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Title: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: jtex316 on February 04, 2011, 03:49:14 pm Pretty simple poll here. Pick the Dolphin's worst loss, and explain why below.
Title: Re: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: jtex316 on February 04, 2011, 03:54:40 pm I picked Super Bowl VI.
This Super Bowl loss - although it was avenged in historic fashion the following season - was a bad loss for Miami, but especially bad for Don Shula. At this point in time, there were two universal truths in football: 1. The Cowboys couldn't win "The big one" 2. Neither could Don Shula Shula's reputation at this point was still comprised of the man who essentially allowed the Jets and the AFL into the National Football League - a tremendous black cloud to have hanging over your head in those days. Couple that with the fact that he also lost the ugliest Super Bowl to date (Super Bowl V), Shula HAD to win the game against "Next Year's Champs" to prove his worth to the NFL and also to the Miami organization, whom had been fined a 1st-round draft pick for tampering with Shula while still under contract with the Colts. He lost the game - and Miami got their asses kicked. With the other two Super Bowls, the Dolphins went up against two HoF coaches (Gibbs and Walsh) and it is no shame to lose a Super Bowl to those two gentlemen. In 1971, you were expected to beat Tom Landry's fall-short-of-winning Cowboys, because everyone else seemingly had. Time proved that both Landry and Shula were worth their weight in gold, so it's funny how things worked out. Title: Re: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: Sunstroke on February 04, 2011, 04:10:53 pm I voted for SB XIX, but rate it as one of the "best" Super Bowls ever...not the worst. Title: Re: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: Dave Gray on February 04, 2011, 07:40:16 pm XIX without question. Marino would've gotten a ring.
Title: Re: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: norad34 on February 04, 2011, 11:17:27 pm I would have to say Super Bowl VI.
Actually the Dolphins were doing good their first drive of the game until the unthinkable happened... Larry Csonka fumbled. From there it was all downhill. The Cowboys ran through the Dolphin Defense like swiss cheese, kept Paul Warfield doubled covered daring Howard Twilley to beat them and held back Csonka and Jim Kiick. The Dolphins easily could have been shut out if not for Garo's field goal before the half. Title: Re: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: norad34 on February 04, 2011, 11:23:39 pm I picked Super Bowl VI. This Super Bowl loss - although it was avenged in historic fashion the following season - was a bad loss for Miami, but especially bad for Don Shula. At this point in time, there were two universal truths in football: 1. The Cowboys couldn't win "The big one" 2. Neither could Don Shula Shula's reputation at this point was still comprised of the man who essentially allowed the Jets and the AFL into the National Football League - a tremendous black cloud to have hanging over your head in those days. Couple that with the fact that he also lost the ugliest Super Bowl to date (Super Bowl V), Shula HAD to win the game against "Next Year's Champs" to prove his worth to the NFL and also to the Miami organization, whom had been fined a 1st-round draft pick for tampering with Shula while still under contract with the Colts. He lost the game - and Miami got their asses kicked. With the other two Super Bowls, the Dolphins went up against two HoF coaches (Gibbs and Walsh) and it is no shame to lose a Super Bowl to those two gentlemen. In 1971, you were expected to beat Tom Landry's fall-short-of-winning Cowboys, because everyone else seemingly had. Time proved that both Landry and Shula were worth their weight in gold, so it's funny how things worked out. Jtex, I think that Shula was gone from the Colts by the time Super Bowl V rolled around. I think that Don McCafferty was the coach that won SB5 with the Colts. The Dolphins lost in the AFC divisional that year out at Oakland 21-14 in game which they came real close to winning. I think that if they would have won that game, it would have been the Dolphins vs. Colts in the 1970 AFC Championship Game at Baltimore. Title: Re: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: jtex316 on February 05, 2011, 10:19:39 am ^ True - that is correct.
Title: Re: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: masterfins on February 05, 2011, 04:04:04 pm SB VI, because my older brother was a Cowboys Fan.
Title: Re: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: BigDaddyFin on April 28, 2011, 02:33:29 am I'm the only one that said 17? We had that fucking game won.
Title: Re: Worst Super Bowl Playoff Loss in Team History? Post by: Landshark on April 28, 2011, 10:35:53 pm I'm the only one that said 17? We had that fucking game won. We sure did. Had them dead in the water until Theisman knocked a pick out of KimBo's hands, then Riggins busted through the line. That defense was on the field almost the entire third quarter thanks to David Woodley's ineptness. |