They have to be home for Yom Kippur before the sun sets or it doesn't count. Strange how that crops up in so much of American fairy tales ...Cinderella, Werewolf can't think of any other.
Why should this be a huge deal, something like 1/5th or 1/3 of the entire population of NYC is Jewish, and it would make sense that a lot of the Jets fans would be as well.