Rivers was one of the guys who cracked the Cardinals starting lineup in 1968 after that team had a lot of racial tension in 1967 due to a lack of black starters on the defense. The Patriot in that photo is Mack Herron. The 1974 "Championship Chase" segment on him was great.
Mack Herron = Bruce Harper, by the way looked for the Stan Blinka photo where he broke Jefferson's jaw but couldn't find It
Rivers was one of a bunch of servicable LB's back In that era, John Ebersole, Larry Keller, Ron Crosby...etc.
Ho-LEE Crap. My first live Jet game ever was the game (at Shea) that Stan Blinka clotheslined John Jefferson of GB. His head and neck were stationary and the rest of his body/legs/feet flung straight out in front of him and he fell flat on his back from 6 feet in the air. Bitter cold, was with my wife-to-be and her Dad gave me a flask of Courvoisier to take the chill off. Still love that man. _
I believe that was week 16 of the 1981 season. we also played them at home in '82 but I think that game was warmer.
Nope, it was definitely the 1982 game. That was the Sunday game after Thanksgiving, my future wife and I were home for the long break and drove back up to Syracuse right from the game. We were sitting 3 rows from the top of Shea and the wind was whipping through the openings at the top of the stadium, made for a frigid game. I can still see Jefferson getting laid out in my minds eye. We probably weren't dressed appropriately for the game--again was my first NFL game so I wasn't sure what to expect. By that time, we were already playing in the Dome so football was an indoor sport _
Thanks to the Mets we played 4 home games in December every year and were 4-8 usually by then, most years during the 70's
ahhh, I remember the '81 game being freezing but I guess it was always cold w/ the winds at Shea. the game you were at was a close game? I think leahy hit the GW late. my first game attended came a year later in 1983. My only game at Shea as they moved in '84. I miss the big helmet logo at midfield.
Thanks to the Mets, that friggin horseshoe was a wind tunnel, especially the Pats game where the 2 guys got killed by the flying lawnmower
Other than the Jefferson hit, the wind, the Courvoisier and being with the woman I was in love with, I remember pretty much nothing else about that game. Was also my one and only game at Shea. Weird because I was 23 at the time. Yet, my first Met game when I was 10 and I can remember a bunch of specific plays and players (from both teams) and what we were doing and the yearbook and what we ate, etc. _
I'm the opposite, I was 8 at the time of my first game and I don't remember the entire game but I have vivid recollections of the day and the way it ended(Joe Cribbs catching a long TD pass) whereas my first Yankee game I remember eating food but not much about the game. I guess that should have been my first clue that I loved football more than baseball.
So World Cup is over, back to the heartache that is the Jets...I heard Geno was rated worst QB in NFL by the media. How typical.
