31 Years Ago Today - Patriots Snow Plow Game
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johngarryvo
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thus began the "Age of Calls" for those sums o' britches. now begins a new era... "PhilJo Baggins: The Desolation of Smug" starts Sunday
ATL_PHIN_FAN
Winner Under Construction
As I recall, conditions were the worst I've seen for a football game. What you may not understand, if you didn't see the whole game, is that both teams had a devil of a time doing anything offensively up to that point in the game. The weather was that bad. Basically, there was a sheet of ice and snow on the field. We had attempted field goals prior to that play and so had they. None made it. The kickers could not get good footing approaching the ball and the holders couldn't keep the ball from slipping on the turf. Plowing away the snow and ice like they did was very unfair when you consider how both teams struggled in those conditions to that point. It totally made the difference in the game and decided the winner.
how soon you guys forget the Shula days when it was perceived Miami got all the calls much the way it is perceived NE gets all the calls today.
:rotfl1:No one deserves to lose when someone else cheats...
Stop it. :rolleyes2:
my mistake, I forget that every dolphin loss is b/c of the officials and calls never go Miami's way.
JTC111
Viva la resistance!!!
I'm gonna disagree. They served him because he was in state and he was in the one place they knew he'd be with as close to 100% certainty as they could have hoped. I think they actually showed some kindness in waiting until the game was over when they could have, in fact, served him prior to the game or even while the game was in progress. And please don't tell me they could have served him at the hotel when we both know the game was the surer bet.
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Is he wrong? All winning teams generally have that reputation, and we weren't immune to it.
I remember the game. I was watching with my dad and we were both livid. Ron Meyer didn't have any shame or hesitation in sending the snow plow driver out there. He was a Las Vegas scammer always looking for an edge, just like myself beginning two years later.
In those days my passion for the Dolphins was exponentially greater. After all, we were still in the Orange Bowl, and had yet to experience the pantyhose passing meltdown of the Marino era. In 1982 we were still tough and I thought we had a chance to go all the way.
At that point I didn't realize the significance of yards per attempt, and how Woodley's 6.0 would fare in relation to Theismann's 8.1. I gulped when I looked that up in 1987. The Redskins +3 should have been one of the largest wagers of all time.
The Jets game a month later is much ado about nothing, as always. Jets fans couldn't be more pathetic in their summation of that game and the conditions. The Prescription Athletic Turf (PAT) had been installed in 1976, after a half decade of Poly Turf. PAT was touted as an ideal playing surface because it could be drained or watered from underneath, due to a large base of sand and pipes. There wasn't a tarp because a tarp was never used. It supposedly wasn't needed. But PAT apparently didn't come with a proper manual because the superintendents failed miserably. Only after 1982 and that horrible field condition was it discovered that the field level was many inches above where it was supposed to be. From memory it was something like 9 inches too high. From 1976 forth the superintendents had sloppily added sod and never made sure the field stayed at the proper level. That's why the undererground pipe system didn't work to drain the field. The pipes were simply too far away, swamped by sod. A year later the field was down to proper level and draining was perfect, including at games I attended that had some rain, like the Rams game.
As always, conspiracies are explained away by normalcy and human error.
In those days my passion for the Dolphins was exponentially greater. After all, we were still in the Orange Bowl, and had yet to experience the pantyhose passing meltdown of the Marino era. In 1982 we were still tough and I thought we had a chance to go all the way.
At that point I didn't realize the significance of yards per attempt, and how Woodley's 6.0 would fare in relation to Theismann's 8.1. I gulped when I looked that up in 1987. The Redskins +3 should have been one of the largest wagers of all time.
The Jets game a month later is much ado about nothing, as always. Jets fans couldn't be more pathetic in their summation of that game and the conditions. The Prescription Athletic Turf (PAT) had been installed in 1976, after a half decade of Poly Turf. PAT was touted as an ideal playing surface because it could be drained or watered from underneath, due to a large base of sand and pipes. There wasn't a tarp because a tarp was never used. It supposedly wasn't needed. But PAT apparently didn't come with a proper manual because the superintendents failed miserably. Only after 1982 and that horrible field condition was it discovered that the field level was many inches above where it was supposed to be. From memory it was something like 9 inches too high. From 1976 forth the superintendents had sloppily added sod and never made sure the field stayed at the proper level. That's why the undererground pipe system didn't work to drain the field. The pipes were simply too far away, swamped by sod. A year later the field was down to proper level and draining was perfect, including at games I attended that had some rain, like the Rams game.
As always, conspiracies are explained away by normalcy and human error.
JTC111
Viva la resistance!!!
You can call it shenanigans if you want, but there was nothing unfair about it. You don't take the field entitled to certain conditions of dry turf. If that were true, NFL games would be cancelled for rain and snow, but they're not. It's our field and we get to determine the care and condition. And as long as it's equal for both sides, it's fair.
I remember the game too. Tony Nathan and Andrea Franklin did a decent job running the ball but the conditions were just horrible for both teams. The officials should have never allowed the convict to clear the snow but it was what it was. We still made the superbowl that year.
Ozzy rules!!
Ozzy rules!!
just like Belichick leaving the field uncovered leading up to a playoff game against the Colts in the 00s, you earned the right. That's not why we lost but it was done for a reason despite awsi's explanation. I would never trust Shula and that's a good thing, he was a tremendous competitor and would take any advantage he could get his hands on.
I did not say we lost b/c of the conditions but it was gamesmanship much like the snowplow game.
We might have gotten some calls, but I remember many games where I thought the Ref must have been high or paid extra money to make the calls they did, and those happened during the Shula years.
Bad calls happen ever game, and even though it bothers me, it happens to everyone, but I am sure nobody could ever find a old Dolphins game where the opponent was so obviously forced to lose the game because one after the bad calls that happened this year to the Dolphins against the Patriots.
I never cry about bad calls in a game, and I normally don't talk about it because it happens to everyone, but those calls in the Dolphins/Pats game were horrible. What Junc is doing is just upset because ehis team's luck has ended, and are now losing like they should have in the beginning. Shula won games by out coaching teams, unlike Belichick and Brady who do need the extra help now and then from the Refs who are paid well to do so.