You didn't miss a whole lot. White uniforms at home back in the days before we bothered to dress up Giants Stadium in green drapes, the aging remnants of what was a good team, Joe Walton stumbling to the end of his days as coach, Ken O'Brien getting the shit kicked out of him like Wil E Coyote. The highlight for me had to be the 1988 finale, knocking the Giants out of the playoffs on a late O'Brien to Al Toon TD. Did nothing for us but it shut up the loudmouth Giant fans in their Simms and LT jerseys for a few months.
yea think i spent most of my time in the stalls those days. a few of you on this board were probobly right there with me you know who you are.
One of my favourite ever Jets moments. An audible by O'Brien, the Giants missing the playoffs as a result and the Jets nailing a winning (just) record at 8-7-1.
I was at that game. I've told the story before, but I was sitting next to an elderly couple I had never seen before. They were both daintily dressed in Red and Blue from head to toe (over dressed, really, which was typical for some Giants fans in those days), he in his blue dress slacks with silly little red and blue socks and penny loafers, she in her red slacks with Giants sweater and matching red and blue scarf, both impeccably topping it off with their expensive Giants jackets. We made small talk and I thought we were getting along okay, right up until the end of the game. Then the woman turned on me, obviously VERY pissed, and said, "That was a terrible thing your team just did! Why did you have to do that to us? You had nothing to gain by knocking us out of the playoffs! That was a lousy thing to do!" I just turned to her and said, "You've got to be fucking kidding, lady!"
Hmmm. I wonder if that lady was 'coked up'....... The Jets had a few exciting games during that era.....especially that year. They beat the Steelers for the first time getting one monkey off their back anyway....I was at the 44-30 win in Miami when the Jets interecpted Marino 5 times despite him throwing for 521 yards.....
The great 80's teams were fun to watch.. Freeman McNeil.. Wes Walkler.. Johnny Hector.. Mickey Schuler.. The Sack exchange.. I remember meeting all those guys when I was a kid..
The one thing that I remember was the Jet/Miami games. It seemed like Kenny O and Marino were both trying to show who the better QB in that draft was. Every game a shootout with the 54-48 game the capper. This was also the era when Phil McConkie, on his radio show, was asked what is the difference between Jets and Giants fans and he replied, "About 20 years and a 6 pack."
I was at the finale the year before, the strike-shortened 1987, when both teams finished 6-9. The Giants killed us that day and Al Toon got hit so hard you could feel it from the upper deck. It was a Giants home game and I remember the ticket had their Super Bowl winning logo on it, pissed me off. The guys around us were getting hostile until we somehow got on the subject of metal concerts we'd seen from the upper deck there and then it was cool from that point on. Cold day.
Great Meadowlands/GS shows I saw: GNR/Metallica Pink Floyd Monsters of Rock - Metallica killed that day, and some maniacs broke into and torched the booth/box at the very top of the stadium. Good times! Aerosmith/Deep Purple/GNR -> Axl in white leather; Paradise City video is filmed.
I was there. Kingdom Come Dokken Metallica Scorpions Van Halen Long hot day. I was sober and cold by the time Van Halen went on.
I was hung over by the time VH came on. Sucked. Actually, only Metallica was good that day, as I recall. Dokken was particularly horrible.
"Then the woman turned on me, obviously VERY pissed, and said, "That was a terrible thing your team just did! Why did you have to do that to us? You had nothing to gain by knocking us out of the playoffs! That was a lousy thing to do!" "This was also the era when Phil McConkie, on his radio show, was asked what is the difference between Jets and Giants fans and he replied, "About 20 years and a 6 pack." Actually, from the story above, the difference between Jets & Giants fans is about 50 years and a crack pipe.
Just be glad that back then, smoking cocaine wasn't en vogue yet. Free Basing and Crack was still several years off after Richard Pryor flamed himself. I remember the Toon years, the shootout, the 10-1 collapse and of course, Wesley Walker.
