Maybe the Jets did mirror Edwards after all: eternally optimistic in the face of chaos and despair.

YOU probably know the story of the eternally optimistic boy.

The solution, his eternally optimistic father had always told him, was to stay busy.

Eternally optimistic, this character is always very innocent, radiant, and joyful, although easily frightened.

"I guess you can say the eternally optimistic Lebanese are loosing hope."

He is honorable, courageous, and eternally optimistic, even in the face of certain death.

Ted, eternally optimistic, with the bubbling enthusiasm of a child.

"We remain eternally optimistic that something can take place," he said.

"I'm an eternally optimistic person and I think the 48 hours is actually just about up," he said.

"I have been eternally optimistic," an Israeli friend who was a founder of the Peace Now movement said to me on the telephone.