Can Mets Fans Take Solace in Super Bowl XLVI?

But I’d estimate that 85% of the time on Long Island it’s Mets/Jets and Yankees/Giants.

I became a Mets/Giants fan back in ’86. Being from the midwest, moving to NJ in the ’80s, it was easy to jump on the bandwagon of both teams. I just never jumped off, despite the lack luster years between then and now.

C’mon Matt. Have some class.

I root for NY. I like the Yankees (not as much as the Mets), and I like the Giants (not as much as the Jets). I’m still very, very happy right now, and 18-1 is up there with AND THE BALL GETS BY BUCKNER as greatest fan moments in my life.

If the Pats win at least I don’t have to deal with their fans.

We get to the AFC Championship game twice and lose. The Giants of course win their title game.

Just another chapter.

At least the Devils were a dynasty not to long ago.

le sigh.

There might be something to Mets/Jets Yankees/Giants, but I don’t know if it would reflect itself in a poll given there just seems to be so many more Giants fans out there. Then again, there are way more “Yankees fans” too, so maybe those are the same people…I’m not sure if I’m making any sense.

Anyway, I’m not really a football fan..I don’t have a team. But I do find myself hating the Giants largely b/c of the alleged “Yankees/Giants” thing. Most of the obnoxious Yankees fans I know are also obnoxious GIants fans so I can’t help put root for them to be unhappy.

I genuinely am a fan of both. I actually started out as a a fan of both baseball and both football teams before dropping the Yankees completely in 1988 or whatever year they started playing on MSG. I am a Giants fan first, so in the head-to-head matchups I always root for the Giants. And being a Giants fan is the only thing keeping me sane as a Mets fan.

I just have to shake my head at this.

Was more of an older generation thing. Since the teams moved out of the City and into the Meadowlands, there’s been more variation.

SSS for sure, but I know more Giant/Met fans than Met/Jets fans.

In an equilibrium, where both teams suck or are really good, there’s definitely more GIant fans than Jet fans

I tend to agree with Willgfass…it tends to be a thing of the past. Being 52 years of age, I spent the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s going to Shea, as a Mets / Jets fan, and the two just seemed to go hand in hand.. From the poll, it appears that at present there are more Mets fans that are Giants fans ???? or it could just be some fly by nights who have jumped on the band wagon since Giants are going to the Big Game. All I know is ..“Help”, I now live in NE CT and I’m stuck in Pats Country :(:(:(…

So I don’t really care.

The last few years it was the Jets and Devils who kept me in spirits. Im 27 was born in Astoria and there is a picture of me and my family in front of Shea. The only championship ive been able to enjoy was with the Devils. Especially after the tailspin following the 2000 WS

I’m too young to remember 1986 (which of course makes my Mets fandom that much worse), so I consider this the 4th Giants trip to the Superbowl for me, and hopefully the 3rd victory. The 1990 and 2007 season are easily my two greatest experiences as a sports fan, as they’re the only ones that resulted in my team winning it all. I know a Mets championship would take top place for me over the 2007 Giants, but I can still retrace the steps I took through my apartment as I was screaming and jumping in the air after Burress’ TD catch in the Superbowl.

So the Giants are the mistress who is so nice to me, while the Mets are the wife straight out of a Muddy Waters song: mentally abusive, two-timing, money grubbing, etc. and yet I still can’t leave her.

Maybe my sample is biased, but I feel like the most common combo among my friends and acquaintances is Mets/Giants. I also know a number of Jets/Yankees fans (I explain to them that the Jets part of their fandom is what being a Mets fan is like). I only know a few Giants/Yankees and Jets/Mets fan.

because I am sick of this football season and can’t wait for baseball. I also think a Ravens/Niners Super Bowl would be much more interesting than what we’ve got, so, yeah. Blah!

Perhaps the best part of being a Giants fan when you’re also a Mets fan is the right to talk shit to Philadelphia during the football season. For all the crap I take from my SE PA-based friends during the baseball season, I throw it right back at them with a few yells of “1960!” during football season.

and I get on my knees and thank the Lord Dickey every single day for that.

I’d bet that there are more Yankees/Giants or Yankees/Jets fans than Mets/Giants or Mets/Jets fans.

I’m a Jets fan, I follow them year round, but the Giants are my number two football team. I see no rivalry between the two teams and it’s not like one buys their way into the playoffs every year. The Giants winning the Superbowl in 2008 is as close I’ve gotten to my team winning, and I was as happy as any Giants fan with the victory on Sunday.

The solace I take is that most people counted the Giants out as the injuries mounted in preseason. They counted them out when they saw the teams they had to beat to get there. They counted them out when they were 7-7 and lost to the Redskins.

it’s ‘almost’ Spring Training and people have counted the Mets out. They look at the teams they have to beat and count them out. But that doesn’t make it so.

And I realize how much I can’t stand NY teams that I don’t root for win. Screw you guys, screw football, I hope no one wins.

Well maybe hate is too strong. I just find it boring and everyone else going apeshit over it makes me hate it more then I would otherwise.

1. Villanova National Championship
2. Mets World Series
3. Giants Super Bowl

All three of those things have happened, but only one of them have happened in my lifetime.

you see I grew up an hour to NYC and and hour to philthadelphia. so there always was the occasional dbag at school who rocked the flyer/iggles/philthy garb. I had no choice in the mets front. dad went to the first mets game ever and grandpa bled dodger blue then mets blue and orange.

the Yankees were despised and still are. football was a little more free flowing. I went to more jets games but god did they suck. so I fell in love with big blue and a winner. Big Blue sounds more regal and more classy. Gang green an affliction I’m glad I don’t have to be part of.

all that said let’s go geeeemeeeen. make winter lovely as summer will bring the eternal heartache.

The devils linger in the east…beware rags fans

but the same likely can’t be said for those Mets fans who find themselves grouped with Gang Green. With their big game aspirations dashed for one more season and the Mets doing little to ease that reality by going broke and being outbid in their tepid pursuit of Cody Ross, Jets fans must be miserable at the moment.

i don’t know what your talking about. i’m going to get back to slamming my head against this desk. continue

those of you who have that attitude, “as long as it’s a New York team”, are you native NYers? I wound up having this discussion with a couple of friends last weekend watching the game, and two of us are natives and die-hard Mets fans, while the third is a Yankee fan, but not originally from NY. The Yankee fan said that if the Yankees aren’t in it, then she’d be happy if the Mets won (way to rub it in there), but neither of us Mets fans would say so. We both suggested it’s because she’s from CA, and didn’t have to grow up with the rivalry, while we did.

I am very surprised in the poll numbers

Mets / Giants AND Jets / Devils

fuck basketball

The Jets formed two years prior to the Mets, followed the Amazin’s from the Polo Grounds to Shea, and followed the 1969 World Series run with an upset win in Super Bowl III.

SB III was January 1969 — before the Mets won.

I’m a Jets fan, but unlike baseball, where my second favorite team is “whoever plays the Yankees,” I do pull for the Giants. Growing up in the 70s, I saw awful teams from both local football teams. I think most years that decade, you couldn’t get enough NFL-caliber players if you picked from both teams.

All I can say is Thank God for the Rangers.

my father raised me that way.

Fucking hell.

So no, it doesn’t get better in winter.

The Sabres are also killing me this year.

Grew up in Westchester, but not in a household that had strong sports allegiances.

Mets – Both parents were Dodgers fans, they didn’t have a strong allegiance to the Mets per se but they weren’t going to have me follow the Yankees

Ranger – Started following and playing hockey on my own in the early 90s (pre-Cup). Didn’t hurt that we sometimes got seats 2 rows behind the Rangers bench.

49ers – Football wasn’t big in my family. I tried getting into it as a little kid but couldn’t really understand the rules. Basically the only game I watched when I was little was at an annual Super Bowl party we usually went to. So growing up in the 80s I saw the 9ers a lot. I will say that I’m typically fine with either Giants or Jets winning, especially against teams like Eagles/Pats/Cowboys/Packers. But the NFC championship game was pretty disappointing even if it was the best season for the 9ers in a decade.

Don’t like basketball, but it was pretty cool in 8th grade when it was Rangers/Knicks. Otherwise I’m fine with Dolan usually being preoccupied with the Knicks as long as he doesn’t make any appearances at Rangers games.

and was surrounded by Yankees and Giants fans, in school and from my family, but my dad was a Mets fan so i stuck with him against the grain and well once you go against the grain you wind up rooting for the Jets, its been 26 very tough years!!!