What is Green Smoke?..
Green Smoke is an idea born out of the excitement of the Jets visit to London in October 2021.
At the time, the Jets launched their Twitter/X social media platform, which coincided with the launch of the NFL’s IMHA initiative. Initially, it was three Londoners who sought to highlight and celebrate everything Gang Green in the UK’s capital, yet it was Nic who carried it through to be the massive success it has become.
But it’s no longer that one fan who started it all; it’s all of us here in The Smoke, whether we are London-born or London-based. It’s us who are passionate, dedicated, and diehards here in the UK’s capital city, the ones who stay up in the Hippodrome until 4am, willing that one TD or overtime drive that’ll get us the W (and yes, this has happened numerous times).
It’s us that travel around 3547 miles to the Meadowlands to watch the team; it’s any of us that represent the Green & White inside the M25 and either proudly or defiantly wear the colours come rain or shine, win or lose.
Why the name ‘Green Smoke’?
The Green part is pretty self explanatory, Gang Green was used by the new york media for the Jets in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Through the 19th and in the early half of the 20th century, Londoners used coal for heating their homes, which produced large amounts of smoke. In combination with climatic conditions, this often caused a characteristic smog, and London became known for its typical “London Fog”, also known as “Pea Soupers”. London was sometimes referred to as “The Smoke” because of this. In 1952, this culminated in the disastrous Great Smog, which lasted for five days and killed over 4,000 people. In response to this, the Clean Air Act 1956 was passed, mandating the creation of “smokeless zones” where the use of “smokeless” fuels was required (this was at a time when most households still used open fires); the Act was effective, though the nickname is still used from time-to-time.
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