I remember Caster having a great game against the Jets (naturally) at Shea with Houston when Stabler was the QB.........
Fun thread...got a few good laughs! Gotta go with Shuler. I can't remember him ever dropping a pass (although I'm sure he did). He's one of my all-time favorites.
It is possible. The game you are talking about was played on October 5, 1986. It was Jim Kelly's rookie year. The Jets won that game by a score of 14-13. Johnny Hector reached the 100-yard mark as a runner and receiver that day. He might be the only Jets player to ever accomplish that feat. 117 yards rushing 100 yards receiving
Johnny Hector! Color me loopy, but these 80's Jets names bring back great memories, even though we had horrid streaks of suckiness. Going to games with my Daddy, it was such a bonding thing from when I was very young. When I got older, I'd go out with my friends on a Saturday night. The drinking age was 18 at the time, and I'd have the pleasure of watching the Jets lose live while I was hung over and wanted to die. Good times. Kinda sorta. :lol:
Haha, giving him the business. Marty Lyons is aces. He used to dent lockers with his fists. And he was a bleeder. Gotta love that. I've met him several times. Paradoxically the sweetest guy ever. His hands are like ham hocks. My hand was totally dwarfed. Joe Klecko, too. As in nice guy. What a working class hero.
Re: Johnny Hector reaching 100-yard mark as runner and receiver in same game I remember Joseph Addai did it last year, so I looked up his page (http://www.colts.com/sub.cfm?page=bio&player_id=381). I figured it might tell me the most recent time it had been done before that.
This 100/100 thing has piqued my interest. I figured Billy Sims has to be on the list. He is on it. On 9-19-82 Sims ran for 119 yards and caught passes for 103 yards in the Lions 19-14 win in Anaheim. Sims came close in his 2nd career game. He ran for 134 yards and caught passes for 94 yards at Green Bay. Sims' numbers after two career games- 42 carries, 287 yards, 4 TDs 4 receptions, 158 yards, 1 TD
billy sims was amazing, btw very good thread, got a little off subject and is all the better for it!!! my vote has to be mickey shuler he was absolutely amazing we havent had a te anywhere near him since he left.
Wow, I should remember that. I remember the Jets beating them in 1980 at Shea for one of their 4 wins, then again in 1981, the game where Gastineau first did his sack dance and the Jets turned their season around. I thnk Stabler played in both of those but I don't remember Caster.
I thought that was a rainy, overcast day. This pic might be the 1985 home opener against Buffalo, a big Jet win, I think 42-3. I'm going by the bright sunlight, I was at the game and it was mid September. nyjunc will probably figure it out somehow.
Did Roger Craig ever do it for the Niners? He had a year with 1,000 and 1,000, I think the first to do it.
I think that photo is probably from the 1985 game. I remember how it was sunny that day. I think the linebacker on the right could be Guy Frazier. I cannot tell if the uniform number is 52 or 53. Frazier wore 52. He only played for Buffalo in 1985 and 1986.
The Richard Caster show at Shea was the 1980 OT game which the Jets won 31-28 in a big upset. The Jets had a 21-0 lead in the 4th quarter, blew it, and then won in OT. Caster caught 2 TDs, each one tied the game. The 1981 game was pretty much a blowout, the Jets sacked Stabler 9 times, I can still remember Stabler being slammed down on the infield dirt and seeing clouds of dust blow everywhere. Come to think of it, the Jets fared pretty well vs. Kenny Stabler all-time....
That sounds right, I remember the 1980 game and Leahy's winning FG, but I must have blocked out Caster completely. We should have beaten Stabler's Raiders at Shea in 1977, blew a 27-14 lead and lost 28-27. Todd threw for 396 yards.
I remember the one TD catch Caster made that day because it was a bomb from Stabler into the wind that Caster juggled and raced about 60+ yards for the game-tying TD with two Jet defenders leaping frantically to knock the ball down. It was a crazy, acrobatic catch and Marv Albert went crazy about how the Jets had just blown a 21-0 lead in that high-pitched voice of his....... The only two times I remember the Jets losing to a Stabler-led team was that 1977 game against Oakland and a couple of years later in the Astrodome in OT. The Jets did not play the Raiders much in Stabler's early days. They even beat him while he was with the Saints on MNF in 1983.....
I'm pretty sure that Astrodome game was 1979 and Wesley Walker got injured in that one. I think a knee.
Stabler was still with Oakland in 1979. Stabler was one of the players shown in new garb at the beginning of "Saviors, Saints & Sinners: The Story of the 1980 NFL Season". I consider it to be NFL Films' finest film. I've likely seen it more than 500 times.
