Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept.
They are the Sunshine Boys of the Jets, in more ways than one.
First, because they are on the wrong side of 30, old in NFL terms. Second, because they are having the time of their football lives, helping brighten the mood in what might must be among the most cheerful locker rooms in the league.
So there were no two bigger smiles in the visiting dressing room at AT&T Stadium Saturday night than those of Ryan Fitzpatrick and Brandon Marshall, two guys with a decade or more in the league and not a playoff berth between them.