New York Jets vs New York Giants 1981 2nd Half Week 9

1981 may have been the best year for pro football. As a sports fan I miss those days. #NFL1981 #BattleOfNewYork

[@mitchc6040]

Great win for the Jets. Thanks for posting.

[@Amber90125]

The Battle of Gotham City and so perfect having Marv Albert doing commentary.

[@jamessollazzo4860]

never liked marv for football especially when he teamed up with that clown paul macguire!

[@johnrhaganjr5535]

Thanks for the great upload I wish the 1984 GIANTS-JETS game would also be uploaded

[@danorthsidemang3834]

This is the first NFL broadcast I have seen in a long time where they gave us the starting lineups at the start of the second half in addition to the first

[@jenyakostak2155]

Thank you Rich, you made me smile. Wish you all the best, hope you will be there for us, NFL fans.

[@bobcook5276]

Great post! The sound was also great.

[@kidmack1121]

Great upload! I remember week9 '81 very well. In spite of being thoroughly suffocated by the chokehold, better known as "Reaganomics" I still miss 1981

[@jamessollazzo4860]

everybody made money with reagan!

[@matthewbuffardi7404]

Len Dawson was a very underrated quarterback. In fact, I would pick him over Joe Namath. His passer rating was exceptional, he had longevity and took his team to multiple championships and I'm including the ones from the AFL.

[@johnrhaganjr5535]

Len Dawson was a lot better than Joe Namath. He (Namath) had the fortune of playing in NYC while Dawson played in small market KC

[@jamessollazzo4860]

wasn't better than namath, dawson would split time with livingston

[@jrdoo7x]

@@johnrhaganjr5535 yoiu8 have remember namath had a knee in jury in college. Dawson never had that problem.

[@cornucopiaofcool2144]

Broadway Joe still in the public eye. Pitching Medicare. Say it ain't so BROADWAY JOE

[@jrdoo7x]

richard todd was the most inconsistant qb of all time. One game he looked the best qb in the league, and then the next game he would look like the worst qb in the league.

[@danorthsidemang3834]

2:10 "YEAH, JUST FOR YOUU"

[@wc1068]

Growing up on LI, Jets and Giants were always blacked out because they couldn’t fill the stadium. Thus, me and my friends became fans of the teams they showed every week back then, ie: Vikings, Steelers, Cowboys. This was first Jets game I watched and saw some nut going crazy after every sack(Gastineau!) Have been diehard Gang Green ever since. Maybe I shuda chose the Giants instead. 42 years of mostly misery:(

[@lonnieclifton8307]

Fantastic!...the very end made it all worth it lol... the ragin' Connors lol...just watch the game people trust me it's worth it lol

[@KevinBarry-j8w]

Lawrence Taylors rookie season

[@marvinflowers7945]

Too bad jets didn't get to the Superbowl in 1986 an win that was their year.

[@johnlevalley521]

I believe this game was blacked out in New York.

[@donwert70]

no I remember watching it live on tv

[@briggscharleton6139]

WNBC channel 4 for station identification in the third quarter

[@jamessollazzo4860]

it aired, game was sold out! 1974 at the yale bowl was blacked out because it didn't sell out by thursday of game week

[@moonblast12]

It’s hard to believe the Giants offense was this bad, Phil simms had a mediocre running game to go along with zero receivers.

[@denniseverett1904]

Simms was sacked 9 or 10 times

[@danorthsidemang3834]

1:01:21 GOOD LORD WHAT A LICK

[@Amber90125]

Battle of Gotham City

[@jenyakostak2155]

Jets fuck’d G. Sorry for bad words

[@sturmgewehr70]

Back when I looked forward to every Sunday afternoon and Monday night! Long before all of this woke bs ruined all of professional sports!

[@moonblast12]

Yes, athletes who speak for themselves and demand change ruined sports, right. Spoken like a true MAGA idiot.

[@mukinmukin6352]

New Yorks real team won. The Jets

[@joedimaggio3687]

Just 3 years later the Jets would give up on being the true New York team by moving to Giants Stadium and play 2nd fiddle to the Giants.

[@mukinmukin6352]

@@joedimaggio3687 should've never happened. So stupid. Was originally supposed to come back to shea in 89 and stupid Hess said no

[@joedimaggio3687]

@@mukinmukin6352 there's 2 sides to this story. New York city owned Shea stadium and treated the Jets like second class tenants to rhe Mets. It was almost as if the Mets sub leased Shea to the Jets. The Jets had to split their parking and concession revenues with the Mets while the Mets didn't split their's with the Jets. The Jets had always had to play their first few games on the road to accommodate the Mets schedule. By the late 1970's with the city falling into financial problems Shea became a shit hole. Giants Stadium by contrast was a brand new state of the art football only stadium with more seating. The city continued to ignore the Jets request for lease negotiations and for working out a way to upgrade Shea. The Meadowlands knew about the Jets frustrations with the city and Shea and made them an offer. The Giants in contrast to the Mets welcomed the Jets and did not make the same demands that the Mers made on the Jets at Shea. The Jets immediately made more money playing at Giants Stadium.

[@steves9964]

@@joedimaggio3687 100% and beautifully said. Shea was terrible for football in terms of field configuration and locker room size, but the move to NJ was hard on not only the fans but also the players at the time. Many lived out on Long Island and they still trained and had offices out at Hofstra in Nassau County. Wesley Walker used to talk about how home games also felt like road games because they'd stay in a hotel the night before in Manhattan. So the Jets swapped out 55K seats for 80K+, but aren't the facts you shared above just emblematic of the Jets' second class existence in New York for...forever? They've NEVER had a true home field; even the Nets have built more of a home in Brooklyn. Ownership has never seemed to care about this despite what we always here about homefield advantages in Green Bay, Denver, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Buffalo...the list goes on and on. I'll continue to hope against hope that a new owner comes in here and attempts to opt out of that lease, which I believe one team can do after fifteen years with a year's notice. I don't see the Giants doing that, so maybe one day the Jets can build a smaller, more intimate venue in Queens or Nassau County with a scarcity of seating (60-65K) and a location closer to the team's core fan base. I'm sure it's wishful thinking, but that gray monstrosity in the Meadowlands is a crying shame when you look at the venues these other cities have interwoven into their downtown economies and municipal services.

[@joedimaggio3687]

@Steve S I agree, but how many stadiums and arenas can a given metro area handle? All of these stadiums will be in direct competition for other events such as concerts and trade shows. When stadiums and arenas are not utilized, they bleed money.