New York Jets

The Jets lost on a 33 yard field goal by Pittsburgh kicker Jeff Reed, as they fell just short yet again. Previously, people entered the movie theater whenever they showed up and left whenever they wanted; after Psycho, movie theaters quickly began adopting a policy of setting specific times for showing films and (generally) not letting people in afterwards. This one sailed wide left, forcing the game into overtime. This was so the surprises of the film would remain surprises. Brien was saved by an interception of Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on the next play, and soon lined up for a 43 yard attempt. In the advertising campaign in its original run, Hitchcock told movie theater owners not to allow seating after the movie began. It fell just short. Psycho is often considered to be the first of the slasher movie genre.

With the score tied at 17-17 late in the fourth quarter, kicker Doug Brien lined up for a 47 yard field goal attempt that would have put the Jets up. Its box office success helped propel Hollywood toward more graphic displays of previous censorsed themes. While the offense struggled, producing only a field goal, a punt return and interception return kept the Jets in the game. It was unprecedented in its depiction of sexuality and violence (in addition, it was the first film ever to depict a flushing toilet onscreen). In the divisional round, the Jets hung tight with the heavily favored Steelers. Psycho is an example of the types of film that appeared in the 1960s after the erosion of the Production Code. The game sent the Jets to the divisional round against the 15-1 Pittsburgh Steelers. Part of its effect was due to the use of startling editing techniques borrowed from the Soviet Montage filmmakers, and to Bernard Herrman's bizarre but effective musical score.

In a classic bout which was a rematch of week 2 the Jets prevailed with a Doug Brien field goal in overtime. The most original and influential moment in the film is the "shower scene", which became iconic in pop culture because it was one of the most terrifying scenes ever filmed. Herm Edwards' team faced the AFC West champion San Diego Chargers in the opening round, a team that featured Pro Bowlers Drew Brees, LaDainian Tomlinson, and Antonio Gates. One example of the radicalism of Psycho is its storyline: by repeatedly setting up protagonists and then killing them off, Hitchcock plays on audience expectations of Classical storylines, which are then violated. Despite struggling down the stretch, the Jets finished with a 10-6 record and earned a wild card berth. Psycho's unconventional storytelling and stylized photography and editing show the influence of the French New Wave and the European art films that Hitchcock admired. Pennington was healthy again for the start of the 2004 season, and the Jets started the season 5-0 before losing 2 of their next 3. Psycho is often seen as a turning point in film history, representing the shift from Classical to the more experimental "Post-Classical" film.

The Jets finished 6-10. The last scene shows Bates totally taken over by his "mother.". Pennington came back midway through the season, but it was too late. At the end of the film a forensic psychiatrist (Oakland) explains to Lila, Sam and the police that Bates' mother is really dead and that Bates periodically assumes her personality; the dominant half of his personality is his re-imagining of his mother. The Bates personality has no idea that his mother is dead, so has no knowledge of "her" crimes. Testaverde, thought by many on the downside of his career, was forced to take over. Only at that moment is the killer revealed to be Norman Bates himself (cross-dressed in his mother's clothing, complete with wig). The Jets lost several players to free agency in the off-season (mostly to the Washington Redskins), and a pre-season injury to Pennington submarined the Jets in 2003. Lila goes up to the basement of the Bates' adjacent home only to find the corpse of Bates' mother.

The Jets cruised through the opening playoff game with a 41-0 blowout of the Indianapolis Colts, but collapsed in the second half against the eventual AFC champion Raiders in the divisional playoff. Lila and Sam next go to the motel to follow up when the private detective disappears. Pennington threw 22 touchdowns and only 6 interceptions, and a win over the Green Bay Packers in the final week gave them the AFC East title at 9-7. Arbogast traces her to the Bates Motel and eventually meets the same fate as Marion. Testaverde was benched early in the season with the team at 1-4, and replaced with Chad Pennington, who proved to be the spark the Jets needed. Marion's sister Lila (Miles) and boyfriend hire a private detective, Milton Arbogast (Balsam), to find her. The AFC East proved to be even more competitive in 2002, with all four teams in the race well into December. The rest of the film deals with the search for Marion.

The results were different in the playoffs, with the Raiders cruising to a 38-24 win. Bates is horrified when he finds the corpse, but cleans up as if he has done this several times before. The team managed to salvage a wild-card with a 53-yard game-winning field goal against the Oakland Raiders in the final minute, forcing a rematch with the Raiders in the opening playoff game. Unlike Mary from the novel, Marion is not decapitated in the scene. Under new coach Herman Edwards, the Jets were streaky through the 2001 season in a highly competitive AFC East. She stabs Marion to death in the famous shower scene (with its now trademark score by Bernard Herrmann, featuring the screeching violins). Groh resigned after his first season to coach the University of Virginia team. It turns out that Bates' mother is not ill physically, but mentally.

It was the highlight of the season, but they only won 3 of their last 9 to finish at 9-7 and out of the playoffs. Although the motel receives few visitors, Norman keeps it open to give him some relief from taking care of his ill mother. Norman's other hobby is taxidermy: birds are his favorite subject. Down 30-7 entering the fourth quarter, the Jets exploded for 30 points in the last 15 minutes, and John Hall kicked the winning field goal in overtime. She stops in at the Bates motel, run by Norman Bates (Perkins) because it is raining and she keeps drowsing off. The Jets won 6 of their first 7 games, capped by the biggest comeback in Monday Night Football history against the Dolphins. This road was originally the main route, so it has an old motel on it. The team finally settled Al Groh to lead the team for the 2000 season. Just across the state line in California, she trades her car and some cash with a new car because she believes she is being followed; on the way back to Phoenix she misses a turnoff and eventually ends up on a nearly-deserted road.

His handpicked successor, Bill Belichick also resigned after one day on the job and ended up taking the job with the Patriots. Instead of depositing the money she leaves town with it with the intention of asking Sam to marry her. Parcells resigned his coaching position in early 2000 after disagreements with owner Woody Johnson. Marion returns to work and receives $40,000 in cash from her boss to deposit at the bank. The Jets collapsed to an 8-8 record. The movie's first scene takes place in a cheap hotel room and shows Marion Crane (Leigh) and her boyfriend Sam Loomis (Gavin) in their undergarments after a Friday afternoon tryst. The Jets' hopes for the 1999 season were dashed in their first game against the New England Patriots, when Testaverde injured his Achilles tendon. The first movie starred Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Martin Balsam, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Simon Oakland.

Testaverde threw two late interceptions and Denver running back Terrell Davis burned the Jets for 167 yards and a touchdown, and the Broncos won 23-10. The book had Mary Crane from Dallas, Texas as the leading lady. Since a real Mary Crane exists, Alfred Hitchcock changed her into Marion Crane from Phoenix, Arizona. New York looked bound for the Super Bowl with a 10-0 lead in the third quarter of the AFC Championship against the Denver Broncos. In 1998 a remake was directed by Gus van Sant, for which he was awarded a Golden Raspberries Award. Earning a first-round bye, the Jets survived a scare from the Jacksonville Jaguars in their divisional playoff game, winning 34-24. The affecting, subtly humorous screenplay was written by Joseph Stefano, who later went on to be the producer of (and frequent episode writer for) the pioneering mid-1960s science fiction television series The Outer Limits. The Jets won 10 of their last 11 games and finished the season 12-4. Robert Bloch's pulp novel Psycho was made into a black-and-white feature film in 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock.

Both paid immediate dividends: Testaverde threw 29 touchdowns, Martin ran for 1287 yards and 8 touchdowns, while both Keyshawn Johnson and Wayne Chrebet had 1000 yards receiving. In order to get Psycho made, Hitchcock had to put up the cash himself. Parcells grabbed Patriots running back Curtis Martin and Baltimore Ravens quarterback Vinny Testaverde in time for the 1998 season, which turned out to be the most successful for the team since the 1960s. In 1993, the video-artist Douglas Gordon exhibited a version of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film which was slowed down so that it lasted for 24 hours. The Jets finished 9-7, but still out of the playoffs. Her killing remains a mystery. Neil O'Donnell, formerly of the Pittsburgh Steelers, threw for 17 touchdowns in his only full year as the Jets' starting quarterback, and Adrian Murrell ran for 1000 yards. Despite a US$50,000 reward and an international investigation, the case is still unsolved.

The results were immediate. Valerie was killed at night at home by an unknown intruder with a hammer and a knife. Wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson was picked #1 overall, and New England Patriots coach Bill Parcells abandoned that team to take the Jets' coaching job for the 1997 season. Percy (R, Il) days before its scheduled airing caused CBS to cancel this plan. The draft picks the Jets received set the stage for a quick turnaround in the late 1990s. Senator Charles H. During Kotite's two-year term in New York, the Jets won only four games: a 3-13 record in 1995, and 1-15 in 1996, in both cases the worst in the NFL. In 1966, CBS had planned to air Psycho. However, the September 18 murder of Valerie Percy, 21, one of the twin daughters of then-U.S.

Carroll was fired after only one season, but his replacement Rich Kotite proved to be even worse. Psycho is consistently in the top 25 on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films, was #18 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies and #1 on its 100 Years, 100 Thrills, and has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The play came to be known as "The Fake Spike," and the Jets never recovered, finishing the season 6-10, last place in the AFC East. A knife, wielded by Hitchcock himself, plunging into a melon was the source of the sound effect. But in a game against the Miami Dolphins, quarterback Dan Marino fooled the Jets into thinking he would spike the ball to stop the clock, then threw the winning touchdown to Mark Ingram for an inprobable victory. Chocolate sauce, which shows up better than stage blood on black-and-white film, was used as the blood for the infamous shower scene. Optimism was high for the 1994 season when the Jets started the season 6-5 and played Miami in late November. To test the scare factor of the "mother's corpse" prop, Hitchcock placed it in Janet Leigh's dressing room and listened for how loud she screamed when she discovered it.

Coslet was fired as head coach and replaced by Pete Carroll. Although there is little visible gore portrayed on the screen, the infamous "shower scene" is often regarded as one of the most frightening sequences in cinema history. A mid-season winning streak gave Jets fans hope, but they missed the playoffs at 8-8 with a loss to Houston in their final game. Psycho was the first film to show a toilet being flushed onscreen. With the Nagle experiment over, longtime Cincinnati Bengals QB Boomer Esiason joined the team for the 1993 season. Psycho was the first film to introduce a single main character and then kill her halfway into the film - a rather shocking turn of events in 1960, with no apparent indication of where the story might go afterwards. Remarkably, he walked again within two years. Bloch states that he did not realize "how closely the imaginary character I'd created resembled the real Ed Gein both in overt act and apparent motivation" until years later.

Tragedy struck the Jets in November when defensive lineman Dennis Byrd was paralyzed in a game against Kansas City. The idea that "the man next door may be a monster unsuspected even in the gossip-ridden microcosm of small-town life" [1] (http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/bloch.html) took root in Bloch's subconscious at that time. Browning Nagle took over O'Brien's starting QB job for the 1992 season, but the Jets disappointed fans again with a 4-12 finish. Robert Bloch lived in Weyauwega, Wisconson, close to Ed Gein's stalking grounds in 1957, when the Gein murders were discovered. In their opening-round playoff game, the Jets fell 17-10 to the Houston Oilers. Macy as Arbogast, Viggo Mortensen as Sam Loomis, Julianne Moore as Lila Crane, and Robert Forster as the psychiatrist. They won a wild-card playoff spot by beating the Miami Dolphins on the final weekend of the season. Anne Heche plays Marion Crane, with Vince Vaughn as Norman, William H.

In 1991, with Brad Baxter having a career-high 11 touchdown receptions, the Jets improved to 8-8. A few small changes are introduced to make explicit the original movie's sexual subtext. Ken O'Brien was on the downside of his career, and the team finished 6-10. The remake is in colour and features a different cast, but aside from this it is a virtually shot for shot remake that copies Hitchcock's camera movements and editing. Bruce Coslet, hired to lead the team for the 1990 season, let most of their stars from the 1980s go. In 1998, Gus Van Sant remade Psycho. The team went into a tailspin in 1989, finishing 4-12 and causing the firing of coach Joe Walton. Bates Motel (1987) is a TV movie in which the motel is taken over by a new, equally psychotic owner.

Gastineau shocked the team by retiring midway through the 1988 season, one in which the Jets finished 8-7-1, short of a playoff spot in the competitive AFC wild-card race. The sequels are generally considered weak and unimaginative in comparison to the original. In 1987 the Jets again stumbled through December, but this time they missed the playoffs with a 6-9 record. Anthony Perkins returned to his role in all three sequels, and Vera Miles returned to hers in Psycho II. Psycho IV was written by Joseph Stefano, who wrote the original film. A late comeback by the Cleveland Browns in their divisional playoff matchup led to a double-overtime winning field goal by Mark Moseley that broke Jets' fans hearts. The film spawned four sequels: Psycho II (1983), Psycho III (1986), and Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); the latter was a TV movie. Pat Ryan was named the starting quarterback for the playoffs, and they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs handily in the first round.

The team slid through December, losing five straight to finish 10-6. Wesley Walker caught 12 touchdowns, with second-year player Al Toon catching 8. The Jets looked to improve on that mark for the 1986 season, with the team winning 9 straight games to start the season at 10-1. The Jets made the playoffs with an 11-5 record, but were stunned in the first round by the cinderella New England Patriots.

In 1985 O'Brien threw 25 touchdowns (seven to Mickey Shuler and five to Wesley Walker) and eight interceptions, and four different rushers combined for 18 touchdowns on the ground. In addition to a new stadium, Ken O'Brien took over at quarterback; but the team stumbled to the same 7-9 record. In 1984 they moved from Shea Stadium (where they were second fiddle to baseball's New York Mets) to the Meadowlands of East Rutherford, New Jersey (where they played second fiddle to the New York Giants). Joe Walton was the new coach for the 1983 season, and he led the team to a 7-9 season.

The Dolphins won 14-0, and Walt Michaels took a job in the short-lived United States Football League. In a strike-shortened 1982 season, the Jets finished 6-3 and upset the defending AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals in the first round of the playoffs, followed by another upset of the Oakland Raiders in the second round. In the AFC Championship against the rival Miami Dolphins, Richard Todd's reputation of throwing costly interceptions came back to haunt him: he threw three. A late comeback in their first playoff game, against the Buffalo Bills, was stopped when Todd threw an interception deep in Bills territory in the final minute, and the Jets went home empty-handed. Finishing 10-5-1, the team made the playoffs for the first time since 1969 on Richard Todd's 3231 yards passing and 25 touchdowns, most of them to Wesley Walker and Jerome Barkum.

That 1981 season was the Jets' first winning season since joining the NFL. Mark Gastineau and Joe Klecko anchored the "New York Sack Exchange" and combined for more than 40 sacks by 1981. One of the Jets' bright spots in the late 1970s was their defensive line. Todd imploded with a 30-interception season in 1980 and the team went down with him, finishing 4-12 and last in the AFC East.

Richard Todd took over under center for the 1979 season and did even better, but the Jets again finished 8-8. The Jets were rejeuvenated for the 1978 season, with quarterback Matt Robinson throwing for 2000 yards and the team finishing 8-8. Namath left the Jets after the 1976 season, playing one year with the Los Angeles Rams before retiring. Walt Michaels was hired for the 1977 season and stayed with the team for six years. After a late-season surge to finish 7-7 in 1974, the Jets finished 3-11 each year until 1977.

The Jets went through three coaches for the next three seasons. After another disappointing season in 1973, coach Weeb Ewbank retired. Namath was back for the 1972 season, leading the team to a respectable 7-7. Another injury to Namath before the 1971 season submarined the Jets that year as well, with Bob Davis and Al Woodall leading the team to a 6-8 record.

In their first season after the merger, Joe Namath broke his wrist in October and had to sit out the rest of the year, with the Jets finishing 4-10. The Jets did not live up to expectations after the AFL and NFL merged in 1970. The Jets' first game in the NFL was also the first-ever Monday Night Football game, a 31-21 loss to the Cleveland Browns. This victory showed that the AFL was capable of competing with the NFL.

In the week leading up to Super Bowl III, Namath famously "guaranteed" a victory and the Jets went on to complete one of the greatest upsets in football history by defeating the Colts 16-7. At the time, the AFL was considered to be inferior to the NFL and most people considered the Jets to be heavy underdogs. They were pitted against the "best team in the NFL", the Baltimore Colts. Under Namath's guidance, the Jets rose to the top of the AFL and in 1969 represented that league in the Super Bowl.

In 1965, the Jets signed Alabama quarterback Joe Namath after the NFL passed on Namath in the amateur draft. When a group including Sonny Werblin bought the team from Harry Wismer in 1963, the team was re-named the New York Jets. The Jets began as the Titans of New York, a charter member of the American Football League in 1960. The team is also being courted by its current landlord, the New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority (NJSEA), to remain in the Meadowlands as part of plans to construct a new Giants Stadium.

It would also be the site of Super Bowl XLIV. The NYSCC West Side Stadium project in NYC, still under consideration, would expected to be the home of the Jets by 2010 if built. The New York Jets are a National Football League team that plays its home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey, but is based on Long Island. Johnny Johnson.

Johnny "Lam" Jones. Jeff Lageman. Dennis Byrd. Pat Leahy.

Aaron Glenn. Marvin Jones. Kyle Clifton. Wesley Walker.

Ken O'Brien. Lance Mehl. Freeman McNeil. Sonny Werblin.

Jim Turner. Al Toon. Vinny Testaverde. Bob Talamini.

Matt Snell. Mickey Shuler. George Sauer. Paul Rochester.

Gerry Philbin. Babe Parilli. Adrian Murrell. Erik McMillan.

Wahoo McDaniel. Bill Mathis. Ronnie Lott. Mo Lewis.

Joe Klecko. Keyshawn Johnson. Winston Hill. James Hasty.

Larry Grantham. Mark Gastineau. Boomer Esiason. Verlon Biggs.

Randy Beverly. 73 Joe Klecko. 13 Don Maynard. 12 Joe Namath.

Erik Coleman. John McGraw. Shaun Ellis. Justin McCareins.

Eric Barton. Jonathan Vilma. Chad Pennington. Laveranues Coles.

Kevin Mawae. Curtis Martin. Jay Fiedler. Wayne Chrebet.

John Abraham. Ronnie Lott. John Riggins. Joe Namath.

Don Maynard. Weeb Ewbank.