According to multiple reports, One Jets Drive will be closed for business this Friday in observation of Juneteenth.
Last week the NFL announced that its league offices would be closed to recognize Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery after Union general Gordon Granger issued an order freeing all previously enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865. Teams around the league began following suit on Wednesday, with the Jets joining the Broncos, Browns, Buccaneers, Chiefs, Cowboys, Eagles, Giants, Falcons, Lions, Panthers and Redskins in informing employees they will be closed on Friday.
Forty-seven of 50 states currently recognize Juneteenth as a holiday. Activists across the United States are campaigning to make Juneteenth a national holiday.
More than a third of the league’s teams have now announced that they will be closed for the holiday. Given the way things are trending, it is safe to assume most, if not all, of the teams who have yet to announce they are closing will do so sooner rather than later.