Bagga-Viagra said:
I was thinking the same thing. That game was against New England and both teams had close to 900 yards of offense that game. Really fun game to watch.
I agree. They had 997 yards of total offense that day. I was there with my father living back in Boca Raton again after a 3 year stint in WV. I was also at the game the season before when Marino injured his achilles tendon. I went on a party bus to Cleveland from my local bar, for $65 i got all you could eat (sandwiches and chips) and all the beer you could drink (Bud and Bud Light) up and back, and seats inside the Dawg Pound! We were 2-3 rows up (but mostly stood by the fence on the field). Marino had a real ****ty preseason and a lot of experts said he was washed up. I remember the last game of the preseason that year against the Vikings and Marino was like 1-3 or 1-4 completions/attempts for like 13 yards and 2-3 INT's that game.
I have never seen a better game out of Marino that I can remember. He was TOTALLY on fire.:fire: He threw for 473 yards and 5 TD's with one INT. Just to let you know, the only INT was a semi-low throw by Dan Marino to Keith Byars at the 1 yard line and was kicked by Byars about 7-8 feet in the air and one of the Patriots grabbed it on the way down. Not entirely Marino's fault...just a low throw gone awry.
Anyway, the main reason I think this is the greatest game I've ever seen is because it was a vintage Dan Marino comeback victory.
It was 4th and 5 for the Miami Dolphins on the Patriots' 35 yard line with a little over 3 minutes to go. There was SOOOOO much mud on the field because it rained for like 3-4 days straight and stopped the day before the game. It was too deep to even attempt a field goal with Pete Stoyanovich(sp?) as your kicker! I found out after the game that Don Shula told Marino to throw it over the middle to Keith Jackson to keep the drive alive. But, Dan "The Great One" Marino knew better. Danny said after the game that he saw Irving Fryar one-on-one with bump-and-run coverage and knew Fryar could beat his man in a foot race. So, Marino calls an audible at the line of scrimmage, drops back into shotgun, takes the snap, and fires a 33 yard strike to Irving Fryar on a frozen rope, hits him in stride at the 2 yard line and he strolls into the endzone for the TD untouched.:D Joe Robbie stadium has never rocked so hard in the numerous games I've been to there. You couldn't even hear yourself screaming. Because if you even had an inkling of Miami Dolphins Fan in you that is precisely what you would have been doing that afternoon.
The ensuing drive, the Dolphins recovered a fumble to preserve a well-earned victory against a formidable foe. Drew Bledsoe went for 421 yards and 4 TD's himself. Marino REALLY shined that day (as if he never had before
) and basically told the world: F-ck You! I'm not done yet! And the rest is history.:cooldude:
:roflmao:
