NFL: The Miami Dolphins team of 'misfits' who won the Super Bowl undefeated

[DKphin]

Jim Langer lay on his bed at the Waldorf Astoria on a chilly New York morning in December 1972, waiting for the Miami Dolphins team bus to leave for Yankee Stadium.
"You know we haven't lost yet?" quizzed room-mate Bob Kuechenberg. "Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if we lost a game once…. So we don't have that jinx on us."
Langer and Kuechenberg were good friends and had both been part of the Dolphins squad that suffered a gut-wrenching defeat by the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl 11 months earlier.
But this particular mid-morning chat in the Big Apple was by no means serious. The Dolphins had already secured a play-off spot by winning their opening 12 matches and coach Don Shula, himself the victim of two Super Bowl losses, would never allow his side's standards to slip.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/49446625

 

[andyahs]

Loved watching this team and will always remember the players and coaches. I actually have that picture.

Memories.

 

[royalshank]

I so loved Curtis Johnson’s Afro.

 

[royalshank]

Good article. I always forget we were underdogs.