IroNY, NY

The recent connections between the NY Jets and the Miami Dolphins are bringing an unprecedented amount of interest to two teams who, for the past decade, have at best underacheived and at worst sucked.

With the homefry who started all of this business, Brett Favor, retiring, all of these connections are again thrown into sharp relief.

First, the Jets sign a buttload of pricey (maybe overpriceyed?) free agents.
Then they trade for Favre and cut Chad Pennington.
Jets' players quietly bitch about the move, largely because Pennington was well-liked in the locker room.
Pennington is immediately scooped up by Miami due to the glaring hole at QB on their depth chart and the new boss' (Parcells') preference of a game manager behind center.
Week 1 pits these two teams together and they turn in a stellar, nail-biting performance that culminates in Darrelle Revis intercepting a Pennington pass in the end zone with five seconds left to thwart the Dolphins' comeback attempt.
Both teams go on to white-hot starts behind stellar play by their quarterbacks.
The Jets begin to falter down the stretch after starting 8-3, and leaks come out reporting that the Jets' players don't like Favre.
The Jets' season is ended with a Week 17 loss to the Dolphins, who got a great performance and a division title from Chad Pennington (22/30, 200 yds, 2 TD's, 0 INT).
Several Jets' players go Christian Bale on Favre, who immediately goes into hibernation to decide whether or not to hold NY hostage.
The Dolphins fail in the first week of the playoffs.

Interesting tidbit to keep an eye on for the future? Favre has retired, leaving a gaping hole at the QB spot on the NY roster. The Jets have since fired their head coach and replaced him with Rex Ryan, who, as the new boss, prefers a game manager behind center. Pennington is a free-agent and still has plenty of strong relationships in the Jets' locker room.

Looks like the ties between these two division teams will continue for at least as long as Mr. Pennington is employed by one of them.