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Marino vs Cunningham.

Watch and see how real QB play is done - by both men. Holy smokes I had forgotten how much the running QBs got hit as there was no sliding. Watch Marino do what winners do - bring team back down 10 in 4th making plays w arm, legs and clutch 4th down play to get the W in OT.



They just don’t make them like this any longer.
 
royalshank said:
Marino vs Cunningham.

Watch and see how real QB play is done - by both men. Holy smokes I had forgotten how much the running QBs got hit as there was no sliding. Watch Marino do what winners do - bring team back down 10 in 4th making plays w arm, legs and clutch 4th down play to get the W in OT.



They just don’t make them like this any longer.
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Both teams also had better uniforms than their current iterations.
 
royalshank said:
Marino vs Cunningham.

Watch and see how real QB play is done - by both men. Holy smokes I had forgotten how much the running QBs got hit as there was no sliding. Watch Marino do what winners do - bring team back down 10 in 4th making plays w arm, legs and clutch 4th down play to get the W in OT.



They just don’t make them like this any longer.
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Thanks for posting that. Man that was fun to watch. Seeing all of those old players and coaches was awesome. They were almost never out of a game with Danny Boy at the helm. The shoulders pads they used for huge! Stoyo drilling it for the win! So great to see Shula on the sidelines. I miss that son of a gun!
 
royalshank said:
Marino vs Cunningham.

Watch and see how real QB play is done - by both men. Holy smokes I had forgotten how much the running QBs got hit as there was no sliding. Watch Marino do what winners do - bring team back down 10 in 4th making plays w arm, legs and clutch 4th down play to get the W in OT.



They just don’t make them like this any longer.
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Buddy Ryan running off the field without shaking Shula's hand. Couldn't beat Dan and Don in 85 either. Classless!
 
Miami4471 said:
Classic game, love how the crowd really got into it. Dan the man my favourite Dolphin of all time, the reason I'm a Dolphins fan
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I love the 3rd down play where he’s flushed to the right and rolls out and delivers a strike for the first. Then the “I’m gonna run, whoops” TD pass over everyone’s heads as they ran toward him. Finally, converting the 4th and 12 or whatever it was w the out to Duper in the final seconds. When he had the ball last he usually got it done. We haven’t had a single QB who can do that consistently since him.
 
Whenever I'm reflecting back on 'Dan the Man,' I tend to become annoyed at how poorly the Dolphins performed in the 1992 season AFC championship game, at home vs. the Bills.

That contest struck me as the last, best chance for both Dan Marino and Don Shula to finally return to the Super Bowl, yet the team seemed to be 'as flat as a pancake,' totally unprepared to play hard and secure the victory.

I'm still mind-boggled by that collapse.
 
Thanks for that trip down memory lane. That was my first home game I attended. I was 25, scrapped together enough cash for a red eye from LA to Miami. I remember thinking I’d flown all that way only to lose, but no way was I leaving early. I remember a small group of Eagles fans getting loud and annoying near the end of regulation.

It was an incredible experience…the win clinched our first playoff appearance in five years. I had been to a few games in SoCal, but Miami was the visiting team…seeing a game surrounded by other fans, in an amazing win, was truly one of the best experiences of my life. I remember walking out to Queen’s “I Want it All” and just these surges of cheering, just walking out to the parking lot. It’s hard to describe.
 
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