Erik Boland: Inside the Jets

By Tom Rock

Walt Michaels is being honored by the Browns at halftime today, and we had the chance to catch up with the former Jets coach before the game. He seemed very excited to be remembered and was very friendly. He just turned 77 and said he still follows the Jets and like the young coach (though he alternated his pronunciation between Mancini and Man-eenie). He also thinks Chad is a QB who can take a team to a Super Bowl if he stays healthy.

Inactives for today are pretty much the standard by-standers. Cedric Houston is still on the sideline. CB David Barrett is active for the first time in a while. FB James Hodgins will sit after playing last week. Anthony Schlegel is still inactive.

Uniform update: Jets are going green pants with white jerseys. Brownies go white pants and brown tops.

Thanks to Zog for filling in on the blog. Being down on the field before the game, the wind was a little breezy but not as bad as it was in Cleveland yesterday (or in NY for that matter). I don’t think the wind will have that much effect on the kicking game. Though there is a huge windmill in one corner of the stadium and it spins pretty hard, I think that’s more of a psyche job, like when baseball teams inflate their pitchers’ mphs or amplify the pop in a bullpen catcher’s mitt.

Went to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday evening after flying in on Saturday afternoon. It was a pretty cool place, but it closed at 5:30 p.m. and we only got there around 4:45. So we ran through the exhibits and saw everything while absorbing little. I was pretty disappointed that the place closed at 5:30 on a Saturday night. That’s a little more adult contemporary than rock n roll if you ask me. It would be more appropriate if the place OPENED at 5:30 on a Saturday night and didn’t close until the next morning. As the woman at the desk told us, all of the museums in major cities close around 5:30. Hmm.