I finally got a chance to watch the entire program. Some observations:
* The female who is seen interviewing Don Shula several times is Jane Chastain. She was a big deal in Miami at the time. Young smart attractive spunky sportscaster for CBS Channel 4 WTVJ. Bob Holloran was the local bigshot on that station but Chastain was thought to have the national potential. Some accounts claimed she was the first woman sportscaster in the nation. Sure enough, within a year or two the network tried to use Chastain on big events but for some reason she was never as natural or effective during live telecasts as during canned pieces or while anchoring local sportscasts. Then she disappeared relatively quickly. Now she's a conservative political author and blogger.
* The show did a good job spotlighting the game at Minnesota, with Csonka describing it as the most physical game of his career. Of all games that season, that one felt like an escape, one we deserved to lose. Keuchenberg in the program said it was the one game the Dolphins were not in control. I remember it well. The Vikings were energized, upon Tarkenton's return that season, and smacked us around early. Csonka was nearly broken in half on a swing pass. All day I more or less accepted a defeat then it was shocking we still had a chance. The program showed Garo's very long 50ish yard field goal that kept us in it at 14-9. Otherwise we were gone, with no 2-point conversion in those days. Younger fans need to realize how rare it was to make a field goal of that length at Metropolitan Stadium, even though it was a calm day. Every time Garo is ripped for the Super Bowl debacle the field goal at Minnesota deserves a mention. There have been 16-1 and 18-1 teams.
* The saving pass from Morrall to Warfield in the Cleveland game was shown only at the outset, and without any context. Ridiculous. They didn't even use the entire play, merely Warfield's leaping grab. It was also lame to completely ignore the second Jets game, which was incredibly intense, fending off Namath.
* Good job of using Henry Barrow in some clips. He was the sideline color commentator for WIOD radio broadcasts. I'd never heard the story before that the Dolphin trainer looked at Barrow and motioned to his ankle, indicating the type of injury Griese suffered against the Chargers.
* I'll stand by my assertion earlier in this thread that there was entirely too much focus on racial tension and Hispanic growth. That wasn't Miami in 1972. Roy Firestone often tried too hard to force themes on ESPN and that held up here. The angle deserved a mention but they absurdly overplayed it by using virtually 100% in the sample they quoted on camera, like the Hispanic hot dog vendor. Meanwhile, if you freeze frame virtually any crowd shot from the program all you see is whites.
* Rick Shaw mentioned something that I pointed out here months ago, that Miami radio stations were doing plenty of Dolphins talk no matter the supposed format. Otherwise they were lapped. It's laughable when some of these stations indicate that local sports talk began in 1986, or whatever.
* Overall, very good. I would have appreciated more use of the local sportscasts, for a sense of what the angle was during various points of the season. Odd that Roy Firestone worked for ABC Channel 10 but I'm not sure a single clip from that station was used. Perhaps they discarded them.