Namath left for the Rams Broadway Joe finished his career in Los Angeles
The New York Sack Exchange peaked Gastineau, Klecko, Lyons, and Salaam piled up 66 sacks
Lost the Mud Bowl A.J. Duhe picked them off three times on a sloppy Orange Bowl field
Moved to Giants Stadium Left Shea to share a home across the Hudson
Finished 1-15 under Rich Kotite The worst record in franchise history
Hired Bill Parcells The Tuna arrived after a compensation tussle with New England
Won the AFC East at 12-4 Their first division crown of the Super Bowl era; the run ended in Denver
Won the Monday Night Miracle Down 30-7 to Miami in the fourth, they won in overtime on a Jumbo Elliott catch
Chad Pennington led a division title Clinched by routing the Packers on the season's final day
Traded for Brett Favre Green Bay's legend spent a single green-and-white season
Hired Rex Ryan and drafted Mark Sanchez A brash new coach and a fifth-overall USC quarterback arrived together
Reached the AFC Championship Game The rookie-QB wild-card run ended against Peyton Manning's Colts
Made a second straight AFC title game Stunned Brady in Foxborough, then fell in Pittsburgh
The Butt Fumble A Thanksgiving-night face-plant into Brandon Moore's backside
Fitzpatrick set the franchise touchdown record 31 scoring throws in a 10-6 near-miss
Drafted Sam Darnold Took the USC quarterback third overall
Traded for Aaron Rodgers Four snaps into his debut, his Achilles gave out
Fired Robert Saleh midseason Dismissed five games in with Rodgers on the roster