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Why are we Dolfans??

Mogrinn

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I read a thread ealier that sounded a lot like me. I grew up liking the Fins, because my Dad liked them. SO it was natural. I then started in highschool to learn the Dolphins..about their 72' season, and Marino. Now Im 26. I have a game room in the back of my house filled with Fins gear. I wear 2 jersys, 1 offense, 1 defense to switch as the possesion changes during games. Have had many heated argument defendind the Dolphins Glory. Hate everyone they play. Reffer to the team as "WE & I" Like I play for them. Never could find myself rooting for another team. So am I the only idiot doing this? What are your experiences as a Dolfans, or some of your more memberal moments in Dolphan history. Im intersted in knowing. If this is a re-thread I appoligize.
 
My Dad was a New Orleans fan and I didn't want to cheer for the same team he did. At 5 years old and living near the Gulf Coast, I didn't realize Atlanta was closer to me than Miami...I had been to FL before but not GA.

...thank goodness I was geographically challenged at that age. My ignorance really worked out. Particularly since I started watching in 1970-71.

Later, as I started understanding the game more, I was a huge fan of Shula and the class and strategy that just oozed out of the guy.
 
Ha..I used to laugh at Shulas little lisp. I though that was the funniest thing...when I was 3.
 
I became a Dolphins fan when I was about 11. My cousin, who I looked up to and was my wrestling coach, had a Dolphins winter coat that was given to me as a hand-me-down. Ever since then, I've liked the Phins. I was born and raised in RI, so all my other sports teams are from New England, but for football, it's Miami, and it will be that way forever. It's funny here in Carolina. When the Panthers came here, I knew several that gave up on their teams and became Panthers fans. That's odd to me. Turning on Miami would be like adultery.
 
Mogrinn said:
If this is a re-thread I appoligize.
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It is, but that's cool man. The mods ought to sticky one of these to the front page because it comes up at least 6 times per year.

My Dad called me into the famous KC v. Miami Christmas Day 1971 game during the third quarter. I'd just started to become interested in football. The fact that the Phins went on to the super bowl that year (to be blown out by dall-***) cemented my fandom. I was very fortunate back in those days that the local NBC affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi showed all the Dolphins games for many years. In fact, up until moving to the Coast 11 years ago, I've been blessed with a local affiliate showing Dolphins' games (Oxford, Tupelo and Hattiesburg Mississippi) despite living way over here in Mississippi.
 
I used to get the Dolphins as a local game all over the SouthEast too...darn TN and Jacksonville.
 
My earliest memory of the Dolphins: 1972 season, my father bet me a quarter to pick a team each week to win. For some unknown reason, I picked the Miami Dolphins. Each week that went by, I continued to risk my .25 cents. Each week I collected from my Father. I rode them to the 17-0 record. $4.25 was a lot of money to a 6 year old boy to win from his father. I have been a fan ever since.
 
Hasta said:
I used to get the Dolphins as a local game all over the SouthEast too...darn TN and Jacksonville.
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Yup, that ended the gravy train. Thank God for DTV.
 
I was seven when I bacame a Dolphins fan. My Dad was a big Giants fan, but his friend (Bill Kiick) from our home town (Lincoln Park, NJ) had a son on the Dolphins, so he rooted for them too. At that age in '72 seeing an unbeatable team left a big impression on me and I was hooked. I met Jim about 10 yrs ago in a sports bar here in NJ, and he was an awesome dude. I actually got to watch the phins beat someone (i forget who now) and he let me try on the 72 undefeated SB ring. The Marino years were great but always broke my heart in the end. I'm ready for another superbowl run.
 
I was born and raised in Miami, and I guess I started liking the Dolphins from birth. My parents moved to Miami in 1971 from South Carolina, so they didn't have any prior love for NFL teams. I remember all of the old men in the barbershop constantly talking about the Dolphins and the "great '72 team". I thought it was the greatest thing that my neighborhood barber had autographed pictures of Larry Little, Dwight Stephenson, Mercury Morris, and Nat Moore. What I didn't know at the time was that these guys would come into the shop sometimes for a haircut...sometimes they wouldn't even need a cut, but they would come in to sign autographs for the kids in Richmond Heights.

I remember some of the low times as a Dolphin fan. Riggins plowing through our defense on 4th and 1...Marino's first and last Super Bowl appearance vs Montana and the 49ers...not being able to get over the hump vs the Bills. My best and most vivid memory was my mom taking me to the 85 Bears game for my Christmas present. I never in my life thought I would ever get to see a game live, and here I was on the 30 yard line in the lower level for Monday Night Football. Still the greatest sports moment of my life and it happened when I was 10 years old!
 
I was about 9 when I decided to pick my own favorite team, because I was raised in Key West and my favorite animal has always been the Dolphin, it seemd like a no-brainer, at least to a 9 year old.
 
Its easy for me at X-Mas time. For instance, this year I got an autographed Marino Jersy, and 7 hours of Fins highlighst from 71' - 2003'. Every year I add to the collection.
 
For each sport team I like, it's all because of one player.

Dan Marino is why I like the Dolphins
David Robinson is why I like the Spurs
Frank Thomas is why I like the White Sox

I've been a fan of these teams for 14 years. Though as you may have seen, since the Nationals came to the area, I favored them over the ChiSox only b/c I could actually go to a lot of Nats games should I have chosen. Too bad for me, since the Sox kinda broke a 19,000 year curse by winning it all :)

Whenever I have kids, I will vow to turn them into Dolfans like me. Oh yes, it will happen, Someday
 
I used to live in MIAMI back when i was 4 and my mom and my aunt always dressed me and my cousins in MIAMI gear with helmets and all lol... so it stuck but then i moved to the bronx and lived there for 17 years... so im a dolphin fan in football then knicks yankees in the other sports..:dolphins:
 
When I was young and first got into football in the early 90s Marino was one of the big name players in the league and for some reason I liked him right away, and I have loved the fins ever since
 
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