The last time the Jets played in a Super Bowl...

"It is. SB 3 for a long time was considered the most shocking superbowl upset of all times. But the Jets' arch-nemesis the NEP ruined that distinction for them recently. "

Nope, sorry Super Bowl was and always will be the greatest SB upset of all time. The Jets beating the Colts would be like Taunton high school knocking off this years BCS champion, the AFL was a joke to most if not all NFL fans at the time.

Nothing will ever match that.

Ever.

"I gotta say man, you have some thick skin considering some of the stuff thats thrown your way on this forum."

Yeah, ok and I gotta say man, he needs thick skin considering he is a Jets fan on a Patriots fan website, were the shoe on the other foot, so would you.

Gunnails said:

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LOL. It was the best I could come up with.

On a serious note, Everybody knows the NFL and all there fans owe a big thankyou to Joe Namath, his gurantee, and his victory in SB III.

With out Joe and the Jets the AFC would of folded and the Pats would of never won 3 SBs.

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Sorry, not even close to being true (the AFC would have folded). The AFL was very well-established, but still considered inferior to the NFL until the Jets won that day. But the AFL had a very solid fan base, strong franchises virtually everywhere and an extremely successful network TV contract. As a matter of fact, the NFL/AFL merger had already been agreed upon 3 years prior to SBIII in 1966. The Jets' victory, along with the Chiefs' win the following year vs. the highly-favored Vikings, solidified the AFL's standing as a genuine league. You're correct in saying that every AFL (and AFC) fan owes the Jets and Namath thanks for January 12, 1969, but to state that the game saved the AFL, and subsequently all of its franchises, is false.

...600 acres of Baby Boomers lost 6 days of memories at Max Yasgur's farm.

...a 389ci 4 barrel was standard fare.

...gay meant happy.

...there were "sonic booms".

Frezo said:

...600 acres of Baby Boomers lost 6 days of memories at Max Yasgur's farm.

...a 389ci 4 barrel was standard fare.

...gay meant happy.

...there were "sonic booms".

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LOL! I was actually at Max's farm in August of '69 for 2 of the 3 days (your statement of 6 is on the money when you consider another 3 days of travel combined to and from). I saw things I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, although how many of them actually took place is subject to question...

The Big Bang hadnt occured yet.

Jackson 2 said:

LOL! I was actually at Max's farm in August of '69 for 2 of the 3 days (your statement of 6 is on the money when you consider another 3 days of travel combined to and from). I saw things I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, although how many of them actually took place is subject to question...

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It's a shame the magnitude of that event has gotten washed out. There should be a chapter for it in history books.

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Lifer said:

Brett Favre hadnt even been born yet!!!!!!!

10/10/69

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Yeah, but it didn't stop the ESPN guys or Peter King to tell all their friends in the school yard during recess kiss Brett Favre's arse. Even before he was born, they knew he was going to they would kiss his arse from then until he died.

Lifer said:

Nobody had ever heard of "Frosty the Snowman"

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Very enjoyable list. You whiffed on this one. I thought I'd always heard of Frosty and he predates my birth and I watched Ted Williams bat on TV.

I'll let you WIKI.

RayClay said:

Very enjoyable list. You whiffed on this one. I thought I'd always heard of Frosty and he predates my birth and I watched Ted Williams bat on TV.

I'll let you WIKI.

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wow, and i thought seeing babe parilli was old. oh wait, it is.

Gunnails said:

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LOL. It was the best I could come up with.

On a serious note, Everybody knows the NFL and all there fans owe a big thankyou to Joe Namath, his gurantee, and his victory in SB III.

With out Joe and the Jets the AFC would of folded and the Pats would of never won 3 SBs.

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I think I know something about the history of the NFL. SB III is indeed regarded as one of the most important games in the annals of the league, validating the AFL (FYI, it was still the AFL, not yet the AFC) as a genuine partner/competitor of the NFL and cementing the Super Bowl as a great and important game. The upset was nothing short of monumental at the time and it accelerated the NFL's rise to prominence among US Professional Sports. There is no discounting the importance of that game and of the role that Joe Willie Namath played in it. With a career record of 77 wins and 108 losses, 220 INT's vs 173 TDS and a lifetime Pass Rating of 65.5, he is nonetheless (and deserves to be!!!) in Canton because of that game and the face that his presence and bravado gave to the AFL.

However, no one suggests that the AF(L) would have folded without that game. Things might have moved more slowly, but there were too many viable franchises by that time for the league itself to have fallen apart.

For a little perspective, you might check out Ed Gruver's "The American Football League A Year by Year History, 1960--1969" and "America's Game" by Michael MacCambridge. For an insight into what led to the development of the (second) AFL, you might want to read Robert Peterson's fascinating book, "Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football"

Double G said:

"It is. SB 3 for a long time was considered the most shocking superbowl upset of all times. But the Jets' arch-nemesis the NEP ruined that distinction for them recently. "

Nope, sorry Super Bowl was and always will be the greatest SB upset of all time. The Jets beating the Colts would be like Taunton high school knocking off this years BCS champion, the AFL was a joke to most if not all NFL fans at the time.

Nothing will ever match that.

Ever.

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Absolutely! I remember sitting in a living room in Westchester County, NY, and watching the game on a grainy TV. I was with people from Baltimore and New York. You can have no idea how stunning that win was! It was more like an Ivy League team knocking off Lombardi's Packers than a HS team, but you're pretty close. There has been nothing to approach it.

Re: The last time the Jets played in a Super Bowl........

Lifer said:

Brett Favre hadnt even been born yet!!!!!!!

10/10/69

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Tubby Ratfink hadn't been born yet either.

This thread is hilarious. Being a Jest fan has got to be depressing.

I haven't been alive in a world with the Jets in a Super Bowl, and I hope that streak holds.

Lifer said:

Man hadnt landed on the moon yet

The Beatles had just released the White Album

Lyndon Johnson was the President of the United States, Nixon would be
Inaugarated in a few days.

There was nothing in the way of Senator Edward Kennedy's ascent to the
Presidency

Hogans Heroes was a Prime Time TV Show

Ed Sullivan and Andy Williams were big stars.

Split screen had not been invented yet

Nobody had ever heard of "The Godfather", "The Brady Bunch" or "The Partridge Family"

Jim Nance was the Patriots running back

Star Trek was on Prime Time TV

Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix were alive

Nobody had ever heard of "Frosty the Snowman"

Nobody had touch tone phones yet

People had "phonographs" to play their "records"

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No Frosty?!?

TheGodInAGreyHoodie said:

Al Davis was mismanaging the Oakland Raiders.

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Actually, you should have said "Al Davis still had the Raiders going as perennial contenders". Now THAT would have been ironic.

godef said:

No Frosty?!?

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The song was known, but no TV show.

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PatsFanSince74 said:

um, i think he was joking

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ok, i was agreeing with him, ok everybody??? just adding the fact that Favre wasnt even born yet, let alone a rookie. You know, even BETTER?????
Hello?

sheeeeesh!!!!!

Re: The last time the Jets played in a Super Bowl........

Bill Russell was the center for the Boston Celtics. hahahahahaha

The last time the Jets played in a Super Bowl, I was one of only four members from patsfans.com (who were then in elementary school) that saw the game on our black and white TV's via rabbit ears; rooftop antennas were an invention that was still several years in the future. The other 1,237 forum participants - and many of their parents - had not yet to be conceived at that point in time.