Does Mark Gastineau belong in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? It’s a question being posed anew this week as the 1981 New York Jets are proving more newsworthy than the 2024 New York Jets.

The Buffalo Bills opened the 1981 season with a 31-0 win over the New York Jets. The Bills' defense limited the Jets to eight first downs in the game. Joe Cribbs ran for two touchdowns in the rout.

They received the “New York Sack Exchange” nickname after ... Klecko played a decade for the Jets and was the 1981 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. He was a two-time first-team All-Pro ...

New York was a Giants town ... and not again until Lawrence Taylor arrived in 1981. Then came the “battle for the braggin’ rights,” as Jets coach Weeb Ewbank called it.

Abdul Salaam, a member of the Jets’ famed “New York Sack ... Salaam, Klecko, Gastineau and Lyons all gathered at the New York Stock Exchange in November 1981 and rang the opening bell as ...

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with the nickname first surfacing in 1981. The quartet was invited that year to ring the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The Jets selected Salaam out of Kent State in the seventh ...

With the 2017 NFL Draft upon us, it's Internet law that every sports website must post the video compilation of New York Jets blunders over ... 0:12-- We quickly move to 1981 and selection of ...