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I root against teams (and players) often more so than I root for teams. 

I root against teams too.  But I don't confuse the Yankees losing the World Series with the Red Sox winning the World Series.  The Dolphin fan base to a much greater extent than other fan bases seems to have lost the distinction. 

I know this is the meme, but here's MIA's December record over the past 4 years:

2023: 3-2
2022: 0-4 (fair enough)
2021: 3-0
2020: 3-1

The two years MIA didn't make the playoffs, they played quite well in December.  And even the 0-4 in 2022 wasn't a cold weather thing: they lost @SF, @LAC, and home against GB, with the only cold game being the snowball game in BUF.

The game against TEN last stands out as the kind of "December collapse" the meme is famous for, and I guess you might also count getting blown out by BAL.  But there really isn't much meat on the "MIA can't play in the December cold" bone.

Fair point. I'm going back more than 4 years, but maybe that's unfair to the current roster and I really don't think it has much to do with the cold, it just seems to be when the pressure to win starts to mount. I'm also counting Jan regular season games so that makes their record 3-3, 1-5, 4-1 and 3-2 down the stretch the last 4 years or a combined 11-11. It's great to win games when the playoffs seem to be out of reach but you'd really like to see that when if you win you're in. Miami is probably going to have to go at least 4-1 in December/January to even have a chance at the playoffs this year. If they do it, I'll be major pumped, but I'm skeptical at this point. I'm expecting more like a 7-10 season at this point which to be fair is better than what I expected a few weeks ago, but still far short of playoff football.

I understand your opinion, DD, but I just want to be on record that I don't share it at all.

I'm 180 degrees.  I root against teams (and players) often more so than I root for teams.  It's a core aspect of the way I realize my fandom.  And of course none of the things we cheer for are our specific achievements.  I don't see how this is any different that cheering for a team win that we, as fans, had nothing to do with either.  It's just part of the tribalism that is sports.

What crybabies. Each and every one of us roots for and against teams every week. Let's not pretend that we don't.

Ps. an undefeated season is something they achieved as a team, and as an ever shrinking group of participants.

As supporters we can be proud of them, absorb the afterglow.. but we are just along for the ride. Along with everyone else who supports, or who hates our team.

Calling supporters crybabys is not a good thing.

What crybabies. Each and every one of us roots for and against teams every week. Let's not pretend that we don't.

With this... they don't need a team to lose to achieve immortality. They have done it. There's no need to rub it in.

If there's one thing in the world that people hate more than sore losers.. it's sore winners.

So they should toast themselves on what they achieved. They deserved it, and it was, and still is a huge achievement.  

What crybabies. Each and every one of us roots for and against teams every week. Let's not pretend that we don't.

I feel the Dolphins should celebrate the season, but I think the chosen method is crappy.  Celebrating another teams loss is NOT celebrating the accomplishment.  If I ran the Dolphins every 10 years I would host a huge reunion, have the throwback uniforms be the 72 uniforms, have 72 players be the ones announcing draft picks etc.  Missed a great opportunity in 2022, not gonna be as many for 2032 or 2042 the guys are getting old.

In some regards I don't mind them celebrating that amazing season when this happens, as it gives them a little spotlight every year - as you said, a lot of them are getting old (Csonka is 78 this year) and I don't think there will be many left for 2032 (let alone 2042).

What I don't like is when they say they are rooting for a team to lose so their achievement stays unique - it's petty, and I have no doubt it's generated a lot of the talk that tries to belittle what they did, which is horribly misguided.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-unbeaten-no-more-1972-dolphins-celebrate-another-year-of-being-the-only-perfect-team-in-nfl-history/

Are any of the players left to actually celebrate?  I know Csonka Griese, and Little are still around but that's all I can think of.

It sounded like Csonka was going to drink glasses for Shula, Buoniconti, and the others who had passed away... I'm guessing he had a fair headache the next morning!

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/larry-csonka-sees-similarities-between-9-0-chiefs-and-his-1972-undefeated-dolphins-team/

Emilia Pérez (2024)

Premise: A Mexican drug kingpin enlists a junior attorney for a secret project.

Rating: Excellent, but the genre-hopping that draws many in will push as many people away.

This is a hard film to review, which is why I chose to do it here.  The plot of the film, which I am dancing around in the premise line above, keeps you guessing and had several moments where I was legitimately surprised.  I sat up in my chair multiple times at the reveal of new information, but every time, I felt that the reveals were fair and were reasonable character actions based on set-up expectations, if not explicitly foreshadowed.  In this way, the film is a very competent and compelling crime drama with incredible turns.

But wait...

It's also a musical.  And sometimes kind of a comedy.  And sort of a thriller.  And most of it is in Spanish, but with actors you know from American films.

If none of that sounds like it makes sense, you're feeling what I was feeling.  The film is genre-less in that way.  It's a gritty crime thriller, but it will add in moments of levity and emotion through songs.  But these aren't Broadway style songs.  Often, it's characters whisper-singing or delivering almost gritty renditions to reveal what characters are thinking.  It's atypical to say the least.  Despite being a musical, it's mostly not one and much of the movie is a traditional narrative.  When a song kicks in, often I was like "oh yeah...music stuff".  This isn't the kind of musical that you will want to listen to the songs on the radio.  It's not bangers.  The direction is clever in how the musical scenes are portrayed, with dirty streets where the extras become dancers, to more over the top comical numbers, to real-world, bad karaoke that morphs into full breathed pop stardom, to step-style beat-making, to gangsters whisper-rapping their inner-most thoughts, to characters literally dancing in and out of reality during song.  It's a wild ride.

There are three main performances: The lead gangster, with whom I was unfamiliar.  Zoe Saldana, who plays the attorney, and Selena Gomez, who plays the wife of the drug lord.  All are Oscar-level spectacular and will be in the conversations, if not nominated and winning.

I don't expect the crowd here to go for foreign language crime musicals, so I can't give this a blanket recommendation.  And even if I did, I would understand if the skipping around between genres was a major turn off.  For me, the fact that I didn't have to sit in a stodgy crime drama and was given these strange asides -- it all really worked for me.  You'll never have seen anything like it.  But if you sound intrigued, the actual story underneath it all is superb.

We still celebrate July 4th even thought the founders are dead.  It's a celebration of team culture.