Your worst Dolphins memory.

[Dave Gray]

Mine is probably not all that bad, by traditional standards, but it happened at a time when I was young and incredibly invested in the Dolphins.  It was when Marino tore his achilles, when we led the NFL at 9-2.  I just saw the season end on one play, and my favorite player hurt, jeopardizing future seasons, as well.  Heartbreaking.

As for on-the-field stuff, we lost a playoff game to San Diego the next year, when we had a big halftime lead.  Stoyo missed a FG as time ran out and we lost by one point.  I wanted to put my head in my hands and sob.  It sucked.

[Tenshot13]

The Jacksonville game causing my worst memory...Dan's retirement.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

The Monday Night Miracle against the Jets. 

[Brian Fein]

Tenshot and Tommy have already mentioned the two things that stand out in my mind the most. 

[Phishfan]

I am surprised anyone said anything other than Tenshot or Tommy's answers.

[jtex316]

I remember Buffalo wiping Miami off the floor in the 1994 AFC Championship Game. They could have played the Cowboys in the Super Bowl, and hey you never know!

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

'82 wild card weekend. 

[YoFuggedaboutit]

'82 wild card weekend. 

That's your worst Dolphins memory?  I thought it would've been the 2004 Monday Night Comeback

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

That's your worst Dolphins memory?  I thought it would've been the 2004 Monday Night Comeback

Losing a single game when you have already clinched a wildcard spot and then go on to win the superbowl tends not to leave you not feeling too bad about that loss.

On the other hand losing a playoff game to a division rival sucks.   

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

As for on-the-field stuff, we lost a playoff game to San Diego the next year, when we had a big halftime lead.  Stoyo missed a FG as time ran out and we lost by one point.  I wanted to put my head in my hands and sob.  It sucked.

I remember this game like it was yesterday. We could not slow Natron Means (I think he was the RB at the time) in the second half. I hated this game and it ranks a close second.

My worst though was the drubbing we took against Jacksonville for Marino's last game!!!

[BigDaddyFin]

1994 playoff game vs. San Diego or blowing the lead against the Jets on Monday night.

[Thundergod]

62-7

F the Jaguars.

[doctord56]

The "Sea of Hands".....Kenny Stabler completing a miracle pass to Clarence Davis in the 1974 playoff game vs. Oakland....3 dolphins near the ball, Stabler in the grasp of Vern Den Herder, the damn pass somehow crazily goes for a touchdown, and the dolphins chance for a fourth straight superbowl and 3rd straight NFL title dies. With the subsequent defections of Csonka, Kiick, and Warfield, the Dolphins dynasty ends and the Steelers become the dominant NFL team.

I've got the link to a heartbreaking you tube summary of the game...total heartbreak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUruXjoqRRc


# The Sea of Hands (December 21, 1974, Miami Dolphins vs. Oakland Raiders, AFC Divisional Playoff Game)

    With 24 seconds left in the game, Raiders RB Clarence Davis somehow caught the game-winning touchdown pass among "the sea of hands" of three Dolphins defenders. This game eliminated Miami from the playoffs after they had made it to the Super Bowl in each of the last 3 seasons. Also known as the "Lost Game" due to both NBC and NFL Films losing their (English) copies of the broadcast. It was thought until recently that the only remaining copy was NBC's Spanish version, when NFL Films found their copy buried deep in storage, which they thought was lost in a move in the early 80's. [8]

[David Fulcher]

As for on-the-field stuff, we lost a playoff game to San Diego the next year, when we had a big halftime lead.  Stoyo missed a FG as time ran out and we lost by one point.  I wanted to put my head in my hands and sob.  It sucked.

Hey, Dave, I'm not gonna lie, I DID sob,  .  Granted, I was only 9 years old and it was only the 4th playoff game I'd ever seen the 'Phins play in to that point (the others being the 24-0 whitewashing we put on the Chargers two years earlier in the Divisional Round, the 1993 AFC Championship against the Bills [not '94, JTex] when I really had no idea the true significance of being in that game at the time because...well, we sure as hell haven't been back there since!, and the Wildcard game against the Chiefs the week before [Joe Montana's last game] this infamous Chargers game), but somehow I realized the significance of this one, and looking at it now, whether we've had better teams than that '94 team or not since (which I think is debatable--I'd put the 2002 team up there), I think it's reasonable to feel that way.

I am surprised anyone said anything other than Tenshot or Tommy's answers.

I mean, don't get me wrong, the 2000 "Miracle at the Meadowlands" game really sucked, BAD, just like losing any game to those J-E-T-S, suck-suck-suckers does, and the playoff loss the year before at Jacksonville was quite the ass-beating, no doubt, but regardless of the talent in place on those two teams ('99 and '00 'Phins), I just feel like that SD playoff loss hurt just as badly if not worse because we were winning most of the game (well, at least in comparison to the Jax playoff game...obviously that was the case for the '00 Jets game, too,  ) AND we were a damn good team that season.

[Spider-Dan]

2002 end-of-season game @ NE, where we were up 24-13 in the 4th quarter (with the most potent MIA team since Marino retired) and we completely imploded, falling into a 3-way-tie in the AFC East and sending the useless Jets to the playoffs, particularly since if we had won, we would have hosted the Colts (whom we had already beaten) and then went to play @ Oakland (whom we had also already beaten).