After a brief bit flying jets, my career turned to flying spy satellites, then to a remote surveillance site, and finally defending Canada and the United States from Soviet attack at NORAD (command post in the mountain).

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He left the offense mostly to former coordinator Brian Schottenheimer, but got involved a bit during Schottenheimer's last season with the Jets in 2011.

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He said New York offered him "a little bit of an internship" in which he could work with the Jets' quarterbacks in Cortland, N.

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In fact, the current histrionics, in a way, seem a bit akin to Y2K, when we were warned for months about jets falling out of the sky and uncooperative ATMs. Yet the worst things that happened come January 1, 2000, were perhaps some stubborn hangovers.

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Selling a few more cold beers or team caps may not recoup the revenue that Jets owner Woody Johnson lost out on by not selling all his PSLs, but every little bit counts.

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