If tickets to Jets-Rams were going for as little as $5, how much do you think you’d have to ante up for a seat at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday?
Although, let’s be honest, you’d be much better off using that dollar or two for MegaMillions or Powerball. With those at least there’s an infinitesimal shot at winning something significant.
Whoever emerges victorious in the Jets-49ers stinkbomb, we know there are really only losers here: the visitors, the home team and, most of all, the fans of both sorry franchises.
The Jets haven’t won a game since before Halloween. The Niners envy them, because they haven’t notched a W since the season’s opening week in mid-September.
And if they weren’t playing each other, the smart money would be on neither team winning another game before the 2016 campaign mercifully ends.
The Jets have arguably the NFL’s worst starting QB in Bryce Petty. Actually, that’s not debatable. San Francisco, meanwhile, has the game’s most hated player -- Colin Kaepernick -- under center.
The Jets appear to have the league’s worst pass defense, while the Niners are singularly bad at stopping the run.
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In Todd Bowles, the Jets have a coach no one can wait to run out of town. In Chip Kelly, the Niners have a coach no one in the country can wait to run out of pro football.
The Niners are in line to land a higher draft pick, which means the guy they choose is all the more likely to be a slightly bigger bust than whoever Gang Green selects with their top pick.
Given how awful both teams are, it’s easy to forget that the Niners were one of the NFL’s elite just a few short years ago (at least to everyone but them).
Over a three-year period ending in 2013, they averaged 12 wins and made three appearances in the NFC title game -- and one in the Super Bowl, which they just barely lost.
Yet that somehow wasn’t good enough for San Francisco’s top management, who pushed out head coach Jim Harbaugh and sidelined Kaepernick.
OK, so Harbaugh rubs some people the wrong way. And when I say some people, I mean the vast majority of Americans. So what? He’s the best football coach in the world. You think I’m wrong? Show me another with a more impressive resume.
As for Kaepernick, he’s taken the starting job back from Blaine Gabbert -- which I’d say is like taking candy from a baby, but that’s insulting to babies. Still, The One Who Kneels was benched again last week after a rough start vs. the Bears. Kaep-Gabbert isn’t exactly a reprise of the Montana-Young controversy.
Oh, how far the Niners have fallen. Hey, Jets fans just wish they could get a chance to fall that far, but that hinges on reaching heights that New York hasn’t ascended to in nearly 50 years.
One team will win on Sunday. But the real winners are those fortunate enough to watch another game.
