We don't want to let the passing of Charlie Jones fade without honoring the legendary announcer's contributions to the AFL and NFL and specifically to the New York Jets.

Jones, who died Thursday night at the age of 77 at his home in La Jolla, did it all in his career, handling the play-by-play for 28 different sports, some at the Olympics venues he worked for the Peacock Network in 1988 and '96. … More

Bart Oates, the longtime Giants center and now a lawyer and real estate adviser for the Jets, didn't invent the phrase, but he's the first athlete I remember using it, back when I first covered that other team in the mid-Eighties.

"You can't eat the elephant all at once."

Of course, it's just another way to say what Jets head coach Eric Mangini says every time someone asks him about the prognosi… More