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What made you a Dolphins fan?

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by Scout200, Jun 29, 2011.

  1. muscle979

    muscle979 Season Ticket Holder

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    I lived in northwest Florida [Panama City] for the first 21 years of my life. We would go over to my grandparents' house on Sundays for dinner. Around 1990, maybe a little earlier, I started watching the Dolphins games with my granddad on Sunday afternoons. He had been a fan for years, he was an air force retiree and had been stationed in Homestead during the perfect season. Anyway, at that time the Dolphins were the regional team in NW Florida [before Jax started screwing things up] and NBC played all of their games. It didn't take long for me to get hooked watching Marino and company and especially that great rivalry with Buffalo.
     
  2. finyank13

    finyank13 Reality Check

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    Did u look like Troy Polomalu with all that hair stuffed into said helmet? Actually come to think of it, you should wear it on stage at your next show...
     
  3. DolfanJake

    DolfanJake Banned

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    I could never, ever follow another NFL team. You grow up with it, you live it, you breathe it for 46 years - you are definitely stuck. Through the good times and bad times. They are your team.
     
  4. DolfanJake

    DolfanJake Banned

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    Hang in there Aqua, in a couple of years, with a new regime, we'll be back to winning.
     
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  5. steveincolorado

    steveincolorado Spook, Storme & Pebbles

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    Both the Dolphins and myself were born in 1965.

    Joe Foss, AFL commish awarded a team Joe Robbie that was going to play in Miami starting in 1966. Joe Robbie wanted to put this team in Minnesota, but Joe Foss told him that the NFL was putting a team there and Miami would be a better site.
     
  6. Onehondo

    Onehondo Senior Member Club Member

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    I was born and raised in West Palm Beach, and graduated from Palm Beach High School in 1969. Was a fan since the birth of the Miami Dolphins and can remember attending games at the Orange Bowl and seeing Flipper in his pool. My Dad and I were die hard Dolphin fans together from the start. He passed away in 1973 so he got to enjoy the Dolphin's dream season before passing. One of my favorite memories was watching the Bears and Dolphins in the Orange Bowl, seeing Dick Butkis shove a running back after a play was over and Larry Little punching him in the face mask and his helmet flew about 10 feet in the air, breaking his face guard. The crowd went wild.
    I still remember the contest to pick the Name for Miami's new AFL team and the excitement in South Florida as the team became a reality. I also remember Miami's first - 1st round QB selection, 2nd overall selection of the 1st round of the 1966 AFL draft Rick Norton. In 4 seasons in Miami he threw for 1751 yards, a 40% completion percentage, with 6TDs and 30 INTs. And he was supposed to be the next Joe Namath. Our next 1st round QB was the 4th overall selection of the 1st round of the 1967 NFL draft, Bob Griese.
     
  7. The_Dark_Knight

    The_Dark_Knight Defender of the Truth

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    The year was 1972. We had just moved back to Jacksonville Beach after my grandfather came down on orders from Long Beach. We were actually living with my grandparents when we came home to Florida and on Sunday, my grandpa wanted to watch this game called "football". Well, seeing how I worshipped my grandpa, I sat with him in the living room. Here I was a wee little 6 soon to be 7 year old lad watching this team with Dolphins on their uniforms...and such neat colors...oh, and they happened to win that first game I watched...and then the next...and the next...and the next. Unbeknownst to me, my first year watching football ever would be the historic Undefeated 72 Dolphins.

    I was HOOKED ever since!!!
     
  8. frozenfin

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    I played Tecmo Bowl before I really watched any NFL. Marino to Clayton always scored a bazillion points. Then I started watching football in 1992-93. Dan Marino was even more awesome in real life than on the video game. I was beyond obsessed with the Dolphins in high school until Dan retired. Watched a few games here and there afterwards like the 2000 and 2001 playoff games. Then Chad Pennington, the Wildcat, Tony Sparano, and the 2008 season got me hooked again.
     
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  9. djphinfan

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    The mistake your making is predicting a teams sucess or failures without seeing them play as a unit...That's like projecting a player to fail before you see him play..
     
  10. padre31

    padre31 Premium Member Luxury Box

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    Same here, huge dolfan early, then Shula was pushed out, but liked JJ but the team was no longer the same, then Wanny came in and killed my fandom then for whatever reason picked it back up in 2007 jit for 1-15, then the 08 season and my sense that we are heading in the right direction again with Tuna/Irish/Sparano running things.

    I literally chuckle when I hear the edge climbers gripe and really do wonder what they thought of Nick Saban, suspect the positives things said in the media were celebrated and the fact that Sparano has outperformed Saban over looked all the while rebuilding a depleted roster which is far more difficult to do then merely signing a bunch of FA's and drafting like a drunken monkey.
     
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  11. Sippi

    Sippi Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    For me it was all about Larry Csonka. At recess I remember grabbing the ball and doing everything I could to knock other people over. I wasn't on defense trying to knock them down, I was on offense trying to knock the defenders over while carrying the ball. That's what I remember about his playing style, and that's why I loved him.
     
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  12. muscle979

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    Sparano doesn't draft or sign FAs. All he does is coach. He is not as good at that as Nick Saban is. I hate Nick Saban, I despise him and root for Alabama to fail every season he is there, and I can see that. You're trying to compare a guy who was coach/GM to a guy who is just a coach. Sparano needs some work to succeed as it stands right now. I think Nick Saban is a better coach but had too much of an ego and a Napoleon complex to take the lumps he needed to succeed in the NFL. In the end he had to run back to being a big fish in a little pond. He was a poor NFL GM but that is irrelevant when comparing him to Tony Sparano who has no GM duties. If Chad Pennington would have landed in his lap I suspect he would have had success as well, given that he won nine games with Gus Frerotte at the helm.
     
  13. padre31

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    Saban went 15-17, made bizzare draft choices simply based on his time in the SEC as the GM, and yet?

    To clear this mystery up, did he stink at being a GM, or a Head Coach, or both?

    For the stuff about "they cannot sign decent free agents!" aimed at the current regime take a look at who Saban signed and whom he traded for to bring to Miami.

    For all of the flak Wanny takes, and deserves, look at who is left on the roster from the Saban era drafts, they also should be the core of the team.

    For all of the flak Sparano takes about fist pumps and FG's, he does manage to toss the challenge flag out far onto the field so the ref's can see it.
     
  14. muscle979

    muscle979 Season Ticket Holder

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    I said in my post that Saban was a crappy GM. But Sparano doesn't do that so it's not really fair to compare the two. Saban's bad drafts and FA moves pretty much singlehandedly took him down.
     
  15. RevRick

    RevRick Long Haired Leaping Gnome Club Member

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    About the same thing... only I had to listen to the Auer run on the radio in my room... I was 15 at the time...couldn't legally drive, and, like, the my Mom was really going to let me drive to Miami down US27 (the Killer Highway!) before I had more than my learner's permit, let alone finagling the Old Man into giving me the money to get in!
     
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  16. gandalfin

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    You should have taken the bus! :yes: Seriously, I doubt the bus line ran on 27. I lived in N Miami so it was pretty easy getting to the OB. The Auer runback was a great moment, although after that it took a few years before the team started playing like anything other than an expansion team. In spite of all the recent trials and tribulations, it's great being a Dolphin fan. What goes around, comes around, I'm hoping.
     
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  17. smahtaz

    smahtaz Pimpin Ain't Easy

    I grew up a Giant fan and moved to Jupiter in 1983 from southern Connecticut. A client brought me to my 1st Dolphin game on Monday, December 2, 1985. That was easily the best live event I've ever attended. That place was rocking.
     
  18. Ozzy

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    They bused all over Dade County back then. We picked up the bus for every home game on SW 152 ST right off the turnpike.
     
  19. gandalfin

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    Wasn't it great fun!
     
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  20. Hurricane

    Hurricane Guest

    I'm not, I just bandwagon whoever gets good players
     
  21. TenFinFan

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    What made me a Dolphins Fan

    Became a Fan in 1970 when Shula came to Miami. Grew up in Seattle and they had no football team so I became a huge fan. Loved the Csonka running style and everything about that team. Didn't take long and a Championship followed During my Freshman year in College. So been at it for 40 years. We'll see those Championship years return and it will be great.
     
  22. DHPVW

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    Been a fan since I could grasp the sport. My Dad is a fan, my brother is a fan and lives in Miami. I've never known anything else.....I remember how much I used to love OJ Mcduffie and his amazing catches! I couldn't see routing for any other team
     
  23. aesop

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    I'd hate to watch any other team get routed besides the Dolphins.





















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