I think the best play of the NYJ/NYG game was when JWN ran a bootleg play for a TD with us ahead already. It was like sticking a knife into the NYGs. The NYG HC was fired that same nite
Neither of those statements is true. Namath did not run a bootleg TD in that game - the Jets TDs were scored by Sauer (pass), Mathis (run and pass), Battle (punt return), and Lammons (pass). Allie Sherman was not fired that night, but rather a month later after the Giants had completed an 0-5 preseason. The game in the Yale Bowl against the Giants where Namath scored on a bootleg was five years later, during the regular season on November 10, 1974, when the 1-7 Jets beat the 2-6 Giants in the first regular season overtime game in NFL history, 26-20 (the bootleg tied the game 20-20 in the fourth quarter). That was his first rushing TD in five years, and was famous for him putting up his hand as he crossed the goal line so no one would hit him.
Wrong game. Namath ran it in against the Giants at the Yale Bowl, a regular season game. Their first ever regular season match up I think. Got the Jets into OT, where they won. EDIT:. Read statjeffs post after I wrote this. Sorry.
Read this from wilipedia about Allie in 1969 (including a 37–14 loss to the Super Bowl champion New York Jets, led by Joe Namath, whom Sherman wanted to draft in 1965), Sherman was dismissed in September, a week before the regular season,[14] finishing 57–51–4 for his Giants coaching career. With a ten-year contract signed in 1965 at $50,000 ($390,000 in current dollar terms) annually,[15] he was on the payroll through 1974.[16]
No, you are incorrect, Namath did not run for a TD in the preseason game. He did in the game at the Yale Bowl, years later. You have your games and years completely wrong, the bootleg was not in the preseason game. The biggest play of that game was the return TD.
So in other words the two things you said were not true - Namath did not score in the exhibition game and Sherman was not fired that night. Just like I said. And of course Tucker Frederickson is completely full of shit. The exhibition game was far more important to the Giants than it was to the Jets, as Mara openly acknowledged, and the Giants played their starters for three quarters until the game was effectively over. The fact that he would say anything different 40 years later only makes clear once again why I have always, and will always, despise the Giants.
Exactly The Giants were shooting their mouths off that the Jets weren't champions until they beat the Giants. Arrogant shit heads. They talked about winning the game, city and the real championship up to that game. Mara wanted the starters to play deep into an exhibition game, Namath and the Jets abused the Giants. Any other story is bullshit.
I go all the way back to that time, and I always, always, hated the Giants and their fans with a passion, but then they did two things that kind of took that edge off for me: SB XLII and SB XLVI.
Since I was actually barely rooting for the Pats in those games (although extremely unhappily) I obviously don't feel that way (if the Pats were going to have five SB wins I would have had them win XLII and XLVI and lose XLIX and LI). Not only do I hate the Giants and their fans more than I do the Pats, I hate the Dolphins more than the Pats too (and it really is the obnoxiousness of the fans that keeps the hate alive far more than the team itself, although as long as a Mara owns the team I'll root against them for sure).
I just turned on that NFL Network! Why! Gastineau just roughed Bernie Kosar! Time to eat a bowl of Corn Flakes! With glass shards from the glass of prune juice that hit the floor! It's better than drinking that dollar store Pinesol knockoff! Pinesol! Pine Cleaner who cares! It makes my house smell like cat pee after I cleaned so what's the point! Kosar! What goes around comes around! If you know what I mean! Signed, -Mrs. champtionjets69
Yeah but up to now since we won SB 3 the NYGs have totally out played us including winning 4 SBs along the way
