Aaron Glenn has brought hope back to the Jets
NY Post
The depression has lifted.
That has been my first impression of Aaron Glenn’s effect on the Jets since he accepted the head coaching job Wednesday.
No one knows if Glenn will be a good head coach. Woody Johnson does not know. Mike Tannenbaum does not know. Media members do not know. Fans do not know. No one knows. There are so many variables that go into whether a head coach is successful.
But here is what we do know: Glenn has brought hope back to the Jets.
This was near the end of a magnificent American life, and he’d been battling lung and prostate cancer for some time, but Pee Wee Reese was absolutely going to get in the car and make the drive from Louisville to Kansas City. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was honoring his dear friend Jackie Robinson, and Reese knew that meant seeing so many friends from the old days.
The pity is, at this point, the greatness we are watching in real time is threatened every week to be reduced to a footnote. We are witnesses to history, to the rarest form of extended success in a time of professional sport that’s supposed to be ruled by parity. But every year we have to deal with something else first.