The New York Sack Exchange was a Glimmer of Hope in Jets’ Lore

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

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The 1970s were a tough decade for the New York Jets. After winning the Super Bowl in 1969, they quickly became the laughing stock in the NFL, unable to post a single winning season throughout the decade. But in 1981, four promising young defensive lineman changed everything. Mark Gastineau, Adbul Salaam, Marty Lyons and Joe Klecko became such a prolific force on the Jets defense that they earned the moniker ‘The New York Sack Exchange’. These players are the subject of the newest ESPN 30 for 30 Film 'The New York Sack Exchange' which debuted last Friday, and is available right now on ESPN +. Today Rich Cimini, a Jets beat reporter for ESPN, and a lifelong Long Islander, gives host David Dennis Jr. the inside scoop on the New York Sack Exchange. He describes the interpersonal tension that brewed alongside their incredible success on the field, and explores a legacy that persists to this day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rich Samini, you recently wrote about yet another sticky situation that Brett Farr found himself in,
0:07.2	a confrontation with former New York Jets defensive inn, Mark Gastonoh.
0:11.4	What happened?
0:12.9	Well, this was at a memorabilia show in Chicago in 2023 where Gastonoh confronted Brett Farr,
0:19.0	who was signing autographs in a Green Bay Packers table
0:23.7	when a lot of Packer fans and Gastonow came up to him and confronted him about the sack record
0:28.9	he felt that he still should have had.
0:31.4	I probably met a long time ago, at least I saw you.
0:34.3	Right.
0:35.1	How you do it?
0:35.8	When you fell down for him.
0:38.8	I'm going to get my sack back. I'm going to get my sack back.
0:42.0	I'm going to get my sack back, dude.
0:43.1	You probably would hurt me.
0:44.7	Well, I don't care.
0:46.0	You hurt me.
0:48.5	You hurt me.
0:50.2	You hear me?
0:51.2	Yeah, I hear you.
0:52.1	You really hurt me.
0:55.5	You hurt me, Brett. We We got to get back to this,
1:05.9	Brett. I'm sorry. Now, I'll give you a little background. In 2020, Mark Gastinnell called me up out of the blue, and he said, Rich, I want to go public with this whole Brett Fararrf thing. For years, he carried a grudge against Farr.
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