Editing New York Jets (section)

{{Short description|National Football League franchise in East Rutherford, New Jersey}}
{{Use American English|date=October 2020}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox NFL team
| current = 2025 New York Jets season
| logo = New York Jets 2024.svg
| wordmark = New York Jets 2024 (wordmark).svg
| founded = {{Start date and age|August 14, 1959}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=New York Jets Team Facts |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/teams/new-york-jets/team-facts/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220002425/https://www.profootballhof.com/teams/new-york-jets/team-facts/ |archive-date=December 20, 2019 |access-date=January 28, 2020 |website=[[Pro Football Hall of Fame|ProFootballHOF.com]] |publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC}}</ref>
| first_season = [[1960 New York Titans season|1960]]
| stadium = [[MetLife Stadium]],<br />[[East Rutherford, New Jersey]]
| headquartered = Jets Training Center,<br />[[Florham Park, New Jersey]]<ref>{{cite web|title=General FAQ|url=https://www.newyorkjets.com/faqs/|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=NewYorkJets.com|access-date=April 5, 2019|archive-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403055533/https://www.newyorkjets.com/faqs/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| uniform = New York Jets Uniforms 2024-Present.png
| colors = Legacy green, legacy white, legacy black<!-- Please DO NOT change the color names; they are OFFICIAL, per https://www.newyorkjets.com/team/uniforms. Thank you. --><ref name="JetsLegacyUnis2024">{{cite news|title=Jets Unveil New 'Legacy Collection' Uniform Ahead of 2024 Season|url=https://www.newyorkjets.com/news/jets-launch-new-uniforms-legacy-collection-2024|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=NewYorkJets.com|date=April 15, 2024|access-date=April 15, 2024}}</ref><ref name="NewNYJetsUnis2024">{{cite news|last=Edholm|first=Eric|title=Jets unveil 'Legacy Collection' uniforms, updated primary logo|url=https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-unveil-legacy-collection-uniforms-updated-logo|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=NFL.com|date=April 15, 2024|access-date=April 15, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter=New York Jets Team Capsule|chapter-url=https://static.www.nfl.com/image/upload/league/apps/league-site/media-guides/2022/2022_NFL_Record_and_Fact_Book.pdf#page=121|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|title=2022 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book|url=https://static.www.nfl.com/image/upload/league/apps/league-site/media-guides/2022/2022_NFL_Record_and_Fact_Book.pdf|date=July 20, 2022|access-date=July 8, 2024}}</ref><br />{{color box|#115740}} {{color box|#FFFFFF}} {{color box|#000000}}
| nicknames =
* Gang Green
* [[New York Sack Exchange]] (defensive line, early 1980s)
| coach = [[Aaron Glenn]]
| owner = [[Woody Johnson]] and [[Christopher Johnson (American football executive)|Christopher Johnson]]
| chairman = Woody Johnson
| ceo = Woody Johnson
| president = Hymie Elhai
| general manager = [[Darren Mougey]] 
| website = {{URL|newyorkjets.com}}
| hist_yr = 1963
| hist_misc =
* Titans of New York (1960–1962)
| affiliate_old = [[American Football League]] (1960–1969)
* Eastern Division (1960–1969)
| NFL_start_yr = 1970
| division_hist =
* '''[[American Football Conference]] (1970–present)'''
** '''[[American Football Conference East Division|AFC East]] (1970–present)'''
| no_league_champs = 1†
| no_sb_champs = 1
| no_div_champs = 4
| league_champs =
* '''[[American Football League playoffs|AFL championships]] (pre-1970 [[AFL–NFL merger]]) (1)'''<br />[[1968 New York Jets season|1968]]
| sb_champs = [[1968 New York Jets season|1968]] ([[Super Bowl III|III]])
† – Does not include 1968 AFL championship won during the same season that the [[Super Bowl]] was contested
| div_champs =
* '''AFL East:''' [[1968 New York Jets season|1968]], [[1969 New York Jets season|1969]]
* '''AFC East:''' [[1998 New York Jets season|1998]], [[2002 New York Jets season|2002]]
| playoff_appearances =
* '''AFL:''' [[1968 American Football League season|1968]], [[1969 American Football League season|1969]]
* '''NFL:''' [[1981–82 NFL playoffs|1981]], [[1982–83 NFL playoffs|1982]], [[1985–86 NFL playoffs|1985]], [[1986–87 NFL playoffs|1986]], [[1991–92 NFL playoffs|1991]], [[1998–99 NFL playoffs|1998]], [[2001–02 NFL playoffs|2001]], [[2002–03 NFL playoffs|2002]], [[2004–05 NFL playoffs|2004]], [[2006–07 NFL playoffs|2006]], [[2009–10 NFL playoffs|2009]], [[2010–11 NFL playoffs|2010]]
| no_playoff_appearances = 14
| stadium_years =
* [[Polo Grounds]] ([[1960 American Football League season|1960]]–[[1963 American Football League season|1963]])
* [[Shea Stadium]] ([[1964 American Football League season|1964]]–{{nfly|1983}})
* [[Giants Stadium]] ({{nfly|1984|2009}})
* '''[[MetLife Stadium]] ({{nfly|2010}}–present)'''
| team_owners =
* [[Harry Wismer]] (1959–1963)
* [[Sonny Werblin]] (1963–1968)
* [[Leon Hess]] (1968–1999)
* Hess estate (1999–2000)
* '''[[Woody Johnson]] (2000–present)'''
}}
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 of the [[American Football Conference]] (AFC) [[AFC East|East]] division. The team plays its home games at [[MetLife Stadium]] (which it shares with the [[New York Giants]]) at the [[Meadowlands Sports Complex]] in [[East Rutherford, New Jersey]], {{convert|5|mi|km|0|spell=on}} 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.'''<ref>{{cite web|title=Privacy Policy|url=https://www.newyorkjets.com/faqs/privacy-policy|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=NewYorkJets.com|access-date=June 4, 2020|archive-date=May 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044815/https://www.newyorkjets.com/faqs/privacy-policy|url-status=live}}</ref>

The team was founded in 1959 as the '''Titans of New York''', a charter member of the [[American Football League]] (AFL); the franchise joined the NFL in the [[AFL–NFL merger]] in {{nfly|1970}}. The team began play in 1960 at the [[Polo Grounds]] in upper Manhattan, the former home of the football and [[New York Giants (baseball)|baseball Giants]]. Under new ownership, the current name was adopted in 1963 and the franchise moved to [[Shea Stadium]] in Queens in 1964, then to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey in 1984. The team's training facility was located at [[Hofstra University]] on [[Long Island]] until 2008, when the [[Atlantic Health System|Atlantic Health]] Jets Training Center<ref>{{cite news|last=Lange|first=Randy|title=Training Center by the Numbers|url=https://www.newyorkjets.com/news/training-center-by-the-numbers-2514036|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=NewYorkJets.com|date=April 16, 2008|access-date=December 5, 2021}}</ref> opened in Florham Park.<ref>{{cite web|title=New York Jets Corporate Headquarters and Training Center-Florham Park, N.J.|url=http://newyork.construction.com/features/2009/1201_JetsCorporateHeadquarters.asp|publisher=ENR New York|date=December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720061413/http://newyork.construction.com/features/2009/1201_JetsCorporateHeadquarters.asp|archive-date=July 20, 2011|access-date=April 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Jets advanced to the AFL playoffs for the first time in 1968 and went on to compete in [[Super Bowl III]] where they defeated the [[1968 Baltimore Colts season|Baltimore Colts]], becoming the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an [[Super Bowl|AFL–NFL World Championship Game]].<ref name="Year In Review: 1969">{{cite web|title=Year In Review: 1969|url=http://www.newyorkjets.com/team/history/1969.html|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=NewYorkJets.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918120533/http://www.newyorkjets.com/team/history/1969.html|archive-date=September 18, 2012|access-date=June 24, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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 never to win a conference championship since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970, along with the [[Cleveland Browns]], [[Detroit Lions]], and two expansion franchises, the [[Jacksonville Jaguars]] (who began play in 1995) and [[Houston Texans]] (2002). Since 1970 the Jets have won the [[AFC East]] only twice, in [[1998 New York Jets season|1998]] and [[2002 New York Jets season|2002]], the fewest division titles among NFL teams in the post-merger era. They have qualified for the postseason 12 times, and reached the [[AFC Championship Game]] four times, most recently losing to the [[2010 Pittsburgh Steelers season|Pittsburgh Steelers]] in [[2010–11 NFL playoffs|2010]].<ref>{{cite web|title=New York Jets Playoff History|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nyj/playoffs.htm|publisher=Pro Football Reference|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122020130/http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nyj/playoffs.htm|archive-date=January 22, 2011|access-date=April 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>  The Jets have not qualified for the playoffs since then, and currently hold the [[List of NFL franchise post-season droughts|longest active playoff drought in the NFL]] and are tied with the [[Buffalo Sabres]] for the longest drought in the [[Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada|"Big 4" North American sports leagues]].<ref name="g002">{{cite web | last=Riccette | first=Billy | title=Jets now have longest active playoff drought among four major sports | website=Yahoo! Sports | date=2023-12-17 | url=https://sports.yahoo.com/jets-now-longest-active-playoff-231005755.html | access-date=2024-07-31}}</ref> The Jets also have the longest championship drought among New York's major professional sports franchises, having eclipsed the [[New York Rangers]]' 54-year drought (from 1940 to 1994) in 2023.

The Jets' team colors are green and white, although they have at times used black as a third/trim color and have had a black alternate uniform since 2019. For most of their history the Jets had white helmets with green stripes and oval or football-shaped logos, and opposite-colored jersey sleeves; the current primary uniforms are based on the design used from 1978-89 with simpler striping, green helmets, and a wordmark logo in stylized italic lettering with a jet-plane silhouette above the letters.