Pretentious is belaboring a message string on a completely unrelated topic (most painful Jets moments, in case you forgot) with your own issues about one of your fellow posters. Do you stalk Death By Jets this way with all the posts he does? Wisdom is clearly not the province of the aged...
The Todd to Barkum game was 1981. But yes, that was one of the Jets and certainly one of Todds greatest moments.
Yeah, '81! It was before the Buffalo playoff losse. Its one of those moments that I can still see... that ball zipping between the Blackwood brothers........
JWWS, I got so distracted trying to defend myself last night (why I don?t know ), that I missed your post. I think you bring up some good ones. The Baltimore loss was such a typical Testaverde game?..looked fantastic one minute (that flea flicker was a thing of beauty) and then the worst possible pick you could imagine the next. On top of everything else, we finished that season 0-3 (including a VERY winable home game against Detroit) to miss the playoffs. The Houston loss is another really good one. We had everything to play for and they had nothing to play for (they couldn?t even change their playoff seeding). I remember listening to that game on the radio driving back to DC from NY. What a miserable way to pass the time. Those two were such typical ?Same Old Jets? games. My memory is not quite as good on those Cleveland games or the Miami blowout. Anything prior to ?77 is before my time?.so thanks for adding them to the discussion. I think the Denver game is painful to me just for my personal experience of my mother-in-law ruining the outcome just as I was about to watch the tape of it. So, that one may be skewed a little high for me. DbJ
The big problem with Death by Jets' list was it wasn't the top 20 moments, as Joe Willie White Shoes has a good list. And the Detroit preseason game where Namath destroyed his last good knee is a top ten moment for me, it basically condemned the Jets to the 1970s it had. Could you imagine a healthy veteran Namath, with all his on-field intelligence and passing power, doing in the 1970s what Elway did in the 1990s? I can, and it hurts.
when our day finally comes, it will be sweeter than we could possibly imagine. And surely we will be able to say: ?We?ve earned it?. I almost wonder what we'd talk about if that day ever came. But I'm willing to trade nothing to talk about for some glory.
I believe that as Jets fans, we have become so jaded, that if we ever had a perfect season including winning the superbowl, we would all honestly believe that someone was going to take it away.
Ha, perfect season notwithstanding, I have to bring this one back up for Old Time's Sake. Steve Serby: "The Jets have just won their second Superbowl in team history - but they'll never win the big one."
