This Could Be the Jets’ Year, Fireman Ed Says
He roars. He slaps the helmet. He grimaces. All to get the fans to yell louder.
“Nobody rocks the chant like he does,” said Tyson Rauch, 50, a season-ticket holder and one of the hosts of the podcast “Let’s Talk Jets Radio,” who marvels at Anzalone’s passion. “You feel it — the veins are popping out of his forehead.”
Others admire his mobility. “One minute, he’d be on the lower level,” remembered Kevin Sirkin, 35, a host of two Jets podcasts, including one with Anzalone.. “The next minute, he’d pop up in the upper deck.”
Anzalone endeared himself to his fellow fans during the tough times — the bruising losses and the long stretches of mediocrity. “The atmosphere, and how he made the games fun to go to, that’s what really got me hooked as a kid,” said Sirkin, whose seats in the old Giants Stadium were two sections over from Anzalone’s.
Optimism surrounds the Jets right now, and tonight Anzalone plans to have “the crowd rolling early.”
“We’ve been in a desert for a very long time,” he said. But Rodgers’s arrival has buoyed his faith: “We’re going to win a world championship with Aaron Rodgers.”
