The GREATEST Debut in New York Giants HISTORY | Eric Schubert (1985 Giants)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- On November 2, 1985, Eric Schubert was a substitute teacher at a high school who also coached high school football. 24 hours later, in a game between the New York Giants and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he became an overnight celebrity in the NFL after getting signed by the New York Giants and going 5-for-5 on field goals, making it the greatest performance by a kicker in Giants history, as well as the greatest performance by any kicker in NFL history in his debut game. This is the remarkable story behind the career of Eric Schubert and the 1985 Giants
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Members of the 1985 New York Giants:
Eric Schubert
Sean Landeta
Ali Haji-Sheikh
Phil Simms
Jess Atkinson
Jeff Hostetler
Jeff Rutledge
Joe Morris
Ted Watts
Lee Rouson
Perry Williams
Rob Carpenter
Herb Welch
Bill Currier
Tony Galbreath
George Adams
Elvis Patterson
Mark Haynes
Larry Flowers
Tyrone Davis
Terry Kinard
Maurice Carthon
Kenny Hill
Robbie Jones
Harry Carson
Andy Headen
Gary Reasons
Lawrence Taylor
Byron Hunt
Carl Banks
Brad Benson
Chris Godfrey
Conrad Goode
Karl Nelson
Jim Burt
Bart Oates
Billy Ard
David Jordan
Leonard Marshall
Casey Merrill
Gordon King
George Martin
Curtis McGriff
Jerome Sally
Dee Hardison
Phil McConkey
Stacy Robinson
Vyto Kab
Don Hasselbeck
Lionel Manuel
Byron Williams
Bobby Johnson
Mark Bavaro
Bill Parcells (head coach)
George Young (general manager)
Fun Facts: Schubert was teaching at his Alma Mater - Lakeland High School in Wanaque, NJ when this happened. He is the first graduate of Lakeland HS to make it to the NFL. Ali Haji-Sheikh owned a bagel store in West Milford, NJ around this time as well. West Milford and Wanaque are neighboring towns and West Milford HS and Lakeland Regional HS are bitter sports rivals.
I attended the Saturday practice as a guest of Bart Oates and the game that Sunday. Schubert was so awesome I got his jersey after this game.
36 Years Ago
Dude this is so crazy, I recently golfed with this man! Longest drive i have ever seen! I have been golfing since I was a little kid, I have played rounds with so many scratch golfers over the years and even some former athletes. I have never seen anyone, even pro golfers hit the ball as far this guy. There is an intensity to him. It was something else
3:38 I was at this game between the Maulers and the Stars. Also, Schubert kicked for my beleaguered Cards in 1986 and I got to see him miss 3 FG's in a 10-10 tie with the Eagles.
Wow... LT holding on the kickoff!
1. Fun fact: The Buccaneers would return to the Meadowlands later that year and get curb-stomped by the Jets, 62-28. This was in revenge for their game the previous year, when the Bucs let the Jets score late in a blowout so their running back, James Wilder, could set the record for most scrimmage yards in a season. JG9, I know that story is on your bucket list.
2. Look who came in to hold on the kickoff for Schubert at 0:26. None other than Lawrence Taylor. A Football Life pointed out Taylor was on the field on Special Teams for the two biggest kicks of the Giants season when they won Super Bowl 25. Amazing in light of that some veteran Giants were ready to walk out if the team drafted Taylor in 1981. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about that incident.
@Will Muny it was absolutely a revenge game. The Bucs did an onside kick when they were up 27 points in the 4Q during the ‘84 game. The Jets players and coaches didn’t like that bs move.
@@OhThankKevin Bucs fan here. I agree 100% that this was a revenge game for the Jets. I remember watching that '85 game as a little kid. In a way, I wish I didn't! LOL
I liked the newspaper article headline, “Windy Symphony”. Schubert (3) really showed a lot of composure that fateful day in November. Jeff Rutledge (17) the holder BTW.
LOL, "composure." I see what you did there.
Schubert? Composer? Composure?
Anyway...
What a fantastic video. I remember this day so well. I was at college in Mass. so I was only getting updates on the game--Pre Red Zone and Sunday Ticket by many years :). It was an unbelievable story. Great job explaining this day/story.
Imagine telling those high schoolers you're gonna be in an NFL game tomorrow.
For Parcels to praise a kicker for being tough is the most impressive thing about the story
The most incredible fumbles
Schubert was out buying lottery tickets when the lottery ticket called him.
Of course he did his best kicking against my Bucs. Watching this video is bittersweet for me.
kind of like bagging groceries one week and being the starting quarterback just a few weeks later.
After having Danelo we were so spoiled by that 1 season of Ali Haji Sheikh. I remember when Schubert came in my family were like, "Wow! Ali haji who?" And then after that it was just, "Oh God oh no God oh man oh no God no please oh God no please God..."
"Aliiiii... Hajiiii... Sheikh!"
Then, "Rauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul!"
Sort of like the Cowboys Clint Longley's heroics on Turkey Day 1974 against the Redskins. (a game I still bitterly remember watching as a kid). It was both the sunrise and sunset of a very short career.
0:28 is that Lawrence Taylor on kick off coverage???? (If so I would think twice about returning it!)
It was a different time back then. The Bears routinely had Dick Butkus as part of the field goal unit
I remember Him missing a extra point and a last second field goal against the Cleveland Browns a month later.
Which he mentioned
At one point Jess Atkinson and Ali haji shank were on the Redskins roster and if I am not mistaken both were activated for a game. Atkinson handled kickoffs and shank did the FG & PAT.
After Mark Moseley was cut early in 1986, the signed Skins Mad Max Zendajas. After struggling mightily, (including missing 3 XPs in a game against the Vikings) he was cut and the Skins signed Atkinson for the final regular season game and playoffs.
Atkinson was the Skins kicker going into the 1987 season, but on opening day, had his ankle badly broken on a cheap shot by the Eagles Andre Waters during a kick. He was lost for the season and the Skins signed Haji-Sheik for the season. He was their kicker all the way to their Super Bowl win over Denver, so in the end, both kickers got Super Bowl rings.
You have to credit the man for trying, and giving it his best when fate called his number.
Although there have been SEVERAL teachers that got the call to the NFL, it's rare to hear of any kicker or punter that is coaching any team, on any level (unless it's at the position level)
I GUESS Eric Schubert wasn't a BIG FAN of SPIKING the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play.
that miss against cleveland i remember more than 5 field goals againt the bucs. even needing 5 FGs to barely beat an 0-8 team is kind of crap to begin with.
the last week of the season maybe goes differently if he makes that cleveland kick, but assuming it doesnt that miss cost them the division title that year.
Still he had one hell of a story to tell! Most of us had those "what if" thoughts in our life, he got his what if & kick the hell out of it!
I'd love to see a kicker who was reasonably reliable, but kept getting cut for "kicking ugly", banging them off the post, slipping on kicking but still (barely) making it, you know, that sort of thing. And just to avoid the "but he was cut all those time due to his attitude" scenario, the guy ought to be a (near) mensch. Anybody know a kicker like that?
I think this is the guy that sang a song about Scottish guy that fell asleep wearing his kilt and some girls came along lifted up his kilt and tied a ribbon around his penis. He woke up later and when asked what did you do last night or he woke up and saw the ribbon.
He said i don't remember but i won first prize 🥇lol something like that ! Anyone else remember this ?
I could have ripped my own hair out in aggravation at the 85 Giants for how badly they underachieved that year. They were light years better than the Cowboys, yet they lost both games and the division to them on fluke plays. The Giants should also have beaten the Redskins, the Browns, and maybe the Bengals. Instead, they lost all three of those games too. Winning any one of those games gives the Giants the division title.
So the Giants should have been at least 12-4 or 13-3, and the #2 seed in the NFC. Instead they were the Wild Card team, and had to play the Bears in the divisional round instead of the conference championship game. Talk about underachievement. I thought the 85 Giants were as good or better than the 86 team. 85 certainly had a better offense.
I remember this day well as a shaggy haired youth.
They needed a substitute teacher to beat a horrid succaneers team 😆
I'm surprised that my Bucs came so close to beating that team. The Bucs were so awful back then.
I hear he was a great Ladin teacher.
Anytime you talk about the Pittsburgh Maulers, USFL’s highest attendance to boo Cliff Stoudt!
Why would they boo Stoudt? He wasn't going to get a chance to start in Pittsburgh with Bradshaw still there(83) and with Pittsburgh having drafted Malone as the heir apparent to Bradshaw.
How was that single bar face mask ever allowed in the NFL
Real life is always more interesting than any sports movie.
Not Nowadays.
ali haji-sheikh from um got injured. Why didn't g men bring danelo or one of the bahr's back?
Danelo was out of football after going 9 for 18 in 1984 for a terrible Bills team; Chris Bahr was with the Raiders and Matt was with the Browns.
I played on our University soccer team. I tried out once for the football team and was offered a scholarship. But they wanted to choose the classes for me and to have me move into the player's dorm. i said thanks, but no thanks.
I tried out in Wyoming winds, which make New York winds seem like a calm day. I made 10 for 10 inside 40 yards, and hit the uprights on a 55 yard field goal. But I really should have asked to bring out a wide receiver since I believe a kicker could use pass routes instead of kicking the ball away. I have never understood this pussy thing of kicking on the ground and hoping for a bounce.
ted watts slick watts brother.
🚫 FG kickers will miss even easy kicks to avoid expanding the lead.
🎲 Over many seasons, this builds up a statistical anomaly:
The Patriots benefited from missed FG kicks more than any other team _by far._
NFL kickers miss no more than 20% of their kicks...yet they miss an astonishing *24% of the time* against the Patriots.
(stat compiled over 19 seasons from 2000-2019.)
TOM'S MAGNETIC APPEAL 🧲 🏈
Tom never loses a game because of bad FG kicking. Has Tom made _a deal with Satan?_ 👺 Haha, not exactly...
Tom's kicker NEVER misses because of magnets. Special 'kicking balls' are used for FG attempts.
They have magnets that allow kicks to be guided in for a make, when activated.
To support this claim, Tom's Patriot kicker, Gostkowski, made *60 of 62* FG attempts (97%) for Tom in the 4th quarter or overtime from 2006-2013.
This is absolutely impossible without magnets.
NFL kickers make FGs at a rate between 80%-86%.
No way a kicker could achieve a 97% accuracy rate without magnets.😕
Tom's new kicker, Succoup, made 37 of 40 FG attempts for Tom last year (92.5%).
Magnets in the poles and in the ball can guide a ball _toward the center_ of the goalposts.🎯
CARTOON CONFESSION 👶🏼
The NFL has some funny ways of telling the truth:
In an episode of the children's show "Arthur" they end the show by suddenly disclosing that _televised football isn't real_ haha!
At 11:07 of this video:
*Arthur Season 3 Full Episode 10 Attack of the Turbo Tibbles*
🎓 Well, you been informed.
Fake. Teachers don't work on Saturdays.
I guess he took care of some unfinished business?
5 for 5 one game
End of season
11 for 30
What are we bragging about
Isnt that what you get paid for
Put Ball between two poles
This was the most over talked about story in '85, ppl that knew nothing about football were talking about it. It's prolly impossible to uncover anything about his career that hasn't been blasted on the headlines. I was prolly one of the few that watched him with the Maulers