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No More Injuries, Please ;).
And the only reason Cleveland and places like that seem like they have great fans is cause the only reason half those people go to the games is to drink an get away from beating their wives for a few hours :D
Originally posted by MarinoFan4Life
Thanks for the update PhinPhan... I wasn't aware of that. Could you let me know what 1 + 1 equals too?
Originally posted by RikWriter
I think the opposite is the case: Green Bay etc fans deal with adversity better because their team has won a Superbowl more recently. They can remember the great success so the failure isn't as bad. Dolphins fans have to look back three freaking decades to see our last Superbowl win and nearly two decades since our last appearance in one. Too much teasing, too many disappointments have made us impatient with excuses.
Originally posted by FFiB
To RikWriter: the definition of fan is fanatic. Yes you do leave your brain at the entrance. When you go to the game all you do is breath, eat, drink, think, scream, fart, burb aqua and orange.
You sweat and scream.....no need to analyze what defensive formation is on the field....do that afterwards. No brain required.
Originally posted by PhinPhan1227
Think the Phins would sell out if the game was being played in Orlando?
Originally posted by RikWriter
Hell yes. Orlando is desperate for football.
owning Dan Marino, and sending Shula packing were high notes:)Originally posted by RikWriter
Well, the only exceptions are Bills fans and Jets fans: they have nothing to be optimistic about in their past, so I can only assume alcohol is involved. :D
Originally posted by SMadison29
I think Cox is right. I'm gonna stereotype here & say that the reason their aren't so many fans near the city is because the population is made up of mostly Latin Americans that don't make a lot of money,which is why Marlins don't sell out much. Also their favorite sports are baseball & soccer so they don't really care about football. Plus Florida has 3 football teams so that also takes away from the local fan base.
Originally posted by RikWriter
Hell yes. Orlando is desperate for football.
Originally posted by FFiB
This is such garbage,,,fickle?
We are on an 8 year sellout streak in regular season.
The only thing I see is that Dolfans are spoiled by not having any losing season since the late 80s.
Diversity does not kill a fan base. While there is many, many south Florida born season ticket holders there are also season ticket holders who live here 10..15...20 plus years.
Don't forget the next generation. My son is born in south FL. And he is a diehard fan. This crap someone mentioned about teenagers not liking the Dolphins colors is garbage as well.
Those who live down here and don't go (never ever go) have no right to critisize a fan base for whatever reason....
Those who do not live down here should be careful with statements such as "fans are fickle down here".
This stadium gets as loud as any....it stands behind the Phins just as they do in other cities. We may not sell out trough season tickets but we are always around 60,000 in season ticket sales. The rest is usually sold.
I take those comments totally personal. I spend Sunday after Sunday around the stadium. Just as an example: last sunday....getting up at 7, leaving house at 8, arrive at stadium at 9....tailgate....(you tell all those tailgaters that Dolphins fans are fickle and they hang you on the next lightpole)...game....tailgate again after game....drive son home to his mother...get home by 9:30pm.
Sure there are games where we are more laid back...(like blowouts) and games where we are quieter because we are in utter shock (last Sunday) but usually we rock.....It requires a real bad performance for us to get pissed (i.e. Houston, last year Bills at home, Jets the year before that).
We might be spoiled but not fickle nor are we bad fans.
To Brian Cox: get lost you jerk. You were not willing to renegotiate and you collected a paycheck from us while playing for another team.
To RikWriter: the definition of fan is fanatic. Yes you do leave your brain at the entrance. When you go to the game all you do is breath, eat, drink, think, scream, fart, burb aqua and orange.
You sweat and scream.....no need to analyze what defensive formation is on the field....do that afterwards. No brain required.