Loved this game too, Joe Willie throws for 496 yards on only 15 completions and has 6 td passes 4 td passes over 65 yds https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197209240clt.htm
Great description of how disruptive Klecko could be, but I don't get how this game could possibly bittersweet to any Jets fans, It was EPIC.
Happy to say, I've been to half of these games. I'd argue with the 37-0 win over the Colts in '82. I had to look it up to remember it, so that's an indication it should not be there. Replace that with the unlikely Packers win that got them into the playoff in 2003. Also, the Pittsburgh win in the snow was unusual, but hardly exciting. The exciting part of that day was than Saddam was pulled out of his hole. Otherwise, not a big crowd that day, and it was more fun seeing the snow on the field and talking about Iraq than actual game-play. Thinking about it some more, the thrashing of the Buccaneers (62 points) was not that thrilling. That can go, and replace it with the either the '72 Namath Unitas shootout, or one of the '81 season playoff wins - take your pick Bengals or LA Raiders. Actually, is it true the 1968 AFL Championship game vs, the Raiders is NOT on this list and John Hall is? BLASPHEMY. That's it. This list is TRASH. Shame on them Joe Namath involved in ONE game? C'mon.
Some longtime Jets fans would say the 88' win against Parcells, LT and the Giants that knocked the Giants out of the playoffs, ConcordeChops.
I was at that game and left early b/c I had to get back to school in Philly. I saw them tie it up on a tailgater's TV in the parking lot and then listened to the win on the radio in my car. Classic game!
One of my favorite games. My favorite game that I watched at the stadium was the regular season finale where we beat the Packers to make the playoffs. The place went from dead quiet to a full roar when the Patriots kicked a field goal to give us the tie breaker over the Fins making the stakes in our game much more serious.
This was not the second best game but I was at the game when the Jets beat the LA Rams 27-24 back at Shea when Gastineau took on the entire Rams team after a sack. Much was made heading into the game that the Rams were not going to let Gastineau embarrass them with his sack dance. Sure enough, sack dance and the Rams went crazy. Another thing happened in that game. Erick Dickerson ran for over 200 yards. The jets still won. So long ago now, but I think they won it on a Pat Leahy FG. Might be wrong about that since I saw him kick many difficult FGs at cold windy Shea even though that day was warm and sunny. My second best game was probably the Jets-Raiders back in 1981 or 82 or whenever it was. I really thought they were going to win the Super Bowl that year. I'm sure we can come with a long list of worst Jets games ever. lololol I know I was at quite a few of those.
The AFL Championship game in 1968 was by far the second-best game in Jets history. Besides its importance as the only time the Jets actually got to the Super Bowl, it was an absolutely fantastic game. Any other possibility is completely absurd.
haha I remember someone posting that brawl on here a while back Major. It was insane....Jackie Slater bullrushed Gastineau once he started his sack dance and the entire Rams team followed, lol.
The truth is the 1968 championship game should be #2 - it was exciting and propelled the Jets to their #1 game. Common sense I would think. I remember the 37-0 game it was the first game back from the ‘82 strike. Hardly exciting .... the Jets stomped a bad team...
Yeah there’s a long list of good games and of course everybody has their own preference as to which was the best. That Jets Rams game at Shea certainly would qualify as entertaining and crazy. You had Dickerson running for 200 yards, a bench clearing brawl ( rare in football ), the Jets scoring on a blocked FG return, Richard Todd caught on camera flipping off fans, and Leahy wins the game in OT after missing an easy one earlier in the 4th quarter.
I was a STH back then, and went to this game with 3 friends. I'll never forget it. Section 326, Row 16, Seats 17, 18, 19 and 20. We all lived in the Bronx, and right after Miami took the lead near the end of the 4th quarter, my buddies all wanted to leave to get a jump on the GWB traffic. I drove, and I said, "I'm not leaving until the game is over." I took a lot of grief for saying that at first. As every school child knows, this was the game that started the Jet's 9 game winning streak, which came to an abrupt end when the Fins dropped another 45 on the Jets on MNF.
The Jets injuries that year were insane. Basically it started with Freeman McNeil and ended with Ken O'Brien's 3rd concussion of the year and at 10-1 the Jets were doomed. This was a particularly terrible way to end that successful era given that Namath's injuries were what ended the one before. I was pretty convinced by the end of the season that the Jets were cursed. Reliving the whole phenomena with Chad 20 years later was the kicker. I think most Jets fans of our experience have PTSD from all the trauma the team and injuries have inflicted on us over the years. Now of course we're going to take the guy with an injury history that stretches back to high school up high in the draft. As much as things change some things always stay the same.
