OT: Old timer's favorite memory

[italian pat patriot]

1985 run to Super Bowl
3 road play offs wins...never forget...

Eason and Grogan alternate at qb in that incredible awesome season

 

[LuRkeR1978]

I voted Bledsoe vs Vikings... But my runner up memory is the intentional safety vs. the Bengals in '93 to start the 4-0 streak to end the season...which culminated in Bledsoe's heave to Michael Timpson against the Dolphins, knocking them out of the playoffs and giving every fan in NE hope for the future.

This play received ZERO attention...yet, 10 years later BB became a master strategist by simply copying what his mentor did a decade prior.

 

[chris_in_sunnyvale]

Easily the '85 playoff run, culminating in the Squish The Fish game. The Pats had lost EIGHTEEN straight games in Miami. The Dolphins were defending AFC champs, the lone team to beat Chicago that year and heavy favorites for a rematch in SB20. Three hours later, the Pats had run for 250yds, Miami turned it over 6 times and soon we would be listening to "The Patriots and We"...

...that last part kind of takes away from the good memory, come to think of it.

Regards,
Chris

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

RIGHT the Rams - why did I think it was the Seahawks?

Stupid grandpa memory

It was like 35 years ago.

 

[captain insano]

1985 run to Super Bowl
3 road play offs wins...never forget...

Eason and Grogan alternate at qb in that incredible awesome season

beating the jets raiders and dolphins. so sweet. I have all three games on Betamax lol.

 

[p8ryts]

Being a glass half full kind of guy, I have more memories of bad things that happened. The 85 run was magic. Drew with the pin in his finger throwing TD passes. Those were great. My favorite is the AFCC game in Pittsburgh where Brady was injured, Drew came in and threw a TD, scored on a punt return, and a blocked FG attempt and STUFFED the Bus. That will always be my favorite game. A classic team win.

 

[Patjew]

I loved the win in 86 in Miami when Grogan came in and closed it out with a bomb to Morgan... with Boomer looking on in disappointment!

 

[chris_in_sunnyvale]

I loved the win in 86 in Miami when Grogan came in and closed it out with a bomb to Morgan... with Boomer looking on in disappointment!

The YouTube video of that is floating around somewhere in this site. It's just as good 34 years later.

Regards,
Chris

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

Zo’s first career start against the colts. Pats were winless up til then. He lead them to their first win in 92.

 

[Patjew]

The YouTube video of that is floating around somewhere in this site. It's just as good 34 years later.

Regards,
Chris

An abridged version:

 

[italian pat patriot]

An abridged version:

Sorry...i can not resist...what awesome uniforms we had

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

An abridged version:

Great watch...thanks!

Morgan-Fryar was quite a WR duo.

 

[bresna]

My favorite memory is the season opener from 1974. September 15, 1974 to be precise. The Patriots opened at home against the Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins, who were coming off of their second Super Bowl in a row, while the Patriots were coming off of a 5-9 record. My father somehow managed to get us tickets in the front row down by the endzone. The Patriots actually managed to beat them, 34-24, handing them one of only 3 losses that year. Big win.

Although it launched them into a 5-0 start, they somehow managed to lose 7 of their next 9 games.

But that upset against those smug Dolphins was priceless and because they had a lot of their fans in the stands that day, it made it all the more sweet. We had a blast.

And I really miss my father (RIP 2006).

 

[patsfan13]

First year in Schafer Stadium, 1971, Plunkett’s first year. The last home game of the year they beat the Dolphins 34-13.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Has to be Squish the Fish. Getting to the team's first SB. Ending the Orange Bowl jinx. Embarrassing Marino. Being the first all-road team to get to the SB.

My second favorite memory (in no small part because I was there) was beating the Bills at home in 1978 in relatively dramatic fashion to clinch NE's first-ever AFCE title.

I was also at the snowplow game. Too cold and miserable to be a good memory, actually.

 

[PittPatriot]

I also have those on VHS but recently moved and they're in one of 50-100 plastic bins in the new basement.

That was the first team to advance to a SB after winning 3 road playoff games. I can't remember the numbers but it seemed like there were a lot of great plays by the ST unit. I think they forced multiple fumbles and scored a couple of TD's during that run.

Unfortunately, that run ended when the Pats faced the best defense that I've ever seen. Nobody had a chance vs the Bears that year. The Pats were the only team to score a point against them in the playoffs.

Heading into SB42, i would’ve bet we could’ve beaten the 85 Bears.

 

[PittPatriot]

I loved the win in 86 in Miami when Grogan came in and closed it out with a bomb to Morgan... with Boomer looking on in disappointment!

I was a 5th grader who just moved to Pittsburgh (no televised Pats games) and that was the 2nd game I got to watch since the SB...except I was told to go to bed at halftime and missed the dramatic ending until Good Morning America the next day before going to school.

Headline Sports at 19 and 49 minutes on the hour along with NFL Primetime got me though that pre-internet decade.

 

[1960Pats]

Heading into SB42, i would’ve bet we could’ve beaten the 85 Bears.

I had hope but I wasn't that confident. When the Pats played the Bears during the season the Pats crossed midfield once on Craig James' long TD run.

 

[h0c2000]

To me, the 85 season is in a lot of ways similar to 2001. Just no SB win.

 

[h0c2000]

Here's a personal memory of the 1985 cincy game in December. Pats close it out, I was probably in about where section 105 is today. A freshman in high school. Pats win, rush the field. So North goal post come down. The thud when it hit a few people in the head still is clear in my head. I happen to grab the flag of the top of the goal post, along with a bunch of others. Guy whips out a knife, I'm thinking this won't end well. Cuts the end of and gives it to me. Final memory is walking out of the stadium watching the goal posts leave Sullivan Stadium to travel down route 1. Still have the flag along with press clipping of the goal posts coming down in a sealed plastic bag.