I'm grateful I was in college (in FL) in the mid nineties and had to work on the weekends...... not to mention that the NFL ticket wasn't widespread until things started to turn around. (The Kotite JETS weren't exactly getting air-time in North Florida)
Although it hurts us in this year's draft, and that it is only one game more than 95 season, which is the same amount Kotite only won in two years, but looks horrible either way, I'm glad we won our fourth game. Because if we didn't, Mangini would have shared the same pitiful record as that bum, Kotite. It really did suck during those years.
Yes and despite what other posters say you do play to win the game. We will pick # 6 instead of # 3 but it really doesn't matter where they pick if the Jets front office doesn't do their job.....a win is a win
Yes, Kent Graham played the entire game for the Cardinals. Esiason had been injured and did not return to action till the following week against the Giants. The week after the Giants game the Cardinals were in Washington. That was the game where Esiason overcame 4 interceptions to lead the Cardinals to an overtime win. He threw for 522 yards in that game. The Cardinals scored the final 17 points to win 37-34. Esiason threw two TD passes in the 4th quarter after the Cardinals were trailing 34-20. The one that forced OT came with 20 seconds remaining in regulation.
Cakes, dropping some knowledge. I also believe that the Cardinals game was the Sunday after the Yankees won the '96 World Series. I remember being quite hungover and surprised we won a game.
Yeah, the Jets-Cardinals game was October 27 and Cardinals-Redskins was November 10. A few days after the win, I went to a Halloween party at NYU. I wore my Keyshawn Johnson jersey and a brown bag over my head. Written on the bag: "1-8 Ain't That Bad" and "Just End This Shit"
Yes. I got into Vegas with some friends the Saturday when the Yankees beat Atlanta, then the Jet-Arizona game was the next day. I had money on them + 4-1/2 points. :up:
Boomer was not the QB for that game for AZ, Kent Graham was. That Card game was the day after the Yankees beat the Braves for their first WS Championship since 1978.
And just to dig a little deeper -that Jets-Cardinals game was their first match-up since 1978 ( 18 years between meetings is rare regardless of the AFC-NFC thing). Did anybody else know that 5 days before the 1978 Cardinals-Jets game was the last time the Yankees had won the WS before 1996, one day before the next Jets-Cardinals game?? Spooky stuff, eh
Then we played them in early November of 1999, just a few weeks after yet another Yankees World Series win. Luckily the trend was bucked in 2004, we played the Cardinals late in November and the Yankees had long since choked away their chance by then.:up:
Well it was still a bonehead trade, Huge was a good DE but the Jets got rid of him before his career even took off because the tuna went to a 3-4 and didn't need Huge anymore, Melvin Hayes, lol bust. Moore was our best Wr at the time, and they deal him away without even having a replacement???
The 1995 Jets roster was so inept that after the Jets made their final pre-season cuts, they realized there were only three (3) WRs on the roster: Ryan Yarbourough, Stevie Anderson, and an undrafted rookie named Wayne Chrebet. Kotite then traded a low round draft pick to TB for Charles Wilson and he started on opening day. What a joke....I think 1995 was even worse than 1976! Then to make up for their lack of WRs the following Spring, they signed both Webster Slaughter and Jeff Graham to big money deals and drafted Keyshawn with the first pick AND Alex Van Dyke with the second pick with Tony Brackens still on the board - who would have been a perfect compliment to Hugh Douglas!
Those 18 years of dormancy in the StL/PHO/ARI vs NYJ series was exceeded by only a couple other dormant spells. The Eagles-Chiefs series had a 21 year gap between contests at one time (off the top of my head I'm going to say it was 1971 to 1992). The first ever Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Buffalo Bills game will take place in 2009.
That's right, the Bills and Bucs have played about seven or eight times - all in Tampa. The Bucs have never been to Buffalo. Lucky them
And then you had Rich Kotite trying guys out in real games at brand new positions against All-Pros. Everett McIver at LT against Bruce Smith, almost got Boomer killed, Vance Joseph at CB against Tim Brown on national TV at home. It was like the perfect storm of inept front office, coaching and roster.
I was at that game. Bubby Brister heaved a ball into the crowd after we won the game. It was a rare bright moment in a really bad stretch. Regarding the mid 70s teams, that's when I started watching the Jets, 1974. Up until 1976 we had Joe Namath, and you felt that at any time he could pull a game out for you. So even though we were bad, it wasn't hopeless. Probably that 9-33 run from 1975 through 1977 was the worst period--that included Lou Holtz coming in and leaving, the end of Namath and the beginning of the Walt Michaels rebuilding years with Richard Todd. Very similar, in hindsight, to the mid 90s.
