Real Frustration

[masterfins]

I was looking for something to watch on HULU the other day and came across "1981 The Kellen Winslow Game", which was part of NFL Films The Greatest Games Series.  It started out nice to watch the old Dolphins, but by the time the one hour show ended my jaw actual hurt from grinding my teeth re-living that 30 year old game.  I had forgotten about all the highs and lows of that game.  Check it out if you get a chance.

[MikeO]

simply one of the greatest games ever played. Except for the outcome of course

[Landshark]

I remember that game.  Kellen Winslow Sr. was lights out.  If I recall correctly, he needed to be helped off the field as he couldn't walk due to dehydration and he was laying on the floor of the team plane back home with an IV in each arm.

[masterfins]

^^^ Kuchenberg takes a shot at him over this, Kuch says even when he had a broken back he walked off the field himself, implies Winslow was a pussy.

[Pappy13]

I've heard the same sentiment. A lot has been made of this so-called amazing effort by Winslow, but I've also heard that after the game he was walking around the locker room celebrating and laughing.  I'm not implying that he didn't have a great game, obviously it was his ability that helped San Diego win, but I do question just exactly how heroic it was. Yes, it was Miami on a hot and muggy night if I recall. I'm sure that he was dehydrated by the end of the game and perhaps did need IV's, but to make it seem like he had to be helped to the bench on multiple occasions only to come in again and make another amazing catch seems a bit of a stretch.

[tubba marxxx]

This game was before my time.  Obvious classic though.



You want to talk frustration.  This was my first Dolphins frustration (I was 8 years old at the time and it's ironically enough against the Chargers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxIAwl7VsDg&feature=related








Stan...freaking....Humphries

[David Fulcher]

This game was before my time.  Obvious classic though.



You want to talk frustration.  This was my first Dolphins frustration (I was 8 years old at the time and it's ironically enough against the Chargers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxIAwl7VsDg&feature=related








Stan...freaking....Humphries

I remember this game all too well.  I guess I'm 2-3 years older than you because I was only 10 1/2 years old when this game happened, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I was actually crying after Stoyo missed that FG.  idk, even at that young of an age, I knew how important that game and a win could have been to the franchise.  The loss to the Bills in the AFCCG two years prior didn't hurt as bad for whatever reason, maybe because I was just too young, plus I'd just really started liking the team and football in general that year, so I probably just didn't realize how difficult it is to get that far.  As for the '94 season/postseason, I'm not sure any team could have touched the Niners the way they were playing at the end, and I'm not saying that we would have, either, but I think we could've at least gotten back to the Super Bowl, even though the Chargers knocking off the Steelers at Three Rivers the following week was an upset in and of itself. 

*sigh* I will never forget this game, though.  I still remember Natrome (sp?) Means leaping at the corner of the endzone sometime in the 2nd half and *scoring* on a play that I was pretty sure he did not.  It was one of those "the plane of the endzone stretches infinitely horizontally" type calls, but from what I remember, I didn't think Means got across anyways as he was getting knocked out of bounds.  'course, I might be a little biased on that one.  Ha ha ha. 

I remember there being a thread probably within this past year about the most painful loss, and I don't know if I threw my two cents in at that time, but for me, as a Dolphins fan, this was the most painful loss in my fanship.  The '99 Jacksonville playoff loss just doesn't compare, in my eyes, because even though we made the playoffs that year, I knew we were no longer a contender the way we faded so badly down the stretch, and I knew we'd probably lose to the Jags, just maybe not that bad and embarassingly.  I'd say the 2nd worst loss (or difficult to take) would be the Miracle at the Meadowlands game, because giving up that lead was truly embarassing, plus it was against the Jest. 

But I digress.....