Re: Wish I had seen this

[DanDaMan13]

Loser history?

Last time I checked, they only have had 1 sub-500 season in their HISTORY.  There actually isn't a team in pro sports with that kind of history!  I am so tired of loser NY fans and their boasts of fame.

 

Actually- the Dolphins have had ONLY 7 losing seasons in their 40-41 year history.

1966- 3-11,
1967- 4-10
1968- 5-8-1
1969- 3-10-1
1976- 6-8
1988- 6-10
2004- 4-12
Pay attention to the gaps in time minus 1966-69 when they were a " NEW" franchise !!!
The first 4 years, yeah, that's a given with ANY franchise when they're new and building a team. It was 7 years (almost a decade) before they had another "losing" season!! Then it was another 12 years between before the next losing season in 1988. Then another 16 years before the next losing season. In reality, Marino kept the Dolphins competitive!! He made them as good as he could with the "junk-teams" he had around him. Especially between 1986-1991!! You could take Montana, Young, Elway, Favre, Brady, or ANY other top QB and they would have faired no better than Marino!!! But, you put him on ANY of their teams and he wins a championship!! Last time I checked- football is a TEAM game!!! Marino didn't play defense, ST, WR, RB, nor did he draft any of those players around him!!! He did the best with what he had!!! It wasn't his fault. If he wasn't a great player, he wouldn't have been a 1st time HOF inductee!!! That says he's a great player no matter what the guy with the G'N'R logo says. Who made him an authority?! I think the NFL knows better, don't you??

[YoFuggedaboutit]

 

Actually- the Dolphins have had ONLY 7 losing seasons in their 40-41 year history.

And considering that 4 of those 7 were the first 4 years the team existed, that says a lot. 

I've read all the commentary here.  Realizing that most of it is from 2003, I have no comment.   

[Dphins4me]

You think that loser, who STOLE my nickname, was the "first", or the only person to claim the Fish the best team of all - time?  No, about 100,000 other losers have as well.  I can't wait until a team goes undefeated, and then what will the Dolphins have?  NOTHING TO SHOW FOR THEIR LOSER HISTORY.  The Broncos came close in 1997.  The Rams flirted with it in 2000.  The Bears in 1985.  Sooner or Later, another team is going to do it, just like the MLB Home Run record - it's just a matter of time.  And this team will do it better and in more dramatic fashion then the cheating, over-hyped 1972 Miami Losers.

Unlike the HR record, which had more to do with juicing, than actual hitting.  With the undefeated  record.  Its a one & done thing.  Coming close gets you nothing, there is not tomorrow.  You lose & its over. 

Cheating?  WTF?  How did they cheat?

Really my one question is.  Why does someone who obviously hates Miami, have almost 6000 post?   

[Frimp]

^^^

4500 of them are Phins bashing. The rest are video game and porn reviews. 

[Brian Fein]

This thread is very very old.  Wow - some of the most effective gravedigging ever!

[YoFuggedaboutit]

This thread is very very old.  Wow - some of the most effective gravedigging ever!

Tell me about it.  I totally agree.  One thing though, please don't lock it  because it was done by a newbie. 

[Brian Fein]

Tell me about it.  I totally agree.  One thing though, please don't lock it  because it was done by a newbie. 

If I was gonna lock it, I'd have done it already.

[DanDaMan13]

This thread is very very old.  Wow - some of the most effective gravedigging ever!

I'm sorry if I did something wrong. I am new here and still learning how to navigate the site. I just didn't catch the date of the thread as to how old it was. I love the Dolphins and I got upset at how the G'N'R guy always rips on them. I can basically within reason tell or show anyone the Dolphins history. BTW did you mean the "effective gravedigging" comment in a good way or a BW?? Just wondering. Sorry for any problem I may have caused.

DanDaMan13

[DanDaMan13]

With a super-perfecta performance the Dolphins drub the Redskins 14-7 and take pro football's biggest purse

By Tex Maule

It was not always easy, and far less dramatic than it might have been, but the Miami Dolphins finally demonstrated rather conclusively that they are the biggest fish in the pro football pond. In the seventh Super Bowl they defeated the Washington Redskins 14-7 before 81,706 sweltering and smog-beset fans in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. This meant that the Dolphins went an entire season without a loss, 17 straight. No other NFL team has ever gone undefeated for a season, and no other club is likely to do it again soon, either. On the record, then, Miami is the best club in pro football history.

The Dolphins won the game with a nearly impeccable first half; with an extraordinarily accurate passer in Quarterback Bob Griese; with rhino of a runner, Larry Csonka; and, above all, with a defense that may have been No Names, but was plenty of adjectives. Try tough, tight, dashing and daring for starters. The special stars were Tackle Manny Fernandez, who keyed the line; Middle Linebacker Nick Buoniconti, who intercepted two passes and was named the most valuable player in the game. As an extra fillip, the Dolphins produced the most valuable Redskin when a Garo Yepremian field-goal attempt turned into the most hilarious play yet seen in a Super Bowl and gave Washington its touchdown.

In fact, had it not been for Yepremian, the Dolphin defenders would have pitched a shutout at the Redskins. When Washington did score it came with only 2:07 left in the game. Yepremian, the tiny placekicker from Cyprus, was attempting a 42-yard field goal as a kind of icing on the Dolphin cake -- when the kick was blocked. The ball bounced back toward him and Yepremiam made the mistake of picking it up, apparently deciding that he was the designated pinch passer. The ball slipped from his hands as he drew back to throw and bobbled about his shoulders until he batted it into the air where Redskin Mike Bass snatched it and took off. Running almost unhampered, he went 49 yards for Washington's only score.

When the Redskins got the ball back, on their own 30 after a Dolphin punt, there were only 74 seconds left to try for a tying touchdown, and they could not advance so much as a yard. The end came, symbolically, with the Dolphin defense swarming over Quarterback Bill Kilmer. For its last fling, Washington did not even get off a desperation pass.

Yepremian's aberration was one of the few consequential Dolphin errors. The Redskins, on the other hand, proved adept at coming up with the big misplay every time they appeared in a position to enter the contest. And it took them quite some time to enter.

As it usually goes, Washington opened with a conservative, probing offense featuring the running of Larry Brown. Only Brown never did run very far on Sunday. One of the plays is a drive in which Brown reads his tackle's block on the defensive end; another is a play in which Brown fakes the drive, then comes back, hopefully, against the flow of the defense. But for this second play to work the first has to be effective.

Since the first play did not work, the second was not effective. And neither was Kilmer's passing. A sharpshooter in the first two playoff games, Kilmer was 14 for 28 against the Dolphins, but there were three interceptions and his longest pass gain all day was for 15 yards. "I wasn't throwing well," Kilmer admitted afterward. "I tried to force the ball a couple of times and it killed us."

Griese, on the other hand, was throwing very well, if infrequently. He completed eight of his 11 passes, Including one of 28 yard to Howard Twilley for the first Dolphin touchdown. Twilley is one of only four players who came to the Dolphins in their first season and a broken jaw and a broken left elbow have cost him considerable playing time. But when Griese wanted to go to someone for a touchdown in the first quarter, he used the incomparable Paul Warfield as a decoy and Twilley as a primary target.

Do you realize, too, that if Yepremian's FG attempt had not been botched, but made, the Dolphins would have won the game 17-0 to match their record of 17-0!!! Eerie, isn't it!!??

[Dave Gray]

I'm sorry if I did something wrong. I am new here and still learning how to navigate the site. I just didn't catch the date of the thread as to how old it was. I love the Dolphins and I got upset at how the G'N'R guy always rips on them. I can basically within reason tell or show anyone the Dolphins history. BTW did you mean the "effective gravedigging" comment in a good way or a BW?? Just wondering. Sorry for any problem I may have caused.

DanDaMan13

No problems.  You didn't do anything wrong.  Gravedigging is perfectly allowed.  Welcome to the boards.  Also, props on your other post about Dolphins records and the subsequent post-seasons.  I found it very informative.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

I'm sorry if I did something wrong. I am new here and still learning how to navigate the site. I just didn't catch the date of the thread as to how old it was. I love the Dolphins and I got upset at how the G'N'R guy always rips on them. I can basically within reason tell or show anyone the Dolphins history. BTW did you mean the "effective gravedigging" comment in a good way or a BW?? Just wondering. Sorry for any problem I may have caused.

DanDaMan13

Some people don't mind gravedigging, but some people don't like it at all.  I'm sure you had the best of intentions.  Seeing that you're new, I understand you wanting to read all the good sounding threads.  I was the same way when I started posting on here a year ago.  I accidentally gravedug a "Shame of the Game" piece.