Few bogeymen in sports have been as omnipresent throughout history as the opaque, hazily defined "New York media."
The spotlight of the Big Apple’s press has played a supporting role in many of the cities’ most cherished athletes’ careers: Babe Ruth, Joe Namath, Tom Seaver, and Derek Jeter, to name a few. The flip side of this equation is that struggles in New York resonate much more across the country than elsewhere.
Hence the saga of Jets quarterback Zach Wilson, who, three years ago, enjoyed all the status at BYU an eighth-place finish in Heisman voting affords. In 2023, Wilson has ranked among the league’s least effective quarterbacks and garnered widespread criticism.
