1968: After coming of a successful 8-5-1 season the Jets hoped they could finally win their division, and play for the AFL Championship. The Jets would get off to a flying start winning their first game over the Kansas City Chiefs thanks in part to ball control in which the Jets held the ball the final 5:56 of the game. 2 weeks later in their home opener the Jets would pull off another last minute win as Emerson Boozer scored a TD to give the Jets a 23-20 win over the San Diego Chargers in front of an AFL record crowd of 63, 786 at Shea Stadium.  With the Jets cruising towards the AFL Championship game their November 17th game in Oakland against the Raiders set itself up as a possible AFL Championship preview. The game was a back and forth affair as the Jets scored a TD with 1:05 left in the game to pull in front 32-29. However, the high scoring game was taking a while to play, and NBC executive began to sweat it out as the game was heading close to the 7pm start of the Children's movie Heidi. NBC programmers decided that the game was over, and decided to pull the end of the game off the air to show Heidi on time and in its entirety. With in seconds thousands of irate football fans began calling NBC, and their affiliates. Meanwhile the Raiders stormed back and scored 2 Touchdowns in 42 seconds to win the game 43-32. Millions of fans on the East Coast were left in the dark, and assumed the Jets had won; the outrage forced NBC to apologize, and sent a massage to Television Programmers that Pro-Football was a force on Television. The game would forever be known as "The Heidi Game". After finishing 11-3 the Jets easily won the Eastern Division and found themselves in a Heidi Game rematch with Raiders for the AFL Championship at Shea Stadium in front of 62, 627 fans. . The Jets took a 20-13 lead into the 4th quarter thanks to jumping out to a quick 10-0 lead in the 1st quarter. The Raiders would not go down easily and would take a 23-20 lead midway through the fourth. However, Joe Namath and the Jets would not be deterred as he drove the Jets down the field and threw a 6-uyard pass to original Titan Don Maynard for his 3rd TD pass of the game which a gave the Jets a 27-23 lead the would not relinquish. The win would earn the Jets a trip to the AFL-NFL Championship game, which for the first time was officially being called the Super Bowl.

Super Bowl III: Going into Super Bowl III the Jets were 18-point underdogs to the powerhouse Baltimore Colts. In fact the Super Bowl was considered a mere exhibition since the NFL's Green Bay Packers won the previous two encounters easily. The game had an ironic twist for Coach Weeb Ewbank in that he was facing his former team, and he was staring at Don Shula the man who replaced him 5 years earlier as head coach. However, the match-up of Ewbank, and Shula became a mere after thought after Joe Namath guaranteed the Jets would win. The guarantee was thought of as a joke, the Jets did not have a chance, and now they were looking arrogant. Many old school traditional football fans still had not accepted the presence of the AFL, and were pulling for the Colts to shut the brash young Quarter Back's mouth. Meanwhile AFL fans and players were pulling for the Jets, as their shot at finally being accepted as a legitimate football league against this back drop Super Bowl II, finally brought mass attention to the Championship Game.  When game time arrived finally al the talking was done, and the Jets and Colts began to play what would become the most important game in Pro-Football history. After 1 quarter of play the Jets had held the powerful Colts to a stale mate as they harassed starting QB Earl Morrall all through out the opening period. In the 2nd Quarter the Jets finally got on the board taken a 7-0 lead with Matt Snell scoring from 4 yards out. The Jets would continue to hold the Colts off the board late in the 2nd Quarter when Morrall drove the Colts deep into Jets territory. However, in one of the biggest blunders in Super Bowl history Morrall throws an interception into double coverage while WR Johnny Orr was waving his hands all alone near the endzone. The game would go to halftime 7-0. The Jets would extend their lead to 10-0 after a long drive that opened the 2nd half. Meanwhile the Jets would continue to frustrate Morrall into mistakes, and would go into the 4th Quarter leading 13-0 after another Jim Turner FG. In the 4th Quarter Turner would extend the lead to 16-0, and fans began to realize the Jets might actually have a chance to win this one. However, the Colts would not go down without a fight. With Morrall being ineffective Don Shula decided to replace him with Johnny Untias, the all-time great QB who had been hampered all season with injuries, but had the experience to get the Colts back into the game. Unitas would take the Colts down the field, and put them on the board 16-7, and when the Colts recovered the on-side-kick all of a sudden they were in business. However, Unitas did not have enough magic in his right arm and was picked off late in the 4th Quarter. The Jets had done they had won the Super Bowl, the AFL finally had legitimacy, and as the game ended Super Bowl MVP Joe Namath ran off the field and into the locker room holding up his finger saying "Were Number 1".