They couldn’t have known at the time it would be the franchise’s last trip to the Super Bowl for at least 50 years, but the 1968 Jets certainly cherished it like it might be.
Being 18-point underdogs will do that. The Jets entered Super Bowl III against the heavily-favored Colts and lived up to Joe Namath’s guarantee, winning 16-7 at the Orange Bowl in Miami. On Saturday night at MetLife Stadium, many of them were back in the same building to celebrate the championship again.
“For 10 days or more, we’d been hearing and being told that we were underdogs — big underdogs,” Namath said Saturday before enjoying the anniversary dinner with his teammates.