And the drought goes on, Alabama legend & don’t be same ol’ Yanks . . .

And while we’re on the subject of a Knick rebuild that my pal Frank Isola says is moving up on the legal drinking age?

Since the Knicks made the 1999 NBA Finals, the Jersey Nets have made the Finals twice, Mets have been in two World Series. Rangers made a Stanley Cup final. Jets have made it to two AFC championship games, the Devils won their last two Stanley Cups.

Giants have won two Super Bowls.

Yankees? They’ve played five World Series and won three and came as close as they did last October.

Even the Islanders have made the playoffs more than the Knicks have. Paul Finebaum pointed out to me the other day that Nick Saban changed the last two title games Alabama has won with an onsides kick – in Alabama-Clemson I – and by switching quarterbacks at halftime the way Saban did Monday night with Tua Tagovailoa, the kid from Hawaii who will never have to buy a vowel.

There have been other great endings in college football national championship games.

I was in the Orange Bowl one night a long time ago when Bernie Kosar and Miami beat Nebraska and won the title because Nebraska coach Tom Osborne went for two on the last play of the game and a Miami safety knocked away a pass thrown by Nebraska’s Turner Gill.

A year ago, Deshaun Watson beat Saban’s team by throwing a red-zone touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow with one second left on the clock in regulation. And that wasn’t nothing. But there has never been a better ending, considering the circumstances of the occasion, than Tagovailoa throwing a 41-yard touchdown pass to DeVonta Smith on second-and-26 in overtime to beat Georgia.

After the Hawaiian kid did come off the bench.

After the 18-year-old had never played in an Alabama game in which the Crimson Tide were winning by fewer than double digits.

After it was 13-0 for Georgia at the half.

That wasn’t just a title game on Monday night in Atlanta. It really was a feature film. Maybe this really is the season when the Cavaliers don’t figure it out by June. Does anybody else appreciate the irony of the Yankees possibly looking to somehow dump Jacoby Ellsbury’s awful 7-year contract so that they might have the cap space to offer a similar 7-year deal to Yu Darvish?

This after signing on for the same kind of 10-year deal to Giancarlo Stanton, almost dollar for dollar, they once willingly gave to Alex Rodriguez?

Listen, the two big guys — Stanton, All Rise Judge — are going to provide big fun at Yankee Stadium for years.

Just because of the two of them in the same batting order, the Yankees have turned themselves into the greatest home run show on earth.

With what they eventually had to give up to get Stanton, they couldn’t pass him up.

And if he helps win them a World Series, or two, or more, nobody is going to care what he looks like (Albert Pujols? Miguel Cabrera?) on the back end of his deal. Still: They saw what happened to A-Rod.

They are seeing what’s happened to Ellsbury.

Even as well as Brian Cashman has set up the Yankees for the present and the future, they still occasionally use a playbook out of the past.

It’s just kind of interesting to watch sometimes, is all. We may have to watch a lot of NFL postseason games, from now until forever, before we see a line like the one Blake Bortles produced last Sunday against the Bills: 88 rushing yards. 87 passing yards. Glad the Mets got Jay Bruce back. Watched the Titans come back on the Chiefs last weekend and couldn’t help thinking that at this time of year, Andy Reid gonna be Andy Reid.

I actually heard this week on state-run television that “s---hole countries” is just the way forgotten Americans talk at the bar.

What bar, the S---hole Bar and Grill?

There is a better level of competition in the Rucker League in the summer than the two youngest Ball kids are facing in Lithuania.