Anyone interested in a frequently-injured quarterback with questionable arm strength who constantly had his own fans ready to murder him with every interception? If you are, Chad Pennington would like to hear from you. PRO FOOTBALL TALK (via Adam Schefter of the NFL NETWORK) is reporting that Pennington is going to be cut in a few hours, bringing to a close one of the strangest relationships between any long-term starting QB and team in recent memory.

The No. 1 hobby of most Jets fans the past few seasons seemed to be hating Chad Pennington, and lamenting that they would be right there with the Patriots if only they had a decent starting quarterback. And he was seemingly in a battle for his starting job every training camp.

But, whenever Pennington would invariably get hurt and have to miss significant playing time, Jets fans suddenly thought he was Joe Namath, Steve Young and Dan Marino all rolled into one. That’s why they missed the playoffs again, they would say, because our starting quarterback got hurt, and everyone else on our roster is a bunch of stiffs. If only Chad Pennington had stayed healthy. It was like an abusive relationship between a husband who gets SO ANGRY when his wife burns the pot roast, but buys her diamond rings to make up for things the next night.

Jets fans won’t have Chad Pennington to kick around any more. There are several teams who might be interested in bringing him in to compete for a starting job, including (in a cruel bit of irony noted by the NEWARK STAR-LEDGER) the Minnesota Vikings. Getting Chad Pennington instead of Brett Favre must feel like dating a supermodel’s ugly sister if you are the Jets, and would tell you all you need to know about Tarvaris Jackson’s so-called “improvement” over the off-season.

At least the Jets are offering to fly him on a chartered plane out of Cleveland after the axe man cometh: no one deserves to get fired and then be stranded in Cleveland. But he shouldn’t expect a Lear jet - the team’s big charter planes are surely flying down to Mississippi to pick up Brett Favre, his family, their stuff, their pets, some of their friends who always wanted to go to New York, and a few cases of Natural Light. Hope Chad doesn’t mind riding shotgun in an old Cessna.