Located in the New York metropolitan area, the New York Jets play professional American football. The Jets are a member team of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division of the National Football League (NFL).
The team started competing at the Polo Grounds in 1960. The current name was chosen in 1963 under new management, and the team relocated to Shea Stadium in 1964 before moving to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in 1984.
Five miles (8.0 km) west of New York City in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is where the Jets play their home games at MetLife Stadium, which they also share with the New York Giants.
Florham Park, New Jersey serves as the team’s headquarters. Under the name New York Jets, LLC, the franchise is formally set up as a limited liability business.
In 1968, the Jets made it to the playoffs for the first time, and they later participated in Super Bowl III, where they defeated the Baltimore Colts and made history by becoming the first AFL team to triumph over an NFL team in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game.
Since 1968, the Jets have made it to the playoffs 13 times, and they’ve gone to the AFC Championship Game four times, losing most recently to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010. The team’s training center, Atlantic Health Jets Training Center, is situated in Florham Park and opened in 2008.