Re: Best Wild Card playoff game, 1978 thru '89
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:06 pm
Even if I wasn't a Steelers-fan, I very likely would still have to pick that very second game on that final day of the 1980s (now if I were an Oilers-fan...yes, different story).
That Bills/Jets one, I'd say, is in 2nd. Remember watching some of it with my Dad in my living room. Knowing now how the entire game went, despite the turnovers (so what), it reeks of a game I'd like to see now in its entirety.
A game that probably won't be mentioned on this thread - the following game involving another NY team; another rally in vain. Only this time it was the NY team that won by holding on. I was at a friends' house for the beginning of it. We hung in the basement to see and play with their electric racetrack for just a bit before going back upstairs and the score (which was 0-0 went we stopped down in the basement) was now Giants 20 Eagles 0! Did Vermeil's defending-NFC-champ Birds ever take a dump after that 9-2/alone-at-the-top start! Letting the barely-got-in Giants beat them at the Vet twice?? Yes. Birds rallied but too little too late. It was said after the game that some of the Eagles players were partying real hard (not just drinking) before the game.
Broncos/Oilers '79, I would imagine, be a fun defensive game to see. Any recollections?
That Bills/Jets one, I'd say, is in 2nd. Remember watching some of it with my Dad in my living room. Knowing now how the entire game went, despite the turnovers (so what), it reeks of a game I'd like to see now in its entirety.
A game that probably won't be mentioned on this thread - the following game involving another NY team; another rally in vain. Only this time it was the NY team that won by holding on. I was at a friends' house for the beginning of it. We hung in the basement to see and play with their electric racetrack for just a bit before going back upstairs and the score (which was 0-0 went we stopped down in the basement) was now Giants 20 Eagles 0! Did Vermeil's defending-NFC-champ Birds ever take a dump after that 9-2/alone-at-the-top start! Letting the barely-got-in Giants beat them at the Vet twice?? Yes. Birds rallied but too little too late. It was said after the game that some of the Eagles players were partying real hard (not just drinking) before the game.
Broncos/Oilers '79, I would imagine, be a fun defensive game to see. Any recollections?