1981 Week 12 Miami at New York Jets

[@Amber90125]

Great atmosphere at Shea Stadium back in the day

[@t24mack]

The game that made me a Jets fan. Jesus why did I watch this game

[@alfonsogreen2722]

I miss the Jets playing at Shea. Those were the days. Btw R.I.P Lam Jones

[@anthony0358]

I have fond memories of this game. I am still a dedicated Jets fan but this was a game for 1st place. The Jets had started 0-3 that season. Coach Walt Michaels' job was on line and the Jets started playing better

[@WaltGekko]

I remember that season very well. I was at what turned out to be the final NFL playoff game ever played at Shea (Jets-Bills that December).

[@PaulAlexander-u6r]

I have always loved the Jets and always will I just don't understand their deal with Aaron Rodgers

[@cameronbarnett5256]

Greatest game I have ever been too. Flew up from La during Thanksgiving breakfrom college. Saw the Colts game too the following Sunday

[@Galilee1964]

The game that led me to become a Jets fan was the 28-28 tie in week 5. This game sealed it. Still a Jets fan this many years later.

[@jamessollazzo2966]

remember how we blew the division to a bad seattle team starting a rookie qb dave kreig in for jim zorn two weeks later!!

[@WaltGekko]

@@jamessollazzo2966 But Dave Krieg would lead the Seahawks to their first playoff berth two years later, getting to the AFC Championship game. Going out west always was a rought road trip.

[@PalermoLaw]

was there in lodge right above where Barkum made catch. Shea was NEVER louder!

[@jamessollazzo2966]

didn't trust leahy!!!

[@steveprestegard5151]

@@jamessollazzo2966 No kidding. He almost hooked the extra point.

[@michaelsmith1539]

Say what you will about the franchises...you will NEVER hear a crowd like this in New England, who only found out they had a team in 2001

[@jamessollazzo2966]

9000 season ticket holders when parcells arrived in 1993. They were threatening to move to connecticut and no one gave a shit!!

[@scrat4378]

Honestly an argument can be made that you dont hear crowds like that at Met Life either.

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

The jets are irrelevant in New York.

[@timburr4453]

@@jamessollazzo2966 they were about to bolt to St. Louis. New England fans basically said pack your bags when's opening day at Fenway?

[@SS-th9wz]

Near the end of the game, NBC announcer Trumpy says NYJ will be an “astounding 7-0-1 against Miami in their last 8 meetings”.....triggering the Dolphins to go and win the next 7 games in a row and 8 out of 9 played between the two teams. But before NYJ’s 8 game unbeaten streak....Miami would win 12 of 13 contests.

[@WaltGekko]

That streak included a 4-12 Jets team in 1980 where two of those wins were against the Dolphins, including in the infamous "announcerless" game they played in the Orange Bowl the final Saturday of the 1980 regular season.

[@SS-th9wz]

@@WaltGekko - Yep. Announcerless game you speak of was a meaningless game as both teams weren’t going to playoffs.

[@gilbertgiles]

TV game broadcast direction so poor at end. Who's calling the shots in the truck? I remember watching this then. What a victory, last great Jet win at Shea. Was frustrating not to see Todd and teammates et al. in celebration after TD; idiotic focus on Michaels on sidelines lol.

[@WaltGekko]

And I remember being at what would be the last NFL playoff game ever played at Shea: The 1981 Wild Card against the Bills that the NFL had to get permission from New York State to move up to a Noon start as in those days, the NFL when both games were in cold-weather cities in the eastern time zone had the games at Noon and 3:00 PM (which Giants-Eagles that followed at the Vet was) and in New York State, on Sundays no sporting event could start before 1:05 PM local time (this was changed after an early 1984 spill in the final race of a Sunday program at Aqueduct that had a 1:05 first post as the accident was believed to be caused by the race being run in semi-darkness that claimed a horse's life).

[@juanamj1594]

Thanks for the upload

[@briantbethea]

I know it's wishful thinking, but would love to have them back in Queens where they belong.

[@jamessollazzo2966]

enberg forgot his "my" in his signature "oh my" call for jerome's td!

[@jonnytheboy7338]

When Todd made that run to the sideline. Shame on Wesley Walker. He just stopped and just turned around and watched him run instead of blocking and that's what caused that hip shot

[@timburr4453]

should've never left Shea

[@WaltGekko]

There were a lot of issues with Shea, plus it was more lucrative for Leon Hess to move across the Hudson. Had the Eagles moved to Phoenix as almost happened following the 1984 season, the Jets actually would have likely moved to Philly to replace the Eagles there OR there would have been deals done where the Eagles stayed in Philly and the Jets moved to Phoenix.

[@timburr4453]

​​@@WaltGekko honestly that's nonsense. the eagles would never leave philly for a questionable market like Phoenix and the Jets wouldnt move out of the NY market for a smaller market like Philly. Makes 0 sense

[@WaltGekko]

@@timburr4453 Then-Eagles owner Leonard Tose had in fact agreed to a deal with those who were looking for a team in Phoenix in 1984 (not '83 as I originally wrote). Tose had serious gambling debts that ruined him financially and desperately needed the money (in fact, former Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil privately took care of Tose after that until his death a few years later). That was a done deal until at the last minute when Norman Braman stepped in to keep the Eagles in Philly (and a lot of this was brought up again two years later when Penn State and Miami played for the 1986 national championship in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl by the media in Philly, especially KYW-TV (Channel 3 that then was the NBC affiliate there, CBS since 1995 as that game was at Sun Devil Stadium where the football Cardinals moved to following the 1987 season). Had Braman not stepped in, the Eagles would have moved to Phoenix and then USA TODAY had a blurb noting had the Eagles in fact moved to Phoenix, Leon Hess was willing to break his Meadowlands lease (Jets had just moved there in 1984) to move the Jets to Philly to replace the Eagles. I suspect what would have wound up happening was a three-way ownership swap: Hess would wind up getting the Eagles from Leonard Tose and kept the Eagles in Philly while allowing the group that would have bought the Eagles to instead buy the Jets from him with the Jets being the team that moved to Phoenix. Had that happened, we might very well have seen the Raiders move from LA to New York to replace the Jets there, as Al Davis has already been unhappy with the move to LA and as it was flirted with moving the Raiders to New York as a third team in the New York metro area by 1985 anyway. The likely scenario if the Raiders had moved to New York to replace the Jets would have been the Raiders playing in Shea Stadium while a new stadium, either across from Shea where CitiField now is or more likely in my opinion on Coney Island, probably where the stadium the Mets AA team, the Brooklyn Cyclones is at or where the Barclays Center is now as Davis grew up in Brooklyn was built for the Raiders.

[@stefins]

Thanks, I was at this game, but as a FINS fan and 16 years old, my brother had us leave early. we found out in the car the the Fins lost to the jests.

[@michaelangelioliebers7601]

1982 mud bowl playoffs at the orange bowl miami dolphins beat the New York Jets 14-0 a tale of two teams Don Shula ended up lost two super bowls 27-17too Washibgton Redskins and 1984 38-16 too Stanford stadium joe Montana super bowl mvp of San Francisco 49ers and Don Shula would break a record most coaches won in a career broke Chicago Bears George Halas sr record 324 wins and make Pro Football Hall Of Fame and Walt Michaels would be gone and Richard Todd was replaced by Ken O'Brien and new coach Joe Walton and New York Sack Exchange 1977-1983 Mark Gastineau and Joe klecko and Abdul Salaam and Marty Lyons .

[@steveprestegard5151]

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