Arizona’s race for the state’s 1st Congressional District has turned into a reunion of sorts for the New York Jets.
Former Jets kicker Jay Feely, now 50, won the Republican primary and is headed to the general election in November. On the other side is Democrat Amish Shah, who served as the Jets’ team doctor during Feely’s two seasons with the club in 2008-09.
Feely spent two years kicking for the Jets, including the 2009 team that reached the AFC championship game. In 31 games with New York, he made 54 of 64 field goal attempts, good for 84.4%, with a long of 55 yards, and he was perfect on all 71 extra-point tries.
His NFL career lasted 14 seasons before he retired after the 2014 season, when he played his lone year with the Chicago Bears.
After football, Feely moved into broadcasting. He joined CBS Sports Network as a college football color analyst in 2015 and added NFL work for the network in 2017. Following the 2023 season, he left CBS to launch his congressional campaign.
Shah, 49, brings a different kind of résumé to the matchup. He has political experience in Arizona and has run for Congress multiple times. He served in the Arizona House of Representatives for District 5 from 2023 to 2024, and before that represented District 24 from 2019 to 2023.
Now the two former members of the same NFL organization will meet again, this time on the campaign trail rather than on the sideline.
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