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After reading that I was thinking, if he comes out will it be the first time 2 team mates had a 20 sack season on their resume? The answer is "no". Klecko (20.5) and Gastineau (20.0) both had those in the same season (1981). And the lousy Jets still couldn't do anything with that !!!! :laugh4:
 
After reading that I was thinking, if he comes out will it be the first time 2 team mates had a 20 sack season on their resume? The answer is "no". Klecko (20.5) and Gastineau (20.0) both had those in the same season (1981). And the lousy Jets still couldn't do anything with that !!!! :laugh4:
Both great Hall-Of-Fame level players, that 81 Jets team broke an 11-year Playoff drought.
 
After reading that I was thinking, if he comes out will it be the first time 2 team mates had a 20 sack season on their resume? The answer is "no". Klecko (20.5) and Gastineau (20.0) both had those in the same season (1981). And the lousy Jets still couldn't do anything with that !!!! :laugh4:

Both great Hall-Of-Fame level players, that 81 Jets team broke an 11-year Playoff drought.
I remember the NY Sack Exchange, haha. Gastineau's sack dance was the first celebration of that type that I can remember. Now we have dudes celebrating basic tackles, pass break ups, etc like they just won the Superbowl...
 
Now we have dudes celebrating basic tackles, pass break ups, etc like they just won the Superbowl...

Mostly, I just accept the inevitable changes in attitudes and behavior ... including self- celebration in sports.

However, I remain a little confused by teammates congratulating a missed free throw in basketball.

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On a serious note, am I the 1st ROD member to post "C'est La Vie".
If so, shouldn't there be some type of Prize?
Or, Suspension.
 
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I remember the NY Sack Exchange, haha. Gastineau's sack dance was the first celebration of that type that I can remember. Now we have dudes celebrating basic tackles, pass break ups, etc like they just won the Superbowl...
Yeah Gastineau was an asshole. Do you remember Jackie Slater going after him?

Slater/Gastineau
 
Mostly, I just accept the inevitable changes in attitudes and behavior ... including self- celebration in sports.
I mean, sure. It just looks super derpy to me when I see a group of men run to an end zone cam and strike a pose. It's.... Kinda.... What do the kids say..... Cringe?

But I'm just a dusty old fart, so no one cares what I think anyway :-)
 
I remember that like it was yesterday. Great pull!

On a side note, man you could tell who was on the needle back then, haha...
Gastineau was nationally famous for doing his signature "Sack Dance" after sacking an opposing quarterback. However, he had to stop when the NFL declared it "unsportsmanlike taunting" in March 1984 and began fining players for it. The ban on the dance stemmed from a bench-clearing brawl in the third quarter of a 27–24 overtime win over the Los Angeles Rams at Shea Stadium on September 25, 1983, which began with a sack of Vince Ferragamo by Gastineau who was then shoved from behind by Jackie Slater, the right tackle he had beaten on the play. One month later on October 21, a total of $15,750 in fines was assessed by the NFL against 16 Jets ($7,300) and 21 Rams ($8,450), with Gastineau incurring a $1,000 penalty.
So Jackie Slater got it outlawed!!!!
 
I mean, sure. It just looks super derpy to me when I see a group of men run to an end zone cam and strike a pose. It's.... Kinda.... What do the kids say..... Cringe?

But I'm just a dusty old fart, so no one cares what I think anyway :-)

I care what you think ... you 'dusty-old-fart'.

Seriously, I mostly agree. I understand and like enthusiasm and celebrating team victories.
I even like personal celebrations ... up to a point. If you ever watch highlights from NFL games played in the 1970s (those were my pre-teen and teen-years, which kind of shaped my love for Pro Football) a couple things stand-out to me; and one is the LACK of congratulations by teammates after a take-away. Seems odd to me.

I also think most people's behaviors and attitudes are shaped at an early age. For me, that would have been the 1970s. Sportsmanship and Respect were encouraged and even demanded. So, in my early-20s, Gastineau's Sack Dance seemed inappropriate to me.

One behavior/attitude that was attractive to me at a young age was Looking Cool ... Acting Cool ... Being Cool. Celebrating a personal accomplishment was ... Well ... kind-of-Lame, and certainly ... NOT Cool.

For a long time now, Being Cool ... or, even saying Cool, is not a thing.
Makes me another
dusty-old-fart'. But, I think I still Look Cool ...
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Yeah Gastineau was an asshole. Do you remember Jackie Slater going after him?

Slater/Gastineau
I sure do miss that culture of refereeing.

“Bullshit on the left, bullshit on the right. Let’s move on with it”

Today that’d be a 20 minute delay flagfest with analysis paralysis replays and talking heads, fans chiming in on every single nuance of the play, tweets about who said what blah blah blah.
 
I sure do miss that culture of refereeing.

“Bullshit on the left, bullshit on the right. Let’s move on with it”

Today that’d be a 20 minute delay flagfest with analysis paralysis replays and talking heads, fans chiming in on every single nuance of the play, tweets about who said what blah blah blah.