I was so disgusted with Hess after firing Michaels that I called the front office and told them to keep my season tickets and I quit buying Hess gas in protest. Only after his death did I resume to buy Hess gasoline.

That day will forever live as the Jets Day In Infamy !!!. I remember sitting on the floor, two feet from the TV, Quart of Vodka and TWO tickes to the RoseBowl in my hand, Hotel and car reservations in Vegas and $1500 of the bookies money on the game. Needless to say the Vodka was gone before the half and Todd would’t dare fly home with the team.
Out side of Weeb and Namath, Michaels was the best thingto have happen to the Jets. He gave us the “Sack Exchange”

That was the biggest mistake Hess ever made and he didn’t get it right or corrected untill he hired Bill Parcells. That was 15 years.

The Jets were 1 dry field from the Super Bowl with the Sack Exchange in it’s prime.

In that off season they let Abdul Salam leave for the 49ers. He was the “Chris Jenkins” of that line. He pluged up the middle and the others rushed the passer. The sack exchange ended.

Rex Ryan will get this defense to play a Shut Down style.

I stand corrected. I’m still trying to learn english as my second language and still confuse the un’s with the in’s ; )

SackDance:

Wasn’t Michaels fired right after the flight home from Miami ?

hank/naples, rumor has it that Leon was ticked off by Walt’s drinking and tendency to “speak his mind” like when he yelled at Chuck Ramsey in front of the team that he could “f**t farther than [Ramsey could] kick.” When the Jets’ defense was looking like it would be dominant, Mr. Hess decided to fire Walt and hire OC Joe Walton, who squandered the Sack Exchange (as much as I liked Bud Carson, the 3-4 took years off of Klecko’s career…oh, how history repeats itself with the Jets!).