THE HISTORY OF JETSINSIDER.COM

The history of JETSINSIDER began as an avid Jets fan in childhood. I have always enjoyed chatting up Gang Green with fellow fans. Whether at the game or the neighborhood tavern, there was never a shortage of Jets fans to either revel in a big victory or commiserate about a stunning loss.

But when the games ended, and the pubs closed, I felt there was no other outlet for my brethren and me to express our pleasure or displeasure with the team. Then I had a brainstorm.

In the summer of 1999, soon after purchasing a new computer, I surfed the web for sites where Jets fans could interact. Sadly, they were few and far between, and nothing of real substance existed. I was determined to change that.

Not being the most computer-savvy guy on the block, I stumbled across an idiot-proof web design program on my computer called Microsoft Publisher. After several hours of tinkering on one rainy Sunday and a quick visit to Network Solutions for a domain name registration, Jets Insider.com was born as a homepage with an accompanying free-ware messageboard.

Since our meager beginnings, JetsInsider.com quickly became the most popular NY Jets Fansite online, primarily due to word of mouth. JetsInsider.com averaged over 40 million page views and over 300,000 unique visitors.

Our fan forum, The Landing Strip, was possibly the busiest sports fan messageboard on the Net in the early 2020s, regularly exceeding 1,000 daily posts.

Many have tried to copy JI over the years, but we have remained the top Jets Fan website on the Internet. We are also the only fan website fully credentialed by the Jets and the NFL… and we are very proud of that.

Despite our popularity, we’re still a work in progress, and like Todd Bowles, we’re determined to get better.

From insider columns to fan-submitted stories to streaming audio/video, JetsInsider.com is your No. 1 source for getting up close and personal with your favorite NFL team. Unlike most fan sites, Jets Insider.com has inside access to the players and coaches, so keep logging on for behind-the-scenes coverage.

We aim to be the “Premier NY Jets Fansite” and the true “Voice Of The NY Jets Fan.” We have also created a place where Jets fans from Hempstead to Hamburg can interact with each other.

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As a fan-based site, we can’t cover the team like the daily newspapers, nor do we want to, but we are constantly striving to provide fun, unique, and exclusive features that you won’t find anywhere else.

The site has been rebuilt several times over the years, with the most recent design developed by Incognito Worldwide and hosted by I2WEBSERVICES.com. 

Over the years, with the rise of public forums and social media platforms, private forums became less relevant, so we retired the original Landing Strip and replaced it so that members still had a private place to go; however, many now have shifted to our Facebook page, where we have nearly 10,000 followers.

In closing, we are always looking for Jets fans to contribute their talents to the site, so if you would like to help the JetsInsider.com team grow, please get in touch.

Thanks for visiting. Please come back often! Go Jets!

Warm regards,

SEAN M. DEEGAN
Founder: 1999 

and

CHRIS NIMBLEY
Owner & Publisher since 2019

Early history (1997—2002)

American football evolved from the sports of association football (soccer) and rugby football. Rugby football, like American football, is a sport where two competing teams vie for control of a ball, which can be kicked through a set of goalposts or run into the opponent’s goal area to score points. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6, 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams.

The professional era (2008—2013)

On November 12, 1892, when William “Pudge” Heffelfinger was paid $500 to play a game for the Allegheny Athletic Association in a match against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. This is the first recorded instance of a player being paid to participate in a game of American football, although many athletic clubs in the 1880s offered indirect benefits, such as helping players attain employment, giving out trophies or watches.

A set of rule changes drawn up from 1880 onward by Walter Camp, the “Father of American Football”, established the snap, eleven-player teams, and the concept of downs; later rule changes legalized the forward pass, created the neutral zone, and specified the size and shape of the football.

American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States; professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football.

Evolution of the game (2002—2008)

The introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position. However, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records.

2016
Canada participates in the first Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba
American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States; professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually.
2013
The Canadian Men’s National Team is named the Team of the Year
The term "football" was officially established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season, when the sport first shifted from soccer-style rules to rugby-style rules; although it could easily have been called "rugby" at this point, Harvard, one of the primary proponents of the rugby-style game.
2008
Canada successfully hosts the Women’s World Championship in Toronto, Ontario
In the United States, American football is referred to as "football. In English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, the terms "gridiron" or "American football" are favored instead.
2002
The Canadian Men’s National Team is named the Team of the Year
What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6, 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams. The game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried.

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