The Grass is Getting Greene-er.

A season that was all but pronounced dead.. in fact, was pronounced dead by Head Coach Rex Ryan one month ago to the day, is finally shaping up to have the Cinderella ending that not only Jets fans, but all members of the extended New York fanbase have so greatly needed to rally around. 

(With the exception of the Yankees) The majority of sports enthusiasts residing in the Empire State have had to endure much more heartbreak than any fan should have to weather. In the year 2009 alone, there has been a hockey team that finished with the worst record in the NHL, a basketball team missing out on the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season, while paying their best player to stay away prior to losing him to their in-division rival, the defending Super Bowl champions' season coming to a sorry finish after their number one offensive gun (pardon the pun) was lost to the state penitentiary. Not to mention the highest paid team in the National League finishing up with their worst record since the Art Howe era. 

Call me nieve, but 2010 is looking to be much more kind to us fans. Starting with the New York Metropolitans suring up a power bat for the next four seasons: far from a franchise-saving move, but one that needed to be made. There's also a newfound electricity throughout Madison Square Garden these days thanks to those ever-confusing Knicks, who earlier in the calendar year had found themselves tied for a playoff seed. The question is, is the hope that all fans now seem to sport caused by their team's on-court play, or simply anxious anticapation of what, or shall I say, who is to come this offseason?

Whatever the reason may be, there is a new, undoubted confidence that is now possesed by us hurting fans, maybe even unadmittedly. This current Jets football team could he exactly what we all need after the recent extended period of unrest. The team with personel from all parts of the neighborhood. A head coach who has never held the role before. A quarterback with all the promise in the world, but before last season, his junior year at USC, hadn't started a single game since high school. There are guys like Alan Faneca, who have tasted greatness, who have hoisted the Lombardi Trophy. There's Lito Sheppard and Thomas Jones, againg veterans who can now taste their first Super Bowl victories. Shonn Greene, Brad Smith, and injured Leon Washington, young, explosive players who play such a paramount role in the team's success. Bart Scott, who, like Coach Ryan, talks the talk but can certainly walk the walk.

This Jets team, coming off their very unsuccessful one year experiment with Brett Favre, is one win away from winning the right to play on Super Bowl Sunday. This Jets team, which very easily could've taken it easy, let their rookie quarterback sit back and learn the ropes for a season and declared a "rebuilding year", are on the verge of duplicating a run that their Giants Stadium co-tennants completed with a championship just two seasons ago. And on behalf of all fans of New York sports, thank you.