That was a great win last night very much like the win in 02 against Green Bay. I'm not a big believer that we are as good as we looked last night however I do believe with the exception of SD and the Colts we are as good as the other AFC teams in the playoffs. I also don't think the Colts are unbeatable this year. Clearly the lack depth and in a one game elimination things happen. It wouldn't shock me at all to see us in a second round game against the Colts with an opportunity to make a run. We have gotten very lucky this year to be where we are. I have watched enough football to believe that a little luck coupled with a solid D can win in this league. I don't believe we are in the same league as the Chargers or most of the NFL playoff teams. I do believe the AFC playoffs are very wide open this year.
Allentown - Don't tell me you were at that famous gunslinger Namath/Unitas aerial show in Baltimore in '72? You know, Eddie Bell and Rich Caster running up and down the field? Were you there? Sadly, I do not remember watching SB3 but this '72 game is a vivid memory to me which cemented my love of Joe Willie, Unitas, "The Bomb", and the way pro football was in those years.
I'll be 43 in a couple of weeks, I was almost 2 when we won the Super Bowl, so I didn't really enjoy it. I'd like to see us get back there while I'm still alive. Last night was encouraging, for this year of course and the future.
I'm 43 and have been a fan since the mid/late 70's. The 1981 Buffalo playoff game hooked me for life. Since then it's been a hell of a ride. This defense is better than the Sack Exchange days. Here's to a great run in the playoffs!!! Dream my friends, dream!!!!! Not a damn thing wrong with it!!!!!
H'mm I wonder how you can remember a play that occurred only 7 short months after SB3 but cannot remember SB3 when you 2.5 yrs & U were 3 years old when JWN ran for that TD in New Haven/
I was 29 when the NYJs won SB3 so I remember it like it was today. I also remember the parade, the ceremony @ City Hall, The raising of the Championship Flag & seeing it at every home game during the 69 season. I also attended the drubbing of the NYGs @ the Yale Bowl in New Haven in the 1st game ever played between the teams. I also attended the PO game @ Shea when we beat Oak to qualify for SB3. That 68 season culminating with the World Championship of FB was one terrific ride. To bad up to now it has never been duplicated
It was a ride but the ride really began in 65. We may well be in the first or second stage of the ride right now? Hard to tell but it's a nice spot to roll down the window and take a look, inhale and enjoy it.
Namath ran for the TD vs the Giants at the Yale Bowl in 1974, six years after Super Bowl III. I remember that game too, it was my first year watching the Jets. You may be thinking of the pre-season game the Jets and Giants played the summer after SB 3, this was a regular season game, I think the first one to go to OT.
It sounded like he talking about the TD JWN ran for in Aug 69 in the 1st game ever between the NYJs & NYGs @ New Haven in the Yale Bowl
Yes I had season tix in 65 & yes the ride began then when JWN was drafted & decided to take Wberlin's $$$$$$ instead of going to the NFL. I'm sure you know that JWN signing was the beginning of the end of Wberlin tenure as a owner with us
48 here and watched SB3 as a 7yr old while sitting on the dining room table in brooklyn. yeah mets and jets wow. the central theme of my childhood.. and knicks to boot the next year. thought it would never end, lol.
I'll be 42 this March... The only thing I remember about Namath was the Brady Bunch episode. I've seen no Super Bowl and pretty much the Whole Wild Ride.
Kind of sucks to realize your sports renascence happened when you were 7 and has been in decline ever since. Ever year when I go to the US open I look at the remnants of the World?s Fair like Italians probably look at the ruins of the Coliseum.
I dont know about that particular game but the game in the old stadium Joe Willie was the Q-back and was sacked and dislocated his shoulder. As he was taken out of the game the team put a beach umbrella over Joe as whiskey bottles and other chit came out of the stands. I think Woodley or Woodall was the backup. I think the Jets ended up winning the game. I cant really remember all this stuff so it could be wrong so dont rip me a new one if I am not 100% correct. The fans at the game were pretty decent to me because I had my young son with me, but they just plain hated Nameth as you can well understand. I do rememember Rich Caster and little Eddie Bell. When Namath wanted to throw a long pass to Eddie Bell he would just say " Eddie run your ass off ", and another memory, the monday night miracule with Vinnie Testaverdie. Man, this thread almost makes me forget all the terrible games we lost. Well, I hope we kick ass one more time. Allentown Ernie.
i went to a game with my pop, i just finally looked it up,..jets beat the colts at shea with a late joe willie bomb to eddie bell. i remember jets were losing and we were leaving early to get a jump on the traffic (d'oh!), and ran back out of the tunnel as we heard the screaming cheers, to see eddie bell in the EZ with the ball. then we stayed to watch marty domres i think, try to drive the colts. apparently this was an 83 yarder with 1:03 left. oct 1972. as per the SI Vault.
