‘Records Should Never Be Broken Like That’: 23 Years Later NY Jets Legend Mark Gastineau Still Wants Smoke With Brett Favre Over ‘Bush League’ Flop and Michael Strahan’s Sack Record

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When Brett Favre went down intentionally to allow his friend, New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, to sack him, breaking New York Jets sackmaster Mark Gastineau’s single season sack record of 22, nobody could have expected the lasting negative impact it would have on No. 99’s life after football.& ESPN’s latest “30-for-30” documentary, “The New York Sack Exchange,”& is the story of the 1980s record-setting Jets defense and premieres on Friday night at 8 p.m.& ESPN’s ‘30-for-30’ On New York Sack Exchange Captures NY Jets Legend Mark Gastineau Living In The Past Gastineau, a ferocious pass-rushing force, was the head of that sack exchange for the New York Jets, from 1979-1988. He recorded sacks at an historic rate and had the moxy and charisma to go along with the package, in an era when the NFL was less accepting of showboating and swag.  Gastineau embraced Strahan with a huge hug on the field at the time, but as details of how he garnered the sack began to surface and the years went on and the Hall of Fame still hasn’t come calling, Gastineau is dealing with the painful after-effects of Favre’s decision and expresses that in the new film.&...

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