I hear these guys in the booth, I think of the Christmas tree lights blinking in the room as we're watching the game. Holidays, football, Madden and Summerall.
For a regular-season interconference game between two middling teams, this is way more entertaining than it should be. I've watched this so many times.
I went to high school with Wesley Walker played football in junior high with both Wesley and Vince Ferragamo great rivalry game Banning vs Carson both on opposite sides before
Yes I remember Walker playing at Carson high and Ferragamo at Banning high. Both very good players. This is coming from a former Marine league rival at Narbonne.
I agree i was 10 at this time started aage 7 the year after we lost the afc championship game great memories dirty gritty shea it was our home and where we belonged
I phoned the Jets back in 87 about that; primarily because the injury list at the Meadowlands was always as long as my arm. Whoever I talked to did not agree; stating that Namath developed knee problems at Shea, as did Klecko. Than he said something I could not believe: that because of Klecko’s problems he would probably not be a Jet in 88. Well, when I saw him wearing blue that fall I thought: ‘I probably knew about this before anyone outside of the Jet offices; probably before Klecko himself. Anyway, the guy was reaching. The Jets belonged at Shea.
Still...one of my All Time favorite games period. If that had been a Super Bowl, they would still be talking about it today. Pat had it right, for a regular season game, both teams played their asses off. A game tge NFL could be proud of. If someone was to say, hey...what's this football thing, why does everyone love it? Just send them this link, tell them to get sone munchies and their favorite chair and enjoy. Just excellent football played by both teams.
You can hear throughout the broadcast the planes going over Shea, NY LaGuardia airport was right next door practically to the stadium. In fact true story, the team was named the Jets because they played at Shea, next to the airport. They were originally the NY Titans for 4 years before moving to Shea & changing their name in 1964.
I was viewing the upload of the 1981 Bills at Jets wild-card game with Chuck Jones and Len Dawson doing the play by play. At one point during the game Len Dawson said the fans are so loud that the Bills offensive players can't hear the quarter-back signals. Dawson didn't realize a jet aircraft happen to be flying over head drowning out the signals.
The Jets final year playing at Shea Stadium & I love the atmosphere here with the dirt & grime, the old Jets logo here. Shame both "NEW YORK" teams (Jets, Giants) play in New Jersey.
This is priceless. I missed the Jets at Shea Stadium. The old JETS logo on the end zones the baseball diamond on the field n the fact that the field was played on grass n dirt
1:50:07 A big fight. but note in those days, no ejections. no announcers screaming about it being a disgrace. game starts literally a few minutes later.
I heard a story from ED about that fight. Players from all over the league called the rams facility to thank Slater. A lot of players disliked Gastineau...
I didn't like the over the top celebrating but he can do it unless they make it against NFL rules. Rams have no business physically attacking. They got fukked up. California pansies.
you can see the popularity of the two players involved by how teammates react. whole line of rams out there ready to go. most ot the jets be like. "now I gotta get in a fight cause of this asshole?" I just wish if slater was gonna do something he would done it. fuck a halfass shove from behind once you get there.
@@Monty_McFly I didn't like Gastineau's celebrating. However, they have no right to physically attack him. I would put a few of them out of commission for doing so and thinking, erroneously, that they are tough. If you don't like it and supported the physically attacking, there i something for you also. Cunts.
1983 was the saddest year being a Jets fan growing up. First, it was the last year at Shea, their own stadium and home. They been playing in another team's home in nj ever since. Second, the Jets were favored to go to the Super Bowl that year. I was never more excited at the beginning of a season for a team then the 83 Jets and they finished 7-9.
The Jets from 1978 - '86 had a almost over abundance of talent. Some years they played close to their potential, but something would always derail them. Other times they just plain sucked. I could never figure them out. The Giants didn't have anywhere near the complete roster if talent like the Jets, but they kept scratching n clawing and made the playoffs (thanks to the Jets) in '81 and if a couple of breaks could've been a all New York Bowl in Detroit. The Giants settled down kept Big Tuna and trusty sidekick Bill Belichick and started dominating. Finally becoming a year in, year out threat in the NFC East. Then comes 1986! The Jets come out smokin'! Getting out the gate fast and rolling to a 10-1 record. The Giants were 9-2 and I was like...(in my Dick Enberg voice) "Ohhh My"!!! Can this be the year? Both are playing so well, and then....The Jets turned the clock back to 1976 and lost 5 in a row. Almost didn't make the playoffs. Had to go in as a Wild Card. Knocked off the young Chiefs and then was just a couple of 1st downs away from going to the AFC Title Game and what happened............. # They never got that 1st down, the game went into 2 overtimes and the season was over as Mark Mosley ended the dream for all New Yorkers. The Browns would lose to the Broncos as Elway said HELLO! Meanwhile, them Giants did exactly what #$$- TEAMS do! Roll the competi-s, and hoist up their % Trophy. So close in '86 but yet so far for Jet fans everywhere another disappointment. Hopfully the Jets will wipe the slate clean and say, we only have to win 3 more Lombardis Trophies to catch the G-men. Good Luck with that! '
watching Bobby Jackson (40) get out over his skis just shows how fast ED was running. Jackson closed the gap when he had the angle, but once ED got to full stride it was a boat race
He beat O.J. Simpson 2003 yards of the 1973 season. Erik Dickerson ran for 2104 yards. 1983 was the final year the New York Jets played at Shea Stadium. The next season they moved to the Meadowlands. Also two first year coaches for both teams.
Collins' two INTs at 6:45 and 37:35 , which gave him 5 INTs to that point (which projected to 16 games would have been 20 on the season, which would have broken the NFL record). He comes up hurt after the 2nd INT - Todd's tackle would today be flagged as a horsecollar - and doesn't return to the game.
@@seveglider8406 I wasn't suggesting Cromwell couldn't handle a football. Perhaps this was a vestige of the past when there was overall less specialization in the game and guys were going both ways and different players also doubled as punters or kickers. But I go back to '81 watching the Jets and I can't recall any other defensive backs - let alone all-pros like Cromwell - also holding in the kicking game. Can you? I didn't even recall it until I watched this game again. I would tend to think a starter or in this case a pro-bowl player going 50+ snaps a game wouldn't hold due to the risk of injury then derailing the kicking game, not to mention the added practice time needed to take reps with the long snapper and kicker. That's why the holder always seemed to be a sure-handed guy who wasn't on the field much, such as a backup quarterback or punter. I can remember Jeff Hostetler continuing to hold for the Giants after Simms went down in 1990 and who could forget Tony Romo in I think '06 muffing that snap on a game winning, chip shot field goal in the playoff game at Seattle. He had started the season as the backup QB and holder, then saw his first action as a starting QB. Could taking every snap on offense have impacted that hold? Probably not but who knows?
@@steves9964 Many other skilled players have also handled snaps and spotted the ball for placekickers. Lenny Dawson did it many times. I remember a defensive back named Joe Scarlatti who also held the ball for Tom Dempsey's famous 63 yard field goal. You want players who are mobile, with good hands taking long snaps Cromwell was an exceptional athlete who also executed a fake field goal and ran it for a touchdown. Placekicking requires combined skill and timing, an excellent snap, a player who can handle the snap and rotate the laces properly, good blocking to help the kicker do his job. You definitely want a very skilled player handling snaps regardless of whatever position he plays.
Jets just couldn't get going in 83. I was really pumped as a young kid for this season after the two previous playoff years, and they started with a solid victory in week one out in San Diego, won this back-and-forth battle with the Rams, had another good win out west in San Francisco against what would be an NFC finalist, but for me that blown 21-0 late 3rd quarter lead at Shea against White Shoes Johnson and Atlanta was the killer. Very inconsistent and undisciplined team despite as good a roster as anyone in these years, and though this was their first year under Joe Walton that would unfortunately become a theme until the wheels fell off in 89 and his reign finally ended.
I was at the home opener vs the seahawks. i was 11. Upper deck, 1st base side, last row. Jets down in the 4th, inside the 10yd line, Todd is running for the td and just drops the ball, seahawks recover. Guy next to me is screaming, give the wire cutters, i want to jump!! LOL!!
@@danielkelegian5306 I recall that Seattle game; I think the Jets had 7 or 8 turnovers. There was also an early sequence wherein the Jets stripped Seattle's punt returner and returned it for a TD only for the refs to overrule it and say his forward progress was stopped. That pretty much encapsulated the Jets' 1983 campaign.
Eric Dickerson- full bird cage facemask, goggles, mouthpiece with lip guard, collar- boy, full protection from the neck up, one of the first things I noticed about him, I didn't follow him closely at SMU.
Any truth to the rumor that Walt Michaels lost his job because he almost murdered Richard Todd in the locker after the AFC championship for throwing 5 int's. That's what my brother told me, that, and Todd would always choke in big games.
37:46 - Jets QB Richard Todd 'Horse collars' Kirk Collins of the Rams and preventing pick six. K. Collins is shaken up. 38:23 - Both Madden and Summerall praise the tackle Richard Todd made. Watching this before the 2019 (100th Anniversary) season arguing that it was a 'Horse Collar' tackle and it wasn't in the rules back then. I wish Madden video games still had the old grass stadiums with the baseball infields in the game for nostalgic purposes.
It's funny you say that because I just thought about that watching over the weekend: if you could play (exhibition and franchise) in team's old stadiums. Shea, Met Stadium, Orange bowl, etc
You're right -- I'm sure he mispoke. Madden was still the best person to talk about the Rams' new regime, because he and John Robinson were good friends growing up.
I LOVE WHEN A TEAM SCORES, NO STUPID CELEBRATION, AND GET RIDE OF THAT KICKING AT THE 35, WHY HAVE A PUNT RETURNER IF U CANT RETURN IT. FUCKING STUPID!
