Football, golf and charity: Happy together.

And in the case of the fifth annual New York Jets Charity Golf Classic today, happy doesn't even capture it. The day started out hot but turned into a beautiful day for golf, warm yet breezy on the well-manicured grounds of a private club in Jericho, N.Y.

The Jets and their golfing fans were the stars of the day at the fifth annual Classic, whose prese… More

Bubba Franks made his presence felt at today's OTA practice.

Every time you looked up, Franks, the 6'6", 265-pound tight end who came over from the Packers as a street free agent in March, was snagging a pass for six.

There were some nice snatches at helmet level or above from Chad Pennington in red zone drills. There was No. 88 reaching for a "touchdown" in the corner of the end zone on a zip… More

The air was a little brisk, in the upper 50s perhaps, for this morning's third practice of the Jets' weekend rookie minicamp, leading to this exchange between defensive coaches:

Bryan Cox: "Bob, you look cold."

Bob Sutton: "It's linemen's weather."

It was also special teams weather, at least for much of the 40 minutes of media availability. And while the Jets' 50 draft picks, undrafted free age… More

Porcelain has played a central role in a couple of Green & White anecdotes this decade.

Eight years ago, Al Groh said the enormity of becoming head coach of the Jets didn't hit him until he read all about it on a sports section tacked to the wall over a restaurant facility. Then this afternoon general manager Mike Tannenbaum had his own bathroom story about the Jets' extremely successful second-r… More

They play the games in the fall but that doesn’t make schedule day any less exciting. Even though we already knew whom the Jets would face in 2008, we didn’t know when and we wondered for months. Well, thankfully we ain’t wondering anymore!

When we internally received the official email early this afternoon, I decided to break the season up into quarters to view what was on the horizon.

Qu… More