New York Jets

New York Jets
Current season
Established August 14, 1959; 64 years ago (August 14, 1959)[1] First season: 1960 Play in MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, New Jersey Headquartered in the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center Florham Park, New Jersey[2]
Logo Wordmark
League/conference affiliations
American Football League (1960–1969) Eastern Division (1960–1969) National Football League (1970–present) American Football Conference (1970–present) AFC East (1970–present)
Current uniform
Team colors	Green, white, black[3][4][5]
Website	newyorkjets.com
Personnel
Owner(s)	Woody and Christopher Johnson
Chairman	Woody Johnson
CEO	Woody Johnson
President	Hymie Elhai
General manager	Joe Douglas
Head coach	Robert Saleh
Team history
Titans of New York (1960–1962) New York Jets (1963–present)
Team nicknames
Gang Green
Championships
League championships (1†) AFL championships (pre-1970 AFL–NFL merger) (1) 1968 Super Bowl championships (1) 1968 (III)
Conference championships (0)
Division championships (4) AFL East: 1968, 1969 AFC East: 1998, 2002 † – Does not include AFL championship won the same season as Super Bowl
Playoff appearances (14)
AFL: 1968, 1969 NFL: 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010
Home fields
Polo Grounds (1960–1963) Shea Stadium (1964–1983) Giants Stadium (1984–2009) MetLife Stadium (2010–present)

The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The Jets play their home games at MetLife Stadium (which they share with the New York Giants) in East Rutherford, New Jersey, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of New York City. The team is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. The franchise is legally organized as a limited liability company under the name New York Jets, LLC.^[6]

The team was founded in 1959 as the Titans of New York, a charter member of the American Football League (AFL); the franchise joined the NFL in the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The team began play in 1960 at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan, the former home of the football and baseball Giants. Under new ownership, the current name was adopted in 1963 and the franchise moved to Shea Stadium in Queens in 1964, then to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey in 1984. The team's training facility was located at Hofstra University on Long Island until 2008, when the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center^[7] opened in Florham Park.^[8].

The Jets advanced to the AFL playoffs for the first time in 1968 and went on to compete in Super Bowl III where they defeated the Baltimore Colts, becoming the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game.^[9] However, the Jets have never returned to the Super Bowl, making them one of two NFL teams to win their lone Super Bowl appearance along with the New Orleans Saints, and one of five teams (along with the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans) never to win a conference championship since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. During that time the Jets have won the AFC Eastern Division only twice, in 1998 and 2002, the fewest division titles among NFL teams in the post-merger era. They have qualified for the postseason 12 times, and reached the AFC Championship Game four times, most recently losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010.^[10] The Jets have not qualified for the playoffs since then, and currently hold the longest active playoff drought in the NFL and in all "Big 4" North American sports leagues.^[11] The Jets also have the longest championship drought among New York's major professional sports franchises, having eclipsed the New York Rangers' 54-year drought (from 1940 to 1994) in 2023.