He was drafted to the NFL in 1998 to the New York Jets as the 174th overall pick in the 6th round.

He also led the New York Jets to the 1998 AFC Championship Game.

* " Chinatown ", a song by Jets to Brazil from the 1998 album Orange Rhyming Dictionary

* Then & Now ( The Jets album ), 1998

While in New York, he played three seasons ( 1997 – 1999 ) under Bill Parcells, who in two seasons would turnaround the Jets from 1 – 15 in 1996, Johnson's rookie year to 9 – 7 in 1997 & 12 – 4 in 1998 & the franchise's first ever AFC East Division title.

As a free agent in 1998, he joined the Jets where he finished his career in 2005 due to a career-ending knee injury.

Under these conditions, the Patriots did not match the offer however they received the Jets ' first and third round selections in the 1998 NFL Draft as compensation after filing a complaint with the NFL management council claiming the offer sheet violated the terms of the league's collective bargaining agreement at the time.

In 1998, Martin gained 182 yards from scrimmage and scored two touchdowns against the Jacksonville Jaguars in a Jets playoff win.

After a highly successful season in 1997, Sehorn suffered a debilitating knee injury, tearing both his anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments, returning the opening kickoff in the 1998 preseason game against the New York Jets.

He played in two Pro Bowls ( in 1996 with the Baltimore Ravens and 1998 with the New York Jets ) in twenty one seasons in the NFL.

In 1998, his first season with the Jets, Testaverde flourished, completing 61. 5 % of his passes with 29 touchdowns, seven interceptions, and a 101. 6 Quarterback rating.

In arguably his best season in the NFL, he led the Jets to the 1998 AFC East title and then to the AFC Championship game, where they lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos.

In 1998, Los Gusanos broke up, leading to Ward's next band The Warm Jets, which released one single before changing their name due to another band with the same name.

* Jeff Criswell: football player ; offensive lineman for Indianapolis Colts 1987, New York Jets 1988 – 1994 and Kansas City Chiefs 1995 – 1998.

During a 16-year football career, he played for the Seattle Seahawks ( 1994 – 1997 ), New York Jets ( 1998 – 2005 ), and the Tennessee Titans ( 2006 – 2009 ).

In 1998, Mawae was signed by the New York Jets. In his first season at New York, Jets offense averaged 357. 2 yards per game ( second-best in AFC and fourth-best in NFL ), while controlling the ball for an average of 32: 17 minutes per game ( second-best in AFC and third-best in NFL ), also helped running back Curtis Martin to rush for franchise-record eight 100-yard rushing games en route to 1, 287-yard season.

* 1998 Crawley Jets

Atwater left the Broncos following the 1998 season, signing with the New York Jets as a free agent for his final season in 1999.

As a professional, he played fullback and tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles ( 1986 – 1992 ), Miami Dolphins ( 1993 – 1996 ), New England Patriots ( 1996 – 1997 ), and the New York Jets ( 1998 ).

The New York Jets also received similar criticism for using their throwback logo on their then-current green helmets ; when they adopted the throwback design full-time in 1998, they also went back to their original-style white helmets.

He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in first round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Steelers, New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals of the NFL.

In particular, Easterbrook hates the " monochrome " look of several teams, leading to the cognomen for Atlanta, Denver, and Seattle, while having mixed opinions on teams wearing throwbacks, favoring the Chargers ' 1960s look, Buffalo Bills O. J. Simpson-era uniforms, and the Redskins 70th Anniversary throwbacks but not caring much for throwbacks worn by the Eagles, Steelers, or the New York Jets decision to return to the Joe Namath-era uniforms full-time in 1998.

Their debut album, Pretty on the Inside ( 1991 ) garnered them critical praise, and they went on to achieve international critical and commercial success for their following albums, Live Through This ( 1994 ) and Celebrity Skin ( 1998 ).

In 1996, he went to the US to play for the Tampa Bay Mutiny ( 1996 – 97, 2000 – 01 ), Miami Fusion ( 1998 – 99 ), and Colorado Rapids ( 2001 – 02 ).

* Earnhardt Jr. later went on to win the 2004 Daytona 500, three years after his father's death and six years to the day after his father won the 1998 Daytona 500.

Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.

Kid Rock released several studio albums that mostly went unnoticed before his 1998 record Devil Without a Cause, released with Atlantic Records, sold 11 million albums behind the hits, " Bawitdaba ", " Cowboy ", and " Only God Knows Why ".

The Saints went 6 – 10 in their first two seasons under Ditka ( 1997 and 1998 ).

In 1998, the Chargers went 5-11.

Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, which received about 27 % of the vote in 1998 ( almost 900, 000 votes ) received only 19. 5 % ( about 560, 000 votes ) in 2002 and again went into opposition, unable to find coalition partners.

The Padres went on to defeat the Houston Astros in the 1998 NLDS, 3 games to 1, behind solid pitching by Brown, Sterling Hitchcock and Hoffman, and home runs by Greg Vaughn, Wally Joyner and Jim Leyritz ( who homered in 3 of the 4 games ).

After the reactor went critical in April 1998, Mahmood in an interview had said :" this reactor ( which can produce enough plutonium for two to three nuclear weapons per year ) Pakistan had " acquired the capability to produce.

The European Union's Partnership and Cooperation Agreement ( PCA ) with Ukraine went into force on March 1, 1998.

In 1998, UPN went a different way with its children's program block by airing reruns of the syndicated Sweet Valley High, The Berenstain Bears and a new series, Breaker High on weekdays and weekends aiming the programs at teenagers.

The Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, which went into effect on 1 January 1999, created sixteen new voivodeships.

They went through a failed expansion attempt in the mid-1990s and became economically unviable, resulting in the chain being sold to McDonald's in 1996 ; the last Georgie Pie restaurant was closed in 1998.

Prolonging the Magic, the band's third album, was released in 1998 and went platinum, having shipped over one million units ; this was followed three years later by Comfort Eagle, the band's first album on Columbia Records, featuring the single " Short Skirt / Long Jacket " which hit number 7 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The album peaked at number 33 on the Billboard 200, was listed in The Columbian as the second best album of 1998, and eventually went platinum after shipping over 1 million units.

In 1998 his film, Eternity and a Day, went on to win the prestigious Palme d ' Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and his films have been shown at the most important film festivals around the world.

The INLA went on to accept the massive vote in favour of the Good Friday Agreement – an arrangement it had opposed during the 1998 referendum – by the people of Ireland.

Zilog went public in 1991, but was acquired in 1998 by Texas Pacific Group.

Titan went out of print in 1998, when Avalon Hill was sold and ceased operations.

The company however went bankrupt in 1998 and Tatra bought full rights to the design, then modernized and reintroduced it as T810 while continuing cooperation with Renault.

In 1998, 2007, and 2009, the Mercury went to the WNBA Finals ; they lost to Houston in 1998, but won the title in 2007 and 2009 over Detroit and Indiana, respectively.

Those songs that went the distance on other charts, but not Billboard ( although all were top five hits on the Billboard chart ), are " Here We Are " and " Then Again " ( 1991 ); " Born Country " and " Take a Little Trip " ( 1992 ); " Once Upon a Lifetime " ( 1993 ); " Give Me One More Shot ," " She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl " and " In Pictures " ( 1995 ); " Sad Lookin ' Moon " ( 1997 ); and " How Do You Fall in Love " ( 1998 ).

Clark was a director and investor in biotechnology company DNA Sciences, founded in 1998, which went bankrupt and was acquired by Genaissance Pharmaceuticals Inc. in 2003.