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Im 65........attended the final win in 72, Dans last 2 games against the J##!#!##s and Dans last against the Jags they were not enjoyable to see but I'm still a DolFan....:brewskis:
 
Roman529 said:
Exactly. The fans were right up against the field. They had the Welcome to Miami sign, the Flipper in the end zone, the Palm trees.....the stands were rocking and few empty seats. It all ended when Shula and Marino retired and Joe Robbie sold the team.
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Truly the good 'ol days....or good 'ol decades!!
 
I'm 46 and became a football fan, and Dolphins fan, about 1980. I got to see them lose two superbowls (but at least make it there) and I got to enjoy all the Marino years. I always felt like we had a chance to win almost any game back then.

We were in the playoffs every damn year, it seemed like, and we hung our hat on the fact that we only had 1 losing season EVER, until it all came apart in 2004.

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EndZoneOnly said:
Im 65........attended the final win in 72, Dans last 2 games against the J##!#!##s and Dans last against the Jags they were not enjoyable to see but I'm still a DolFan....:brewskis:
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I was at Dan's last game too......the debacle in Jax (and I actually thought we were going to win that game).
 
Yeah, at least you've seen the glory years.

I'm glad that I got to witness Dan The Man's full career.... but oh how I'd love to just once see us win the whole shebang.
 
Don't get me wrong...i love my Dolphins...It's just year after year,I go though the same rollarcoaster emotional gambit....
I feel like us dolphin fans have "battered wive syndrome" .....we keep loving them,and they keep punching us in the nose and
then f*** us.
 
I'm 38, and will be 39 in a few weeks. I obviously don't remember the 70s Dolphins teams, though i was born then. I certainly remember the Marino years, and they were some fun years. I had hopes Dan would finally go to another SB when we played the Bills in the AFC Championship game in the early 90s, but we know it didn't happen. Anyways, it's my hope we finally get back to the SB before my time is up...i would sure love to see them win at least one SB in my lifetime.
 
I'll be 52 on the 22nd of November. Two of my worst memories (other than the SB losses to the 'skins and 49ers, was the "sea of hands" against the raiders, and that damn missed FG against the chargers in the playoffs. I have hope that we will just GET to a SB sometime soon...let alone win one. I'm beginning to understand how Cubs fans feel! But then again, the game has changed a little too much for me...I have a hard time getting into all the players now feeling like they really did something every time they make a 1st down...miss the good ol days when you just went back to the huddle. Hell, I don't jump up and down and raise my hands in the air and whoop it up every time I punch out at work....I just did my damn job. These guys should act the same way...celebrate after you win the damn game.
 
Namor said:
I'm 49.....Been a Dolphin fan since 1970.....How many other Dolphin fans here around
my age,considering what our team has done the last decade,are starting to have that
sickning feeling,we might NEVER see another SuperBowl win?
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I'm 57 and have been a fin fan since the first game they played. I was born in florida and grew up there with dolphins being our only pro team...alot has changed.

I'm alot more tolerant than most of the younger posters here because I followed one of sports most sucessful teams "the dolphins" which also had the NFL's best head coach for 30+ years! It's also why I have to laugh at some of our resident Jet posters braging about the last 10 years of Jet sucess...

We'll get back on track!
 
Namor said:
Don't get me wrong...i love my Dolphins...It's just year after year,I go though the same rollarcoaster emotional gambit....
I feel like us dolphin fans have "battered wive syndrome" .....we keep loving them,and they keep punching us in the nose and
then f*** us.
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but at least you got the Tide as an emotional outlet. For some of us, no matter how the season plays out, it's comforting to know that at least we have every objective reason to be optimistic as Heat fans (so long as the great Pat Riley is around)..... and thank heavens for that cuz we also have the worst, most scamalicious owner in all of sports in baseball and a generally terrible Panthers hockey team.
 
Patience is a virtue, it takes time to build a winner, we use to wipe the floor with the AFC East teams, we still have a winning record with all of them
 
Upper 50's and agree with those who feel we'll never get out this cycle of unending mediocrity.
 
I'm 55. First saw the Dolphins on Monday Night Football during the 1970 season and really liked their playing style. Was a Colts/Johnny U fan at the time but rooted for the Dolphins in their first playoff game verses the hated Raiders later that year. Became a full on Fin Fan in 71, watched all of the games that I could and always followed the highlights during "This Week In The NFL". Watched the longest game on Christmas that year and the heartbreak of losing to the Cowboys in the SB. There's been a lot of great times and memories but the past 10 years have been tough. I just want to see us be respectable again, a SB would be icing on the cake.
 
Vaark said:
but at least you got the Tide as an emotional outlet. For some of us, no matter how the season plays out, it's comforting to know that at least we have every objective reason to be optimistic as Heat fans (so long as the great Pat Riley is around)..... and thank heavens for that cuz we also have the worst, most scamalicious owner in all of sports in baseball and a generally terrible Panthers hockey team.
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Thats another thing,Is their some kind of universal rule that BOTH your football teams can't be great at the same time?Do they have to be the polar oppisiteS?
 
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