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Jets owner Woody Johnson shakes hands with Mike Maccagnan, the team's new general manager. Maccagnan was hired on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. (Photo provided by the New York Jets)

You can read more about Mike Maccagnan, the general manager the Jets just hired, here and here. But forget all that football stuff: Maccagnan used to pop his collar like a boss during his high school days at Peddie School in Hightstown. He also totally rocked an Alex P. Keaton-like haircut at the time. The '80s were so rad.

Maccagnan is a 1985 alumnus of Peddie, where he played lacrosse and was a three-year starter as a defensive lineman/linebacker on the football team. He's not Peddie's first connection to the Jets, either: Tom Werblin, the son of the late owner Sonny Werblin, who purchased the old Titans in 1963 and changed their name to the Jets before drafting Joe Namath in '65, also graduated from Peddie. Maybe it's a sign! (It's not. It's just a coincidence.)

But enough of that, too. Welcome to the Jets, Mike!

(Photo provided by Peddie School)

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