New York Jets: Dominate the Atlanta Falcons 28-3 in week seven, 1998
Throwing it back to 1998, week seven, the last time the New York Jets beat the Atlanta Falcons at home.
Almost every New York Jets fan remembers the 1998 season. Bill Parcells was in his second year as the head coach. He had come off of a 1997 where he led the team from 1-15 to one game out of the playoffs. 1998 saw Vinny Testaverde and Curtis Martin come on the scene and help the Jets to the AFC Championship game. It was a great year that nearly became a special one.
With the Falcons coming to town to face the Jets, we decided for this week’s throwback, we would go back to the last time Gang Green beat Atlanta at home. That just happened to be 29 years ago, almost to the day. It was 19 years ago yesterday, October 25, 1998. That happened to be week seven of the 1998 season. Let’s get on Route 17 and head out to Giants Stadium and talk about this one.
The Jets opened the scoring in this one, when Curtis Martin scored from two yards out late in the first quarter. This gave the Jets a 7-0 lead at the end of one period.
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At the beginning of the second quarter, the Jets opened up their lead. Jerome Henderson recovered a fumble and took it 53 yards to the house just nine seconds into the quarter. The Jets were off and running with a 14-0 lead.
The Falcons were not done yet, however. As the first half ended, hall of famer Morten Anderson connected from 53 yards out to make the halftime score 14-3 in favor of the Jets.
It turns out, however, that the field goal was the last score the Falcons would post on this day.
Halfway through the third quarter, Vinny Testaverde connected with Keyshawn Johnson on a 12 yard scoring play to open up an 18 point lead. Just two minutes later, Testaverde connected on a scoring play, 22 yards to fullback Keith Byars. The Jets opened the lead to 28-3 and that is where it ended.
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This brought the eventual NFC champions record to 5-2 and upped the Jets to 4-3. We know that Gang Green lost only one more game the rest of the way to go 12-4. The season ended 30 minutes short of a Super Bowl appearance. It still ended up being the best year in recent memory, however.