[JetNation]

For Woody Johnson, the coin flip flap of the past several days was already yesterday's news."I'm done with that and moving forward," the Jets owner said Wednesday, in an exclusive interview with newyorkjets.com, on the question of the coin toss that he wanted to see decide whether the Jets or Giants got that first regular-season home game at the New Meadowlands Stadium in September....

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[Max]

Did the Jets delete a Woody Johnson article? We get these through their RSS feed after the article is published. Yet when you click on more you get a page not found error.

Did this get deleted? If so, why?

[faba]

Woodygate

[faba]

I think Mara will smooth things over the other owners if pissed and the new stadium wiill host a Super Bowl- the biggest media market will not be passed up IMO>

[Max]

The original title was: Woody's Passion Is Showing This Offseason

This is weird. I meant to check out the article yesterday when it came out. Because my first reaction was wow the Jets PR people are going over the top. Yes Woody's ego is bruised and yes he is taking some shots that are unfair. He is a soft target. The PSL fiasco rolls over and he has to deal with that no doubt.

But to write fluff pieces about him is just wrong. I think it is odd that they published one and then pulled it back after the fact (assuming that is what happened here, I am not sure).

[Max]

Did The NY Jets Delete A Woody Johnson Article?

March 19, 2010 · Print This Article

We receive notifications from the New York Jets every time they publish a new article via their RSS feed. Yesterday we received this notification that a new article had been published:

Woody’s Passion Is Showing This Offseason
For Woody Johnson, the coin flip flap of the past several days was already yesterday’s news.”I’m done with that and moving forward,” the Jets owner said Wednesday, in an exclusive interview with newyorkjets.com, on the question of the coin toss that he wanted to see decide whether the Jets or Giants got that first regular-season home game at the New Meadowlands Stadium in September….more

Yet when you click on more what you get is:
PAGE NOT FOUND

I tried using the search feature on NYJets.com and this was the result:
No results for “Woody’s Passion Is Showing This Offseason”. Perhaps try the following:

• Check spelling
  
• Try different keywords
  
• Try a more general keyword

Which leads me to my question, did the New York Jets write a fluff piece about Woody Johnson and then delete it? If so, why would they do that? Woody has received criticism lately for the coin toss issue. The new stadium is not sold out due in large part to the high ticket prices and personal seat licenses. Is Woody on edge?

I know this seems like a minor point but they took the time to write the article. They took the time to get it approved and published. Then they decide to delete it after the notification goes out, this is odd. Woody is having a rough year and we know that he receives more criticism than he probably deserves. Most of it stems from the cost of seeing a Jets game in person. The fan base is thrilled with the product on the field. Yet Woody and his P.R. guys seem unable to get out of their own way.

We asked the Jets on twitter what the deal was but we have not heard back as of yet.

@nyjets Hey Randy did you guys delete this Woody Johnson article? http://bit.ly/906OzZ If so, why? Thanks.

As we receive updates we will post them here.

[aec4]

Max said:

Did the Jets delete a Woody Johnson article? We get these through their RSS feed after the article is published. Yet when you click on more you get a page not found error.

Did this get deleted? If so, why?

part of his deal toget the 7pm MNF game on 9/13 and the 8:20pm turkey day game?

[burf]

Yes... it was removed.
Using Google's cache... the article is here, for now:
http://74.125.47.132...n&ct=clnk&gl=us
Of course, once Google updates it's cache, it'll be gone... so, here ya go...

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Woody's Passion Is Showing This Offseason
By Randy Lange Editor-in-Chief
Published: 03-18-10

For Woody Johnson, the coin flip flap of the past several days was already yesterday's news.
"I'm done with that and moving forward," the Jets owner said Wednesday, in an exclusive interview with newyorkjets.com, on the question of the coin toss that he wanted to see decide whether the Jets or Giants got that first regular-season home game at the New Meadowlands Stadium in September. "I would say it was a disagreement over the process and that was it."
But Johnson's role in the debate over that prize game speaks to the passion he brings to his job as the Jets' chairman and CEO. He does it for his team, for the fans, for his principles. Some still seem to think Robert Wood Johnson IV is Mr. Nice Guy. Well, he is a nice guy, but as he begins his second decade as the Jets' owner, he continues to come out swinging when he feels the need.
"I've been fighting for 10 years," Johnson said. "We're going to fight hard. We fought hard for the stadium. We fight hard to win every year. And there are lots of decisions the public doesn't know about that are difficult and confrontational.
"I'm extremely passionate about it."
Moving forward, Johnson's passion now takes him back for a while to the day-to-day business of this most important offseason in Jets history. Important because it's the next offseason, of course. Yet with the memory of January's AFC Championship Game appearance still fresh and the opening of the new stadium now less than a half year away, Woody is enjoying the process, along with general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Rex Ryan, of prepping the Jets to attack the 2010 season.
"We've Made the Team Better"
"I think Mike's done a great job of doing what he does, which is being resourceful and looking for players that fit our team and our coaching staff and our objectives at each position," said Johnson of Tannenbaum and company's transactions so far, with the list topped by Sunday's signing of legendary tailback LaDainian Tomlinson and last week's trade for cornerback Antonio Cromartie.
"He and his scouting staff are to be commended for getting things done. These deals are never easy to do, they're never easy.
"And we're under a very difficult set of rules, 'the Final Four,' " he said, referring not to his bracket sheet but to the unrestricted free agency signing restrictions placed on the four conference championship teams in this uncapped year. "So I think, especially in that way, it looks like we've made the team better."
Johnson is understatedly eager to see what Tomlinson has left in his tank. He thinks it's more full than a lot of NFL experts think.
"LaDainian is pretty much a household name — a long name, but a household name," he said playfully. "People know who he is because of what he's done and the kind of person he is. He's a humble person who is a Hall of Famer. We thought it was a good mix for our team because of his experience in the league, with our system, and what he's able to do for a young quarterback like Mark Sanchez. This could work out to be a very good system for him. We're a running offense. This is what we do."
As for TJ going to KC, opening the doors for LT to leave SD for NYC, Johnson took the same high-road approach as Tannenbaum did on his Tuesday conference call with reporters.
"I'm really not going to comment on Thomas Jones, other than to thank him, which we tried to do probably not sufficiently, for the tremendous leadership and production he had here," the owner said. "We were very lucky to have had Thomas in our building and playing for us. It was really an honor for us."
That honor was underscored, if you didn't hear about it, by the Jets purchasing a full-page ad in Sunday's Kansas City Star thanking Jones for his three years of service.
A Decade-Long Apprenticeship
Woody didn't go through his roster, but he's excited to see what Year Two of Ryan as his coach and Sanchez as his QB can do. On Leon Washington, the boss said, "We fully expect him to be back and be in Leon Washington form." His Jets defense is looking to go from being merely the consensus No. 1 unit in the NFL to being the kind of dominant D that comes along once in a decade.
And they'll be doing it in a shining football fortress, one of the NFL's new crown-jewel stadiums. That's a lot to process, if you think about it all at once.
"I can tell you I'm just grateful to all the people who've been involved in building the stadium," Johnson said. "It's been 10 years of work. Many, many people have been involved in that. I thank them for that hard work. And being able to work with the Giants, the Tisches and the Maras, it wouldn't have gotten done without them.
"And it's been an apprenticeship for me for 10 years — I think it is for every owner in terms of learning better what it takes to put a team together, a successful team on the field," he said thoughtfully. "The type of coaching staff and football leadership we've got now with Mike and Rex, our great coordinators and coaching staff, that's really a positive."
Just how positive that is, said Johnson, shows up in the players. And despite the comings and goings on every team at this time of year, the Jets still have the look that says last year's finish was no fluke.
"You don't see a lot of weaknesses here," Johnson said. "We've got a lot of potential. A lot of guys have their arrows pointed up. But we have veterans, too, and you need that perspective. So I'm passionate about it and always hopeful. I don't ever go into a season thinking we're going to lose any games.
"And this season," said the owner with just a hint of that fighter's edge of his, "will be done different."

[Max]

Thank you burf!

[HessStation]

I went from being down on Woody since the West Side Stadium fell through to being a HUGE fan. The guy just lost his daughter too. Probably a little emotional with good reason. The fact that he showed to give a **** about his football franchise gets a big thumbs up from me!!!

Keep on witcha bad-self Woody. You da man!

[burf]

Happy to help ya.
Reading it, I suspect it may've been this line, that caused Jets PR to pull it...

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"LaDainian is pretty much a household name — a long name, but a household name," he said playfully.

In these days of political correctness, maybe someone *could* interpret it with racial overtones.
Who knows ;)

[BP]

He looked like a whining crybaby...lmao..thats why they deleted it. both teams being home on opening day is fair. whats the big ****ing deal? hes an a hole.

[Klecko73isGod]

BP said:

He looked like a whining crybaby...lmao..thats why they deleted it. both teams being home on opening day is fair. whats the big ****ing deal? hes an a hole.

Did someone who works for the Jets kick your dog or something?

[BP]

Klecko73isGod said:

Did someone who works for the Jets kick your dog or something?

I did a search of my last 20 posts..lol..and guess who is the first one to reply to all of them?

Are you gay?

[aec4]

BP said:

He looked like a whining crybaby...lmao..thats why they deleted it. both teams being home on opening day is fair. whats the big ****ing deal? hes an a hole.

the irony of you calling someone an a-hole is just amazing.

[Klecko73isGod]

BP said:

I did a search of my last 20 posts..lol..and guess who is the first one to reply to all of them?

Are you gay?

Funny, based on this outlandish claim I did a search of your last 20 posts and found you to be dead wrong.

When did you become such an angry guy? I don't remember you being this angry on JI.

[BP]

aec4 said:

the irony of you calling someone an a-hole is just amazing.

Hahaha! Im gonna bump that thread again ;)

[aec4]

BP said:

Hahaha! Im gonna bump that thread again ;)

Doesn't change the irony any.... and I could care less. I'll bump it monthly if you'd like.

[BP]

aec4 said:

Doesn't change the irony any.... and I could care less. I'll bump it monthly if you'd like.

My game plan is to go from JN's best Mod (2 consecutive award winning years) to the most hated despised Mod/Poster on this forum.

You being a former athlete would understand all about that

:rl:

[Max]

BP said:

My game plan is to go from JN's best Mod (2 consecutive award winning years) to the most hated despised Mod/Poster on this forum.

You being a former athlete would understand all about that

:rl:

Not for nothing BP but this is not the first thread you have ruined with this crap. Just because we are friends doesn't mean you can just litter this board with your hate and garbage posts.

Grow up.