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Before Namath, before the Heidi Game, before the guaranteed Super Bowl victory, there were the New York Titans. Remember the Titans? They played to meager crowds and mediocre results in the decrepit Polo Grounds. The organization, a charter member of the American Football League in 1960, was in constant danger…


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As I was preparing to write my own book in 2016, I felt it was incumbent on me to discover the history of the New York Jets’ franchise before new ownership acquired the team in 1963. The team’s first three seasons–1960 to 1962–occurred under a different name, the New York Titans.

I knew nearly nothing about the situations that drove the Titan's finances into the ground, and I needed and wanted to understand what had happened as the foundation of my work. This book is the sole report on those forgotten three years.

From Bob's list on my all-time favorite sports books.

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