A question for Dolphin fans?

[Danny]

fav was AJ Duhe with 3 int's, the last one for a TD to put us in the superbowl

heartbreaking was when Von Chaman(sp?)missed not one but 2 easy FG trys back in 81 against SD

fav concert long time ago at the Ozzfest....last 3 band were Pantera, the Ozzy then Ozzy with Sabbath...I was on 4th row, dead center in West Palm Beach and I got a bottle of water Ozzy trew.


Ozzy rules!!

 

[Awsi Dooger]

Really?

No one else here is old enough to remember The Longest Game against the Chiefs on Christmas Day 1971? Not only is it the most important win in team history, as it put us on the national map as a team to be reckoned with...it is still the greatest football game I've ever seen. Yeah, the Perfect Season Super Bowl victory was great, but that was more of a relief (that we didn't blow the undefeated season) than a thrill...

The Christmas Day game plummets in significance if we had lost the subsequent season Super Bowl. It would have been seen as a building block toward Super Bowl defeats. Nothing in team history is remotely close to the 14-7 win over the Redskins. The city didn't take to the streets to wave banners and hankies and honk incessantly because we were relieved. The entire community was ecstatic. My family went to the airport to greet the team and I grabbed my mom's hand to pull her closer and closer to the platform where Shula and the players were about to speak. She was embarrassed because we were butting ahead of one person after another but I didn't care. Even at that age I realized the once in a lifetime significance and I darn sure was going to get as close as possible, to forge and maintain the mental images.

We were long since on the map when we beat the Chiefs on Christmas Day. If someone really wants to isolate the game that verified us a force to be reckoned with, it was the 34-17 home rout of the Colts a year earlier in 1970. It was the first year of the merger and Miami had lost consecutive games to the three established NFL teams were had played, the Browns, Colts and Eagles. Two of the defeats were embarrassing shut outs. I still think the victory over the Colts a few weeks later was the loudest and proudest in the history of the Orange Bowl. Jake Scott ran back a punt for a touchdown and you couldn't pretend to speak to anyone next to you for nearly 5 minutes.

It shouldn't be discounted how much of a class edge the NFL was thought to have in those days, even with the Jets and Chiefs winning consecutive Super Bowls. We couldn't consider ourselves a legit team until we proved it against a powerhouse with NFL pedigree. That's what the win over the Colts accomplished, especially since it was in decisive fashion. Younger fans would be shocked at how big the preseason games were in the late '60s, if the opponent was an NFL team. The two leagues played each other in preseason long before the merger. I remember preseason victories over NFL teams in the late '60s that were treated as much more significant than regular season AFL games a few weeks later.

 

[dirwuf]

...Younger fans would be shocked at how big the preseason games were in the late '60s, if the opponent was an NFL team. The two leagues played each other in preseason long before the merger. I remember preseason victories over NFL teams in the late '60s that were treated as much more significant than regular season AFL games a few weeks later.

I can verify this as I vividly recall the 1970 preseason game where we beat the Colts. There was bad blood between the organizations as Don Shula had just come over, and this was the first game against what was to be our biggest rival for the next few seasons. The Orange Bowl was just electric that night, and filled to the brim. I'm certain that it was the biggest home crowd in Dolphins history up to that point. Up until that game, the arrivals of Shula and Warfield held a lot of promise, but this was the first we saw of how good we had really become.

 

[coalesce]

The two season-ending victories against the Jets this past year and in 2008 were real highlights for me, as was the Dolphins Sunday night win against the Redskins in 2003 (my first game in Miami.) The 2004 and 2008 victories against the Patriots were also huge. The one that started it all was the their last Super Bowl victory against the Vikings (my first Dolphins game) will always be special. And like so many people have mentioned, the Miracle at the Meadowlands and the Sea Of Hands were two of too many heartbreakers.

Michael

 

[fakespike]

as an honorable mention an early season SNF game vs the bengals in 2004. it was one of the worst offensive football ive ever witnessed, worse even than much of the 2007 season, if not only for the fact that it drove home that we were a dead franchise; we had officially squandered an elite defense which from that point on would only get older and be chiseled apart by free agency.

mentioned earlier was the game in 1990 i think when the Jets and Vick kept us from the playoffs in the final week of the season. i was a kid watching and that **** sucked.

also my first scaring sports experience happened when i was only 6 in 1985 (1986 actually) when we lost to NE in the AFC championship game. i still remember much of it clearly. i was just a tiny kid but i KNEW it was our destiny to play the Bears in the SB, even at that age, seeing as we were the only team to beat them. dad had let me stay up waaay past my bedtime to watch our MNF win a couple months earlier.