New York Jets

 

The New York Jets are an American football professional team situated in the New York metropolitan area. The New York Jets are a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division of the National Football League (NFL). The Jets play their home games at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of New York City (shared with the New York Giants). Florham Park, New Jersey is the team's headquarters. Under the moniker New York Jets, LLC, the franchise is legally formed as a limited liability business.

The Titans of New York were created in 1959 as an original member of the American Football League (AFL), and eventually joined the NFL after the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The Polo Grounds hosted the team's first game in 1960. The current name was adopted in 1963 under new ownership, and the franchise relocated to Shea Stadium in 1964, then to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in 1984. In 1968, the Jets made the playoffs for the first time and went on to upset the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, becoming the first AFL team to defeat an NFL team in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game. The Jets have made the playoffs 13 times since 1968, including four times in the AFC Championship Game, most recently falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010. The Jets, however, have never returned to the Super Bowl, making them one of only two NFL teams to win their lone Super Bowl appearance, along with the New Orleans Saints, and one of only four teams to never win an AFC championship (along with the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans). The Jets' drought is the longest among current NFL franchises, aside from the Browns and the Detroit Lions, who have never reached the Super Bowl (despite both winning NFL championships prior to 1966).