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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3921391, member: 289"] 1969 NB: 78 OG: 42 Historical: OG: 443 points, 7 victories and 2 rings NB: 207 points, 3 victories and 2 rings. Dad got off to an even better start. The Knicks had their most wins to date with a 54-28 record, better than 10 NBA teams. They then swept the Baltimore Bullets, who had won the East with the NBA’s best record, in four games. The lost to the eventual champion Celtics in the NBA semis in six games. That got them 13 points. The Rangers had another strong season at 41-26-9, (91 pts), better than 9 NHL teams, including the entire western division. Unfortunately, the Rangers were in the East. They lost to the eventual champion Canadiens in the quarterfinals. That got them 10 points. Junior’s basketball team, now called the New York Nets, were a dismal 17-61, which topped the expansion Phoenix Suns, (16-66) but no one else. That gave Pop a 23-1 lead coming out of the spring. The Yankees and Giants were still spinning their wheels. The Yankees fell back to 80-81, better than 5 AL and 3 NL teams for 8 points. The Giants were 6-8, better than 6 NFL and 5 AFL teams. That gave Dad another 42 point season. But it wasn’t enough. This was the year of the Mets. After a dismal start, losing to the expansion Expos in their first game and an uncertain spring and summer, the team went off on a legendary streak. As of August 13th they were 62-51 and in 3rd place, 10 games behind the Cubs. But a 38-11 finish gave them an astonishing 100-62 record, which won them the new six team National League East by 6 games over those same Cubs and gave them a better record than every team except the mighty Baltimore Orioles, who rolled to a 109-53 record and swept the first ALCS in three games over the Twins. But the Mets did the same to the Atlanta Braves, (why were they in the West and the Cubs in the East?) and then shocked the world by beating the Orioles in 5 games after losing the opener. That got them 51 points, all by themselves. Joe Namath’s Jets had a strong follow-up season to their title with a 10-4 record, better than 7 AFL and 10 NFL teams and good enough to again win the five team AFL East. They lost in the AFL semi-finals, (the second-place teams made the playoffs for the only time in AFL history), to the eventual champion Chiefs. That earned them 26 points and Junior wound up with 78 points, the most either he or his father had ever earned. And he didn’t even have a hockey team yet. The Old Man finally realized that his teams were in for a real battle as each year went by. [/QUOTE]

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