i agree with most of what is being said on here... this coming year will only be my 2nd as season ticket holder, and i will add that i do not regret the decision one bit. i commute from Pompano Beach/Coconut Creek/Deerfield area, so the stadium is literally 20 min away by jumping on the turnpike. if it were a 2 or 3 hr drive as some of you have it (I grew up on long island and every so often my father would travel to East Rutherford to watch the Phins take on the Jets/Giants... 3 hr trip!!!) i'd think twice before making any type of commitment on game days. As for the stadium being outdated, i wish i knew the truth for everyone who makes that complaint, just how many NFL stadiums have you been to? And once they start complaining about the seats, give me a break. Now I may be in the minority in thinking this, but when i go to watch the dolphins play, im there to watch the game. Not taste test the food-and complain about it being too expensive (we all know that walking into the stadium) or bitch about the seats not reclining/no padding/whatever it is you argue about... Bring a seat cushion if it bothers you so much. The stadium is too hot? Yeah, no problem. We'll convince the city of Miami to raise enough tax revenue and the Team to fork over 400M for a new roof. They already tried that, and it failed. I don't mean to ruffle any feathers here. but if you want to spend your Sundays in a/c watching the game from the comfort of your own home, go right ahead (and be part of the problem) i just don't want to hear from "locals" how the team sucks by not accommodating to fans who have very little if any interest to showing up to games in the first place.
For me, it was a couple years ago that the light finally went off. I was on the phone talking with my brother (who lives in Louisville, KY now) and he reminded me of how when we were kids, it was a dream of ours to not only live in the area and see the Dolphins influence on the community, but also to live close enough to the stadium to be season ticket holders. Remembering how i felt back then, when I was lucky to watch the Dolphins only a few times a year on tv (2 v NYJ, usually 1 MNF-with Marino, and sometimes a scrambled signal gave us the Patriots game on this little TV with antenna) made this decision quite easy.
On a side note, i have a friend up in NY who is a huge Jets fan... he bought in to the PSL crap and now has to make that 3 hr commute to every stinking jets game, week in week out. That my friends is a hell of a commute to watch a sorry-ass team.
Now, for those of us who actually pay to see our Dolphins play, this past weekend at the stadium i was told about a mass-transit way to the stadium on game days via Tri-Rail. Im definitely going to check it out:
http://www.miamidolphins.com/finatics/trirail.html Nice way to bypass the $25 parking charge and at $5 per ride its most likely less that you'd spend in gas at 3.50 per gallon. Plus, no chance for DWI on the ride home :)
