Every time we play the Browns I always think back to my greatest sporting dissapointment, it still pains me now- Jets blowing the divisional play off against the Browns in 1986 season. Back in these days we in the UK had coverage in delayed transmission but I still remember the game clearly, Bob Trumpy and Don Criekey (sorry if there spelt wrong) were commentating. Trumpy:"Freeman Mcneil brakes the plane and the Jets take a 19 to 10 lead with 4mins 19 remaining. You can hear a pin drop in this stadium." How could we blow that lead? Mark Gastineau will answer that one. Roughing up Bernie Kosar in a pointless tackle which led to them coming back and winning in double overtime? Anybody else remember this day?
Yes. I Remember it like it was yesterday. I was 8 years old and thinking we were going to go to the Super Bowl. But on an unfortunate 3rd and long play cost us that chance. Then the double OT! Unbelievable. I have this game on 3 DVD disks, but I ahven't had the heart to play it yet
Just was watching "highlights" from this game on the Jets website. I was 14 years old and wanted to kill Gastineau myself after that game. Funny how the highlights fail to show the dumbest penalty of all time.
I remember it oh too vividly as well. Home on vacation. Watching that late hit and knowing, just knowing, it would end bady.
That Gastineau call was very questionable. That game turned out to be alot like Pitt '04. After Ryan got hurt and O'Brien came in we couldn't do anything on O(outside of Freeman's run to make it 20-10).
The 80s was a decade filled with playoff disappointments for Jets fans. Todd throws that interception against the Bills at Shea in 81. The Mud Bowl debacle. And of course, the Cleveland Choke. TBTF
i have watched that game over and i tell ya - the gastineau play was a questionable call but i believe it occurred on 2nd down...... granted it may have kickstarted the reversal but the jets had ample opps to stop the browns... an overall team collapse that was infortunately common under walton and crew. jil
I have the tape and the program from that day, I'll be breaking it out early Sunday to get me pumped up....
I remember that day very well. Heartbreaker of a loss. Does anyone know what we are lifetime versus Cleveland? I tried looking around for a site with such statistics and couldn't find one. Anyone have any idea?
http://www.theganggreen.com/history/matchups.php It's not updated on all teams but since we last played Cle in '04 it's up to date against them.
Probably my worst moment in 32 years as a Jet fan, and that is saying something. It was compounded by the fact that the winner played Denver, who we destroyed in the regular season. Granted the game would have been at Denver, but I would have liked our chances. And of course watching the Giants go on to beat Denver and win the Super Bowl made it the most miserable NFL playoffs of my lifetime. I'll tell you the play that sticks with me the most. After Cleveland score to make it 20-17 right after the 2:00 warning, we got the ball back with a chance to run out the clock. For whatever reason, Joe Walton called a QB draw with Ken O'Brien, we were just discussing what a lead foot this guy was. The result was a loss, technically a sack, which stopped the clock and saved Cleveland a bunch of time. Of course they took advantage of that and managed to tie the game with a FG before the end of regulation. To this day I don't know what Walton was thinking. Maybe the huge QB draw Ryan ran the previous week in the KC game, but that was Ryan who was much more mobile. Similar to Herm taking a knee in the exact same spot in Pittsburgh, I lost total faith in Joe Walton as a head coach that day.
Yeah, we are 7-11 against them lifetime including the 86 playoff loss. In the 70's they dominated us 5-0, the 80s gave us some credibility going 4-4 against them including the heartbreak 86 loss. In the 90s we are up 2-1, and in the current decade we beat them in 04 and lost in 02...
Jeez, you're a picky bastard, what more do you want every friggin' score? You have the internet you know, and it could be your friend... :grin: 1970 Jets 21 Browns 31 (first MNF) 1972 Jets 10 Browns 26 1976 Jets 17 Browns 38 1978 Jets 34 Browns 37 1979 Jets 22 Browns 25 1980 Jets 14 Browns 17 1981 Jets 14 Browns 13 1983 Jets 7 Browns 10 1984 Jets 24 Browns 20 1985 Jets 37 Browns 10 1986 Jets 20 Browns 23 (playoff loss) 1988 Jets 23 Browns 3 1989 Jets 24 Browns 38 1990 Jets 24 Browns 21 1991 Jets 17 Browns 14 1994 Jets 7 Browns 27 2002 Jets 21 Browns 24 2004 Jets 10 Browns 7
Prior to the 1986 playoff game, that 1978 game was at the time the worst loss of my 11-year-old life. It was the first year I ever saw the Jets in contention late in the year. They came back in the 4th quarter from 27-10 down, behind Matt Robinson, and actually got up 34-27. Cleveland then came back to win, dropping the Jets to 8-7 and eliminating them from playoff contention. I still remember how pissed I was. The 1979 opener at Shea only reopened the wound. On the positive side, the 1985 game was the season finale and we clinched a home playoff game, and I was at the 1990 game with a little hottie from Secaucus that I used to date.
The 1990 game started my streak(I have been to every home game since that game) and interestingly the 2002 Browns game was my 100th straight home game.
That is very interesting, I don't think I ever actually thought about how many Jets games I've been to. My current seats I've had for about 15 years, before that we scalped all the time going back to Shea. Jeez, I have to have been to almost 200 games in my life. I never realized just how pathetic my life really is. Thanks for pointing that out....
Hm, I never realize just how seldomly we play the Browns. We've played NFC teams more often in the last 10-12 years.
