2008 travel budget already improving
By Tom Rock
That's because I won't have to go all the way to Hawaii to cover any of the Jets in the Pro Bowl. None of them made it (so far, there were a few alternates). Not that I would have been sent to the islands to cover it anyway. But I'm sure it's a big load off the minds of the powers that be back in HQ.
Leon Washington, probably the Jets' best chance for a ticket, was named a first alternate as a kickoff returner. Safety Kerry Rhodes and cenetr Nick Mangold are third alternates. Third alternates? They have a better chance of playing in this year's Super Bowl than this year's Pro Bowl as a third alternate. I think I'm a fifth alternate, to put that in some perspective.
Anyway, it's the first year since 1996 that the Jets will not send a soul to Hawaii. They were also blanked in 1995. Boy, I can't believe the Jets couldn't get one guy on the roster during those years. Who was the head coach for those seasons?
Oh, right. Now it makes sense.
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Comments (3)
Mangini is another Kottite. Ugh!
Please, Woody, sell the team to someone who actually wants to win and bring in a real head coach who wasn't a fotmer ballboy.
its a poor reflection on the front office when they don't have a single pro-bowl calibur player on the team...and the only one who got close is a special teamer.
That's right, Rock... keep digging against mangini. You never liked him. How'd I know? You're a great journalist.