New York Jets Trivia
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59 free New York Jets trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Being a Jets fan is a test of character, and this quiz is a test of memory. The 59 questions start with the broke Titans of New York at the Polo Grounds, the Werblin purchase and the Namath signing, then move through Super Bowl III, the Heidi Game, the New York Sack Exchange, the Mud Bowl, the 1-15 season, Parcells and Testaverde, Belichick's one-day tenure, Herm Edwards, Curtis Martin, Favre's single season, Rex Ryan's back-to-back AFC title games, Revis Island, the Butt Fumble, Fireman Ed, Sam Darnold's ghosts, Sauce and Garrett Wilson, the four-snap Aaron Rodgers debut and the 2025 season under Aaron Glenn. Some questions are for anyone who has watched a Jets game; others, like how many sacks the 1981 defence piled up or which town the team trains in, are for the fans who own a Titans throwback. It works for a tailgate at MetLife, a bar quiz in Queens or Jersey, or settling an argument in a group chat full of Giants fans. Every answer has been checked against a source, and each question shows its explanation and citation once you answer. Play it, share your score, and remember: you play to win the game.
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Q 01Where did the Jets franchise play its first seasons, as the Titans of New York, before moving to Queens in 1964?
Polo Grounds
Polo Grounds: the Titans were a box-office disaster in the ageing Manhattan ballpark and went bankrupt within three seasons; a year after being sold and renamed, the team left for a new stadium.
Q 02Why were the New York Titans renamed the Jets in 1963?
Its stadium sat between two airports
Its stadium sat between two airports: the ballpark going up in Queens lay between New York's two biggest, the reason the team's own announcement gave; the name is also said to have appealed because it rhymed with Mets.
Q 03How much did Sonny Werblin's five-man syndicate pay for the bankrupt Titans of New York in 1963?
$1 million
$1 million bought the whole bankrupt franchise; within weeks its new owners had renamed the team the Jets and dressed it in green and white.
Q 04Which Flushing ballpark did the Jets share with the Mets from 1964 to 1983?
Shea Stadium
Shea Stadium: the Mets' lease came first, so the Jets could not play at home until baseball was over; in 1969 they opened with five straight road games while the Mets went to the World Series.
Q 05Which New Jersey stadium became the Jets' home when it opened in 2010?
MetLife Stadium
MetLife Stadium opened in 2010 as New Meadowlands Stadium, beside the old Giants Stadium, which was then demolished; the Jets share it with the Giants, as they had shared the old one.
Q 06The Jets' stadium staged the first Super Bowl held outdoors in what?
A cold-weather city
A cold-weather city: earlier Super Bowls in such cities had all been played under a roof, yet the feared freeze never came, with a mild 49 degrees at kickoff and snow arriving hours after the game.
Q 07Which team did the Jets beat in Super Bowl III?
Baltimore Colts
Baltimore Colts. The 16-7 upset in January 1969 was the first Super Bowl won by an AFL team, proof that the younger league could compete shortly before the two merged.
Q 08Which backup quarterback led the losers' only touchdown drive in Super Bowl III?
Johnny Unitas
Johnny Unitas. Hurt for most of that season, he replaced the struggling Earl Morrall with his team still scoreless, and his fourth-quarter drive came too late to stop the Jets' 16-7 upset.
Q 09Where did Joe Namath make his famous guarantee that the Jets would win Super Bowl III?
The Miami Touchdown Club
The Miami Touchdown Club. Namath was at its dinner three days before kickoff when a heckler needled him, and he shot back that the Jets would win, guaranteed.
Q 10Which Jets running back scored the team's only touchdown in Super Bowl III?
Matt Snell
Matt Snell. He carried 30 times for 121 yards, while Joe Namath was named MVP without throwing a touchdown pass.
Q 11Through the 2025 season, the Jets and which other team had won the only Super Bowl they ever reached?
New Orleans Saints
New Orleans Saints. In their lone trip, Super Bowl XLIV, they opened the second half with a surprise onside kick, recovered it and went on to win 31-17.
Q 12Joe Namath's record-breaking rookie contract in 1965 lured him to the Jets from which college?
Alabama
Alabama. The NFL's Cardinals drafted Namath too, but he signed with the AFL's Jets the day after the Orange Bowl, the upstart league's biggest win in the bidding war.
Q 13Joe Namath's 4,007 passing yards in 1967 stood as the record until which quarterback topped it in 1979?
Dan Fouts
Q 21Which Jets lineman made the Pro Bowl at three positions: defensive end, defensive tackle and nose tackle?
Joe Klecko
Joe Klecko. No one else has made the Pro Bowl at all three spots on the defensive line, yet he had to wait until 2023, more than 30 years after retiring, to enter the Hall of Fame.
Q 22Which team beat the Jets in the January 1983 AFC title game remembered as the Mud Bowl?
Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins. Their field was left uncovered through days of storms, and in the mud Richard Todd threw five interceptions, three of them to the same linebacker.
Q 23Which head coach went 3-13 and then 1-15 with the Jets in 1995 and 1996?
Rich Kotite
Dan Fouts. He threw for 4,082 yards with the Chargers, but he had a 16-game season to do it, while Namath set his mark in only 14.
Q 14Joe Namath modelled which women's product in a 1974 TV commercial?
Pantyhose
Pantyhose. The Beautymist ad panned slowly up a pair of smooth legs before revealing that they belonged to the Jets' quarterback.
Q 15Joe Namath was born in which Pennsylvania steel town?
Beaver Falls
Beaver Falls. Several baseball teams tried to sign Namath out of high school there, the Cubs offering $50,000, but he chose college football instead.
Q 16In 1968, NBC cut away from a Jets-Raiders game with about a minute left to start which children's film on time?
Heidi
Heidi. Oakland scored twice in the final minute to win 43-32 while the eastern half of the country watched the film, and later TV contracts required games to be shown to the end.
Q 17Don Maynard, the Titans' first signing, retired as pro football's all-time leader in what?
Receiving yards
Receiving yards. Released by the Giants and back from a season in Canada, Maynard gained 11,834 of them, nearly all for the Titans and Jets, and retired with the record for catches too.
Q 18What nickname did the Jets' feared defensive line earn in the early 1980s?
Sack Exchange
Sack Exchange. The name is a pun on the New York Stock Exchange, and in 1981 the four linemen were invited there to ring the opening bell.
Q 19Which future Super Bowl-winning coach did the Jets fire after a single 6-10 season in 1994?
Pete Carroll
Pete Carroll. His Jets stood 6-5 until a fake-spike touchdown pass beat them, never won again that season, and he was gone after one year.
Q 20Whose 22 sacks in 1984 stood as the NFL record until 2001?
Mark Gastineau
Mark Gastineau. That March the NFL had passed a rule against planned celebrations, aimed mainly at his sack dance, so he set the record without it.
Rich Kotite. He announced he was stepping down two days before the last game of 1996, and under Bill Parcells the same franchise reached the AFC title game two seasons later.
Q 24Which quarterback led the 1998 Jets to a 12-4 record and their first division title since the merger?
Vinny Testaverde
Vinny Testaverde. Released by the Ravens that summer, he opened 1998 as Glenn Foley's backup, then went 12-1 as the starter and threw 29 touchdown passes.
Q 25Which running back, brought from the Patriots by Parcells in 1998, became the Jets' top rusher?
Curtis Martin
Curtis Martin. Parcells pried him loose with a poison-pill offer sheet the Patriots declined to match, and the Jets gave up first- and third-round draft picks for him.
Q 26Which Jets lineman, paralysed in a 1992 collision, walked again within a year?
Dennis Byrd
Dennis Byrd. He broke a vertebra in his neck that November, yet less than a year later he walked to midfield as honorary captain at the Jets' 1993 home opener.
Q 27Who quit as Jets head coach after one day in 2000, writing 'I resign as HC of the NYJ'?
Bill Belichick
Bill Belichick. He turned his own introductory press conference into a resignation, and the Patriots then had to give the Jets a first-round draft pick for the right to hire him.
Q 28Which Jets coach delivered the 2002 press-conference line 'You play to win the game!'?
Herm Edwards
Herm Edwards. He snapped it out the week a loss left his team 2-5, and the Jets went on to win seven of their last nine games and take the division.
Q 29Which undrafted Hofstra receiver made the Jets as a walk-on in 1995 and became their 'Mr. Third Down'?
Wayne Chrebet
Wayne Chrebet. He opened camp 11th of 11 on the receiver depth chart, and a security guard at the gate would not let him in on his first day.
Q 30Former Jets quarterback Chad Pennington was the first player to win which NFL award twice?
Comeback Player of the Year
Comeback Player of the Year. Pennington won it in 2006, a year after two operations on his throwing shoulder, and again in 2008 with a division rival, months after the Jets released him.