The Don Shula Show 17-0 Season January 15, 1973. Super Bowl Vii Winners.
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Those field trips to Holsum bakery on Dixie Highway and Red Road were awesome. Best smelling intersection in Miami or anywhere else, and it traveled blocks in every direction.
I feel sorry for anyone who didn't experience that
I feel sorry for anyone who didn't experience that
Gone through 10 coaches so far and still can't find one that has anywhere the same pedigree as the GOAT HC in NFL history. Wannstedt is our longest tenured coach after the Don got pushed out of Miami. There's no prior member of this organization that I would choose over Don Shula to come back if that was a possibility.
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Great find, thank you for posting. "Garo will not be throwing any more footballs." lmao
Have you driven through there lately? It smells like ****.
Have you driven through there lately? It smells like ****.
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* At 9:15 in the video from the McDonald's commercial that's the kid who is often credited with ruining the Brady Bunch, or causing it to Jump the Shark. Final season he was introduced as Cousin Oliver, for no apparent reason.
* The Shula show was in color, BTW. Black and white was phased out in the mid '60s. I'm not sure why this is black and white other than it's a collection tape and not as originally aired.
* The reason they mentioned picking the Monday Night game was that the Don Shula Show aired on Miami ABC affiliate WPLG every Monday night at 8:30, immediately preceding the Monday Night game. Everyone on the panel was asked to predict the Monday Night outcome at the end of the Shula show. Some of them especially Shula would occasionally wimp out if a rival was playing and especially the Colts, who were ten times the rival of anyone else in that era.
It's impossible to overstate how huge the Monday Night games were in the early '70s. The entire city waited anxiously to see if the Dolphins would be chosen for the famous halftime highlight segment narrated by Howard Cosell. Every week they'd pick maybe 4 or 5 games from the prior day to spotlight. And Cosell's description during that halftime package carried immense weight nationwide. Everyone in school would quote his words the next day, and likewise at water coolers. You would hear people quoting Cosell from the adjacent table while eating dinner.
In 1970 and 1971 when the Dolphins were gaining traction but still not considered elite the fan base was livid when the Dolphins were excluded from the halftime package, despite an important or impressive win on Sunday. Frank Gifford would acknowledge that quite often on air, saying we better show the Dolphins or we'll be hearing about it when we get down there. That was especially true late season 1971, when Miami hosted the Bears. We hadn't been on Monday Night all season and the team was really desperate to show the nation the true caliber of the team. From the stands I could tell that was going to be a massacre. And I really felt bad for Dick Butkus. He had knee surgery prior to that season and was a shell of his former self, even if the energy and ferocity was still there. Throughout pregame warmups I watched Butkus testing his knee and often grimacing in pain, but whenever someone would approach and ask about it -- including many Dolphins players and coaches -- Butkus would nod his head and seemingly say it was okay.
* Joe Croghan was host of the Shula show in the early '70s but replaced by Chuck Dowdle later in the decade
* The Shula show was in color, BTW. Black and white was phased out in the mid '60s. I'm not sure why this is black and white other than it's a collection tape and not as originally aired.
* The reason they mentioned picking the Monday Night game was that the Don Shula Show aired on Miami ABC affiliate WPLG every Monday night at 8:30, immediately preceding the Monday Night game. Everyone on the panel was asked to predict the Monday Night outcome at the end of the Shula show. Some of them especially Shula would occasionally wimp out if a rival was playing and especially the Colts, who were ten times the rival of anyone else in that era.
It's impossible to overstate how huge the Monday Night games were in the early '70s. The entire city waited anxiously to see if the Dolphins would be chosen for the famous halftime highlight segment narrated by Howard Cosell. Every week they'd pick maybe 4 or 5 games from the prior day to spotlight. And Cosell's description during that halftime package carried immense weight nationwide. Everyone in school would quote his words the next day, and likewise at water coolers. You would hear people quoting Cosell from the adjacent table while eating dinner.
In 1970 and 1971 when the Dolphins were gaining traction but still not considered elite the fan base was livid when the Dolphins were excluded from the halftime package, despite an important or impressive win on Sunday. Frank Gifford would acknowledge that quite often on air, saying we better show the Dolphins or we'll be hearing about it when we get down there. That was especially true late season 1971, when Miami hosted the Bears. We hadn't been on Monday Night all season and the team was really desperate to show the nation the true caliber of the team. From the stands I could tell that was going to be a massacre. And I really felt bad for Dick Butkus. He had knee surgery prior to that season and was a shell of his former self, even if the energy and ferocity was still there. Throughout pregame warmups I watched Butkus testing his knee and often grimacing in pain, but whenever someone would approach and ask about it -- including many Dolphins players and coaches -- Butkus would nod his head and seemingly say it was okay.
* Joe Croghan was host of the Shula show in the early '70s but replaced by Chuck Dowdle later in the decade
Yeah, not good. I'm not there often anymore but sometimes while leaving the area after Canes basketball games.
I still take a look at where the old bakery was
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Yeah, it's funny, my dad used to say the same thing; he used to drive that way over to work in the morning in the '60s and told me the smell drove him nuts. Nnnnnnnot anymore. Windows up rolling through there these days.
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Same program, but following the game vs Minnesota the next season!
Damn, I didn't realize it cuts out big time after about 9:25, sorry about that.
Damn, I didn't realize it cuts out big time after about 9:25, sorry about that.
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He was the Dolphins. Probably never get another coach like him again. And if we do, Tannenbaum would run him outta town.
we should run t-dumb out of town before we hire anyone else