Jets finished the strike shortened regular season 6-3 and were underdogs to the defending AFC Champion Bengals in the first round of the "AFC Tournament". Result was a 44-17 beatdown by gang green highlighted by a Darrol Ray 98 yard INT return for a TD. Enjoy Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
This is cool.... almost 10 years before i was born.. i like going back to these games and learning our roots! They also have the monday night miracle game on youtube if you wanna post it... you've been doing it so i won't take your swag haha.. thanks for posting though.
I'm glad you like. These are the years I became a Jets fan(early 80s). This 1982 team was as good as any Jets team I've seen since. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Seeing the commercial for the 11% Chase money market account is the most shocking thing in the video.
Have to say I enjoyed football more back then. Players looked like men with real shoulder pads, sleeves and real uniforms (none of this stupid "color rush") stuff or Jacksonville Jaguars/Bucs joke uni's. No pass interference 20x a game. If you hit a receiver it wasn't a personal foul.
I noticed that too...another thing I noticed is I keep hearing how it's a "passing league" now...I watch these old games and the teams were flinging the ball all over the place....size of players...especially lineman...much smaller Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Man, good memories. Thanks for posting. I was only 10, but I clearly remember watching that with my Dad. *Edit* I don't feel like looking it up, but we upset the Raiders the next week in the big Lance Mehl game, right?
Ahhh. 1983. Think I was 6 or 7. I remember seeing my first bit of football that year when my Dad watched the SB. All that Astroturf back then!
Great wins indeed. We beat arguably the two best teams out there. I was convinced they would beat the Stinky Fish and were on their way to the SB. We know the story of what came next..... Still hurts that loss....and I fukn hate Shula to this day
Was gonna say... The field looks like green asphalt. Nearly every play a player was getting up trying to shake the pain off. Probably hurt like a bitch being tackled or just falling on that shit.
It was extremely difficult to play on for baseball and football players. And turf ended a lot of careers. But for soccer players, where cleat length for traction is crucial, I will never know how they did it. Some of those old NASL players literally were one step away from the scrap heap, so they must have figured "f-ck it." Some of those old games are unwatchable.
I hear ya, it has definitely come a long way since those days. I did my college thesis a few years back on risk factors and preventative strategies associated with non contact ACL injury. Playing surface and cleat style with respect to the spike dimensions and orientation plays a huge role in these non contact injuries we so often see. Not to mention the amount of force these athletes produce while performing dynamic movements. It's become a real problem on so many different levels.
I have this game on DVD - their first playoff win since SB III. I was 11 years old watching this in my grandparents apt in Mt. Vernon NY.........brings back memories. A tinge of sadness also.......that was a GOOD team but half the season was wiped out by strike and they fell apart in the Orange Bowl two weeks later to a team they should of beaten IMO. Then Michaels was fired and all the craziness began all over again.......cycles!
Watching these old games makes me wonder how our CB Jerry Holmes #47 ever made a tackle with those skinny pin legs of his...he was a good corner Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
One of my favorite Jet wins. Shocking at the time - Cinci was a damn good team and had played very well at other home playoff games of this era. It was all Freeman, all day. Thanks for posting!
I see I'm not the only one to remember those chicken legs.....decent corner played really well for a couple of years in a row then jumped to USFL. Came back a few years later but wasn't the same .
