^ Put THIS Mark in the Hall Of Fame!
The New York Jets head coach REX RYAN is the most refreshing postgame interview since Dennis Green was a head coach. The Jets are going to have to show up bigtime for their contest against the San Diego Chargers this weekend. If they get merc’ked by the white hot Chargers Rex Ryan will look like a fool.
I was wondering if the Jets had called in one of their former defensive stars to give the team a pregame pep talk. Mark Gastineau was one of the most exciting and enigmatic characters to ever play professional football. That was saying a lot too considering the fact that there was another special player on the other side of the Hudson River in Lawrence Taylor.
Gastineau played alongside several great players on the Jets defensive line, namely Hall Of Fame defensive tackle Joe Klecko. This allowed Gastineau to excel at pass rushing from the end position [ll]. What drove everyone crazy about Mark Gastineau was the excessive celebration that he performed whenever he tackled a quarterback or running back behind the line of scrimmage.
Mark Gastineau had this routine called a ‘Sack Dance’ and it was just some frenetic, random celebration that had no rhyme or reason. The Gastineau celebration was at its most ridiculous on third and long plays when the opposing offense would be forced to punt the ball afterwards. The NFL had to sack his dance after a melee erupted when Gastineau performed his dance after beating HOF tackle Jackie Slater.
I think Gastineau would be a great motivational speaker to this Jets team to remind them that the future is now and to play every down with reckless abandon. And a big goofy smile.
Dals,
uh…………Klecko isn’t in the hall of fame….it’s one of the biggest thefts in sports that he’s not in…..
Joe Klecko, fellow Temple Football Alum. Met him one day while he was having a signing at a Sprint Store and I was paying a bill. I had my TUFB jacket on and he insisted I came over to meet him.
Gastineau was the man (along with Klecko & Marty Lyons). The sad shit about Gas was that his post NFL career involved bankruptcy, a bid on Rikers, the loss of his single season sack record on a Brett Farve “gimme” to Strahan, and most distressing his socialite ex-wife who would have never been shit if she didn’t marry Gastineau becoming a reality TV star and paid still hauling around his last name.
Mark got a lot of shit to be angry and proud of, and I’d love nothing more than him to be there to fire up Gang Green this weekend in San Diego.
J-E-T-S…. JETS JETS JETS!!!!!
Am I the only one who thinks that Shawn Merriman’s lights out thing is really dumb?
40..word you played at Temple?
John Chaney was GULLY…threatened to kick Calipari’s ass on TV….and kept his gig…. and that was just basketball…. the football coach must have been a hell’s angel or some shit.
peace to the NY Sack Exchange..
NFL has shitted on Mark-an the Barbarian…I’m a Giants fan..and even I know that the single season sack record by Strahan is bogus…..but you figure playing mcnabb twice a year..Strahan missed out on at least 3 sacks per year that any other QB wouldn’t have been able to avoid,run through,etc…
balances out…..
LC…..after the patriots beat the chargers IN san diego and mocked SM with is OWN dance…….he should have retired it…
and yes….it was a garbage ass “celebration”
shawn was roiding up….his body isn’t gonna hold up too much longer anyway….
Yep… TU MF’ers… I was in school when Chaney went off on Calipari… The school embraced him like nothing else. Chaney was the man, one of the most genuine dudes I met. He’d stop and build with you and make sure you were good. A true builder of men. I still have a bunch of ties he gave me. He had a box of them under his desk in his office and one day he was like “Hey. Come get some ties!” He handed me like 20 of them. My football coach, not so much. Use the search here on DP dot com and look up Ron Dickerson… Its a quick read.
getthesenets,
For real for reals?!? Sportswriters are vindictive fags.
Gastineau not getting a Hall nod is already a given.
Klecko’s snub is because he fuxed up a NY sports beat reporter back in the day(Steve Serby).
LOL @ Klecko whoopin ass, thats some real Temple shit…
Dallas you watching the game at the Chinese take out or the ESPNZone shitter?
Dals,
thanks, I figure that Klecko was getting black balled…but I couldn’t figure out why.
Those who can, do.
those who can’t, teach.
those who can’t teach, become sportswriters.
Wow…the sports writer at the end of the vid, Jody McDonald (pause on a man w/the name “Jody”), was a real dick. “I think
Wow…the sports writer at the end of the vid, Jody McDonald (pause on a man w/the name “Jody”), was a real dick. “I think Gastineau was judged fairly; great talent, bad dude.” Gastineau prah’li laid his wife out like some cold-cuts on a $5 foot-long or something.
I’m hoping the Jets and Ravens win so people can stop gushing over QBs and realize that the whole team matters. Oh how I enjoyed watching Brady get crushed last week.
“Dallas you watching the game at the Chinese take out or the ESPNZone shitter?”
Diesel,
Neither B, I handled mad grown man biz earlier this week (mortgage, maintenance and sheriff garnishment) so I might will prA’li have an AM transistor in my hand with the single earbud chasing pigeons around Prospect Park.
I wish someone who fuxes with me [ll] would invite me to their house to drink and smoke dust. I will bring the bottle of ‘gnac I stole from the party you and Combat Jack were at.
40,
if you know of an “organization” called
“a tribe called 40” ……….then we were around the same circles of people at one time.
Yeah I’m familiar with them cats. Saw a few of them at TUs bowl game in Dec.
Dallas. I will try to oblige you on that very simple request. You deserve that much.
not for nothing….but MG’s last name sounds French….
if so, he has to be french canadian…can’t see any frenchy(from France) tearing up the league like that….
everybody knows the best white football players are descended from eastern europe…shouts to jimmy the greek
Now if the Jets wouldn’t have f***ed up, and picked DAN MARINO instead of Ken O’Brien, they wouldn’t have that HOF problem. Freeman McNeil, Wesley Walker, Al Toon, the D was a problem, but their QB tandem was O’Brien and Pat Ryan.
But that was the coke era…
I don’t think Marino would have won with the Jets either, but he was a great quarterback for having such a fuxed up set of knees.
Can you rattle off that quarterback class from the 1980s? Ken O’Brien, Dan Marino, Tony Eason, Todd Blackledge, John Elway, Jim Kelly…
I just got open off nostalgia and Wiki’d that draft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_NFL_Draft
Shit looks like one of the GOAT drafts of all time…
Karl Mecklenburg in the 12th Rd?!? Where is my boy LM?
Miami and even Buffalo had semi defenses back then. The AFC East team with no ‘D’ was the Pats, but they could score a grip if you slept on them. Steve Grogan was nice with his [ll].
“Pat Ryan” “”Ken O’Brien”
sounds like the jets were drafting more to appeal to the heavily irish police and firefighter fan base than on talent.
Oh sh*t that is looking like the best draft class eva. Dickerson, Green, Jeffcoat? Curt Warner, wow.
HA! JOHNNY HECTOR! What a throwback.
But yeah the NFC had a lot of powerhouse teams back then (Giants, Redskins, 49ers, Bears). Whoever represented the AFC took the huge L in the SB.
lol @ get
Thus the fireman?
The Jets were always like an Irish rugby team converted into an American football squad. You remember OG QB Richard Todd or placekicker Pat Leahy?
Oh shit, Mickey Shuler too.
Ha! Mickey Shuler. Leahy was good money with them field goals. Him and Haji-Sheik from the Jints. Wasn’t Morten Anderson with the Saints then?
*google bound*
LOL @ remembering Richard Todd and Lance Mehl.
Oh sh*t, Mike Augustyniak, the 1st Wayne Chrebet.
*dead*
I hear the shout… always thought Gastineau was football’s Dennis Rodman, but without the longevity… both best-known for a single skill/stat but with better-than-average all-around games if focused.
I might need Jets-Chargers game spot for my first “escape” as a married man.
hahah
got a somewhat related question
the chick who divorced MG? what kind of cheddar did she get back in the 1980s that she’s a socialite?
comfortable? maybe…..but beverly hills money? and now? I don’t see it.
Reason I ask is….I met a guy who worked with Freeman McNeil about ten years back….an insurance company .
These guys played when the money was good, but it wasn’t what it is today…
the divorce laws are stupid….I know MG saw his wife on tv and started quoting the bad cop from “Harlem Knights”…
“look at her with her nice place and fancy suits…meanwhile I’m living in FUC-KIN HOVEL”
Don’t think Gastineau and Nielson were ever legally hitched. Don’t know about $ between them but do know she had already been married to and divorced from Sylvester Stallone. Rocky and Rambo franchises in mid ’80s
LM,
there’s another broad who carries his last name that had some type of reality show.
It’s such an uncommon last name that I figured she had to be MG’s first wife.
yeah bridgitte nielsen was getting her gold digger fantasy stats in the 80s…..
She apparently ruins dudes too…Stallone was never the same after her…..neither was MG….
Lisa Gastineau also had her turn with Stallone, and apparently Clooney, Billy Idol and John Gotti too. She got her name from Mark but most of the money after him, methinks. So Lisa and Brigitte had pretty similar careers. Would like to think I’d know who to avoid in those circles.
cool
apparently those white entertainment types pass women around the same way that shaq and the nba types pass around chicks…
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