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Post by bigchris on Mar 10, 2005 0:44:57 GMT -5
This is a thread devoted to the weirdest incidents and games in Jet history. I'll get the ball rolling with some bizarre moments and nights, enjoy!
- Jets vs. Devils, the Rememberance Day weekend, 1986: This is the night of the great blizzard of 1986 that shut the entire city down, almost. Almost because dispite the streets being under over a meter of snow the Jets and Devils played anyway. I was working there that night and it was easily the strangest night I ever worked due to less than 3500 of the 11000 ticket buyers for that game being able to get into the building. This game was villified by Curtis Walker on his site but the bottom line was that the blizzard didn't really hit until about 90 minutes before gametime and everyone on both teams and the officials were there anyway. However, it was so bizarre seeing the Jets play in front of what looked like nobody in the crowd. Hell, the game felt like a moose game.
- Penut Butter Night, Jets vs. Senators, early in the 1993-94 season: The very first game I had to pay to get into since 1983 became a very nasty affair. The official game sponsor was Skippy Penut Butter and the fans all got free mini jars of the good stuff. Unfortunately the Jets were in freefall after a great start and the Sens slaughtered the Jets. Midway through the game when it was clear that the Jets were mailing it in, the jars started to fly. It got so bad that the rink looked like a sheet of white paper covered with brown polka dots. 4 Times the PA announcer had to tell the fans to stop, the last time with the message from the officials that the game would be forfieted. The fan next to me yelled "WHO CARES? THE SCORE WOULD BE CLOSER!!!" Classic.
- The GOTCH drum incident, Jets vs. Canucks, late in the 1991-92 season: The hottest sports show in the city at the time was Classic Rock 97.5FM's 2 Sports Guys and the Guys had a section of the arena for contest winners from their show called the "Wild Side" section. There were a host of strange characters in that section but none wilder than Gotch. Gotch brought a big drum, (it might have been a snare but I don't remember,) and he would beat the thing mercilessly and yell at the top of his lungs "IIIIIIIIIIIIII LIKE IT!!!" His drumming got so loud that night that players on both benches would be looking for where it was coming from. (And the Wild Side was in the upper deck that night.) Finally those friendly folks from WEC security threw Gotch out but not before the rest of the Wild Side made every attempt to block them from getting to him. Rick and James lambasted WEC for it on their radio show the next night.
What ultra weird incidents do you remember on or off the ice at Jet games?
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Post by Ducky on Mar 10, 2005 21:29:58 GMT -5
Yeah I remember that GOTCH incident. Rick and James show was a sunday latenighter like 10 or 11pm on 97.5 FM, was an alright sports show from winnipeg which had some funny moments. I wished they had that show much earlier time slot so I would for sure not miss it .
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Post by bigchris on Mar 10, 2005 23:06:00 GMT -5
The 97.5 fm incarnation of the 2 Sports Guys was the gold standard of which all sports call-in shows should be measured. You had Rick and James, their buddies from the sports world frequently dropping by, the callers, who were easily on par with Jim Rome's clones and of course the immortal Wild Side section. (Curtis The Caretaker Moore as their producer and call screener was the guy who kept the craziness/knowledgable sportsfan quotas high unlike Barry "radio's answer to kevin donnelly" Taylor on their 92citi version.)
Who could forget the "BOOT TO THE HEAD?"
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Post by bigchris on Mar 11, 2005 0:12:20 GMT -5
More tales of the bizarre:
Kern Hill Furniture Co-Op and the Jets: Together at last, ad campaign, 1995-96: This wasn't an incident that happened during a game but man did it freak me out. Late in the Jets' history the team was desperate to shake the very negative image they and the NHL had at the time. So who did they call? Nick Hill of Kern-Hill "CMOOOOON DOWN!" fame and his number 1 son. That's all well and good but the commercial they produces still gives me shivers to this day. They jump out of a piece of paper and Number 1 son is dressed as BATMAN, let me repeat this:
NUMBER 1 SON DRESSED AS BATMAN!!!
Nick does his "my son, BATMAN, left the ticket making machine on again and we are dropping our prices, every seat in the house must go so COME OOOOON DOWN!"
Jet fans and Jet players everywhere were traumatized for life by this. Maybe that is why Tkachuk is such a jerk.
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Post by Ducky on Mar 11, 2005 3:49:48 GMT -5
The 97.5 fm incarnation of the 2 Sports Guys was the gold standard of which all sports call-in shows should be measured. You had Rick and James, their buddies from the sports world frequently dropping by, the callers, who were easily on par with Jim Rome's clones and of course the immortal Wild Side section. (Curtis The Caretaker Moore as their producer and call screener was the guy who kept the craziness/knowledgable sportsfan quotas high unlike Barry "radio's answer to kevin donnelly" Taylor on their 92citi version.) Who could forget the "BOOT TO THE HEAD?" Oh yes this "Boot To the Head?" audio clip is all coming back to me. I do hope a radio station in this city that have another sports show will give us atleast 1-2 hours air-time to speak more about the Jets with related subjects posted on this board and other sports related topics like the 2 sports guys like Rick and James did. Chris the 2 sports guys gig was it only once a week on , sundays, right ?
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Post by bigchris on Mar 12, 2005 5:34:27 GMT -5
Actually there were 4 incarnations of 2 Sports Guys (I was a big fan so sue me ;D)
1986-1990: VPW Cable 11. This version is where it all begins. The original 2SGs was on Tuesday nights at 9:30 and had open phones in the last year or so of it's VPW run. Mostly Bombers appeared on the show back then but the odd Jet and too many Winnipeg Fury players to count also appeared on the show. The Boot To The Head, God Bless America and Cement Faries segments were born on this show. This was the only public access show to ever go anywhere beyond public access in Manitoba and the closest anyone has ever come to a real life Wayne's World.
1990-1992: 97.5 FM: The Guys struck gold with this one and it was 2SGs in their purest form. This incarnation of the show was on 5 nights a week, Sunday through Thursday from 10pm to Mindnight. Much of their schtick was taken to the next level here and they got higher ratings than their station's morning show. (Tom and Joe at the time.) Unfortunately they were fired for calling Cal Murphy "senile". (I have never seen a radio station fire a dj in such a public fashion before or since.)
1993-1995 CKY-5: Rick and James didn't stay unemployed long as they were snapped up by the Citi/CKY empire almost immediately after 97.5fm dropped them. Their first forray into this new deal with a new tv show on Saturday nights from 11:30-Midnight. This show's finest hour was Scott Taylor having spray-on hair replacement done to cover up his baldness. (This crap was a sponsor of the show at the time.) This show was pretty good but the lack of phone calls and refusal to be a part of the Save the Jets movement soured them on many of their fans. Interesting side note, the 2 Sports Guys got better ratings in their first season on CKY than Saturday Night Live did locally. (They were on opposite each other at the time.)
1993-1995 92 Citi FM: During the '93 playoffs the 2SGs were back on the radio with a one hour program between 9 and 10pm. Compared to the 97.5 show this one was a disaster. All the sudden Rick and James couldn't do the scoreboard without killing a quarter of the show and Barry Taylor did an outright horrible job screening the calls. This ruined the flow of the show because Rick and James would constantly have to ask "who's this?" because Taylor refused to get that info for them. By the end of the show's run on Citi the callers were all but completely phazed out the same way No Holds Barred did late in their run on Citi. (Interviews and storytelling took over and got way too repetitive.)
They went on to greater fame as a morning duo in Tampa but they have never worked together since. It's too bad because they were the best this city has ever had for entertaining sports. Joe Aiello is pretty good but not quite in Rick & James' league.
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Post by bigchris on Mar 12, 2005 15:56:34 GMT -5
More bizarre:
Did anyone notice that no matter how many coaches Ferguson went through in his time with the Jets, the assistants NEVER changed? Beit Tom Watt, Barry Long, Fergie or Dan Maloney, their assistants were always Bill Sutherland and Rick Bowness. Not a bad thing mind you, but very odd that no head coach ever hired their own people.
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Post by 1979 on Mar 16, 2005 1:47:32 GMT -5
Here's one that's not mine, but my dad's and my uncle's. It was more funny than bizzarre, but the fact that it's one of their most vivid memories is weird unto itself. It was back in the WHA days, and they had season tickets. So they're at one game, and there weren't too many people in the Arena that night. So as they were watching, they heard this yell behind them, and it was getting closer. So they look, and its a Pepsi vendor a few sections over, who had fallen down and was tumbling down the stairs... he was just FLYING down the stairs, and on the way down took out a popcord vendor like a bowling pin. Amazingly, both were ok, and my dad and uncle couldn't stop laughing the whole rest of the game, thinking of this kid whipping down the stairs like a Slinky on speed, and taking out a popcorn kid, sending drinks and popcorn flying like grenade shrapnel. And, since there weren't too many people there, EVERYbody saw and heard it.
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Post by RemyShanx on Mar 16, 2005 11:12:19 GMT -5
Here's one that's not mine, but my dad's and my uncle's. It was more funny than bizzarre, but the fact that it's one of their most vivid memories is weird unto itself. It was back in the WHA days, and they had season tickets. So they're at one game, and there weren't too many people in the Arena that night. So as they were watching, they heard this yell behind them, and it was getting closer. So they look, and its a Pepsi vendor a few sections over, who had fallen down and was tumbling down the stairs... he was just FLYING down the stairs, and on the way down took out a popcord vendor like a bowling pin. Amazingly, both were ok, and my dad and uncle couldn't stop laughing the whole rest of the game, thinking of this kid whipping down the stairs like a Slinky on speed, and taking out a popcorn kid, sending drinks and popcorn flying like grenade shrapnel. And, since there weren't too many people there, EVERYbody saw and heard it. ahahah thats awesome, would be great to see in person. I always thought what would happen if one of them would fall... taking out fans as they go... ahh good stuff
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Post by Brent on Jun 8, 2005 21:40:31 GMT -5
1) Not sure if this was a Jets game or not, but I remember reading about a game where the puck split in two, one half of the puck was shot across the goal line, and it was ruled a goal.
2)The other strange incident, also a goal, definitely the Jets. The Hawks were in town sometime in the 90s and the teams were deadlocked. 2 of my friends were at that game, thinking on one was ever going to score. In OT, one of the Jets threw the puck into the net and the officials counted it, and refused to go upstairs even though Hawks players were complaining. This incident made one of the Rock Em Sock Em videos.
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Post by Kenny S on Jun 8, 2005 23:40:09 GMT -5
I remember being at a game between the Jets and the Blackhawks. It went to OT and the Jets scored a controversial goal (before reviews were used). The crowd was going crazy and the Blackhawk players were arguing the goal. Well, in front of about 14,000 screaming fans, Chelios picks up a puck, skates down the ice and throws the puck in the net, pointing in a manner suggesting that the Jets have now scored. The crowd went nuts. Probably one of the craziest/funniest/most memorable strange events I've ever seen at a Jet game, oh, other than hearing the announcer saying "Would the owner of license plate XXX 111 (whatever the number was), Your Car is on Fire". (I was about 8 years old, not sure if it was a joke, but funny none the less)
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Post by jamiebez on Jun 9, 2005 8:43:49 GMT -5
I remember being at a game between the Jets and the Blackhawks. It went to OT and the Jets scored a controversial goal (before reviews were used). The crowd was going crazy and the Blackhawk players were arguing the goal. Well, in front of about 14,000 screaming fans, Chelios picks up a puck, skates down the ice and throws the puck in the net, pointing in a manner suggesting that the Jets have now scored. The crowd went nuts. Probably one of the craziest/funniest/most memorable strange events I've ever seen at a Jet game, oh, other than hearing the announcer saying "Would the owner of license plate XXX 111 (whatever the number was), Your Car is on Fire". (I was about 8 years old, not sure if it was a joke, but funny none the less) I watched that one in a bar. I think it was Nelson Emerson who "scored" the goal. He picked up the puck on the top of the dasher boards behind the net, skated out front and threw it in the top corner. I don't know how he thought he'd get away with it, but he did! Denis Morel was the ref that night. That was his last season as a ref. Wonder if that play had anything to do with it?
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Post by TytotheG on Jun 9, 2005 11:28:11 GMT -5
good old denis morel
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Post by toeblake on Jun 9, 2005 11:32:17 GMT -5
I recall Wayne Cashman batting a rebound into the net to give the Bruins a victory over the Jets in the early 80's. Wasn't overtime but it was the game winner.
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Post by joelzillmanwpg on Jun 9, 2005 11:56:44 GMT -5
- Jets vs. Devils, the Rememberance Day weekend, 1986: This is the night of the great blizzard of 1986 that shut the entire city down, almost. Almost because dispite the streets being under over a meter of snow the Jets and Devils played anyway. I was working there that night and it was easily the strangest night I ever worked due to less than 3500 of the 11000 ticket buyers for that game being able to get into the building. This game was villified by Curtis Walker on his site but the bottom line was that the blizzard didn't really hit until about 90 minutes before gametime and everyone on both teams and the officials were there anyway. However, it was so bizarre seeing the Jets play in front of what looked like nobody in the crowd. Hell, the game felt like a moose game. Why did Curtis Walker villify the game? Not that it suprises me, as he is more "looney tunes" than Bugs Bunny! ;D
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Post by Yar on Jun 9, 2005 12:20:56 GMT -5
I remember being at a game between the Jets and the Blackhawks. It went to OT and the Jets scored a controversial goal (before reviews were used). The crowd was going crazy and the Blackhawk players were arguing the goal. Well, in front of about 14,000 screaming fans, Chelios picks up a puck, skates down the ice and throws the puck in the net, pointing in a manner suggesting that the Jets have now scored. The crowd went nuts. Probably one of the craziest/funniest/most memorable strange events I've ever seen at a Jet game, oh, other than hearing the announcer saying "Would the owner of license plate XXX 111 (whatever the number was), Your Car is on Fire". (I was about 8 years old, not sure if it was a joke, but funny none the less) I watched that one in a bar. I think it was Nelson Emerson who "scored" the goal. He picked up the puck on the top of the dasher boards behind the net, skated out front and threw it in the top corner. I don't know how he thought he'd get away with it, but he did! Denis Morel was the ref that night. That was his last season as a ref. Wonder if that play had anything to do with it? it was nelson emerson. i remember that game too. i still cant believe they actually counted that goal!! thats gotta be one of the strangest goals in jets history. another strange goal was scored by eddie olzyck when he was with the rangers. i believe it was also in ot and someone threw a puck onto the ice and olzyck put the second puck in the net. im dont think they counted it though.
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Post by Kenny S on Jun 9, 2005 13:32:18 GMT -5
I was at the game, didn't see it on TV. Did they show Chelios throwing the puck in the net afterwards?
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Post by Yar on Jun 9, 2005 15:54:56 GMT -5
i dont remember that part. i just remember seeing the highlights on sportsline.
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Post by Brent on Jun 10, 2005 20:33:43 GMT -5
it wasn't on the rock em sock em video. they should've put that in though ahahah that's funny.
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Post by perch on Jun 21, 2005 21:46:32 GMT -5
it was emerson, he had the puck on his glove and kind of batted it at belfour. they ruled he never closed his hand on the puck and because it went off belfour it counted. it wasnt a glove pass because it never went forward or touched a jet. i was waching it on CKND with a couple of buddies................from what i remember
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