{"id":388555,"date":"2025-11-18T22:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388555\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:43:15","slug":"new-yorks-football-futility-is-getting-worse-and-its-taking-a-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388555\/","title":{"rendered":"New York’s football futility is getting worse \u2014 and it’s taking a toll"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do not relish this. Honestly, I don\u2019t. It is the middle of November. In so many other cities, scribes are scribing about their football teams and they get to write uplifting prose about uplifting pros.<\/p>\n

In Indianapolis, they write hopeful words that an old Giant named Daniel Jones can continue<\/a> the home team\u2019s march toward the top of the AFC, and in Seattle, they draft cautious essays about an ex-Jet named Sam Darnold shaking off a tough afternoon<\/a> in Los Angeles, reverting to Pro Bowl form.<\/p>\n

In Kansas City, they are worried about their football team<\/a>, a concern magnified by all the glorious seasons that have preceded this one; in Boston and Providence and Hartford, they are ecstatic about their team, their coach, their quarterback, the prospect that a new hint of old glories are afoot. In Buffalo, they dream of a February parade amid lake effect snow. In LA, they are preparing the well-worn route of the Dodgers should the Rams keep this up.<\/p>\n

In New York we write about \u2026 losing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I do not relish this. Honestly, I don\u2019t. It is the middle of November. In so many other…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,4716,5287,5226,5225,1232,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-388555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115573122903492398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}