I enjoy when posters post throwback games and discuss old-school Jets teams and players, esp the mid 80's, so thanks for posting CMan.
For a regular season game I would put the Jets 27-21 victory over the Giants in the 1988 season finale which eliminated the Giants from the playoffs as a better game than this one.
Below are 2 ticket stubs for the game. I went with my dad and sat in sec 325. Usually sat in other seats since we had a bunch of season tickets but somehow wound up in that section for this game. The ticket stub on the left, sec 128 was only $17.00 !!!! I picked that stub up off the ground in the parking lot as I was walking out of the stadium. I was a huge ticket stub collector when I was growing up & saved most of them.
haha it is awesome that you were at that classic Jets game with your Dad, Major. Kenny O'Brien lit up the sky in that game!
Thank you Cman you made my day with that one brother. It was nice to see real football once again. Men were men, and hell there were a lot less flags. Walker, Hector, and O’Brien were great. Hats off to the back judge for a great catch too.
Yes I'm very lucky to have been to many memorable Jets games thanks to family and friends who had tickets back then. That was also the game where afterward we were driving through Manhattan behind and in front of KOB & Pat Ryan as they were headed home together. We were going berserk in the car all happy after the game and they were cheering, waving, and smiling at us as we made our way through Manhattan to the Midtown Tunnel. Also had a catch in the parking with Tony Paige after that game. The 1980s were the best.
this is the game that made me a Jets fan. i was deciding between them and the jints when i saw this game and made a terrible rash decision. stupid 11 y/o dealing with the consequences ever since.
I was on the West coast that season. A buddy of mine let me and a friend use their season tickets for the 49ers that day. So I watched the first half on TV and experienced the second half on the car radio. It was still memorable. Got to go to the Jets Niners game later that season. I dressed in full Jets garb and snuck a bottle of tequila in, which turned out to be the only good thing about that game.
A little. This was 86 and the niners were full on dynasty and rabid. The were cool with the gear but they weren't cool with cheering against the niners. The tequila didn't help. We got a lucky int and after cheering someone several rows up threw beer down at me, but it hit all the people behind me and they all got mad so at the guy so? Now that I think about it, its probably a good thing we played so crappy that day. When the 4th started it was 21-3 so we went to the upper deck and smoked a joint. Cause, you know, 80s.
I moved to Brooklyn in May '84 after graduating from college to start a job in NYC, never lived near there before. My landlord was a statistician for MSG and had ties with all the local teams. After he found out I was a Jets fan he made some calls and was able to get me season tickets around the 45 yard line. I didn't know anyone at all in the area at that time so I passed. 2 years later after this game I asked him if he could still get tix, he just laughed.
Bittersweet game for me. Great comeback and performance by the Jets against our biggest rival. O'Brien and Walker both had maybe their greatest games. It was the beginning of the end for Joe Klecko, who was my favorite player. Klecko, BTW, directly caused both Marino sacks in the game. Stephenson and Miami's left guard had him double-teamed on the first one and he pushed the LG back - causing him to step on Marino's foot and cause the sack. That kind of play was one that Klecko had made repeatedly over the years, forcing an offensive lineman into a QB or RB with disastrous consequences for the opponent.
