The Jets play the Steelers on Sunday with a Super Bowl trip on the line.
Fassel canceled a Super Bowl trip in 1999 to interview Payton to be his quarterbacks coach.
An infusion of star power will keep them in the hunt, but a Super Bowl trip may remain elusive.
OUTLOOK -- Fox was a member of the staff that followed a Super Bowl trip with the Giants with a disastrous 2001 season.
John Elway said last week that with a Super Bowl trip still a possibility, any decisions about 2016, either by Manning or the team, could wait.
The 1991 team, with Erik Kramer at quarterback, routed the Dallas Cowboys, 38-6, but in the Lions' only chance for a Super Bowl trip, they lost the National Football Conference title game in Washington, 41-10.
In old Municipal Stadium along the Lake Erie shore, the 1986 Browns were only 5 minutes 32 seconds from a Super Bowl trip before John Elway drove the Denver Broncos 98 yards for the tying touchdown, then positioned an overtime field goal to win the American Football Conference championship game, 23-20.
But he couldn't parlay that early success into a Super Bowl trip.
"That's God setting it up, to make it so dramatic, so rewarding, so special," Wilson told reporters after snatching a Super Bowl trip away from the Packers. .
The episode debuted a month after the House impeached Clinton, but less than two weeks before the Senate's impeach/acquit vote, so an air of uncertainty lingered over an otherwise lightweight episode about Homer organizing a Super Bowl trip".
