{"id":44192,"date":"2025-11-18T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44192\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:43:07","slug":"new-yorks-football-futility-is-getting-worse-and-its-taking-a-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44192\/","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":2,"featured_media":44193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,2683,430,22,63,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-44192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-new-york-jets","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}