Love the Logo!! Enjoy watching the game. I was surprised YouTube had the entire game including the OT...
No shit. How bout Kurt Sohn from Fordham. I imagine some day soon sitting down to watch the Jets with the lad “Grandpa, what does an offense look like?”
Great find. Thanks for posting. I was at that game with my friends. They wanted to leave with the Jets trailing by seven at the end. They wanted to beat the traffic on the George Washington Bridge. I said no way. We are hanging in there until this game is over. It’s a good thing I drove.
OK, this is probably the 50th time that I've told this story, but here's the truncated version of something similar to yours. Our friend's wife, who doesn't really know much or care much about football, occasionally came to the games. Late in the 4th Q she stands up and with a sweeping gesture towards the field she goes, "We should we leave. There's nothing going on here." She was serious. We still talk about it.
Got goosebumps watching that again. I was 13 and my buddy Ron's dad had just gotten divorced. Poor guy had a house down the Jersey Shore and he took his kid and about five of us, who were his friends to spend the weekend down there. He got us all the pizza and food, and whatever we wanted. He spent the whole week drowning his sorrow in booze. I didn't get it at the time but I do now. We watched that game and I lost my mind. Weird, but great memory.
Of course an epic Jets win comes with a price. A friend's folks divorce, his Dad's depression fueled drinking, feeling bad for your friend/awkwardness balanced out by some pizza, swimming, and a Miami fail. The only thing missing from this story is a drowning and some shark deaths. Jets gonna somehow Jet even when they win. EDIT: Fuggin' autocorrect. Why does that chit change what's right? I want my money back! I've been wanting my $ back for everything since I was 5, but still.
I was already a Jets fan when I saw that game - the highlights on Channel 4 in the UK. Dick Enberg's commentary is seared into my memory. His evident delight in the game - he sounded like a little kid who'd got everything he wanted for Christmas and then realised he still hadn't opened the biggest present. The first 11 weeks of that season were my best time as a Jets fan, rivalled only by the 2000 season (I know there have been other good playoff teams, but the 2000 season was very special to me because I was living in LA at the time and was able to watch all of the games live for the first time ever in my life). My God, O'Brien could throw the deep ball, couldn't he? And the pass to tie the game up was just a bullet. I don't know how Walker didn't break a couple of fingers. It was 34 years ago. Where does the time go?
Thank you so much for uploading this. I was at this game, sec 325 front row, right on the goal line for the game-tying TD. I forgot just how insane that 4th quarter was. The ball was bouncing all over the place. I just watched the last play of regulation ("78 Fullback Hide"), and then I watched the extra point with no time remaining like six times. I defy anyone to find me another roaring ovation like that one for six points, let alone one point. (And that's after 20K people had already left to beat the traffic!)!
We were neighbors. My season tickets were in Section 326. That was the last section standing when they tore down the old Stadium.
My friend did leave - but then reappeared for the overtime. Believe it or not security allowed him to come back in. Probably without his ticket stub.
Probably because security left their posts, and ran down the tunnels to see what all the excitement was about!!
