New York Jets | |||||
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Established August 14, 1959 First season: 1960 Play in MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, New Jersey Headquartered in the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center Florham Park, New Jersey |
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American Football League (1960–1969)
National Football League (1970–present)
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Current uniform
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Green, White |
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Personnel | |||||
Owner(s) | Woody Johnson | ||||
Chairman | Woody Johnson | ||||
CEO | Woody Johnson | ||||
President | Neil Glat | ||||
General manager | Mike Maccagnan | ||||
Head coach | Todd Bowles | ||||
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Gang Green | |||||
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League championships (1)†
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Conference championships (0) | |||||
Division championships (4) |
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† - Does not include the AFL or NFL championships won during the same seasons as the AFL-NFL Super Bowl championships prior to the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger | |||||
Playoff appearances (14) | |||||
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American Football League (1960–1969)
National Football League (1970–present)
Green, White
League championships (1)†
Division championships (4)
The New York Jets are a professional American football team located in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. In a unique arrangement for the league, the Jets share MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey with the New York Giants. The franchise is legally and corporately registered as New York Jets, LLC.
The team was founded in 1959 as the Titans of New York, an original member of the American Football League (AFL); later, the franchise joined the NFL in the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The team began to play in 1960 at the Polo Grounds. Under new ownership, the current name was adopted in 1963 and the franchise moved to Shea Stadium in 1964 and then to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in 1984. The Jets advanced to the playoffs for the first time in 1968 and went on to compete in Super Bowl III where they defeated the Baltimore Colts, becoming the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game. Since 1968, the Jets have appeared in the playoffs 13 times, and in the AFC Championship Game four times, most recently losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010. However, the Jets have never returned to the Super Bowl, making them one of three NFL teams to win their lone Super Bowl appearance, along with the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.