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Le me start by saying that like many of you I have been a fan for a long time, since 1975 to be exact, I just love this roller coaster of emotions called football, one week we are good and the next week we blow. I just wish we were a dominant team and could kick everyone's arses week in and week out, but the truth is that in this league (thank God) it doesn't happen very often.

On the other hand I am not ready to give up on my team anytime soon, I am no throwing our coach under the bus just to prove my point. This team is underachieving I understand, there are many factors that are playing major roles in the way this team has been playing, but I am very positive that once this team "clicks" things will be very different.

I can't help myself to feel down after a loss, or after two, but I will never give up on a team that I truly love..

thanks
 
Ditto.
The problem is is starting to get very, very old and tired.
I am a lifer myself and cannot ever remember feeling this way about the Dolphins.

I think my wife kinda put it into perspective some years ago.
When she no longer saw Dan and the rest of our storied past, players and coaches, she proclaimed it was not the same and she no longer had any emotion for the team or the players.
I told her it did not matter who was there as long as it was the Dolphins.
I am now starting to feel the same way. I have purposely distanced myself and expect losing instead of winning.
I drink less and don't break **** anymore.
It could be possible I'm just getting old.
Or, could it be the Dolphins are getting old.
 
I'm a fan of 30+ years and it is wearing me out as well. Seems like every other team in the NFL has had success in the past 10+ years but Miami continues to roll around in mediocrity at best.
 
It isn't easy being a Phins fan....but that is out lot in life. It could be worse.....

My late father was a Red Sox fan. He was born in 1920....died in 2005. He waited over 80 years to see his beloved Red Sox win a world series.

Disappointment is part of the fan experience. This team has given us a rollercoaster....I remember after we beat the Pats last year in week 15, I was on top of the world.....for a week.

We opened this season with an amazing victory over those Pats.....and that feeling lasted all of one week.

I'm not giving up, but it certainly isn't easy.
 
I was just explaining the misery of being a Dolphins fan to my girlfriend the other day. I explained how much I was fed up with the team not winning or even playing consistently. She is a Redskins fan and just laughed, because they go through the same thing. It's not just the Dolphins, even though I think they have found their QB of the future while Miami will need to draft another one this year.
 
It's a roller coaster love affair but come on, when's the up turn.
 
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32 years old and a fan since I was 6. I have always been very upset when the fins lose, I used to lock myself in my room when I was a kid, and very ecstatic when they win. I was pretty stoked when we beat NE but as has been the case for the last couple years, I wasn't really that upset when we lost the last two games. I have come to expect and have for sure dropped football down my priority list. It just doesn't seem like much fun to watch anymore. He'll I have more fun watching other teams play now. I worry that in five more years of this my love for football will be just about gone. Heck I don't even mind working on Sunday much anymore. I used to contemplate quitting a job if they wanted me to work on football Sunday, now I'm kinda like meh, who really cares. I feel I am not the only one that is feeling this way and I don't think the phin fan base is the only one like this.
 
josekareh said:
Le me start by saying that like many of you I have been a fan for a long time, since 1975 to be exact, I just love this roller coaster of emotions called football, one week we are good and the next week we blow. I just wish we were a dominant team and could kick everyone's arses week in and week out, but the truth is that in this league (thank God) it doesn't happen very often.

On the other hand I am not ready to give up on my team anytime soon, I am no throwing our coach under the bus just to prove my point. This team is underachieving I understand, there are many factors that are playing major roles in the way this team has been playing, but I am very positive that once this team "clicks" things will be very different.

I can't help myself to feel down after a loss, or after two, but I will never give up on a team that I truly love..

thanks
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You must work in the public relations department of the Dolphins. It's not a roller coaster when the team has been blowing since the turn of the century. I am a fan too, but I don't think it is too much to ask for a playoff win for a change.
 
Dolphin fan for as long as I can remember and I'm 39 now. I've been living overseas for the last 5 years, 4 in South Sudan and 1 and counting in Bangladesh now. I will admit that not being in the U.S. on football Sundays is probably one of the things I miss most, but it also helps me keep losses in perspective. I will say that my expectations have changed drastically. When I was a kid, I just expected that Marino would find a TD pass under the 2:00 minute warning, Louis Oliver would come up with a big hit and a fumble, or Offerdhal would make a big 3rd down stop. I guess I should have appreciated those teams more.

It's sad that the Dolphins won the division in 2008 and that's not even my favorite memory from the last 10 years. My favorite was watching the 2007 Dolphins vs Ravens with my buddies at our sports bar, hanging in during what looked like could be a historic 0-16 season, and then watching Greg Camirillo snag that slant route from Cleo Lemon and take it to the house! Picture 2 grown men in their 30s dancing on a pool table and dousing each other with beer. Best time ever.

I also don't care what anyone says, I'm NEVER going to throw in the towel. When we do win, it's going to be that much sweeter.
 
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