Just remembering this awful game I attended 11 years ago...pulled this from somebody's current post... 14. 10/1/95: RAIDERS 47, JETS 10; 10/8/95: BILLS 29, JETS 10 These two games comprise a single entry due to what head coach Rich Kotite inflicts on his players in two consecuive games. In front of a prime-time Sunday Night audience, as the crowd at Jimmy Hoffa coins a new cheer ("Just End The Season") and then begins to openly root for the Raiders, Kotite assigns former college quarterback Vance Joseph to cover all-World Raider WR Tim Brown. At least Joseph gets out of that game with his hide intact; the next week, at OJ Simpson Not Guilty Stadium (the verdict is handed down the previous Wednesday (10/4/95)), Kotite assigns never-started-a-game-at-that-position-in-his-life OT Everett McIver to guard all-World Buffalo DE Bruce Smith--and Jet QB Boomer Esiason pays for it by sustaining a concussion courtesy of a nasty, but perfectly legal, hit from Smith. Somehow, Kotite keeps his job for 26 more games. As an interesting postscript, Joseph lasts through the season and disappears; McIver actually benefits from his baptism of fire and later gains a starting OL job in Dallas...where a series of concussions ends the career of Hall-of-Fame shoo-in QB Troy Aikman.
I was at that Sunday Night Game/Debacle against the Raiders. One of the low points in Jet history for sure. I recall us getting scorched unmercilessly by Tim Brown all evening. Then the crowd just gave up and got very ugly to the point where we were entertained by our own badness. I also recall tons of gloating from the Raider nation that evening. We need to step on the Raiders throats this Sunday and beat the living craqp out of them. No letup, just humiliate them and their fans.
My coach used to say this when we were the favored team. He was a lot like Mangini. Emotion is always at a 7. Not too high to be out of control, not too low to be unexcited. Don't give them a sniff. Take their spirit right from the begining. Jets have to do these things from the start on Sunday. Big play on the first series and don't look back. Don't give the raiders a thing. Not one ray of hope.
I was at that game to.. Ithink RB Joe aska(one eye) took a handoff and went the distance very late in that game. I loved the Papers claiming the jet fans turned on Jets late in that game. The fact is US Raiders fans were the majority by the fourth quarter. (Most of the Jet fans were gone by third quarter) That was awesome giving the Defense Chant when the Jets were on offense.
Wrong. Once again. Aska ran wild in the 1996 game which was played in broad daylight. He did not play in the 1995 Sunday night game. Aska did score a 4th quarter touchdown in the 1996 game. It was a 30-yard run.
I remember watching the Jets go to Oakland and eliminating the Raiders and their super hero Lyle Alzado from the playoffs (only to lose to Miami in the Mud Bowl). The look on Lyle's face was a lot like Tom Brady's a few weeks ago when he was enjoying a mud enima curtusy of Sean Ellis. Priceless.
the raiders season ended long ago--just lose, baby. Is the bed and breakfast guy still running your offense, Joe?
I remember doing the same thing on the Raiders message board a few years ago before we visited Oakland in the playoffs. I talked all sorts of shit in the hopes that the Jets win and I can come back and gloat about how I was right. We were underdogs, and most didn't expect us to win. Let him have his fun. It's all that's keeping him from killing himself.
Big difference between talking smack over a playoff game and talking smack when your team has 2 wins going into the last game of the season...:raiders:
