Football is back and no one is more ready for it than Jets first-year head coach Adam Gase.

If you didn’t see the excitement — or mania — in his wide eyes during his introductory press conference back in January, you definitely saw it when he took a massive whiff of smelling salts just before kickoff of the Jets’ first preseason matchup with the Giants on Thursday at MetLife.

Gase huffed the little stick of ammonia gas and looked a little more amped up than usual.

But the Jets lost, 31-22.

It’s become apparent that nothing in this world means more to Gase than football, not even the birth of his own child.