The YouTube video of that is floating around somewhere in this site. It's just as good 34 years later.
Regards,
Chris
Sorry...i can not resist...what awesome uniforms we had
Great watch...thanks!
Morgan-Fryar was quite a WR duo.
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).
First year in Schafer Stadium, 1971, Plunkett’s first year. The last home game of the year they beat the Dolphins 34-13.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So the current patriots.com bracket is silly. The 'Eason' bracket, the 'Bledsoe' bracket, and two Super Bowl brackets.
Best games? Too many to count, and you guys saw a lot of them.
In their first season at Fenway Park, switching from Nickerson Field, the Patriots hovered around the .500 mark all season, and were in position to win the Eastern Division title outright with a victory on their final game. The 35–3 road loss to the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs allowed the Buffalo Bills catch up and both finished at 7–6–1, which required a divisional playoff game, the AFL's first. Both teams had a bye the following week, postponed from the Sunday after the assassination of President Kennedy; the tiebreaker playoff was scheduled for Saturday, December 28, at Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium. The teams split their two games during the regular season, with the home team winning, and the host Bills were slight favorites.
The visiting Patriots won the playoff game 26–8 on a snowy field, with quarterback Babe Parilli throwing two touchdown passes to fullback Larry Garron, and three field goals were added by end Gino Cappelletti. With the win, Boston became Eastern Division champions.
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Bob Windsor is best known for a winning touchdown play while with the Patriots that he made in a regular season game in 1974 against the Minnesota Vikings. On October 27, both teams had 5-1 records going into the game. The Vikings had been to Super Bowl VIII the season before, while the upstart Patriots were coming off seven consecutive losing seasons and off to their best start since 1966. The Patriots won the game 17-14, and Windsor scored the winning touchdown with no time left on the clock by taking a short pass from Jim Plunkett and breaking several tackles before dragging a tackler into the Vikings end zone who had a hold of his left leg. Windsor severely injured his left knee on the play and was out for the season. He never was the same player after that and played only one more season with the Patriots before retiring.
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September 26, 1976 at Pittsburgh Steelers:
Forcing six Steeler fumbles in heavy rain, the Patriots wiped out a 20–9 third-quarter gap as Steve Grogan threw to Russ Francis, and Darryl Stingley on fourth down, and ran in a touchdown for 21 second-half points. Don Calhoun's fumble in the final four minutes led to a Bradshaw touchdown, and after forcing another punt with 1:29 to go Bradshaw nearly fumbled away the ball but converted two first downs requiring 25 or more yards. With three seconds to go Roy Gerela missed a field goal and the Patriots had an upset 30–27 win. It was the only time a visitor came from behind to beat the Steelers during their run in the 70's.
