Tag: NFL
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Painting London Green 2024
By Alasdair Mackay I have been to Tottenham Hotspur’s Stadium a few times to watch Premier League matches. It is one of those grounds that is a bit out of the way—a long walk from a tube station; passed Irish pubs, Turkish kebab shops, and Polish-run DIY emporiums (all the things that make north-east London what it is), but in 2021 that long…
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2023: a season in review
By Alasdair Mackay So this isn’t your regular season review for the New York Jets 2023 football season—I am sure you have read plenty of those. Plus, there was nothing regular about the 2023 Jets season, let’s be honest. What started with great hope and expectation ended with a whimper. No, this is a review of how our season went—a…
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“You’re live in 3..2..1..”
By Nic Back in May of this year (2023, if you’re reading this at a later date), I was frustrated. I was frustrated at the New York Jets and decided to put pen to paper, so to speak, I composed a blog entitled ‘What’s the Game Plan?’. You’ve probably read it. I decided to speak…
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A Tale of Two Stadiums
By John Bradley I’m a Jets fan who’s not from London; I’m a proud Scotsman. But that doesn’t mean I don’t head south to the Big Smoke. I do and have done so many times, whether it be for the games in London, watch parties, or even one of the draft parties with my beloved…
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Time to say goodbye (a suicide note)
Now that I’ve got your attention with the title, I’m here to write about mental health and as it’s World Suicide Prevention Day there’s no better moment. It starts with a Londoner, Mark who’s a Jags fan… Years ago something unexpected happened in his life and, combined with a lengthy buildup of self-perceived failures beforehand,…
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Coz London loves the Jets
By Nic That title is something that’s been bandied around Green Smoke for a while now to emphasise the love for Gang Green we have here in the UK’s capital city. The truth is, like every other UK city, football (or soccer, if you will) is very much the predominant sport, and every London-based Jets…
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Why I quit my job for the Jets
By Jon Love This is my journey of being a UK NY Jets fan originating in 1986 at school following Ken O’Brien, Al Toon, Wesley Walker and the Sack Exchange and deciding to follow my dream of watching them in the US until they won the Super Bowl (one day it will come!) and then…
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The London Hippodrome – a Jets history
By Alasdair Mackay Last season we had 53 Jets fans in attendance for the home Patriots game. I can remember when it was just Manny and I, getting asked not to sit on the back of the sofas to get a better view of another energy sapping loss. Back then (I am guessing around 10…
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An Ealing Victory
By Nic An Ealing Victory is what I’ve titled this, a play on the works from the studio of yesteryear that produced Ealing Comedies. Classics such as The Man in the White Suit and after watching the superb display by The Girls in the White Uniforms (see what I did there?), I also wanted to…
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What’s the game plan?
By Nic We were all there in the Barrow Boy & Banker, the Jets chants rang loud, the beers flowed and Cockney John Crow photobombed Christopher Johnson whilst poking his tongue out. The Jets had just launched a Twitter feed specifically for the UK and, not long after this, were awarded the international marketing rights…
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London is not Canton
By Gus I approach what appears to be quite a boring looking concrete building. I push the double doors open and immediately walk into a room that is reminiscent of a library from the 70s, except this room does not have any bookcases in it nor any books, it has a mismatch of carpet on…
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Finding your people
By Alasdair Mackay Who amongst us hasn’t done this? You come out of the tube at the end of a long day; you see a man waiting at the bus stop wearing a Patriots beanie and you boo him – the volume of the boo directly correlating to the size of the Pats fan and…
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It wasn’t easy being Green (and from London)
By Nic As we all filed into the end zone, Diana directed me to ‘the camera on the right’ but I didn’t really know what she wanted me to do.. I was in awe at being on the field in front of 80,000 fans and as the dance music pumped out loud, I just looked…
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What have you done to MEEEE?!
By Manny Martin Luther King once said I have a dream, well I have a nightmare, it’s September to December when The Green and White New York Jets take the field and sell you a dream of hope. Being a Manchester United fan all my life, I was used to WINNING and WINNING ALOT, and…
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