1960 - (AFL) - New York Titans 41, Dallas Texans 35 1961 - (AFL) - NEW YORK TITANS 21, Buffalo Bills 14 1962 - (AFL) - New York Titans 46, DENVER BRONCOS 45 1972 - DETROIT LIONS 37, New York Jets 20 1985 - DETROIT LIONS 31, New York Jets 20
Why would anyone want a Jets Thanksgiving day game in Dallas. Forgetting that it seems like Dallas always wins on Thanksgiving, it starts right around dinner time every year with a household of family. No thanks, I'd much rather it be NE, a game with rooting interest & still get the Jets on Sunday..
I remember the 1985 game. Had to hear most of it in the car, driving through a rain storm. And a bad Lions team beat us, which ultimately cost us the division, we finished 11-5. Playing Thanksgiving can be overrated. Is it set in stone now that the night game will always be at Kansas City?
I was so young when the Jets played on Thanksgiving in 85 but I think that the Pats will get the nod over us but if we finish strong we have a real shot especially if we made the playoffs and pulled off an upset in the 1st round, no stinkers like last week. BTW if KC becomes a permanent fixture it'll be a joke, 75% of the teams in this league have a good fan base. You can put a Titans/Cardinals game on Thanksgiving and it would be a sellout.
A bad Lions team on the ROAD but at the Silverdome they had 1 loss that year- to the 15-1 eventual Champion Bears. We lost out on the div to Miami but Det also beat Miami at home. That was the day Ahmad Rashad proposed to Mrs. Huxtable on the pregame show.
Just one more reason to hate Ahmad Rashad. You're right though, the game that really cost us the division was at Miami a couple weeks earlier. I think we just took the lead late and Marino threw a last second TD to beat us, something like 21-17 or 24-21.
I think it was 21-17, O'Brien had just hit Rocky Klever for the go ahead TD w/ about a min or 2 but moments later Marino hit Mark Duper on a bomb and we lost.
The "real" throw back jerseys look more like the Rams jerseys now. Dark blue/purple with gold/yellow highlites. Beyond that, we ARE wearing our throwback unis. That was the first thing Parcells did when he took over, thank GOD.
Point 1 - what is so great about having the Jets play on Thanksgiving? I want no part of it. I, for one, don't like to be distracted during a Jet game. Thanksgiving is a holiday, the family is over, everyone is talking - it would be a complete distraction. Add in dinner (usually after 4 pm), driving time (may miss part of the game and have to use the radio), or the work it takes to host the family and it would be a royal pain in the ass. Let someone else play. Those who want the game must all be under 25 years old and have no family or other responsibilities to worry about. Point 2 - why do you want the Jets to have the competitive disadvantage of having to play Dallas on Turykey Day. Dallas' winning percentage is something like .700 on Thanksgiving. Let NE play there on that day. Through in the short week and who needs it??? Point 3 - If a third game is going to be an annual affair, please let KC have it. Again, as a season ticket holder and older Jet fan, a home game on Thanksgiving would be a disaster. Some of us can't just "ditch" the family without repurcussions. And the traffic that day is the absolute worst of the entire year. It would take most of us 3 hours to get there and home. All in all it would be one of the worst things that could happen to ticket holders. Let's watch KC on TV and not deal with the incredible hassle home game would cause. Point 4 - what in the hell is the attraction to throwback jerseys? I think that they are butt ugly, for the most part. If the old jerseys were so good, teams would still be wearing them. The Jets current uniform is one of the best looking and classiest in the league. I don't want to see the ugly 1980's jerseys again. Detroit looked so much better this year than is those awful plain blue jerseys and solid helmets. Dallas' throwbacks makes them look like a HS football team.
I don't think I have ever agreed with a TGG post as much as I do this post. NE-Dallas would be the best possible Thanksgiving game for Jets fans..
I believe it is actually 24-14-1, for a winning percentage of .628 (there was a 24-24 tie in 1969 against San Francisco). It's actually kind of interesting. Dallas has played every Thanksgiving since 1966, except in 1975 and 1977, when the St. Louis Cardinals got the games (along with Detroit, of course). Their home record in those years in all non-Thanksgiving games is 179-78, for a winning percentage of .696, almost 70 points higher than for the Thanksgiving games. That is, the short week doesn't help Dallas any, as they would have had three more wins those weeks over the years if they had had the same overall winning percentage as in the other home games. Personally, I still don't want the Jets to play Thanksgiving, but it actually seems that if a team is going to play the Cowboys in Dallas, playing on Thanksgiving does not give them an extra disadvantage.
