8-8 1978 season Every season I had season tickets we won 3 games until '78 Favorite players: Joe Willie, Lou Piccone, Lance Mehl, Jim Hudson, Bake Turner, Larry Keller, Emerson Boozer, Matt Robinson, Big Bad John Elliott, Wayne Chrebet, Clark Gaines, Kevin Long, Jamie Rivers, Don Maynard, George Sauer, Jerry Holmes, Mike Battle, Billy Mathis
That was a fun season up until the Cleveland game. Before 1981 that was my favorite year--opening with the win over Miami in the new unis, winning at Denver on the bomb to Walker. Even the Cleveland game that finished us was an amazing comeback by the Jets, down 27-10 going into the 4th, we actually got up 34-17 before losing in OT.
I will always remember the Denver game, Matt to Walker, the Orange Crush, we whipped them...it was a fun year to be a Jet fan :beer:
First play of the 4th quarter, Walker split two DBs and ran right by them. Denver had a good D in those days, the Orange Crush. Even had a soda named after them. My parents took me to the Buffalo game at Shea that year, we won I think 42-14, a big day for Kevin Long. I was also at the New England game when Todd came back and got hurt again, then Leahy missed the FG for the game at the end.
Seafood do you remember the silence at the end of the game when Leahy missed the FG, 63,000 people, it sounded like somebody let the air out of the stadium, in those days Leahy was terrible...
Yeah. We were up behind the home plate end zone, where the kick was coming towards. Because I was 11, when everyone stood up I couldn't see, even standing on the seat. Then I heard the mass groan, a guy in front said "he fucking missed it!", then the silence. It was small consolation that the Giants lost on the Herm Edwards fumble play that same day. That game also was very costly, it was November. How Leahy stuck around so long is beyond me.
I just added the Denver game to my list on page 1, also the Yale Bowl Giant game from 1974. Namath with the bootleg to tie and the win in OT on the pass to Boozer. I think Joe called a handoff in the huddle and took it upon himself to run the bootleg. Nobody figured he would or could do it on the bad knees.
The strike shortened '82 season had to be the best Jet team in recent memory. They whipped both Cincy and LA Raiders on the road in the playoffs, only for Todd to throw 5 INTs to Miami on a rain soaked Orange Bowl Field in the AFC Championship Game. The most overrated coach in NFL history, Don Shula (who failed to win one SB in his last 25 years of coaching), made the decision not to cover the field to slow down the Jets high flying offense. To this day, I don't know how the NFL let him get away with that garbage. That was Bush League crap by the NFL all the way. The bummer was the Dolphins were worse than than both the Bengals and Raiders that season.
Jackass got away with it though, that's why I'll never have any respect for him....He knew wew were better...
It's funny that you say that. I also remember him missing some big kicks. The one that broke my heart was at the end of a game against New England. I remember Steve Nelson, one of the Pats' LB's going up to Leahy and patting him on the head and saying basically "thanks for choking". It was one of the most classless moves I've ever seen and I have despised the Patriots ever since. And as for Leahy - he went on to have one hell of a career. Would probably be in the HOF if the Jets had won a bit more.
1998 team. Far and away the best Jets team I've seen hit the field. Everything from the players to the coaching staff. <drool> 1999 was supposed to be our year. It was supposed to happen THAT YEAR. THE AFC WAS OURS FOR THE TAKING!!!
I loved that '86 team with Kenny O. Most of the guys on the team were there for a while and they were New York Jets. When I look back at the teams over the years, I always remember Kevin McArthur's run back against Cleveland. I was a teen then. I lived to watch the Jets on Sundays. Remember Paul Maguire stating we would not win another game that season? And sadly, he was right. Bastard. I hate him for that to this day.
Not to piss on this thread or anything, but Miami beat the Jets three times that season. The field was bone dry for the first two.
Definitely 2002 for me, I was too young to remember 1998 with any accuracy. Plus, I was at the Packer game in 02. Best game I've ever been to.
bruce harper almost clocked me out on the course with a golf ball, came up to me and made sure i was alright and said he was really sorry and just thought he was a nice guy until my dad told him that he loved watching him play and bruce thanked him and signed a golf ball for me and my dad then went back to his round... never saw him play but hes a favorite of mine now
