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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3927177, member: 289"] 1980 OG: 64 NB: 46 Historical: OG: 1,204 points, 16 victories and 6 rings NB: 708 points, 5 victories and 5 rings. So Pop entered the new decade with Junior 2 sitting on his lap, rooting for the Old Guard teams to continue their dominance. Neither the Knicks nor the Nets fit the bill, finishing 4th and 5th in the Atlantic Division with records of 39-43 and 34-48, respectively. Neither made the playoffs. But that was enough of a gap that the Knicks were better than 10 teams and the Nets only 5. Hockey was now one big, happy 21 team family with the demise of the WHA. The Islanders had a disappointing regular season, 39-28-13 (91 NHL points), their worst in 5 years. But they were still better than the Rangers, 38-32-10 (86) and 15 other teams. The Rangers were better than 13 teams. The Flyers beat out both with 116 points and then beat the Rangers in 5 in the quarterfinals. But the Islanders did what they didn’t do in those 5 superior seasons before this: they won the Stanley Cup by beating those same Flyers in the finals, giving Junior his 5th ring, 37 points and a 42-26 lead going into the summer. But the Yankees had their greatest team of this era, going 103-59, the best record in their sport and beating out the team with the second best record, Earl Weaver’s Orioles, (100-62) for the AL East title. But poppa and Junior Squared were aghast to see them get swept by those same Royals that the Yankees had beaten in the 1977 and 1978 ALCS. Then they watched the Phillies, a team with a measly 91 wins, win their first ever World Series. But having the best record in a 26 team sport and winning a 7 team division gave them an advent age over the Islanders and the semi-final failure didn’t prevent the Yankees from negating the hockey result with 37 points of their own. What could Junior’s Mets do in response? Well, they didn’t finish last. They went 67-95, which beat out the Cubs, Angels and Mariners for 3 points. But Poppa and Junior 2 were ahead now 63-45. The fall was another anti-climax as both the Giants and the Jets went 4-12 and beat out only the ‘Aints’, who went 1-15 after their now bag-headed fans thought that they’d contend. That made the final score 64-46 and Junior 2 taught Grandpa how to do a disco dance, just like John Travolta. [/QUOTE]

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