open mike Mike Vaccaro New York sports’ nadir has created a market for pain By Mike Vaccaro Published April 11, 2026, 6:01 p.m. ET Jets general manager Darren Mougey, left, and coach Aaron Glenn talk to the media in Florham Park, NJ. Bill Kostroun/New York Post Some ideas are so irresistible it’s simply not possible to ignore them. This is one of them, because let’s face it, part of what unites us as a sporting city is the extended patch of futility that we’ve experienced in the four traditional leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL).
As we’ve written before, there isn’t a daily public accounting of this drought the way there is with the National Debt Clock at Bryant Park and W. 42nd Street. But if there were and it was posted in a subtle spot like, say, the top of the Empire State Building, it would remind us that, as of 12:01 a.m. Sunday, it will be 5,181 days since Giants 21, Patriots 17, Feb. 5, 2012. All of us know the feeling.
It’s especially rough if your teams of choice are the Mets, Jets and Knicks. It is depressing enough to realize that those three teams have gone a combined 139 years without a championship. It’s even worse if you realize that’s a combined total of 54,654 days.
