The Jets have been a quarterback graveyard even earlier than Woody Johnson purchased the workforce for $635 million in 2000.
However the custom has lived on.
Since 1985, when his No. 12 jersey was retired, Joe Namath had by no means supplied to have it unretired till Aaron Rodgers rode into city with visions of a Tremendous Bowl dancing in his head, and everybody else’s.
“I believe if I don’t do what I do know I’m able to doing, we’re all in all probability gonna be out of right here. … As you grow old within the league, in the event you don’t carry out, they’re gonna eliminate you, or deliver within the subsequent man to take over,” Rodgers mentioned final spring.
