I grew up in Chicago (see my handle) and had no use for the Bears - they played at the wrong park for an arrogant owner with all sell outs who could not care less if I were a fan. (These are the days of long ago when most revenue was ticket sales.) If I had had a team, it would have been the Chicago Cardinals who played at the same ball park as my beloved White Sox but the Cards were driven out of Chicago and I never had quite got the Cards thing.
In my early school rebel years I rejected all old time institutions and went with the new and revolutionary. The NFL was ft and stuffy. The AFL was new, chance taking, exciting, bold. No AFL team wins my heart (a team with a player named Bambi?) but a new team appears: the Miami Dolphins. Coached by a Chicago guy George Wilson. So screw you Bears, I have a new team. From day One. I ever remember Danny Thomas as part owner. I remember announcement of name. Dolphins not a tough sounding name people say. Who cares. It is a cool name and our toughness comes from within. My Dolphins.
And I am loving my new team, the only Dolphins fan in Chicago, which is Big 10 country. At just the right time to impress me a quarterback comes from the Big 10 and beats the evil usc team and pac 8 (this is a story from long ago) in the Rose Bowl and where does he go - not some fat dumb nfl team but to the rebels, the upstarts, th AFL - and my Dolphins.
And the Dolphins are cool. And then from the eternally blessed 1969 Michigan squad comes its captain Jim Mandich. Love is better than ever.
And then they make the playoffs and the only Dolphins fan in Chicago spends his work day at Sears in the tv department, as the football announcers wonder if the Dolphins have peaked or are developing. Ha ha! History awaits.
Everyone at college mocks the Dolphins fan and days they will never be a winner. Losing in the Super Bowl. They laugh at my team. I stick up for a team I call my Dolphs. (You called them fins? What did I know, I have never been to Miami.) I make bold predictions, make bets on my bold predictions. And then: history happens.
And then another sweet season. I had been through some teams that won not so much and loved my Dolphs and now my love is repaid over and over. 3 Super Bowls. 2 Super Bowl wins. A 19 game winning streak. The perfect season.
And all my friends called me in 1974 playoffs the Oakland game. Screw them.
Worlds longest playoff football game with KC. The incredible back and forth playoff game with San Diego, hook and lateral, what a game. Dan Marino. More super bowls. Shula. Czonka. Kiick. Warfield. Buoniconti. Stanfill. Fernandez. Anderson. Scott. Duper. Woodley was cool. Warfield. Killer Bs. Armstrong. I evern liked Jay Fiedler. Madison-Waker-Marion-Surtain interception after interception. Williams? Maybe if I were high.
We were all doing the waiting for the last team to lose thing and have a toast long before any noticed. Dolphins fans just knew to do that on our own. First loss day for last undefeated team has always been a day of celebration.
Wannstadt. Being from Chicago I was against that from the start. But I was here before him and I will be there after him and fortunately at least it ended and I was still there. A few (ahem) bad coaches don't stop my Dolphin love.
I probably no less about the Fins than anyone here. Life has kept me from being able to have time to follow everything I love but everyone knows I love my Dolphins.
I have never seen them in person. I once had a Dolphins shirt purchased in Miami. Never got another because I got one from an actual store in Miami. I have sat front of the tv and wondered how you blow a playoff chance by giving that many points in that few seconds. I always believed Marino would be back in the Super Bowl. I kept waiting for the new era to begin. It will come. It will come.
The nfl official Miami Dolphins message sucked. I tried to like it. I really did. But I couldn't so I went back to just loving my Dolphins from a distance.
1985. Even I liked the Chicago Bears that year. But: Dolphins always. I host a Monday night tv party. Everyone says its over. I say it is ours and it stays ours. Game not even close. Dolphins.
2008. Super Bowl. I am a Michigan fan and I love Tom Brady even though... but not today. Super Bowl party. Everyone but one other person is for New England. Oh come on, Pats deserve it. No they do not. Pats score. game over. Not for a Dolphins fan. You know what happened. Giants score and I jump up and yell My Dolphins!
Looking around on the internet. Will I ever find a Dolphins message board? Get lucky on Google: Fin Heaven.
You guys are good here. I read your posts. The least knowledgable person here knows more than me. But I love my Dolphins from Day One and I am happy I found Fin heaven. I really like this board. I really like the fans here. Thank you for finally being the place I have been looking for. I learned they are not Dolphs they are Fins but by whatever name: love them.
Thank you FinHeaven.com
I love my Dolphins.
In my early school rebel years I rejected all old time institutions and went with the new and revolutionary. The NFL was ft and stuffy. The AFL was new, chance taking, exciting, bold. No AFL team wins my heart (a team with a player named Bambi?) but a new team appears: the Miami Dolphins. Coached by a Chicago guy George Wilson. So screw you Bears, I have a new team. From day One. I ever remember Danny Thomas as part owner. I remember announcement of name. Dolphins not a tough sounding name people say. Who cares. It is a cool name and our toughness comes from within. My Dolphins.
And I am loving my new team, the only Dolphins fan in Chicago, which is Big 10 country. At just the right time to impress me a quarterback comes from the Big 10 and beats the evil usc team and pac 8 (this is a story from long ago) in the Rose Bowl and where does he go - not some fat dumb nfl team but to the rebels, the upstarts, th AFL - and my Dolphins.
And the Dolphins are cool. And then from the eternally blessed 1969 Michigan squad comes its captain Jim Mandich. Love is better than ever.
And then they make the playoffs and the only Dolphins fan in Chicago spends his work day at Sears in the tv department, as the football announcers wonder if the Dolphins have peaked or are developing. Ha ha! History awaits.
Everyone at college mocks the Dolphins fan and days they will never be a winner. Losing in the Super Bowl. They laugh at my team. I stick up for a team I call my Dolphs. (You called them fins? What did I know, I have never been to Miami.) I make bold predictions, make bets on my bold predictions. And then: history happens.
And then another sweet season. I had been through some teams that won not so much and loved my Dolphs and now my love is repaid over and over. 3 Super Bowls. 2 Super Bowl wins. A 19 game winning streak. The perfect season.
And all my friends called me in 1974 playoffs the Oakland game. Screw them.
Worlds longest playoff football game with KC. The incredible back and forth playoff game with San Diego, hook and lateral, what a game. Dan Marino. More super bowls. Shula. Czonka. Kiick. Warfield. Buoniconti. Stanfill. Fernandez. Anderson. Scott. Duper. Woodley was cool. Warfield. Killer Bs. Armstrong. I evern liked Jay Fiedler. Madison-Waker-Marion-Surtain interception after interception. Williams? Maybe if I were high.
We were all doing the waiting for the last team to lose thing and have a toast long before any noticed. Dolphins fans just knew to do that on our own. First loss day for last undefeated team has always been a day of celebration.
Wannstadt. Being from Chicago I was against that from the start. But I was here before him and I will be there after him and fortunately at least it ended and I was still there. A few (ahem) bad coaches don't stop my Dolphin love.
I probably no less about the Fins than anyone here. Life has kept me from being able to have time to follow everything I love but everyone knows I love my Dolphins.
I have never seen them in person. I once had a Dolphins shirt purchased in Miami. Never got another because I got one from an actual store in Miami. I have sat front of the tv and wondered how you blow a playoff chance by giving that many points in that few seconds. I always believed Marino would be back in the Super Bowl. I kept waiting for the new era to begin. It will come. It will come.
The nfl official Miami Dolphins message sucked. I tried to like it. I really did. But I couldn't so I went back to just loving my Dolphins from a distance.
1985. Even I liked the Chicago Bears that year. But: Dolphins always. I host a Monday night tv party. Everyone says its over. I say it is ours and it stays ours. Game not even close. Dolphins.
2008. Super Bowl. I am a Michigan fan and I love Tom Brady even though... but not today. Super Bowl party. Everyone but one other person is for New England. Oh come on, Pats deserve it. No they do not. Pats score. game over. Not for a Dolphins fan. You know what happened. Giants score and I jump up and yell My Dolphins!
Looking around on the internet. Will I ever find a Dolphins message board? Get lucky on Google: Fin Heaven.
You guys are good here. I read your posts. The least knowledgable person here knows more than me. But I love my Dolphins from Day One and I am happy I found Fin heaven. I really like this board. I really like the fans here. Thank you for finally being the place I have been looking for. I learned they are not Dolphs they are Fins but by whatever name: love them.
Thank you FinHeaven.com
I love my Dolphins.
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