THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

The Jets are in that pantheon [of championship-winning teams].  And they are housed there despite having only one title, one defining image.  Because they have never repeated, there is the constant of failed expectations.  Unfair, perhaps, but this is the nature of sports.  The Jets achieved such fame, such notoriety, became such a product and symbol of their times, that they also became a frozen icon.  They can have life breathed back into them only by another great success.  In the meantime, they and their fans have had to live with their moment in the sun.

Eskenazi/Green, 1998