Man the analog reception on those portable TVs or even Sony Watchmen sets back in the day was something else. Many tuned to NBC 4. But this old NJN News report really put both sporting events in perspective.
While I was never born in the 80's, as a Mets/Giants/Knicks/Rangers fan, this makes me feel proud to see my 2/4 of my favorite New York sport teams win the World Series and advance to/win the Super bowl.
1986 Was the Year I became a New York "Football" Giants 🏈🇺🇸🙏✝️❤️ fan and a New York Mets Baseball ⚾🇺🇸❤️🙏✝️ fan ... 1986 What an amazing Childhood love 1980's
What a season in New York- the Mets won the World Series and the Giants went on to win Super Bowl XXI, 2 1/2 months later!!! Nothing like a World Series-Super Bowl championship double in the same city and that's happened, numerous times(1970, 1979, 1986, 2004)!!!
My Favorite Baseball Team Is The New York Mets, Football Is The Only Sport That I Like The Two New York Teams, The New York Jets And The New York Giants.
I'm a Jets fan, so I really didn't care too much about the football side, but after the Mets won, I couldn't sleep I was so excited. I was 13 during that year, so my dad let me stay up for all the games.
Plenty of us DO exist. I had a mid-term exam the next morning. I watched game seven that night. I did not get to bed until 2AM at the earliest. What an awesome night. I went to bed a very happy World Champion Mets fan.
Holi crap, you are right! How is it possible that I have memories from watching both games?! I remember Rypien's TD pass & how the commentators were mentioning how Joe Gibbs had tricked the Giants by having Rypien throw the opposite way off a roll earlier in the season. But I remember being on the phone with my father during the bases loaded 1 out chances each team had in the 8th.
The Giants and Redskins would play at the same stadium 5 years later at the same time as the classic Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. That time, the Redskins would come back from 13-0 down at halftime to win 17-13 and they would go on to win the Super Bowl that year.
Ill bet if the Jets had a game at home on October 27, 1996 on Sunday Night Football and if the 1996 World Series went to a game 7 the crowd would probably be going nuts from beginning to end about the Yankees and not give 2 shits about the Jets throughout the entire game.. lol.. since the Jets were winless up to that week (In reality the Jets played Arizona on the road and won for their only victory in an eventual 1-15 season)
I am a New York Yankees and Giants fan, and that was hilarious. Usually Yankee fans hate the Mets, but it's WAY better than the Red Sucks winning! GO NEW YORK!
Im a Mets and Jets fan but more importantly Im a New Yorker and Only in The Greatest City in the world this would happen . Congrats Giants on beating another team from Boston
While most people here probably know why Game 7 of the World Series was played the same night of MNF, some may not know, so here goes...Game 7 was rained out on Sunday night & had to be moved to Monday...which obviously made for a great night for NY Sports...oh, BTW, GO GIANTS!!! :-D :-D