Great story. I had no idea this ever happened and was living in North Jersey at the time. 1981 was the year I got hooked on the NFL. Incredible playoffs that year with the Bills-Jets game, the epic in Miami vs. San Diego, the Freezer Bowl, and The Catch.
I think it's officially time for JG9 to make a video summarizing every single time a QB had a passer rating that is worse than if he had spiked the ball into the ground on every single play
I maybe in the minority but football in a baseball stadium has a charm to it. Like seeing old clips of the Bears at Wrigley. Or the Pats at Fenway. Or the Giants at Yankees Stadium. Or even when the Packers used to play in Milwaukee. Now on the flip side, baseball in those cookie cutter stadiums had zero charm. At least IMO.
I remember watching one game at Wrigley where there wasn't enough room for a full field and the offense could only go one direction since they couldn't put a proper end zone in the other side.
Couldn’t disagree more. I grew up a Green Bay fan and absolutely hated games played in Milwaukee. You can be nostalgic all you like, but the fact remains, the two sports are played on completely different shaped fields. Heck, even my local high school, which should be pinching every penny possible can see this and has separate fields.
That's right! I'd forgotten that they played all 3 playoff games in 1982 season on the road (winning at Cincinnati and Oakland before getting literally swamped at Miami)
Shea had so much history but it came a little at a time...in 1969 I remember the Mets and the Jets games on tv . I am from Tennessee but I was a fan of both. I still am ..
@@fredaaron762 I laugh everytime I hear Jets fans complaining about field conditions at the Orange Bowl. Jets weren't winning that game no matter where it was played. Todd was a turnover machine throwing 5 picks in the two regular season games.
I was at that game and ran onto the field with everybody else. I left when the goalposts started coming down and the upright fell in my direction. Crazy times!
I wasn't at the game, but I remember watching it. I even remember seeing footage of fans tearing down the goalposts, and I thought l, "Oh yeah I forgot that fans did that sort of thing." Until this day, I started to think I was the only person in the world who remembered that this happened. Now I have proof. Thanks for the video.
Ah, Shea Stadium, always coming up with new ways to be an embarrassment to the NFL. That field was such a nightmare--easily torn up, a mud pit on wet days, a parking lot on dry days--and now, this!
And, in 1975, the Yankees (Yankee Stadium renovation) and Giants (Meadowlands being built), this resulted in not only rare early season home games (at the time) for the Jets but also the last non-televised NFL game to date: Chargers/Giants Nov 1
That place was such a dump. Thew sewage was always a nice touch, whether on the field or in the parking lot. The chop shops just beyond the parking lots were always a nice touch. It was seriously past it's prime by 1982
In 1982 I walked out of the Jets' opener against Miami when they were losing 45-14 and walked over to the Flushing Meadow stadium after I had done it a few times with Don Nyer after Met games. Sure as heck, I see Connors-Lendl right over the net at a perfect height because no one is at the gates they used volunteers who did it in exchange for free admission. Amazing match too.
What awful timing the Jets' fans had! Trying to order something so big on the week of Christmas can always be a PITA. I can't believe the Jets had to scrape together goalpost parts on both sides of the Hudson just so they could properly host their playoff game. Bizarre stuff.
That was the ABSOLUTELY THE WORST LOSS THAT I EVER SUFFERED AS A Jet FAN (since 1975)! I could accept the 1982 AFC championship to the Dolphins because they had beaten the Jets three times during the season.
Thnx , since Shea🏟no longer exists, some great game played there. Jets 🏈& Mets.⚾️ Also RIP Don R. Maynard #13(retired) 1-25-35. / 1-10-22 Wide Reciever & Hall of Fame
I'll never forget the playoff game, mostly because my Mom had gotten tickets for the family to see some show on Broadway that afternoon. As a result, I missed all but the first quarter and had to find out from a waiter at the French restaurant where we went for dinner after the show that the Jets had lost by 4 points while driving late in the 4th quarter for a potential game winning touchdown. And no, I have no recollection what Broadway show prevented me from watching the Jets in the playoffs
The Jets history at Shea was strange. They could not play home games in September many years and one season in the 70s had to give up a home game due to the Mets being in the playoffs
Those NFL crowds in the 70s-80s were epic. Sure the stadiums were dumps but the fan experience was off the charts incredible. RFK, Orange Bowl, Mile High etc etc. Steeler fan, yes Heinz is one of the better CorporateShield stadiums (faint praise I know) and even though success has been on since the early 90s in pgh going to a game just feels like an exercise of Mandatory Fun.
I remember this, that article about the posts. Wow! Todd gets blamed for that game, and it was probably one of his greatest. Wasn't his fault at all. PS this was the last playoff game in NYC ever.
@@john-hill The cookie-cutter stadiums of the 60s and 70s weren't good for two sports and the Mets were the primary tenant and had first priority to dates. Many seasons, the Jets opened with 3-4 road games because the Mets had first choice.
Why not ask the Bills? Because the Bills were facing the Jets that game: they had to practice in Buffalo before coming to Shea. I literally had to think about that. Thank you for explaining the high school/college game difference though.
The Bills are about an 8 hour drive away from the Jets. When the Bills players take a flight to New York the day before the game, load up the Bills goalposts in a truck and drive them to Sheas.
Hey sweetie why is there a goalpost in the back of our yard. Oh I forgot to tell you sweetie when I went to the game after the Jets won the game. I took a part of the goalpost, and it’s your Christmas present now
Back in those days if fans were too crazy, the league would not allow that team to host a monday night game. The patriots went a little while without having one at home until 95. I think we're the only team that was punished in that way
I've read about that Monday night game, it was a disaster all around. Almost blacked out so a rush that blocked the one road to and from, just bad all around.
It would have been nice if the video explained why the Jets couldn’t simply take the goal posts from their practice facility and move them to Shea Stadium.
Little surprised the Jets didn't ask the Bills for their goalposts, considering that they were a team from the same state and they were gonna be there anyway
@@ronaldwayne7092 Thank you for this information, I was not aware. I was naming cities that had NFL teams obviously closer than Buffalo without regard to the other game on the docket. Actually, Baltimore and DC would also have been closer come to think of it....
I used to think I was pretty sharp on my NFL trivia and stories like this.....until now. I've rewatched that game elsewhere on YT and didn't know about this at all!
My Bears came back from 28-3 against the Lions before. Tom Brady Super Bowl LI. The Comeback with the Bills. I think thar was sarcasm Jaguar. You have a dry, but nice sense of humor
Never understood the souvenir mentality. "Hey kids, come see this piece of yellow metal in the garage that I stole forty years ago. It's a piece of history..."
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made another video about how the Baltimore Colts had to move their goalposts at Memorial Stadium some 30 yards away from where they normally were during a Monday Night game in 1970 due to a bizarre agreement with the Orioles.
I remember watching that game as a kid. I had no idea those were replacement goalposts. If that happened today the announcers would have mentioned that fact every XP and FG attempt, as well as a few times in between.
When the Jets beat the Packers in Week 16 to eliminate them from the playoffs, it enabled the GIANTS to get into the playoffs. The GIANTS played the Cowboys the Day before on a Saturday and beat them 13-10 in OT. The first GIANTS game I ever went to. As we left the Stadium we were all changing Let’s go Jets, Let’s go Jets in the hopes that they would win the following day. They did and we made the playoffs. I was 9 years old and will never forget it.
This being the rare example of two teams from opposing conferences playing an elimination game, I can only remember one other one (also featuring the Jets, in '97 against the Lions), any other ones from the pre-W17/18 all-divisional era?
I watched this game on ol'UA-cam here a few years ago. I mean, I think it was a good, competitive game (didn't start out that way though), but if you also like to watch quarterbacks throw interceptions, then this Wild Card game is also a must-watch:-). Buffalo is definitely located in Western New York (I know this was mentioned in, I think, a Falcons/Bills video on this channel); Upstate is Syracuse, Albany, Rochester, and Cortland. Not a big deal, it's just that Buffalo newscasts have drummed this geographical fact into local news viewers for years (news studmuffin Scott Levin especially:-).
your statement that college and NFL goalposts are different sizes caught me by surprise. A google search yielded: "In both NCAA and NFL play, the goal posts are 18.5 feet apart". I'm guessing that wasn't the case at the time of this game though.
I was at that game. Before we got to our seats Johnny Lame Jones, a 1st round draft choice fumbled the opening kickoff. Also remember Gastineau sacking Bill's QB Ferguson causing a fumble but Mark went into his dance while the ball bounced free The Bill's recovered and scored a TD. The Jets almost came back but they had dug too deep a hole. The Jets had a chance to win the division after beating The Dolphins with a last second Todd to Barkum TD but they laid an egg the next week against their nemesis The Seahawks.
Don't forget Gastineau's stupid 15 yard penalty at Cleveland in the "Marathon at the Lake", which would've sent the Jets to the AFC Championship game 1/3/87
If you think this is odd, see if you can find footage of games where home plate was left in the field of play during at least one game in 1980- right at the goal line no less I was at this game and it was a warm, rainy afternoon, which along with the field being torn up after the previous week's game against GB (not to mention the new sod laid down every October) where we celebrated the 1st playoff berth since the AFL days, turned Shea into a mud pit The Monday night game vs. Minny in 79 was more like a party atmosphere from the start since it was the 1st Monday night game ever played in NY/NJ, with bottles and flasks being passed around along with food trays in the stands even as the game was underway The final game at Shea and of Terry Bradshaw's career in 83 was insane- I can still see 'NJ Jets' on the big Shea scoreboard while the Diamond Vision played highlights and people were tearing the place apart using wrenches to take seats and railings as well as clumps of turf- it looked like a war zone- needless to say the goalposts were again taken down and carried off along with half the stadium There was no place like Shea (keep your head on a swivel- those frisbees will take your head off, the old man once told me before the halftime free for all) and never will be in the era of PSLs and luxury suites- let them have their stadium steakhouses- nothing beats the pretzels for a buck heated over hot coals sold from shopping carts in the parking lot Season tickets for 4 box seats field level 45 yd line were $320 total back then That gets you half a seat in the same area to a preseason game (required purchase-optional before 1998) today- not counting the $80,000 PSL The raw electricity and passion of those crowds hasn't been seen since, not even with the additional 13,000 capacity at the old Meadowlands stadium and Fireman Ed- I still say the guy in the green afro wig who mooned the crowd from the upper deck was better- he didn't mind having beer and pretzels thrown at him, for laughs of course
A fascinating little story. The only glitch is using footage of pre-renovated Yankee Stadium, which came down after 1973 BB Season. I attended the last Giant Game there !!! I did love seeing color footage of YS 1, a true Sports Cathedral. So tall and majestic. And seeing Shea Football footage is rare. I really miss Shea (Met fan for 55 years here)
NY fans would rush the field as they did in ‘76, at Yankee Stadium, when the Yankees beat KC (after the Chambliss walk-off HR). Then, in ‘81 at Shea, the field was totally trashed by fans after the Jets clinched.
Longtime Jets fan here, was too young to ever see a game from Shea Stadium as I started following them in 84 the first year they had moved to Giants Stadium in Jersey. Shea was notorious for being a terrible football venue, it was designed specifically for baseball (NY Mets) and there were always many logistical issues with them playing there.
@@gusfarace70 That’s what I always heard, their only true home, whether it was technically a good venue to watch football in. My Uncle who was the one who hit me into being a Jets fan as a kid had season tickets from 1976-83 when they left. He was in the upper deck, said those December games in the cold & with the wind coming off Flushing Bay was brutal like talked about hear in the Green Bay 81 game. Growing up on Long Island about 40 mins away I went to many Mets baseball games at Shea and it def had a unique charm and a unorthodox look. I always loved going there
I was there, having had Jets' season tickets since 1979. After the game, the entire field was covered with fans, every single speck of it. I know because I was in the upper reserved level watching everything unfold. Once I left, there was a large group of fans near the subway, carrying one of the uprights from the goalposts. They were mostly intoxicated, and they literally tried to break the upright against one of the subway stanchions. As for the temperature, I remember the wind chill being MUCH colder than nine degrees. The real temp was in the low teens; I think the author may have meant that the wind chill was nine degrees below zero.
That was the game that put the Jets AND Giants into the playoffs. It was just as cold and windy the day before when the Giants beat the Cowboys setting up that Jets game with the Packers that was the biggest game in New York since Super Bowl III. I was at this game the following week, the ONLY post-merger playoff game Shea ever hosted.
Never knew about this, but why did they need goalposts? I would have thought the NFL would have mandated all teams have two sets of goalposts available at all times in case something like what happened on December 20, 1981 did: Some side notes to that December 20, 1981 game: That game was the biggest game in New York since Super Bowl III. With the Giants winning the day before against the Cowboys in very similar conditions to this game weather-wise, a Jets win puts the Jets AND Giants into the playoffs, for the Giants, the first time since 1963 (back when unless a tie-breaker was needed, the Championship game was the ONLY playoff game in the NFL) and for the Jets, the first time since 1969 in a semifinal game against the Chiefs the year after they won it all. The Jets winning put both into the playoffs. That game is also notable because as we would find out later, it would be the last regular-season NFL game ever called by legendary play-by-play voice Vin Scully, working that game with Hank Stram. Scully's last game for CBS would be the NFC Championship Game on January 10, 1982 in San Francisco, the legendary "catch" game where the late Dwight Clark caught a pass from Joe Montana in their win for the 49ers over the Cowboys that was considered in hindsight to be a changing of the guard in the NFL with the 49ers winning the first of their five Super Bowls that season. Scully left CBS after the 1982 season (actually late that summer because he still had golf commitments for CBS) and never called another NFL game. As for this game (December 27, 1981), I was AT Shea Stadium for it, the ONLY playoff game Shea hosted after the 1970 merger. I remember leaving in the 3rd quarter with the game looking hopeless as I wanted to get back home in time to watch the Giants-Eagles game that was immediately afterwards. On the 7 train coming back from Queens, someone had a portable TV in the car I was in and many watched while info was relayed on how the game was going as the Jets came back only to lose late. This also marked the first time third place teams (Bills and Giants) had made the playoffs in the NFL, making the Bills-Jets game the first wild card playoff game ever between division rivals (there had been cases where conference rivals met in the conference championship game, but to that point it had never happened in an earlier round) with Giants-Eagles becoming the second a few hours later. What I remember about this was, the NFL in those days (1981 would be the last time this happened), the NFL was reluctant to have games in cold weather cities go well after dark as much as possible, meaning Bills-Jets was a noon game while Giants-Eagles was a 3:00 PM game. The NFL actually had to get permission from New York State to move up the Jets game to a noon kickoff as Sunday Blue Laws of the day barred sporting events in New York State from starting before 1:05 PM local time (during the regular season, Jets games would routinely start at 1:05 rather than 1:00 because of this). These laws would remain in place until early 1984 when a spill in the 9th and final race of a Sunday program at Aqueduct that began at 1:05 PM (as opposed to the 12:30 PM start on other days) saw a horse die that was blamed on the semi-darkness that race was run in. That changed the law in much of New York State though some parts of New York State for years after still had the blue laws in place.
Speaking of goalposts you could do a story about the 1965 playoff game between Baltimore and Green Bay. Both teams finished 10-3-1 and even though the Packers won both games against Baltimore there was no tiebreaker scenario so a playoff was needed to determine the conference champion. Green Bay won 13-10 on a late field goal but it appeared the kick was not inside the goalposts. The following year the NFL raised the height of the goalposts and the media dubbed them "The Baltimore extensions". Green Bay went on to defeat the Cleveland Browns in the NFL championship. The last before the Super Bowl era.
I imagine they could have had another set made. It would have cost a lot extra, but it could have been done. I work for a machine builder they bid a job that would have had to be done over Christmas weekend, the offer which I accepted was double time,$500 cash bonus, and a paid day off the next week. We didn't end up getting the job, but in machine and fab shops people will work anything for the right money.
Packers have experience losing @ Jets final game of season costing them playoff. Remember in 2002 had chance at one seed blown out by jets and fell into wildcard round and lost at home for first time. At least can’t play Jets last game of season anymore.
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Great story. I had no idea this ever happened and was living in North Jersey at the time. 1981 was the year I got hooked on the NFL. Incredible playoffs that year with the Bills-Jets game, the epic in Miami vs. San Diego, the Freezer Bowl, and The Catch.
Wow, same here! Really the first year I remember all the playoffs
U guys old as shit
Oh you'll be too
I know
I honestly wish I lived at a simpler time
I think it's officially time for JG9 to make a video summarizing every single time a QB had a passer rating that is worse than if he had spiked the ball into the ground on every single play
Sounds like a Rex Grossman video. Lol
Just make a video about the Giants qbs after Jones was IRed...
I don't think they had a combined 39.6 all 6 games combined
"And like every 28 to 3 lead, the difference was insurmountable."
Savage.
I maybe in the minority but football in a baseball stadium has a charm to it. Like seeing old clips of the Bears at Wrigley. Or the Pats at Fenway. Or the Giants at Yankees Stadium. Or even when the Packers used to play in Milwaukee. Now on the flip side, baseball in those cookie cutter stadiums had zero charm. At least IMO.
I agree! I grew up with that era of the dual purpose stadium
I remember watching one game at Wrigley where there wasn't enough room for a full field and the offense could only go one direction since they couldn't put a proper end zone in the other side.
@@MekoUnknown oh my yes, was that the 2010 game between Illinois and Northwestern? I remember that too
Couldn’t disagree more. I grew up a Green Bay fan and absolutely hated games played in Milwaukee. You can be nostalgic all you like, but the fact remains, the two sports are played on completely different shaped fields. Heck, even my local high school, which should be pinching every penny possible can see this and has separate fields.
As a Lion fan I miss games at a baseball stadium because that was the last time the franchise won anything!…….Use the elements to your advantage!
This was one of only 3 playoff games ever played at Shea. The other two were in 1968 and 1969 (former sent Jets to Super Bowl III).
That's right! I'd forgotten that they played all 3 playoff games in 1982 season on the road (winning at Cincinnati and Oakland before getting literally swamped at Miami)
@@fredaaron762 At LA, not Oakland
Shea had so much history but it came a little at a time...in 1969 I remember the Mets and the Jets games on tv . I am from Tennessee but I was a fan of both. I still am ..
@@fredaaron762 I laugh everytime I hear Jets fans complaining about field conditions at the Orange Bowl. Jets weren't winning that game no matter where it was played. Todd was a turnover machine throwing 5 picks in the two regular season games.
It's like realizing Sunday was Brady's first (actual) home playoff game with the Bucs
Just got done testing and just got home I studied and then I came and watched jaguar this is what my day is about LOL
I was at that game and ran onto the field with everybody else. I left when the goalposts started coming down and the upright fell in my direction. Crazy times!
They should have had horses to bring out onto the field like they did at 49er games at Candlestick!
I wasn't at the game, but I remember watching it. I even remember seeing footage of fans tearing down the goalposts, and I thought l, "Oh yeah
I forgot that fans did that sort of thing."
Until this day, I started to think I was the only person in the world who remembered that this happened. Now I have proof. Thanks for the video.
"Which is worse than if you just threw the ball into the ground"!!! LOVE IT!!
Ah, Shea Stadium, always coming up with new ways to be an embarrassment to the NFL. That field was such a nightmare--easily torn up, a mud pit on wet days, a parking lot on dry days--and now, this!
And the Mets played there too.
And, in 1975, the Yankees (Yankee Stadium renovation) and Giants (Meadowlands being built), this resulted in not only rare early season home games (at the time) for the Jets but also the last non-televised NFL game to date: Chargers/Giants Nov 1
That place was such a dump. Thew sewage was always a nice touch, whether on the field or in the parking lot. The chop shops just beyond the parking lots were always a nice touch. It was seriously past it's prime by 1982
In 1982 I walked out of the Jets' opener against Miami when they were losing 45-14 and walked over to the Flushing Meadow stadium after I had done it a few times with Don Nyer after Met games. Sure as heck, I see Connors-Lendl right over the net at a perfect height because no one is at the gates they used volunteers who did it in exchange for free admission. Amazing match too.
“As 28-3 is insurmountable,” the Falcons say “Hold my beer.” 😂🤣😆
Winner!!
And the OIlers said "Beer here!"
What awful timing the Jets' fans had! Trying to order something so big on the week of Christmas can always be a PITA. I can't believe the Jets had to scrape together goalpost parts on both sides of the Hudson just so they could properly host their playoff game. Bizarre stuff.
This was an awesome video. How did I not know this or even remember it as a kid from NY? Excellent reporting. Really enjoyed this video
I wonder if they ever thought "Hey Buffalo, on your way over can you bring your goal posts?"
That was the ABSOLUTELY THE WORST LOSS THAT I EVER SUFFERED AS A Jet FAN (since 1975)! I could accept the 1982 AFC championship to the Dolphins because they had beaten the Jets three times during the season.
My worst loss as a Jet fan is the 2004 Divisional Game vs Pittsburgh 😔 We had that game won 😕
You lost 3 times to David Woodley! 😂
Thnx , since Shea🏟no longer exists, some great game played there.
Jets 🏈& Mets.⚾️ Also
RIP Don R. Maynard #13(retired)
1-25-35. / 1-10-22
Wide Reciever & Hall of Fame
The origin of the Dr. Pepper Fansville commercial, resulting in Frankenstein goalposts.
3:54
Had to get a dig at the Falcons in the Super Bowl I guess
I was at that playoff game and I'd never heard this story until now.
I love this channel! Continuously finds things I had no idea happened and puts it into a fantastic video that informs and entertains. Thank you!!
3:53 Bro, you really had to rub the Falcons fan base wrong with that 28 - 3 reference???
(Brilliant!) 👍
Insurmountable 28-3
Do not forget 1992 Oilers 35 Bills 3 at the half
They should have used the honor system.
Kick goes far left.
Kicker: "That totally went through the middle, it's good."
Video review would be fun under those circumstances.
I'll never forget the playoff game, mostly because my Mom had gotten tickets for the family to see some show on Broadway that afternoon. As a result, I missed all but the first quarter and had to find out from a waiter at the French restaurant where we went for dinner after the show that the Jets had lost by 4 points while driving late in the 4th quarter for a potential game winning touchdown. And no, I have no recollection what Broadway show prevented me from watching the Jets in the playoffs
Thats a tough break
You're good at finding stories ive never heard of or seen done on YT and presenting it great.
The Jets history at Shea was strange. They could not play home games in September many years and one season in the 70s had to give up a home game due to the Mets being in the playoffs
Ahh the good old days when fans stormed the field and taking down the goal post. I miss those days
Those NFL crowds in the 70s-80s were epic. Sure the stadiums were dumps but the fan experience was off the charts incredible. RFK, Orange Bowl, Mile High etc etc. Steeler fan, yes Heinz is one of the better CorporateShield stadiums (faint praise I know) and even though success has been on since the early 90s in pgh going to a game just feels like an exercise of Mandatory Fun.
Me too.
I'm pretty sure there have been some recent games where fans tear down goalposts.
"And like every 28 to 3 lead in NFL history, this was insurmountable."
Certified JaguarGator classic. I love these lines.
Imagine being in the group of guys who had to go on a goalpost scavenger hunt.
I remember this, that article about the posts. Wow! Todd gets blamed for that game, and it was probably one of his greatest. Wasn't his fault at all. PS this was the last playoff game in NYC ever.
Why did the jets stop using Shea stadium?
@@john-hill The cookie-cutter stadiums of the 60s and 70s weren't good for two sports and the Mets were the primary tenant and had first priority to dates. Many seasons, the Jets opened with 3-4 road games because the Mets had first choice.
Was it this game both QBs threw four interceptions? Making Joe Ferguson the only QB to win a playoff game with 4ints?
@@hughgurney8686 Yes it was and both teams threw the ball a combined 85 times. Fergie's hot start barely got the job done.
And the ONLY one after the 1970 merger.
Like every 28-3 lead in league history. 😂
Why not ask the Bills? Because the Bills were facing the Jets that game: they had to practice in Buffalo before coming to Shea. I literally had to think about that. Thank you for explaining the high school/college game difference though.
The Bills are about an 8 hour drive away from the Jets. When the Bills players take a flight to New York the day before the game, load up the Bills goalposts in a truck and drive them to Sheas.
Those differences were much more profound then. College football's have since been narrowed but are still wider than the NFL.
@@brooksfire9580 possible weather problems . . .
@@WaltGekko That is true, but even one inch narrower makes a difference . . . double bonk
@@WaltGekko That is true, but even one inch narrower makes a difference . . . double bonk
Hey sweetie why is there a goalpost in the back of our yard. Oh I forgot to tell you sweetie when I went to the game after the Jets won the game. I took a part of the goalpost, and it’s your Christmas present now
Paging Sheriff Bosworth…
Believe it or not this would not be the last time the jets humiliated the packers on the last day of the season with a playoff spot at stake...
Yep. It happened again in 2003.
@@WaltGekko 2002
@@scottaznavourian3720 Oh yeah. I was off by a year.
@@WaltGekko or 4 days lol
Back in those days if fans were too crazy, the league would not allow that team to host a monday night game. The patriots went a little while without having one at home until 95. I think we're the only team that was punished in that way
I've read about that Monday night game, it was a disaster all around. Almost blacked out so a rush that blocked the one road to and from, just bad all around.
JG9, how about a video on that game
I thought that was because the local city council in Foxboro/Foxborough banned MNF games for more than a decade…
@@2themoon863 hence why JG9 should make a video on that game
@@jbj7599 to my recollection it was the league
It would have been nice if the video explained why the Jets couldn’t simply take the goal posts from their practice facility and move them to Shea Stadium.
like the Giants, they still needed to practice with at least one.
@@OhThankKevin I'd wager that like many practice facilities back then, they may have practiced with ONE....
@@OhThankKevin They could have moved them to the stadium and practiced there.
Practice goal posts are the H style ones. Not the single base with offset ones. So I assume they cut the uprights off and used them.
@@pullt okay I’ll take the bet, where’s your proof
Little surprised the Jets didn't ask the Bills for their goalposts, considering that they were a team from the same state and they were gonna be there anyway
New England probably would have been closer.... so would Philadelphia. Buffalo is closer to Pittsburgh than New York.
that is what I was thinking
@@mrmoose6619 Philly was hosting a game that weekend, so they couldn't get posts from there.
@@ronaldwayne7092 Thank you for this information, I was not aware. I was naming cities that had NFL teams obviously closer than Buffalo without regard to the other game on the docket. Actually, Baltimore and DC would also have been closer come to think of it....
Wow the jets helped the giants make the playoffs 😆
I heard what you did there with "just like every 28-3 lead in NFL history".
I used to think I was pretty sharp on my NFL trivia and stories like this.....until now. I've rewatched that game elsewhere on YT and didn't know about this at all!
Wow, the jets have to be the unluckiest team, even back then, no goal posts
Same 'Ol Jets.
That 28-3 joke had me dead oml 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man, football at Shea Stadium looks so odd ...
So did Bears games at Wrigley Field in the old days.
That was an awesome Pats/Falcons reference. Well done
My Bears came back from 28-3 against the Lions before. Tom Brady Super Bowl LI. The Comeback with the Bills. I think thar was sarcasm Jaguar. You have a dry, but nice sense of humor
of course this would happen to the Jets!
Actually taking the goal post home 🤣😂🤣
That’s where Dr Pepper got the idea for their commercial from. Maybe one of those Jets fans used the goal posts parts for a swing set, LOL.
Never understood the souvenir mentality. "Hey kids, come see this piece of yellow metal in the garage that I stole forty years ago. It's a piece of history..."
Sounds like you do understand the mentality!
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made another video about how the Baltimore Colts had to move their goalposts at Memorial Stadium some 30 yards away from where they normally were during a Monday Night game in 1970 due to a bizarre agreement with the Orioles.
I remember watching that game as a kid. I had no idea those were replacement goalposts. If that happened today the announcers would have mentioned that fact every XP and FG attempt, as well as a few times in between.
The Jets were able to build those goalposts in a cave! With a box of scraps!
It could only happen to the NY Jets. 😆
Other than the band, the Yankee images are of the pre-renovation Stadium......
Now neither of the New York teams actually play in the State of New York.
When the Jets beat the Packers in Week 16 to eliminate them from the playoffs, it enabled the GIANTS to get into the playoffs.
The GIANTS played the Cowboys the Day before on a Saturday and beat them 13-10 in OT. The first GIANTS game I ever went to. As we left the Stadium we were all changing Let’s go Jets, Let’s go Jets in the hopes that they would win the following day. They did and we made the playoffs. I was 9 years old and will never forget it.
"Like every 28-3 lead ... insurmountable ..." enter stage right, Tom Brady, J Edelmann & D Hightower.
Should have never left Shea, they lost their identity when they left.
Man… how do you find this stuff??? Crazy. Great job
NFL Films needs to hire you my guy
Oh no they don't! Then he wouldn't be able to UA-cam anymore.
This being the rare example of two teams from opposing conferences playing an elimination game, I can only remember one other one (also featuring the Jets, in '97 against the Lions), any other ones from the pre-W17/18 all-divisional era?
Bengals/Vikings 1989 on Monday Night Football in week 16
Kinda odd they couldn't use the Giants considering the Giants played in Philadelphia that week, and teams don't typically practice on their game field
I don't know if was the situation that started this, but don't all NFL stadiums required to have two sets of goalposts available for all games?
It would be like a basketball court without a three point line.. “oh he was way back there, it’s a 3!!”
I watched this game on ol'UA-cam here a few years ago. I mean, I think it was a good, competitive game (didn't start out that way though), but if you also like to watch quarterbacks throw interceptions, then this Wild Card game is also a must-watch:-).
Buffalo is definitely located in Western New York (I know this was mentioned in, I think, a Falcons/Bills video on this channel); Upstate is Syracuse, Albany, Rochester, and Cortland. Not a big deal, it's just that Buffalo newscasts have drummed this geographical fact into local news viewers for years (news studmuffin Scott Levin especially:-).
your statement that college and NFL goalposts are different sizes caught me by surprise. A google search yielded: "In both NCAA and NFL play, the goal posts are 18.5 feet apart". I'm guessing that wasn't the case at the time of this game though.
NCAA goalposts were 23 feet, 4 inches wide until 1991, when they were narrowed to the NFL width.
@@Bruce12867 Which resulted in many missed field goals by my Florida State against Miami.
@@CTubeMan As a Cane fan I'm so grateful for that !!!!
I was at that game. Before we got to our seats Johnny Lame Jones, a 1st round draft choice fumbled the opening kickoff. Also remember Gastineau sacking Bill's QB Ferguson causing a fumble but Mark went into his dance while the ball bounced free The Bill's recovered and scored a TD. The Jets almost came back but they had dug too deep a hole. The Jets had a chance to win the division after beating The Dolphins with a last second Todd to Barkum TD but they laid an egg the next week against their nemesis The Seahawks.
Gastineau did that several times over the years. Carrying on like an idiot while the ball was still on the ground.
Don't forget Gastineau's stupid 15 yard penalty at Cleveland in the "Marathon at the Lake", which would've sent the Jets to the AFC Championship game 1/3/87
Johnny Lam Jones did NOT fumble the opening kickoff of the 81 playoff game. It was Bruce Harper
I remember following that headline all week as a kid, every news crew would give a daily update on the status
"Like every other 28-3 lead in NFL history...." oh you sly bastard!
If you think this is odd, see if you can find footage of games where home plate was left in the field of play during at least one game in 1980- right at the goal line no less
I was at this game and it was a warm, rainy afternoon, which along with the field being torn up after the previous week's game against GB (not to mention the new sod laid down every October) where we celebrated the 1st playoff berth since the AFL days, turned Shea into a mud pit
The Monday night game vs. Minny in 79 was more like a party atmosphere from the start since it was the 1st Monday night game ever played in NY/NJ, with bottles and flasks being passed around along with food trays in the stands even as the game was underway
The final game at Shea and of Terry Bradshaw's career in 83 was insane- I can still see 'NJ Jets' on the big Shea scoreboard while the Diamond Vision played highlights and people were tearing the place apart using wrenches to take seats and railings as well as clumps of turf- it looked like a war zone- needless to say the goalposts were again taken down and carried off along with half the stadium
There was no place like Shea (keep your head on a swivel- those frisbees will take your head off, the old man once told me before the halftime free for all) and never will be in the era of PSLs and luxury suites- let them have their stadium steakhouses- nothing beats the pretzels for a buck heated over hot coals sold from shopping carts in the parking lot
Season tickets for 4 box seats field level 45 yd line were $320 total back then
That gets you half a seat in the same area to a preseason game (required purchase-optional before 1998) today- not counting the $80,000 PSL
The raw electricity and passion of those crowds hasn't been seen since, not even with the additional 13,000 capacity at the old Meadowlands stadium and Fireman Ed- I still say the guy in the green afro wig who mooned the crowd from the upper deck was better- he didn't mind having beer and pretzels thrown at him, for laughs of course
I love your videos so much
Wait just a damn minute. @ about 10:00 he said they dismantled their practice goal posts.....why not just use those to begin with
A fascinating little story. The only glitch is using footage of pre-renovated Yankee Stadium, which came down after 1973 BB Season. I attended the last Giant Game there !!! I did love seeing color footage of YS 1, a true Sports Cathedral. So tall and majestic. And seeing Shea Football footage is rare. I really miss Shea (Met fan for 55 years here)
If you're going to record your audio from a restroom stall, at least open the door.
Great story...... couldn't really see the difference of the goal posts......but thank u
“And like every 28-3 lead in NFL history, this was insurmountable…” I like what you did there lol
This is the SECOND oddest: make a video about how the Steelers came one big play away from going home due to a tie.
NY fans would rush the field as they did in ‘76, at Yankee Stadium, when the Yankees beat KC (after the Chambliss walk-off HR). Then, in ‘81 at Shea, the field was totally trashed by fans after the Jets clinched.
The New York sack exchange 😂😂
They should have asked Santa Claus for a new setof goalposts 😁👍🤣
What a game that was and reliving that Richard Todd interception late in the game brought back bad memories.
Longtime Jets fan here, was too young to ever see a game from Shea Stadium as I started following them in 84 the first year they had moved to Giants Stadium in Jersey. Shea was notorious for being a terrible football venue, it was designed specifically for baseball (NY Mets) and there were always many logistical issues with them playing there.
It was a great venue, saw my first game there in 81 when they beat the oilers. They should have never left there, they lost their identity.
@@gusfarace70 That’s what I always heard, their only true home, whether it was technically a good venue to watch football in. My Uncle who was the one who hit me into being a Jets fan as a kid had season tickets from 1976-83 when they left. He was in the upper deck, said those December games in the cold & with the wind coming off Flushing Bay was brutal like talked about hear in the Green Bay 81 game.
Growing up on Long Island about 40 mins away I went to many Mets baseball games at Shea and it def had a unique charm and a unorthodox look. I always loved going there
Shea was a dump. It was past it's prime by 1982. it was HORRIBLE for football. Wasn't all that great for baseball either.
@@gusfarace70 AWFUL place, especially for football. Flushing NY is aptly named.
I love your videos
Can we get “in defense of the Staley Timeout”?
That is absolutely insane.
Glad to find out Inspector Gadget got 2 goal posts ready in time for the game.
Oddly enough, three years later, the Jets left Shea Stadium for Giants' Stadium and have shared a facility with the Giants ever since.
I was there, having had Jets' season tickets since 1979. After the game, the entire field was covered with fans, every single speck of it. I know because I was in the upper reserved level watching everything unfold. Once I left, there was a large group of fans near the subway, carrying one of the uprights from the goalposts. They were mostly intoxicated, and they literally tried to break the upright against one of the subway stanchions. As for the temperature, I remember the wind chill being MUCH colder than nine degrees. The real temp was in the low teens; I think the author may have meant that the wind chill was nine degrees below zero.
That was the game that put the Jets AND Giants into the playoffs. It was just as cold and windy the day before when the Giants beat the Cowboys setting up that Jets game with the Packers that was the biggest game in New York since Super Bowl III.
I was at this game the following week, the ONLY post-merger playoff game Shea ever hosted.
28-3 score being insurmountable? I think there is a team in New England that would disagree with that comment.
They should’ve checked Amazon Prime.
Illuminating and interesting plus completely Sickos. I approve; thumbs up
Why didn't they just have the Bills bring their goalposts?
Never knew about this, but why did they need goalposts? I would have thought the NFL would have mandated all teams have two sets of goalposts available at all times in case something like what happened on December 20, 1981 did:
Some side notes to that December 20, 1981 game:
That game was the biggest game in New York since Super Bowl III. With the Giants winning the day before against the Cowboys in very similar conditions to this game weather-wise, a Jets win puts the Jets AND Giants into the playoffs, for the Giants, the first time since 1963 (back when unless a tie-breaker was needed, the Championship game was the ONLY playoff game in the NFL) and for the Jets, the first time since 1969 in a semifinal game against the Chiefs the year after they won it all. The Jets winning put both into the playoffs.
That game is also notable because as we would find out later, it would be the last regular-season NFL game ever called by legendary play-by-play voice Vin Scully, working that game with Hank Stram. Scully's last game for CBS would be the NFC Championship Game on January 10, 1982 in San Francisco, the legendary "catch" game where the late Dwight Clark caught a pass from Joe Montana in their win for the 49ers over the Cowboys that was considered in hindsight to be a changing of the guard in the NFL with the 49ers winning the first of their five Super Bowls that season. Scully left CBS after the 1982 season (actually late that summer because he still had golf commitments for CBS) and never called another NFL game.
As for this game (December 27, 1981), I was AT Shea Stadium for it, the ONLY playoff game Shea hosted after the 1970 merger. I remember leaving in the 3rd quarter with the game looking hopeless as I wanted to get back home in time to watch the Giants-Eagles game that was immediately afterwards. On the 7 train coming back from Queens, someone had a portable TV in the car I was in and many watched while info was relayed on how the game was going as the Jets came back only to lose late.
This also marked the first time third place teams (Bills and Giants) had made the playoffs in the NFL, making the Bills-Jets game the first wild card playoff game ever between division rivals (there had been cases where conference rivals met in the conference championship game, but to that point it had never happened in an earlier round) with Giants-Eagles becoming the second a few hours later. What I remember about this was, the NFL in those days (1981 would be the last time this happened), the NFL was reluctant to have games in cold weather cities go well after dark as much as possible, meaning Bills-Jets was a noon game while Giants-Eagles was a 3:00 PM game. The NFL actually had to get permission from New York State to move up the Jets game to a noon kickoff as Sunday Blue Laws of the day barred sporting events in New York State from starting before 1:05 PM local time (during the regular season, Jets games would routinely start at 1:05 rather than 1:00 because of this). These laws would remain in place until early 1984 when a spill in the 9th and final race of a Sunday program at Aqueduct that began at 1:05 PM (as opposed to the 12:30 PM start on other days) saw a horse die that was blamed on the semi-darkness that race was run in. That changed the law in much of New York State though some parts of New York State for years after still had the blue laws in place.
Speaking of goalposts you could do a story about the 1965 playoff game between Baltimore and Green Bay. Both teams finished 10-3-1 and even though the Packers won both games against Baltimore there was no tiebreaker scenario so a playoff was needed to determine the conference champion. Green Bay won 13-10 on a late field goal but it appeared the kick was not inside the goalposts. The following year the NFL raised the height of the goalposts and the media dubbed them "The Baltimore extensions". Green Bay went on to defeat the Cleveland Browns in the NFL championship. The last before the Super Bowl era.
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The "phantom" FG actually tied the game at 10-10...and the Colts were using a makeshift quarterback due to injuries.
@@ricknibert6417 Halfback Tom Matte was the QB. He had plays written on his wrist band.
Bwhahahaha “and like every 28-3 lead in NFL history this was insurmountable…”I see what you did there!
I imagine they could have had another set made. It would have cost a lot extra, but it could have been done. I work for a machine builder they bid a job that would have had to be done over Christmas weekend, the offer which I accepted was double time,$500 cash bonus, and a paid day off the next week. We didn't end up getting the job, but in machine and fab shops people will work anything for the right money.
Do stadiums that host both pro and college teams keep two sets of goalposts around?
Packers have experience losing @ Jets final game of season costing them playoff. Remember in 2002 had chance at one seed blown out by jets and fell into wildcard round and lost at home for first time. At least can’t play Jets last game of season anymore.
Wow I remember that game. It was also the first time the Jets won the AFC East
I loved the result of the 2002 game because it helped get my Buccaneers the NFC's No. 2 seed.
@@marcus813 i can remember my own misery that year, but was that the year the Buccaneers won their first Super Bowl, can’t remember
@@travismiller4320 Yes, it was. They won Super Bowl XXXVII, San Diego's final time hosting a Super Bowl.
6:33 I was one of the little dots on the right! I had my right hand on the lower corner of the post I remember touching it.
I like the subtle jab at the Falcons there
There were at least 10 teams within a 48 truck ride. Hard to believe they couldn't get a truck and some cooperation
Bizarre and the New York Jets go together like peanut butter and jelly.
4:17
The moment you all came for.
3:53 lmaoooo
28-3 😂😂😂
I bet he slipped that joke in because he was salty over Georgia winning the Natty last night.