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JET’S DISASTER: How the Jets’ Bizarre Kicking Fiasco Highlights the Team’s Laughable and Unforgettable Season.Cau

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.Spencer Shrader attempts a field goal during the Jets' loss to the Cardinals. ET

Spencer Shrader attempts a field goal during the Jets’ loss to the Cardinals.AP

Normally this is where you’d hitch a ride with me down memory lane.

Jets-Colts? Are you kidding me? By now I’d have written a sonnet to Matt Snell, and added a snide remark about how open Jimmy Orr still is.

I’d be piecing together an ode to that classic Namath-Unitas matchup in ’72, the day the two of them combined for 872 passing yards and eight touchdowns (496 and six for Joe Willie) in a 44-34 Jets win at old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.