The New York Jets are a professional American
football team based in the New York metropolitan area. They are
members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference
(AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team plays their
home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey at Giants Stadium, which
is named after another NFL team that plays there, the New York
Giants.
The club's headquarters and training facility
are located at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on Long
Island. They are constructing a new training facility and corporate
headquarters in Florham Park, New Jersey.
The team began in 1960 as a charter member
of the American Football League under the name New York Titans.
It was renamed after Sonny Werblin bought the team in 1963. The
Jets later joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger.
The Jets hold the distinction of being
the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL-NFL World Championship
Game when they defeated the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.