1 Year ago, Jett pissed off the entire moto world saying his goal was to beat MC’s record of 72 Supercross wins. 8 wins is his first season was a hell of a start for the then 20-year-old. Jett only needed 8 more seasons just as dominating to tie the king! Just needed to race until he was 29, averaging 50% of the race wins a season. That’s it. Simple enough, he could become the new king!
We all expected Jett to be challenged more this season. Tomac had a fully healthy offseason and raced a lot, Sexton another year on the KTM, Webb going to be Webb with another year on the Yamaha, of course it was going to be more difficult. Jett was still the favorite and looked to be improving his Honda each week. Reaching his goal of 72 career SX wins looked to have a little extra challenge already entering this season. However, now disaster strikes Jett for the second time in 3 series, he has a fully blown ACL and partially torn MCL.
When Jett stated these lofty goals and everyone got upset, we did not realize he had ligaments made of silly string and sadness. This is now the second injury Jett has suffered that is ligament issue. His shoulder last year in outdoors as well. That was a hard wreck for sure, but certainly not everyone would have damaged the shoulder from that crash. He dabbed his foot for his ACL. He was going at a high speed, but his knee didn’t even twist or anything. Just an impact tear.
Maybe Jett should have got a few 450 seasons under his belt before making such claims? Make sure his body can handle the 450 speeds and the impacts on the body when it throws you off? Maybe this is karma for being so “cocky” or optimistic with his goals? I’m not sure, but I do know 72 wins is getting more and more difficult to reach by the day. His knee will remain with him for the rest of his life. He will keep getting older and the competition will keep getting better and deeper. Maybe, just maybe, we should have kept our goals closer to the vest to protect ourselves?
When you come at the king, you best not fucking miss!
