Merged: Gillette (I mean Dolphin) Stadium was a joke/Team doesn't have home games

[NYFishFan]

Gillette (I mean Dolphin) Stadium was a joke

1st time Poster, long time viewer.
Fish Fan from NY for 25 Yrs. Just got back from Pats game (I fly down for 2 games a year with my small boys) and have a few observations.

60/40 Fish/Pats fans.
40/60 Fish Pats fan in upperdeck (where I was)...Pats fans controlled the whole place...what a joke. I felt more comfortable at Jets games at Giants Stadium. Left after TD that gave us brief lead to make flight...heard deafening roar a few minutes later in Parking Lot...thought it was over...quickly learned the roar was from Pats fans.

Please look thru Chambers stats...the guy had so many drops...has no heart...and really is the poster boy for this once storied and proud franchise.

Wayne and Nick...don't worry about the playoffs this year...please focus on getting this franchise back to where it once was...we long time fish fans want something to be proud of. Just because you fill Dolphin Stadium a few games a year (jets, pats, bills, etc), does not mean things are going well.

 

[texasPHINSfan]

and i believe it... the cheering was louder when the Pats scored than when the dolphins scored.

the problem is all the patriots fans hate it up there in new england, so they come down here in our nice weather and then root against our team... same for jets and bills fans. i had several bills fan friends in high school - their families moved down there because they were tired of the cold weather.

its a ***** situation, but what can you do?

Mod Edit/Warning: Don't circumvent the profanity filter. (Save me some effort.)
WB3

 

[DolphinDevil28]

It's a sad situation because Miami is such a beautiful city and all those northerners come to live there.

We should require a "Dolphins fan" ID before you can buy tickets to home games, and then only sell them to road team fans a week before the game.

 

[NYFishFan]

That's fine for early season games or end of season non-important games, but a game for 1st place in November needs to be vast majority Fins fans...end of story

 

[FireWrongstedt]

1st time Poster, long time viewer.
Fish Fan from NY for 25 Yrs. Just got back from Pats game (I fly down for 2 games a year with my small boys) and have a few observations.

60/40 Fish/Pats fans.
40/60 Fish Pats fan in upperdeck (where I was)...Pats fans controlled the whole place...what a joke. I felt more comfortable at Jets games at Giants Stadium. Left after TD that gave us brief lead to make flight...heard deafening roar a few minutes later in Parking Lot...thought it was over...quickly learned the roar was from Pats fans.

Please look thru Chambers stats...the guy had so many drops...has no heart...and really is the poster boy for this once storied and proud franchise.

Wayne and Nick...don't worry about the playoffs this year...please focus on getting this franchise back to where it once was...we long time fish fans want something to be proud of. Just because you fill Dolphin Stadium a few games a year (jets, pats, bills, etc), does not mean things are going well.

I feel ya bro- I went to the 'Phins-Pats game in 2002- my whole section was nothing but Pats fans. They were everywhere. It sucked. But we won that day, so most of them left early and shut up quick. It was great to see a bunch of our fans tossing bottles at their bus and chanting derisevly at them as they left the stadium.

 

[CirclingWagons]

It's not Gillette Stadium...it's Lincoln Financial Field--that 2003 monday night game was unbelievable and i wasn't even there. The eagles fans were so loud you could hear Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce! on the tv

 

[finsmx]

It's not Gillette Stadium...it's Lincoln Financial Field--that 2003 monday night game was unbelievable and i wasn't even there. The eagles fans were so loud you could hear Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce! on the tv

oh god i remember that :shakeno:

 

[texasPHINSfan]

It's not Gillette Stadium...it's Lincoln Financial Field--that 2003 monday night game was unbelievable and i wasn't even there. The eagles fans were so loud you could hear Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce! on the tv

god that was painful.... i remember that.

it seems like every other team has more fans in Miami than the Dolphins do. all of us dolfans are around the country.... if we could setup a "virtual" stadium and have all the fans teleconference there with speakers, we could create a HECK of a lot of crowdnoise.

the whole thing isn't really fair to the fins though - they don't ever really have homefield advantage, especially not in our division.

 

[FireWrongstedt]

god that was painful.... i remember that.

it seems like every other team has more fans in Miami than the Dolphins do. all of us dolfans are around the country.... if we could setup a "virtual" stadium and have all the fans teleconference there with speakers, we could create a HECK of a lot of crowdnoise.

the whole thing isn't really fair to the fins though - they don't ever really have homefield advantage, especially not in our division.

And it's not that a lot of those fans live in South Florida- a lot of them make the weekend trip down because Miami is a great place to go for a weekend. Nice beaches, great night-life, great weather- it's a vacation town. All those Philly fans that came down didn't live down there- they made a vacation out of it. That's what a lot of the fans of the northern teams we play at home do, including our division rivals. Remeber all the Pittsburgh fans at that rain-soaked game last year?

 

[mixmaster_matt]

Just preaching to a choir bro. But, the one thing I can say is if the DolFans got off their butts on 3rd down and actually cheered for the defense, it might have helped a little bit. I can barely talk today from yelling to get fans to stand up on 3rd and 7's and no one in the section was really cheering.

 

[PMZQ]

god that was painful.... i remember that.

it seems like every other team has more fans in Miami than the Dolphins do. all of us dolfans are around the country.... if we could setup a "virtual" stadium and have all the fans teleconference there with speakers, we could create a HECK of a lot of crowdnoise.

the whole thing isn't really fair to the fins though - they don't ever really have homefield advantage, especially not in our division.

LET'S BE HONEST !!! :rofl3:

That's cause Dolfans know THE REAL STORY....So Fla SUX. So they live in Texas, NC, Atlanta, and elsewhere in Fla.

 

[finfan54]

It's a sad situation because Miami is such a beautiful city and all those northerners come to live there.

We should require a "Dolphins fan" ID before you can buy tickets to home games, and then only sell them to road team fans a week before the game.

Thats not the problem. The problem is that fans are not buying tickets period. They have not been buying tickets for a long time now. Saban will turn that around but there will always be about 10,000 to 20,000 seat left open. Its just Miami is too diverse a city for football and there is too many other things to do there. Not to mention that those who do go to the game get caught on TV sitting there falling asleep.

Quite frankly, I dont understand how people can do that. Its embarrassing.

 

[PMZQ]

Thats not the problem. The problem is that fans are not buying tickets period. They have not been buying tickets for a long time now. Saban will turn that around but there will always be about 10,000 to 20,000 seat left open. Its just Miami is too diverse a city for football and there is too many other things to do there. Not to mention that those who do go to the game get caught on TV sitting there falling asleep.

Quite frankly, I dont understand how people can do that. Its embarrassing.

The reason the Fins have a hard time selling tickets is, frankly what's to really be excitied about ???? Its been at least 10 years....since the 1992 season, that we truly believed we had a SOLID & GOOD team.

During the Jimmy, Wanny and 1st year of Saban, no one truly believes these teams are that good. Even in the 1st Wanny season no one was really a believer.

Right now the franchise has such a "maliase" over it.....it just seems stuck, and we are fast turning into the Arizona Cardinals.

 

[phinfan2003]

Even Phil Simms and Jim Nantz made a referrence to how the stadium in Miami doesn't provide a home-field advantage the way other stadiums do for their home teams. Phil even made a comment as to how his team felt like playing on the road in Miami was a very winnable game. I've only been to Miami once to watch the Dolphins play but I can't say that we really have a home field advantage at home compared to other teams like the Jets, Pats, Steelers, etc. I don't care what anyone wants to say, the stadium is usually either half empty or full of fans from opposing teams. They even showed how empty it was during the game and this game was potentially for 1st place!!!!!! That doesn't happen at the Meadowlands where there is like a 25 year waiting list for season tix.

 

[Avalanche of Wins]

its a joke. the fans here dont even know how to react to game situations. people cheer when they are supposed to bve silent, ie when miami is driving for the tying touchdown late in the 4th, and they sdtay with there fat ***** planted in the seats on the biggest third down of the game....not to mention i was one of 3 dolphins fans i could see, as far as i could see in the lot i parked in, i spent many years going to foxboro stadium, and i felt like i was back there before the game. the only people in my whole section who make any noise are spegg, and the friends he brings, everyone else sucks. you people who sit home on your ***** and let pats fans buy all the tickets should be ashamed of yourselves.