Dear Aaron,
The first thing you should know about the Jets beat is that Billy Joel gets us, the currents and formers, survivors and embracers. He could not have written “We Didn’t Start the Fire” about Gang Green. Nor could he have summoned a more perfect anthem for a franchise with no shortage of stars, star power, bad luck, ill-timed mistakes, ubiquitous drama or strange things that always seem to happen in the same place. Like the Jets, Mr. Joel spent many of his formative years on Long Island. An alternate “We Didn’t …” about the football team might start something like this:
JUM-BO-BIG KATT-BIG APPLE, HOW ‘BOUT THAT?
