The Pro Football Hall of Fame's preliminary list of modern-era nominees for the Class of 2009 is out, and of the 133 players, coaches and contributors, six have Jets connections.

And for one of those six, well, it would be nice if he could finally be connected with Canton.

Joe Klecko is one of those six Jets on the list. I'd like to see Klecko in the Hall. I know some of the Hall's hard-working … More

Eric Mangini made the rounds this morning — the radio rounds in New York. And try as Mike and Mike (with Trey Wingo in for Mike Golic) and Boomer Esiason (with Chris Carlin in for Craig Carton) tried, the Jets' head coach was not going to publicly declare his starting quarterback two days before the first full-squad practice of training camp.

"Who starts for you under center when you take on Mi… More

Long before the top high school football players from New York City and Long Island met in Tuesday evening's Empire Challenge at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium, I huddled with Boomer Esiason in the pressbox. Among the multitude of topics we covered was the 2008 Jets.

“The biggest question for the New York Jets is who’s their quarterback?”

And with that million-dollar question, Esiason began … More

Just when it seemed that No. 4 was going to change his uniform number to an infinity symbol, Brett Favre has called it a career.

It's apparently official. The Green Bay Gunslinger has told his agent, the team and ESPN that he's hung up his pads and his yellow helmet with the white G in the green circle for the last time.

Many think Favre toward the end of his career had grown whiny about whether… More