Morning Hot Reads: Rotten Apple

The N.Y. TIMES looks at how Jets QB Aaron Rodgers' injury in the team's season opener on Monday "caps a dismal summer for New York City sports fans." In the "dreary, decades-long history" of the Jets, Monday night’s game was "supposed to be a turning point: Aaron Rodgers, a surefire Hall of Fame quarterback, was set to take the field surrounded by All-Pro talent." But "all that hope and hype lasted exactly four plays." Since the Giants' 2011 season ended in a Super Bowl victory, several N.Y.-area teams "built up fans’ hopes, only to dash them with injuries, personality clashes or the natural vicissitudes of sport." Despite "huge payrolls and championship aspirations at the start of the baseball season," the Mets and Yankees are "mired at or near the bottom of their divisions." And about 24 hours before Rodgers’s injury happened on the very same MetLife Stadium field, the Giants were "summarily thrashed" 40-0 by the rival Cowboys.  

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