Old thread, old picture from a team the year the Meadowlands was built... Chad and Richard Todd with long hair? Harper and LC? Dan Henning? Leahy a kid then who still holds the most points scored for the Green...I wonder where they are now? The Jets HOF coming to a new stadium! No more second class to the boys in blue! We can only hope...
oh man, this was fun to look at! Yeah that team may have been sucky but there were some who became the nucleus of better teams to come. Thanks for the photo dude.
I'm pretty sure but Marvin Powell (#79) was the biggest guy in the NFL that year. I know it does not look like it in the picture, but there was a year where he did hold that mark. He was a quality OT, Chris Ward on the other hand was a holding penalty waiting to happen, but when he we was on he was quality as well.
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Actually the Meadowlands was built before 1977, the Giants played their first game there in 1976. Nice picture though....
Clark Gaines had a nice fro going there, Todd with his vintage 70s hair. That was the first year without Joe Namath.
Yeah, they were very young and didn't win a lot of games, but the core ended up being the very good 1981 and 82 teams.
wasn't this the last year we wore the original jet uni's before the switch to the ugly white and green "modern look" it looked much better when we added black trim in 1990, but in retrospect we just should've kept this look all the way through.
Yes. I believe the first game in the new unis was the 1978 opener at home against Miami - a Jet win. Todd came off the field giving the fans the finger. Anybody remember that???
1977 was a horrible year. I was a freshman in college. It was Todd's first year and he wasn't ready. I remember the Jets being a bad offensive team and I can't forget them blowing a big lead and losing to the Raiders 28-27 in one game. Made me sick.
The thing was just about every team was bad offensively that year. Only three teams averaged 22 or more points per game. Raiders- 25.1 Cowboys- 24.6 Dolphins- 22.4 The Jets only averaged 13.6 points per game, yet they outscored six teams. Lions- 13.1 Giants- 12.9 Falcons- 12.8 Bills- 11.4 Packers- 9.6 Buccaneers- 7.4 The Bills led the league in passing yards. They averaged 200.2. The Bears led the league in rushing yards. They averaged 200.8. The Falcons had a record of 7-7. They only allowed 9.2 points per game. They averaged 259.3 total yards of offense. They allowed 259.5 per game. They led the league in passer rating against with a 37.4 mark. (The league average was 61.2.) They sacked passers 27.9 yards per game. The league changed rules after the 1977 season and it opened up the passing game for 1978 and beyond. So, you are correct about the Jets 1977 offense. It was one of the worst ones in an already bad year for offenses.
I was working in the dorms at Hofstra during this time and met lots of those Jets. David Knight was one of the nicest people that I've ever met.
I'm not finding the album/photo...can someone re-attach it as a JPEG or give a new link? BTW, Marving Powell was FAR from the biggest person in the NFL....there were a few 300-pounders (most listed as 290) including Louie Kelcher, Art Shell, and Gary "Big Hands" Johnson. Powell went about 6'-5" and 275 pounds. Ward, picked #3 overall in '78, went 6'-3" and about 285. They were Walt Michael's "Bookends" until Ward lost the Battle Of The Bulge in the early 1980's.
