I was at that KC playoff game, we moved into a new house on Christmas eve so my dad was busy unpacking and getting the house ready so I got his ticket. To think it was 25 years ago and it's the only Jet home playoff game I ever attended. I've attended as many road playoff games as I have home although I think we've only had 2 since then. Hey junc did Buffalo still wear the white helmets in 85?
They switched to the red I think in 1984. And you're right, since the 1986 KC playoff game we've hosted two--1998 vs Jacksonville and 2002 vs Indy.
I scanned kinda quickly and didn't see this mentioned. Jets were 10-1 going into that Monday night massacre in Miami. If indeed the Jets make it to 10-1 it will once again be a divisional Monday night game on the road....you can bet they will do a flashback bit to that game if this happens.
I do not write off any team anymore in the NFL. Definitely not the Lions, who have the big play ability to knock off any team. Week to week is the way to go.
If we really want to have fun we can compare this year to 2000 when we started 6-1, 3-0 in the division. I'm going to go hide now. :grin:
Wow..you brought up 1986? Bad Karme. Yeah, we started 10-1. Where did we end up and I still remember some fucking ex Bills kicker announcer for NBC predicting we wouldn't win another game.
I believe we got killed opening day to the Raiders, ran off 10 wins in a row. Paul Maguire said the Jets would not win a game the rest of the year. Son of a bitch was right. We snuck in, beat the Chiefs, then lost the seriously painful double OT game to the Browns.
Can a Top 5 Collapse thread be far behind? The Raiders opener was 1985. In 1986 the Jets won the opener at Buffalo, lost at home to New England on a Thursday night to go 1-1, then won 9 straight, beginning with the 51-45 OT home game vs Miami.
We got killed to open the 1985 season losing 31-0 at LA(the Raiders). Our win streak in 1986 was actually 9 games not 10 as we lost in week 2 of that year to NE at home which I believe was a Thursday Night game.
My favourite memory of that season was listening to the MNF game against the Broncos on Armed Forces Radio (I'm not in the armed forces, it was just the only way to follow a live game in the UK at the time). The reception was poor, it was the middle of the night and the Jets dominated Elway's Broncos. A magnificent win. The game I'd most like to see a tape of, however, is the dismantling of Seattle in the Kingdome. O'Brien at his peak and Al Toon unstoppable (caught one TD pass between his legs). Just the highlights were incredible.
