Thursday, August 7, 2008

Favre-mania in Jets Nation

News Talk Radio 77 WABC-AM is touting itself in promos as the "new home of Brett Favre and the New York Jets."

WABC IS THE OFFICIAL HOME OF THE NEW YORK JETS!
J - E - T - S..... JETS! JETS! JETS!

WABC is the flagship station of the New York Jets..........so now you can tune into 77WABC before, during and after every Jets game!!!

Randy Lange of newyorkjets.com writes:
A friend of mine and I back in my former life as a newspaper journalist used to have an exclamation for a situation that cried out for something more that a simple "Wow!" We would say, "This ... was a Wa-OOH!"

Today in Jets lands it's a Wa-OOH.

The trade for QB Brett Favre has made my morning incredibly interesting. The crush of new and old interest in No. 4 and the Jets has been off the charts. I know we've been getting 100,000-plus visitors to our site every hour, and that was before the sun came up. Now I can only imagine.

...I'll be working all day to try to clear the decks of all comments before I head the short distance from the team hotel to Cleveland Browns Stadium for tonight's preseason opener.

Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. but at 6 p.m. the Jets will hold a news conference featuring Jets chairman and CEO Woody Johnson, GM Mike Tannenbaum ... and Favre.

I can also tell you that things will pick up once the Jets return home to training camp. Jets Fest and Jets Shop at Hofstra, which were originally scheduled to be dark Friday on the players' day off after the Browns game, will now be open from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Then on Saturday (single practice) and Sunday (double practice), Jets Fest and Jets Shop will both be open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

That's another Wa-OOH. One of many more to come, I suspect.

From here in Packers land it's no "Wa-OOH!" It's more of a "D'OH!"

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