Sam Darnold, the quarterback the Jets picked first in the draft, comes from the rough world of football.
On Saturday he found himself in the usually genteel but sometimes raucous confines of the golf at the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. He was in the company of another first-round draft pick, fellow quarterback Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills.
And pretty quickly he found out what it was like to be a high-profile athlete in New York. As Peter Uihlein was making his backswing on the fourth hole, some fans in the gallery chanted “Jets, Jets, Jets,” egged on by Allen.