This is the first trip back to the Meadowlands in a game against the Jets since the 2002 game for the Packers. A lot of people have said that day was the most fun they’ve had as a Jets fan. What are your memories of that day? Where were you when Vinateri kicked the game winning FG? How did you hear about it? For me it was the lowest of the lows to the highest of the highs. We needed Atlanta to defeat Cleveland or the Patriots to defeat the Dolphins. The Pats were down 10 and the Browns were beating the Falcons. When the Browns finished the deal against the Falcons it looked bleak. I headed off to my friends house who was a Packers fan. We flipped back and forth from the Pats/Phins game to the Packers / Jets game. I never forget the emotion I had when Vinateri kicked the GW FG. I had my friend quickly turn the channel back to the Jets game and within seconds the crowd just started erupting which still gives me goose-bumps whenever I think about it to this day.
What a day. I was at a bar down the road from the stadium watching Atlanta fail and the game break updates of Ricky Williams shredding the Pats defense. We left the bar with enough time to get parked and into the stadium before the game started thinking we'd be watching a meaningless game. I remember looking at peoples portable TV's in the parking lot on the way into the stadium and only seeing the Falcons score which was not in our favor. Then it happened. I didn't even see the highlight on the big screen as I had my eyes on the field but when everyone started screaming I joined right in knowing damn well what it meant. The crowd was electric that day and there was NO WAY the Jets were losing. I don't know which I enjoyed more, that or the drubbing of the Colts the following week.
I remember watching the game in the parking lot and walking in right after the pats lost. Hell of a game.
I don't believe GB has ever won against the Jets at the Meadowlands...or not in a very long time. Of course that stadium no longer exists.
It seems like most memories against the Jets are painful for me as a Packer fan. Our last victory came in 1994 in lambeau which was 17-10.
That was my first ever Jets game, and I can't believe that was the last time the Packers faced the Jets here in New York. That and the 41-0 playoff win were the last two Jets wins I ever saw live (they lost every other time I attended).
I don't think they've ever beaten us at home period, at least since I've been watching. The 1981 finale at Shea was similar to 2002 except we knew all week that a win put us in the playoffs. The result was similar, too.
The crowd reaction was unbelievable. If I remember correctly, some of the Giants were in the building working out as they were off that day, the Giants played Saturday that week. They and coach Fassel said they came out when they heard all the noise, wondering what was going on with the game. What a great day in Jets history. Once that score was announced, the game was over.
The Packers have never defeated the Jets in NY. We are 8-2 lifetime against them. Their first win was in 1973. The game was played in Milwaukee. And the second time they beat us was in 1994 in Green Bay.
In 1982 we beat them at Shea shortly after the strike, our LB Stan Blinka leveled Packers WR John Jefferson coming across the middle with a wicked forearm, causing coach Bart Starr to call him a "hoodlum". That's about all I remember from that game.
I have that towel displayed with pride!! That was one of the best times I've ever had at a game. Beating the Packers was great too of course.
I remember just watching that Dolphins-Patriots game. 14-0 Dolphins lead, I got depressed and just hoped for a fun final game of the year, knowing the future looked bright. Then NE came back, won in OT, and the excitement started there. I am pretty sure the game was still 0-0 then. After that, Jets just dominated. It was epic. Chrebet's TD where he raises the ball in the air might be my favorite TD I have watched as a fan.
We beat them at Shea in week 16 of '81 as well which got us into the playoffs for the first time(and also got the Giants into the playoffs for the first time in nealry 20 years). I have posted this story many times, i guess it would be fun to go back and read my older accounts of that day to see how much I have forgotten. It was a very special day especially since my dad was w/ my Wife, my brother and I and my Dad passed away a little over 2 years later. We arrived at the Stadium in te 12 o'clock hour, hooked up a TV and were pumped up to watch the Miami-NE game and the Atl-Cle game where we needed NE OR Cle to lose. Things did not look good in Miami, they looked better in the other game but as we were walking in to the Stadium Vick got stopped at about the 1 yard line and Cle won while Miami was holding a 10 pt lead very late in their game. I didn't even want to go into the Stadium at that point that is how frustrated I was but while walking in and watching the game on my handheld TV NE was coming back. Inside the Stadium I was in the concourse and had about 20 people surrounding me trying to watch the little TV as NE tied it and sent it to OT. I walked to my seat and our game began but everyone around me was just watching and listening to the Miami game, basically a qtr passed in our game and I didn't really watch it for a second. I remember there was a play under review that was a pass from Brady to Faulk I believe that would have set NE up for the GW FG in OT. The play looked good and we waited for the announcement which confirmed the play was good and Vinatieri lined up and I still don't know if that kick was good but they called it good and just as we got flagged for PI the crowd roared like I have only heard a few times before in all my years going to that Stadium. After that the Jets took off and just throttled the then 12-3 Packers, there was only one nervous moment near the end of the half when favre made a spectacular throw across field for a TD but that would be it as far as nervousness as our O was unstopabble. This was definitely my favorite moment in the old Stadium and one I will never forget.
Yeah the 41-0 game was redicolous, I remember going with my bro and sneaking in a flask and beers in our coats because it was so cold. We took shots every time they scored haha.
I was at the game with my sons, then ages 9 and 6. In the parking lot we knew how the Falcons and Patriots games were going. The walk to the stadium began with Pats just falling behind 24-13. Brady threw a TD to Troy Brown (I think) as we were travelling up the escalator. The crowd began to buzz. Lots of tension. Just got to the seats as Venitieri hit the FG to tie the game. In the seats, there were lots of people with radios and walkmans getting updates before the results were posted in the stadium. Everybody know tham Miami screwed the OT kickoff. People were playing closer attention to the Pats then the Jets. When Venitieri hits the OT FG the results were spreading through the crowd several minutes before the score went up on the board. You could both hear and feel the electricity in the stands as the word spread. When the score went up on the board the place erupted. To this day, the greatest sporting event I've ever been to with my boys.
That game was more fun to be at then the Jets Jags playoff game. We were in the parking lot watching it on a portable TV and when Vinatieri hit the game winner we all charged down the cattle crossing screaming our heads off with the rest of the fans in the parking lot. The game itself seems like a blur. I just remember a lot of drinking and cheering. Don't really remember ever going home.
I was in the stands of the Jets game watching the Pats game on my handheld TV. I had perfect reception on that little TV which normally had bad reception. Everybody must have been listening/watching that pats game, b/c the crowd started going crazy after the Pats won.
