Gang Green: An Irreverent Look Behind the Scenes at Thirty-Eight (Well, Thirty-Seven) Seasons of New York Jets Football Futility

by Gerald Eskenazi

A long time sportswriter for The New York Times recounts the wild and wacky history of one of football's most bizarre teams, sharing stories of bad luck and outright strangeness about the only AFL team since 1970 that has never won a division title. 25,000 first printing.

Genres: Sports, Football, History

336 pages, Hardcover

First published October 5, 1998

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

It would have been better if everything was in chronological order. There needs to be an update for this book for all the new Jets material - Testaverde achilles, Chad Pennington torn ACL playing pickup basketball, Farve, Rex Ryan’s two AFC title games, Tim Tebow, Geno Smith getting punched, Adam Gase, Aaron Rodgers, etc. The material for making fun of the Jets is endless.

[Ian Hardouin · Rating 4 out of 5]

The New York Jets are a study in how to run, and how not to run, an enterprise, and this provides a concise, yet thorough account of one of pro sports's most prolific sagas, from the early AFL days to Parcells. Would love to see this updated to cover the franchise to its current state. Quick and entertaining for fans young and old.

[Thomas-lily Heaney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good book about the New York Jets from 1960 to Bill Parcells hiring as coach. Easy read by author and New York Times reporter Gerald Eskenazi.