The moniker of the football club in San Francisco is the 49ers, a truncated version of “Miner 49ers,” a nod to the gold rush of 1849. And this year they’ve been playing like they still live in 1849, not 1949, the year they first joined the NFL.
But the New York Jets have also been setting football back to other eras, epochs, and centuries. So it’s only fitting that both clubs played to a draw after four quarters on Sunday.
While most, functional football teams can take the Niners for granted, the Jets are so bad you’d be hard-pressed to know which team went 10-6 last season, and was supposed to be a bit better this season.