How many NFL general managers can you name? Probably not too many, right? But we're betting that, if you follow pro football, you know Jets GM John Idzik. And it's for all the wrong reasons.
Jets fans are placing a lot of the blame for their favorite team's terrible 2014-15 NFL season on Idzik. Reason being, he didn't give Jets head coach Rex Ryan much talent to work with this year. And as a result, they stink. So one group of Jets fans has started the website FireJohnIdzik.com and raised $10,000 to erect a giant "Fire John Idzik" billboard near MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
The billboard hasn't gone up yet. But the founder's of FireJohnIdzik.com have announced that they are going to do whatever it takes to get rid of Idzik ASAP.
"We thought that it would take until the end of the season to raise the necessary funds," they said in a statement released to the New York Daily News. "It took five days. This is only the beginning. FireJohnIdzik.com and our supporters will not go quiet until our mission of removing John Idzik from this organization is complete. The longer he is employed, the louder we will get. The fans have spoken. Are you listening, [Jets owner] Woody [Johnson]?"
Stay tuned. This is probably definitely going to get ugly.
[via ESPN New York]
