A bizarre quarterback history

[Verde]

Smizzy, I read that article last Sunday.
I have to admit, I laughed my bippee off!

Wrist wrestling?!

[John Eddie "J.J." Jones]

Originally Posted by R44

Speaking of QB's in Jets history, does anybody remember this obscure QB from the mid 1970's?




I hadn't started watching football when J.J Jones played in 1975, so I had no idea who he was, but I was a little suprised when I saw his football card a while back.

Jets, actually, where one of the first teams in NFL history to play a black quarterback and he's completely forgotten?

Maybe Cannizarro or some other scribe will read this and start a Sunday feature story: What ever happened to J.J Jones?


Ouch, that's an ugly completion percentage: http://www.pro-football-reference.co...s/JoneJ.00.htm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Answer to "Where Is J. J. Jones Now?"

Thank you JetNation.com for the interest that has been taken to find out what happened to John "J.J." Jones. I am alive and well and still involved in minority business and community development activities around the world, as you can see from the news and information attachments below found at my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee’s The Mid South Tribune Newspaper’s web site www.blackinformationhighway.com.


As far as my football career is concerned, I forfeited it when I shared with the New York media and the whole world the private words told me by new Head Coach Lou Holtz that He had never had a Black Quarterback play for him that and he never would. I left New York City headed for the Calgary Stampeders Canadian Football League Team to replace their Quarterback Joe Pisarchek just one week before General Manager Andy Robistelli of the New York Giants called for me to come play Quarterback for him with the Giants. So, you know the infamous history of that story of Joe "P" and the Philadelphia Eagles’ last play of the game fumble return for a touchdown that took Joe "P" to Philly.

In any case, my sports career reward can be summed up in a statement made by National Football League Hall of Fame Quarterback Warren Moon when he gave credit to former Los Angeles Rams Quarterback "James Harris" and a "couple of others" for his being able to play Quarterback in the NFL. I met Warren Moon when he visited Mount Zion my church home in Seattle and I told him I was one of those "couple of others!" The other Black Quarterback pioneer in the National Football League was the Late "Jefferson Street" Joe Gilliam from Tennessee State University, which by the way was one of only three National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football teams in 1973 that was undefeated and untied. I was Quarterback for the 1973 undefeated untied Fisk University Bulldogs located on that same "Jefferson Street" in Nashville, Tennessee.

I gave up my professional football career in the National Football League so that other African American Quarterback/Athletes that followed me from the likes of Doug Williams, Randle Cunningham, Rodney Peete to Vince Young and even Mike Vick could a real chance to play QB in the NFL like, the only man to win championships in the old American Football League and the National Football League, Weeb Ewbanks gave me with the New York Jets. Weeb was like a father, who in-fact died just two days after my Father Negro National Baseball League Memphis Red Sox Catcher Clinton "Casey" Jones.

Find at: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/BIH%20Lanes.htm
And:
http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/JP%20Morgan%20Letter.htm
and: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Fed%20$200%20Bil%20letter.htm
and: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Kerry%20Millions%20Small%20Business.htm
and: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Editorial%20Fed%20Reserve%20Mandamus.htm
and: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Federal%20Reserve%20Complaint.htmand: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Banking%20Letter%20of%20Protest.htm

Best regards,
John Eddie "J.J." Jones, Second Vice President
Pacific Northwest Chapter National Black Chamber of Commerce
Pacific Rim Development Group LLC
Housing, Development and Construction Management Services
University Place, Washington 98467
jjjones3333@msn.com;

[Thor99]

Thanks for replying. I'm glad all seems to be well for you.

[JonEJet]

Wow

Thank you very much for replying

Suprised (I guess not suprised) to hear that story about Lou Holtz

I know of your father as well

Thank you and be well

[gg]

thank you for telling us your story. i actually have or had your card. A year or so ago, i found my old football cards, and there you were.

i hope your life has been happy and fulfilling!

[DieHardJetsFan]

Thanks for the post "JJ" Jones, its amazing how you still check up on the Jets and this website. Im just wondering, who would you draft if you were the Jets @ #6?

[Thai Jet]

Originally Posted by John Eddie "J.J." Jones

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Answer to "Where Is J. J. Jones Now?"

Thank you JetNation.com for the interest that has been taken to find out what happened to John "J.J." Jones. I am alive and well and still involved in minority business and community development activities around the world, as you can see from the news and information attachments below found at my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee’s The Mid South Tribune Newspaper’s web site www.blackinformationhighway.com.


As far as my football career is concerned, I forfeited it when I shared with the New York media and the whole world the private words told me by new Head Coach Lou Holtz that He had never had a Black Quarterback play for him that and he never would. I left New York City headed for the Calgary Stampeders Canadian Football League Team to replace their Quarterback Joe Pisarchek just one week before General Manager Andy Robistelli of the New York Giants called for me to come play Quarterback for him with the Giants. So, you know the infamous history of that story of Joe "P" and the Philadelphia Eagles’ last play of the game fumble return for a touchdown that took Joe "P" to Philly.

In any case, my sports career reward can be summed up in a statement made by National Football League Hall of Fame Quarterback Warren Moon when he gave credit to former Los Angeles Rams Quarterback "James Harris" and a "couple of others" for his being able to play Quarterback in the NFL. I met Warren Moon when he visited Mount Zion my church home in Seattle and I told him I was one of those "couple of others!" The other Black Quarterback pioneer in the National Football League was the Late "Jefferson Street" Joe Gilliam from Tennessee State University, which by the way was one of only three National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football teams in 1973 that was undefeated and untied. I was Quarterback for the 1973 undefeated untied Fisk University Bulldogs located on that same "Jefferson Street" in Nashville, Tennessee.

I gave up my professional football career in the National Football League so that other African American Quarterback/Athletes that followed me from the likes of Doug Williams, Randle Cunningham, Rodney Peete to Vince Young and even Mike Vick could a real chance to play QB in the NFL like, the only man to win championships in the old American Football League and the National Football League, Weeb Ewbanks gave me with the New York Jets. Weeb was like a father, who in-fact died just two days after my Father Negro National Baseball League Memphis Red Sox Catcher Clinton "Casey" Jones.

Find at: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/BIH%20Lanes.htm
And:
http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/JP%20Morgan%20Letter.htm
and: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Fed%20$200%20Bil%20letter.htm
and: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Kerry%20Millions%20Small%20Business.htm
and: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Editorial%20Fed%20Reserve%20Mandamus.htm
and: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Federal%20Reserve%20Complaint.htmand: http://www.blackinformationhighway.com/Banking%20Letter%20of%20Protest.htm

Best regards,
John Eddie "J.J." Jones, Second Vice President
Pacific Northwest Chapter National Black Chamber of Commerce
Pacific Rim Development Group LLC
Housing, Development and Construction Management Services
University Place, Washington 98467
jjjones3333@msn.com;

What a guy that Lou Holtz is. I remember a HS kid field goal kicker who was torn between ND ( Holtz was HC there) and Florida State. The kids dad went to ND so the odds were in Holtz's favour. Well the kid decided to follow his heart and go to Florida State. He personnally called Holtz to tell him. What does Holtz do ? He tells the kid that he hopes he breaks both his legs and never kicks again. What a guy that Lou Holtz is.

[afosomf]

Originally Posted by Thai Jet

What a guy that Lou Holtz is. I remember a HS kid field goal kicker who was torn between ND ( Holtz was HC there) and Florida State. The kids dad went to ND so the odds were in Holtz's favour. Well the kid decided to follow his heart and go to Florida State. He personnally called Holtz to tell him. What does Holtz do ? He tells the kid that he hopes he breaks both his legs and never kicks again. What a guy that Lou Holtz is.

woody hayes was same way

when a kid from my HS went to harvard instead of OSU

he called him a dumb n*****

[Thai Jet]

Originally Posted by afosomf

woody hayes was same way

when a kid from my HS went to harvard instead of OSU

he called him a dumb n*****

I cringe everytime I see that prick Holtz on ESPN. How'd he ever land that gig.