New York Jets

New York Jets
Current season
Established August 14, 1959 (August 14, 1959)[1]
First season: 1960
Play in MetLife Stadium
East Rutherford, New Jersey
Headquartered in the Atlantic Health
Jets Training Center
Florham Park, New Jersey[2]
New York Jets logo
New York Jets logo
New York Jets wordmark
New York Jets wordmark
LogoWordmark
League/conference affiliations

American Football League (1960–1969)

  • Eastern Division (1960–1969)

National Football League (1970–present)

Current uniform
Team colorsGotham green, spotlight white, stealth black[3][4][5]
     
Personnel
Owner(s)Woody and Christopher Johnson
ChairmanWoody Johnson
CEOWoody Johnson
PresidentHymie Elhai
General managerJoe Douglas
Head coachRobert Saleh
Team history
  • Titans of New York (1960–1962)
  • New York Jets (1963–present)
Team nicknames
  • Gang Green
Championships
League championships (1†)
Conference championships (0)
Division championships (4) † – Does not include AFL championship won the same season as Super Bowl
Playoff appearances (14)
Home fields

The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The Jets play their home games at MetLife Stadium (which they share with the New York Giants) in East Rutherford, New Jersey, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of New York City. The team is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. The franchise is legally organized as a limited liability company under the name New York Jets, LLC.[6]

The team was founded in 1959 as the Titans of New York, an original member of the American Football League (AFL); later, the franchise joined the NFL in the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The team began play in 1960 at the Polo Grounds. Under new ownership, the current name was adopted in 1963 and the franchise moved to Shea Stadium in 1964 and then to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in 1984. The Jets advanced to the playoffs for the first time in 1968 and went on to compete in Super Bowl III where they defeated the Baltimore Colts, becoming the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game.[7] Since 1968 the Jets have won the AFC Eastern Division twice, in 1998 and 2002; appeared in the playoffs 13 times, and in the AFC Championship Game four times, most recently losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010.[8] However, the Jets have never returned to the Super Bowl, making them one of two NFL teams to win their lone Super Bowl appearance along with the New Orleans Saints, and one of five teams (along with the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans) never to win a conference championship since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. Since 2010, the Jets have struggled to regain their former success. The franchise currently holds the longest active playoff drought in the NFL and in all "Big 4" North American sports leagues, having yet to qualify for the playoffs since the 2010 season.[9]

The team's training facility, Atlantic Health Jets Training Center,[10] which opened in 2008, is located in Florham Park.[11]

  1. ^ "New York Jets Team Facts". ProFootballHOF.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on December 20, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  2. ^ "General FAQ". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  3. ^ Landis, Olivia; Allen, Eric; Lange, Randy (April 4, 2019). "Take Flight: New Jets Uniforms Another Symbol of a New Era". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on August 9, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2019. Three new colors: Gotham Green, Spotlight White and Stealth Black
  4. ^ Bergman, Jeremy (April 4, 2019). "New York Jets unveil new uniforms, green helmets". NFL.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on April 6, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2019. For the first time in over 20 years, the New York Jets will take the field with a new look, to go with their new head coach and high-priced free agents. The Jets unveiled on Thursday evening their new uniforms, helmets and branding for the 2019 season and beyond. Their team colors are "Gotham Green, Spotlight White and Stealth Black."
  5. ^ "New York Jets Team Capsule" (PDF). 2021 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. August 11, 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  6. ^ "Privacy Policy". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on May 27, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  7. ^ "Year In Review: 1969". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  8. ^ "New York Jets Playoff History". Pro Football Reference. Archived from the original on January 22, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  9. ^ "Jets now have longest active playoff drought among four major sports". Yahoo Sports.
  10. ^ Lange, Randy (April 16, 2008). "Training Center by the Numbers". NewYorkJets.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved December 5, 2021.
  11. ^ "New York Jets Corporate Headquarters and Training Center-Florham Park, N.J." ENR New York. December 2009. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2011.