At one point Sunday in the midst of the abject Dolphins sadness on display, one of those cheery messages were displayed on the big video screen — it was Gloria Estefan exhorting, “Fins up, Miami!”
On behalf of Dolfans who are either too polite or simply too worn out to do so, I felt like screaming.
How about this, Dolphins: How about giving fans something to feel “up” about. Otherwise get those Fins not up but at half-mast as a gesture of mourning for what has become of a franchise once the mightiest in the NFL and now gradually dissolved to irrelevance.
Close to humiliating is what this has become.
Another message demanded, “Protect This House!”
If only.
This self-mocking gem aired in the fourth quarter even as Miami once again was in the process of leaving the doors to its house flung wide open and inviting every visitor to ransack the place and depart with impunity as the home-owning Dolphins sat helplessly tied to a chair.
Sunday’s 23-13 loss here to the Houston Texans meant the Dolphins have now lost 11 of their past 12 home games in an endless pratfall dating to late 2009.
That nearly unfathomable 1-11 home skid that has sacked fan support to a degree the club bought and distributed around 10,000 free tickets Sunday and still could barely fill two-thirds of the stadium. Hey but “Fins up” everybody!