Have the Jets ever felt like a real rival?

[Thrivefourfive]

1 hour ago, Sierra Foothills said:

John Fogerty should sing a song about this.

 

He’d be more qualified to do this than sing southern rock, which isn’t saying much. But he played the part well, that’s for sure. 

[Sierra Foothills]

1 hour ago, Sierra Foothills said:

John Fogerty should sing a song about this.

 

21 minutes ago, chris heff said:

Benny And The Jets?

 

🎵 "I wanna know... have they ever been a rival... comin' down Sun-day..." 🎵

 

4 minutes ago, Thrivefourfive said:

He’d be more qualified to do this than sing southern rock, which isn’t saying much. But he played the part well, that’s for sure. 

 

I'm not gonna debate you but do you consider CCR to be Southern Rock?

 

Edited September 11 by Sierra Foothills

[Thrivefourfive]

3 minutes ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

 

🎵 "I wanna know... have they ever been a rival... comin' down Sun-day..." 🎵

 

I'm not gonna debate you but do you consider CCR to be Southern Rock?

 

No debate from me. They’re Godfathers. But he ain’t even from there.. which always trips me out.

 

Edited September 11 by Thrivefourfive

[Sierra Foothills]

1 minute ago, Thrivefourfive said:

No debate from me. They’re Godfathers. But he ain’t even from there.. which always trips me out.

 

 

Yes, El Cerrito, CA which isn't too far from me.

 

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is an interesting place...

 

When I lived in WNY I used to say that some parts of North Collins aren't that different than some parts of North Carolina.

 

[The Jokeman]

1 hour ago, BillsPride12 said:

Only when I was in college at UB because of how many obnoxious Long Islanders and Jets fans that went to school there

When I was at UB (Fall of 1996-2000) I'd run into them in class and call them all "City Folk" due to how much they loved "The City". I even remember getting a  letter published in the The Spectrum to offer up my opinion about them. 

[KentuckyBillsFan]

The Bills/Jets series is much more competitive right now than the Bills and the sorry ass Dolphins

[Sierra Foothills]

On 9/11/2025 at 5:16 AM, BillsPride12 said:

Only when I was in college at UB because of how many obnoxious Long Islanders and Jets fans that went to school there

 

On 9/11/2025 at 6:21 AM, The Jokeman said:

When I was at UB (Fall of 1996-2000) I'd run into them in class and call them all "City Folk" due to how much they loved "The City". I even remember getting a  letter published in the The Spectrum to offer up my opinion about them. 

 

I attended SUNY schools and Long Islanders were everywhere... often heard before seen.

 

The ones from Nassau County are particularly obnoxious.

 

Culturally they're confused in that they've become so self-parodic that they don't even know how to act... they're like caricatures lampooning as stereotypes... self-perpetuating satires... they're mockeries of real New Yorkers in the same way that Orcs are bastardizations of Elves. 😆

 

I'm exaggerating a bit of course... one of my dearest friends is a Nassau County Long Islander.

 

 

Edited September 12 by Sierra Foothills

[Gregg]

2 minutes ago, KentuckyBillsFan said:

The Bills/Jets series is much more competitive right now than the Bills and the sorry ass Dolphins

 

I don't know about that. The Bills and Dolphins have met in the playoffs recently and they did battle for the division on that final game of the year in Miami not that long ago. The problem with the Bills and Jets rivalry is both teams are rarely good at the same time. Only one playoff game between them and that was the 1981 WC game at Shea. 

[SoTier]

The Jests are annoying pests rather than true rivals, primarily because except for the years under Parcells in the late 1990s and then Ryan for a couple of seasons, they've been pretty pathetic for pretty much the last four decades.    As others have posted, their fans OTOH, are easy to hate.

 

 

[NoHuddleKelly12]

Whilst never worried about them threatening to take the division away from us, I do have a healthy respect for the difficulties they’ve presented on defense against us, always seems to be an ugly slugfest and I just want to make sure we get out of this one injury-free. So yes, a rivalry in that sense for sure. 

[Gregg]

1 minute ago, SoTier said:

The Jests are annoying pests rather than true rivals, primarily because except for the years under Parcells in the late 1990s and then Ryan for a couple of seasons, they've been pretty pathetic for pretty much the last four decades.    As others have posted, their fans OTOH, are easy to hate.

 

 

 

Agree. I think if you asked Bills fans to name the Bills top rivals most would have the Jets at #3. I am keeping this in the division, so I am not counting the Chiefs or Ravens who are right now the Bills top conference rivals. Older Bills fans who remember the 70's and the 20-game losing streak as well as the battles with Kelly-Marino would list the Dolphins as the #1 rival. Younger fans would probably have the Pats #1 because of all of the losses (many were blowout losses) during the Bill and Tom era.

[TheyCallMeAndy]

49 minutes ago, Gregg said:

Any fanbase that is led by this clown deserves to be hated.

 

 

Yeah because we definitely don't have the equivalent lol

 

Jets have never been the main antagonist, but they have been worthy opponents. 

[chris heff]

40 minutes ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

 

🎵 "I wanna know... have they ever been a rival... comin' down Sun-day..." 🎵

 

 

I'm not gonna debate you but do you consider CCR to be Southern Rock?

 

 🎵 "I wanna know... have they ever been a rival... comin' down Sun-day..." 🎵 Bebebe Benny and the Jets!

[bmur66]

The only good thing I can say about them is that I like to watch their fans boo their first-round pic every draft day no matter who it is.

Edited September 11 by bmur66

[BillsPride12]

Here's a fun clip that gets into the Bills Jets fan rivalry/UB connection(starts around 1:45)

 

 

 

[chris heff]

33 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

When I was at UB (Fall of 1996-2000) I'd run into them in class and call them all "City Folk" due to how much they loved "The City". I even remember getting a  letter published in the The Spectrum to offer up my opinion about them. 

I lived in NYC for a number of years of years, also spent summers and then lived for a few years in the Hamptons. New Yorkers have a right to love that City, it is a microcosm of who we are. The Borough of Queens is the most diverse place on the planet. When I first moved to NYC a Cab driver asked me how long I’d been in New York, I told him a few months, he said “when you’ve lived here for six months you’re a New Yorker, welcome to The City, good luck.”  Today especially, fandom aside, let’s show some love and respect. 
 

 

[SoMAn]

2 hours ago, T.E. said:

Their fans are, by far, the worst of any team in the division, so there's that.

 

When you meet NYers/people from NJ, you can usually tell who they root for by their personality:

 

Classy, friendly = Giants fan

Obnoxious, douchebaggy = Jets fan

 

That stereotype almost never fails.

I don't usually feel animosity or hate towards public figures or others whom I only know through media, but I'd like to hit that obnoxious A hole Fireman Ed with a water hose from a hydrant and then run him over with the ladder truck. 

Nothing wrong with being an enthusiastic fan, but that guy gives off a vibe like he wants the whole stadium crowd to focus on him and his massive ego.  Such a D-bag. 

The way he carries on, you'd think the Jets, (winners of a grand total of 3 division titles since the AFL-NFL merger, 55 seasons!), were some celebrated juggernaut with a trophy case full of Lombardis. 

 

F him.

 

[Livinginthepast]

I never really hated the Jets as a Bills rival. That was always Miami until the Pats eclipsed them for 20 years. There have been a few games vs the Jets that have peaked my disgust at them (or at the Bills for losing to them). One of them was this one from 2002 when we got to see Eddie Robinson get faked out of his shoes by Chad Pennington (which basically signaled the end of him as a quality player).  The second was the JP Losman fumble and return for a TD in 2008 which also epitomized his career in Buffalo. Its nice that the Bills success has made the drought years debacles fade away!

 

 

[US Egg]

It was Joe "Willie" Namath who really opened my kid eyes to the excitement of the NFL. Guess that makes me a bit of a Jets fan

[ChronicAndKnuckles]

2 hours ago, Another Fan said:

I mean there’s the whole New York name thing.

 

But it seems historically only the early 80s and late 90s are the times they were good at the same time.  The 81 Playoff game the only post season match up.

 

They haven’t exactly been much a threat during the Josh Allen era.  Even

in the Super Bowl years the Bills won something like 12 games in a row against them.  It was like a huge deal for the Jets when they beat them in 92’ I think to break that streak.  The week after the Dennis Byrd incident.

 

 

Historically the Bills have had more success vs the Jets then Miami and New England 

I grew up in Rochester, but spent the other half of my life in NYC and the tristate. The Jets were absolutely my most hated rival only because I had to deal with their fans on the daily. Since they sucked it’s been kind of hard to hate them. Sometimes I’ll even catch myself rooting for them just because I know what it’s like being a fan of such a dysfunctional franchise. Currently, I look at the other top AFC teams as the biggest competition. Chiefs are number 1 by a landslide followed by Ravens and Bengals.