Meadowlands Memories

[Rampage]

Since this will be the last Cowboys game at the current Giants Stadium what are some of your Meadowlands memories? gonna need some help from some of you older folks. For example the Emmitt dislocated shoulder game, the Deion Sanders game, the 2003 Billy Cundiff/Parcells game, etc. let's hear em and pictures and video are welcome.

 

[Achozen]

Yeah, the 2003 game was amazing. That Quincy to Bryant pass was a thing of beauty.

 

[Royal Laegotti]

Emmitt single armed beating the Giants for home field by far tops my list. Quite possibly the greatest NFL performance ever.

 

[Joe Realist]

Emmitt single armed beating the Giants for home field by far tops my list. Quite possibly the greatest NFL performance ever.

^^^^ agreed ^^^^^^^

 

[Yeagermeister]

Season opener in I think 93. On Emmitt's first carry of the season he goes untouched for long TD run.

 

[Royal Laegotti]

Season opener in I think 93. On Emmitt's first carry of the season he goes untouched for long TD run.

'95 actually. That's a good one.

 

[Rampage]

Emmitt single armed beating the Giants for home field by far tops my list. Quite possibly the greatest NFL performance ever.

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[Bob Sacamano]

**** the Giants and **** New York state

 

[Royal Laegotti]

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Awesome, gives me chills and nearly brings a tear to my eye. Great memories, great era. To me it's the greatest, gutsyest and most meaningful player performance in NFL history, sooooo much was riding on that one game.

 

[Rampage]

Season opener in I think 93. On Emmitt's first carry of the season he goes untouched for long TD run.

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[DandyDon1722]

You guys are forgetting one of the great Cowboy games of all time!

Not sure of the year, maybe 1988 but Ali Haji Shank (Shiek) missed a 30 yard field goal with no time left and we won. It was right down the middle and somehow it drifted and just missed. That was the game that Tom skipped off the field in joy. Most emotion I ever remember him having for a regular season game.

We were not very good, but I'm sure that was one of Coach's favorite memories.

 

[The30YardSlant]

I'm pretty sure that the 2003 Quincy to Bryant connection to set up the tying FG was the only good spiral Quincy ever threw in the NFL

I'll always remember the '95 season opener on MNF when Emmitt took his first carry of the season 70 yards to the house while waving goodbye to the defender chasing him.

 

[vta]

Being stuck outside the perimeter of the stadium in traffic, listening to the start of the 2nd quarter, with two box seat tickets for a Monday Night game in hand.

First game of '95 ('96?) season, when Emmitt cracked off a long TD run on the first play from scrimmage and waved 'bye bye' to the guys chasing him.

 

[AmishCowboy]

Season opener in I think 93. On Emmitt's first carry of the season he goes untouched for long TD run.

Yeah, but we lost Kevin Smith to a blown Achillies that game too, right?

 

[dbair1967]

Yeah, but we lost Kevin Smith to a blown Achillies that game too, right?

Yeah, on a non contact play at the end of an incompletion

He was one of the top 5 or 6 CB's in the league then. Had we had him healthy along with Deion, and moved Larry Brown to FS (supposedly, that was th plan when they were planning Deion's signing) our secondary would have been scary good.

 

[Jarv]

I went to a game around 95 vs. the Giants in the Meadowlands, with a bunch of my Giants friends. I had to scalp a ticket while my buds all had one. Just when I thought all was lost (couldn't find a ticket) a guy pulls up with his family in a shiny new Mercedes. He said 4 tickets for sale...Yehaw ! I'll take 1.

He said he would only sell all 4 as a group, no one offs. Since I didn't have enough money I said "No thanks, I'll just hang here in my buddies car listening to the game, getting really pissed off and staring at your brand new Mercedes".

He sold me one ticket.

When I got to my seats, 3 of the biggest guys in the world had bought the other 3 tickets...All Dallas fans...Excellent ! No rival fans were going to bother me today.

So we take a 28-0 halftime lead, triplets going crazy. We actually won in a squeaker 35-28 with us holding off a furious Giants comeback in the 2nd half.

Well, my buds the Giants fans, were sick of the drubbing and left the game at halftime and were in the lot having some refreshments waiting for me to leave. They missed the Giants comeback and were pretty upset about that...Losers.

That was probably my best memory there. I probably saw 5 Cowboys games there and we were 4-1....I saw around 20 games total, another buddy of mine, his father played for the NY Titans (precursor to the Jets) so I saw a lot of those games too.

 

[dbair1967]

I went to a game around 95 vs. the Giants in the Meadowlands, with a bunch of my Giants friends. I had to scalp a ticket while my buds all had one. Just when I thought all was lost (couldn't find a ticket) a guy pulls up with his family in a shiny new Mercedes. He said 4 tickets for sale...Yehaw ! I'll take 1.

He said he would only sell all 4 as a group, no one offs. Since I didn't have enough money I said "No thanks, I'll just hang here in my buddies car listening to the game, getting really pissed off and staring at your brand new Mercedes".

He sold me one ticket.

When I got to my seats, 3 of the biggest guys in the world had bought the other 3 tickets...All Dallas fans...Excellent ! No rival fans were going to bother me today.

So we take a 28-0 halftime lead, triplets going crazy. We actually won in a squeaker 35-28 with us holding off a furious Giants comeback in the 2nd half.

Well, my buds the Giants fans, were sick of the drubbing and left the game at halftime and were in the lot having some refreshments waiting for me to leave. They missed the Giants comeback and were pretty upset about that...Losers.

That was probably my best memory there. I probably saw 5 Cowboys games there and we were 4-1....I saw around 20 games total, another buddy of mine, his father played for the NY Titans (precursor to the Jets) so I saw a lot of those games too.

That was the 2nd game of the 92 season. It was an awesome first half performance.

 

[Jarv]

That was the 2nd game of the 92 season. It was an awesome first half performance.

Wow, time flies eh David...

 

[Longboysfan]

My Medowland memory.....

Way back in the 90's my neighbor, a giant fan but that's not held against them, who is a season ticket holder. Gave my 10 year old daughter and I tickets to see the Cowboys play the Giants.....

Well walking in there were plenty of Cowboy fans and she is dressed up in the Troy Aikman jersey. Giants were not the best that year... but we were.

During the game there are many swarms of yellow jackets all over the stadium. The security stopping fight and ejecting fans. And i have to explain that.... Plus a Cowboy fan is derssed up as Santa and the Giant fans are booing - cursing him.... Classy people....

Well it's the middle of the 4th quarter and game event signals games over and the Cowboys will win....
Giant faithful are filing out and people are screaming Cowboys suck and a few other choice words. So some stupid giant fan comes up who is leaving and moons us. My daughter was watching the game and did not see it.

Classy place - classy fans.....

I have been offered free tickets many times since for Cowboys games - not accepted any.

 

[jobberone]

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It wasn't a dislocated shoulder. It was a shoulder separation which is a tear of the acromioclavicular ligament. That's the ligament between the shoulder and the collar bone.