Jokes about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center are numerous, although not politically correct. One of the earliest jokes is:
Q: What’s Osama bin Laden’s favorite football team?
A: The New York Jets.
The joke was posted on the newsgroup alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 on December 7, 2001.
Wikipedia: September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks consisted of suicide attacks used to target symbolic U.S. landmarks.
Four passenger airliners—which all departed from airports on the U.S. East Coast bound for California—were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists to be flown into buildings. Two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers collapsed, with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the World Trade Center complex, including the 47-story 7 World Trade Center tower, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures.
Google Groups: alt.games.video.sony-playstation2
Whats bin ladens favorite football team ?
Shayne Murray
12/7/01
NY Jets.
Google Groups: alt.impeach.bush
SALON - Forbidden thoughts about 9/11: The readers respond
Dr. Jai Maharaj
9/11/02
(...)
Q: What’s Osama bin Laden’s favorite football team?
A: The New York Jets.
- Terry Forte, who says the joke was conceived on Sept. 12
Twitter
Darren Mckeeman
@tjcrowley
Q: What’s Osama bin Laden’s favorite football team?
A: The New York Jets.
3:36 PM - 12 Oct 2008
Reddit—Mean Jokes
What is Osama Bin Laden’s favorite football team? (self.MeanJokes)
submitted November 1, 2013 by Tuxmascot
The New York Jets!
Reddit—Jokes
What’s Osama Bin Laden’s favorite football team?
submitted June 20, 2016 by robertjohnston276
The New York Jets.
Reddit—Jokes
What’s Bin Laden’s favorite football team?
submitted May 12, 2017 by Anti_Joke_Cunt
The New York Jets
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