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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3920979, member: 289"] 1968 NB: 62 OG: 42 Historical: OG: 401 points, 7 victories and 2 rings NB: 129 points, 2 victories and 1 ring. It all started so well for Dad. The Rangers had their best team in years, going 39-23-12 for 90 NHL points, the second-best record in the league behind the Canadiens. The league had expanded from 6 to 12 teams and the Rangers were better than 10 of them. But they couldn’t catch Montreal in the eastern race, (the expansion teams were all in the West). Then they lost in the quarterfinal round to the Blackhawks. With it now being a 12-team league, that got them an extra point for 11. Junior didn’t even have a hockey team year. The Knicks also improved to a winning record, 43-39, better than 6 NBA teams and 6 teams in the new ABA. They lost to the 76ers in the semis and got 3 more points out of that for a total of 13. That gave Pops a fat 24 points in the spring, from teams that hadn’t contributed much to this point. The Yankees shook off the doldrums and began to rebuild, finishing with their first winning record since 1964 at 83-79, better than 5 MLB teams. In the fall, the Giants had another 7-7 year, helped by scrambling Fran Tarkington, who they’d gotten from the Vikings. Now there’s a quarterback! A boyish looking son of a Virginia preacher, well- groomed, failing polite, a businessman and….married! With this paragon behind center, the Gints beat out 8 NFL and 5 NFL teams for 13 more points, giving the head of the Household 42 points, more like the old days. Junior’s ABA team, then known as the new Jersey Americans, (Hey! Weren’t the players on the other team Americans, too? The gall…) finished 36-42, better than 3 ABA and 4 NBA teams. But he still didn’t have a hockey team to root for so he entered summer down 7-24. The Mets had their best record ever, 73-89. That was still worse than the Yankees but better than the Astros, White Sox, Angels and Senators for 4 points. Pop wondered why junior rooted for a team that was never goona do anything. Going into the fall, he was ahead 29-11. Joe Willie Namath guided the Jets to their best record ever, 11-3, better than 7 AFL and 14 NFL teams. They won the AFL East, now a 5-team division thanks to expansion. That’s 25 points. So what, the Raiders with Daryle Lamonica was the best team in the AFL. Everybody knew that. But the Jets beat them, 27-23, to get a chance at the overall pro football championship in the Super Bowl. There were now 26 pro football teams so winning that game would be the difference between 13 and 26 points more points. But even the 13 would beat Daddy. At least the old man would get the pleasure of watching the Baltimore Colts, the best team in football, crushing Junior’s Jets. Only they didn’t, the 16-7 winning in an upset Joe Willie had predicted. That’s 51 points for Junior from the Jets alone for a total of 62. Junior not only had beaten Daddy for the second time – this time in a year when both did well, instead of both doing poorly – he’d done it with 3 teams instead of 4 and got his first championship ring, (they used one they’d gotten in a Cracker Jack box). The Old Man didn’t speak to him again, until about April. [/QUOTE]

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