1982 New York Jets Team Season Highlights "The Road Warriors"

(Time: 21:35) Narrated By: John Facenda

[@ziggymorris8760]

This is when I became a Jets fan when I was around 9 years old. It has been 40+ years of hell since.

[@williamstocker584]

1997-99 and 2009-2010 was a good time to be a Jets fan

[@bb-gc2tx]

same here

[@VolumedMusicMan]

This team should’ve had better seasons after Michael’s left. Perhaps the spirit of that team left with Walt. What a ball club I’ll never forget them!!

[@sherlocksharp7736]

This Jets team is my favorite football team of all time. I was only 8 but I still have vivid memories of their play off run. Richard Todd was my first sports hero, and I still hate AJ Duhe and that friggin' mud!

[@joedimaggio3687]

You should just hate the Dolphins because they were the better team

[@AFGSANFORD2]

I hadn't quite turned 8 then but I was very upset with that playoff loss. I was mad like the incredible hulk and I threw a chair! I still hate Dolphins coach Don Shula as well as AJ Duhe and Bob Baumhower. Also hate those field conditions; game should have been moved to Shea Stadium because the field was not covered.

[@AFGSANFORD2]

@@joedimaggio3687 you need to shut your mouth

[@ponytrekker8996]

There was nothing like shea in January.

[@joey2729]

@@AFGSANFORD2 cry me a River

[@TheConchologist]

Anthony Munoz used to come into our Italian Deli in Thousand Oaks, called the Godmother. Nobody made a better sub sandwich or sausage and peppers, or meatball sandwich. Mr. Munoz used to visit the deli in 81-82, before it was sold. He loved our pastrami sandwiches and hope he’s reading this. I asked him who was the toughest linemen he faced, he said it was Gastineau. Number 99

[@mehllr]

Man, I watched this hundred of times when I was a kid. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I still remember every word. Such nostalgia! Thanks for uploading!

[@JardoniJovonovich]

Darrol Ray was my guy. He was always coming up with big interceptions and returning them for pick 6's. He was such a weapon.

[@JAWrightonline]

Ed Reed before Ed Reed.

[@darksunridah]

The music was awesome. The soundtrack of my youth growing up in NYC

[@user-ff5tf8uk1k]

I've been a Jet fan sence 67 when I was a freshman in high school

[@ep7975]

Freeman McNeil was a beast RB in Lineman pads 🤣🤣

[@josephloguidice1841]

The Walt Michaels firing after that season will forever puzzle me. I was just a little kid and even then I was puzzled.

[@evandarragh4356]

Didn't he resign?

[@josephloguidice1841]

@@evandarragh4356 I read he had a fight with someone on the plane ride home. Mike Francesca on WFAN in NY told that story once, but he didn't elaborate. Always wanted to know the whole deal. He was a good coach.

[@joedimaggio3687]

He got fired because Joe Walton was available. LOL 😆

[@anthonyvasquez1316]

Walt Michaels was really asked to resign by Mr. Hess because he was drunk from what I heard. I really believed that the Jets were going to win it all in 83. They were probably the most disappointing team. They had the talent but the off field issue of moving out of Shea may have been a huge distraction.

[@joedimaggio3687]

@@anthonyvasquez1316 they were never going to win a super bowl with Richard Todd as Quarterback

[@previnlubom4498]

New York Sack Exchange 🏈🏉💪

[@kingporter67]

The 1982 New York Jets were the Road Warriors indeed, they played four home games at beloved Shea Stadium in the heart and soul of the Big Apple in New York City, however, the Kansas City Chiefs totally destroyed their chances to get home field advantage in that year, P.S. Two years later, the New York Jets moving from Shea Stadium to Giants Stadium was a giant mistake and that resulted in many losing seasons including a 1-15 record in 1996!!

[@joedimaggio3687]

The Jets sucked at Shea stadium as well

[@AFGSANFORD2]

@@joedimaggio3687 you need to shut your mouth

[@juliansmith1951]

​@joedimaggio3687 Sharing Shea Stadium with the New York Mets wasn't bad

[@Venom3254]

It's that Kelly green logo that's the issue. The minute they went to that 98 outfit they were at least getting more success

[@juliansmith1951]

@@Venom3254 I ❤️ those jet uniforms from the 80s whenever I play madden on my Playstation 2 as the jets I select those uniforms especially when they play the Miami dolphins

[@NeoNitty]

My father, God rest his soul, loved this team. Always felt they would’ve given Washington fits..they just might’ve …

[@liberation1697]

Go Jets!!!

[@GetBenched2010]

In Todd we trust!!!

[@rileypup9971]

Walt Michaels firing was one of the top mistakes that Leon Hess did as the Jets Owner. Hiring Rich Kotite a few years later and stating he wants to win now was another bonehead move done by Leon Hess.

[@joedimaggio3687]

The Jets are a tortured franchise

[@ericthomas917]

10:13 the old World Championship Wrestling intro music

[@AFGSANFORD2]

yes that is the music for the NWA (national wrestling alliance)

[@user-ys2wp4cr9g]

With the best Offensive Tackle in the league next to Anthony Munoz in Marvin Powell

[@briggscharleton6139]

My favorite Jets team

[@davidlucasmachado2831]

J E T S !!!! LETS GO JETS !!

[@aarondigby5054]

The Air Coryell chargers and the NY Sack Exchange Jets were arguably the best teams to never reach a super bowl

[@mikeperkins8062]

I live in KY so at 19 yrs old me and few pals went to cincy to watch the Jets kill the Bengals in 1st round the playoffs that yr..Great win that day it was

[@bb-gc2tx]

the jets were one decent quarter back away from winning the super bowl this season

[@aarondigby5054]

They needed qb who had playoff experience.

[@aarondigby5054]

With the talent they had on both sides of the football, they should've went to 3 or 4 SBs, at least winning one. They'd win 9 games in a row then lose 5 outta 6 and end up getting a wild card, smdh

[@bb-gc2tx]

if the jets never left shea stadium freeman mcneil would be in the hall of fame. that awful giants stadium turf shortened his career

[@danielrivera2365]

One of the greatest missing Super Bowls - Jets vs. Giants in SBXXI If Gastineau doesn't get called for the hit on Kosar, they beat the Broncos whom they scraped on Monday night earlier in the season.

[@Venom3254]

They got robbed

[@aarondigby5054]

The Jets having to play anywhere in the NY/NJ metropolitan area. Smdh

[@mrperson0140]

This Jets team should've made the Superbowl that year. That Dolphins team had no right to be there and Todd had to mess up. After 82, the Jets' bad karma only got worse.

[@ccth22]

Not a Jets fan, but I believe they would’ve beat the Redskins in the Super Bowl...

[@joedimaggio6261]

Miami was the better team. They beat the Jets 3 times in 1982. The Dolphins won in good and bad playing conditions against the Jets that year.

[@howardcosell2022]

@@ccth22 They weren't beating Washington without Klecko

[@SS-th9wz]

Matchups do matter and Miami owned the Jets in 1982. Beating them twice that season by double digits (45-28 and 14-0). They won also 20-19 and Miami’s kicker missed 2 FGs that day. Leahy only missed a PAT and FG. As for Jets -Redskins SB matchup….we will never know. But we do know the Skins beat the Jets in 1979 and 1987. If that’s any barometer? • 10/25/87NYJ 16@WAS 17 • 09/24/78NYJ 3 @WAS 23

[@OhThankKevin]

@@howardcosell2022 Klecko played in all three playoff games. He’s at 21:00

[@hubertvale5132]

Bastard Miami Dolphins left the field uncovered so the Jets would lose. SOB's! Then Leon Hess fired Walt Michaels, the only winning coach since Weeb. Goddamn, they were so close!

[@SS-th9wz]

0-3 vs Miami in 1982 season. Twice losing by double digits. Twice losing in sunshine. Yet Jet fans and media blame the AFC championship game loss on the field conditions. Losers lose and complain about how they got robbed. Winners win and move on.

[@SS-th9wz]

@Fries - Miami had a lot to do with why NY didn’t “play well”.

[@SS-th9wz]

@Fries - I agree. If Thiesman doesn’t make that great play in SB 17, they go down in history.

[@anthonyvasquez1316]

That Jets team should've made the Super Bowl.

[@frankrizzo4460]

Yeah I was at that playoff game in the Orange Bowl we were sitting right in front of when AJ Duhe intercepted the pass and ran in for a TD. The place erupted one of the loudest game I've ever been to.

[@SS-th9wz]

@@anthonyvasquez1316 - Only if the Dolphins franchise ceases to exist do the Jets “should’ve made it to the Superbowl” in 1982.

[@Pbiblueguy3144]

Don Shula did his best Astros impersonation and CHEATED a better NY team out of a Championship !! If they had placed the tarp on that filed, There is no doubt the JETS destroy that Dolphins team !.. playing in that slop held them back, Hurt the running game and the pass rush as well.. With no running game to speak of, That made the Jets one dimensional and exposed Richard Todd as an average QB who couldn't protect the ball !

[@bdog1323]

Funny, in the 2 games that year before the AFC game, miami beat them twice. Jets were a good team but their coaches were not that good. And Todd that year was HORRENDOUS vs miami in 3 games, 13 INTs in those 3 games. Jets in '86 I think were a better team but I think injuries started catching up to Freeman McNeil for the jets who had an underrated career as a jet. Over 10 years if I remember.

[@ericradford2142]

Fortunately karma caught up to Don Shula as his Dolphins lost to the Redskins in Super Bowl XVII.

[@jrb2280]

@@bdog1323 The name AJ Duhe still brings unpleasant memories. He picked off Richard Todd 3 times, one for a TD. Todd also threw 2 more that day for a total of 5 interceptions.

[@pretorious700]

That's one of the sillier conspiracy theories I've heard.

[@SS-th9wz]

You do all know that the Miami Dolphins rented and were merely tenants in the Orange Bowl? Same as the University of Miami Hurricanes. Many area high school teams too used the stadium as their home field on Friday nights because they didn’t have a stadium on campus. Most games the Dolphins couldn’t get the city of Miami to spend the money to paint the Dolphins logos on the field for home games (they would only do it for prime time Monday Night Games). To think Shula could direct the city of Miami to do anything is absurd and moronic. It’s why the Dolphins owner finally built their own stadium to get out of Little Havana section of Miami and to stop sharing their field with a college and numerous high school teams. The city did the bare minimum for the Dolphins. Take it from someone who lived there. Your beef is with the city of Miami and the NFL. Why do you think the NFL never had a Super Bowl again in Miami after the 1978 season? It didn’t return the SB to Miami area (Miami Gardens - which isn’t Miami) until 1989.