what would you do if you bought the dolphins ?

You are incorrect to think that.

 

If you say so.

 

I'd make a Breaking News: Thread title and stick it to all those guys who want to be first to post new info!

 

Let me throw this out there for those who want to move this team to LA.

Lets say Dolphins move, become the LA Dolphins. They realize that maybe they should rename the team identity, like many teams that move, and like the Browns did. So you got the LA Commodores and no Dolphins. Lets say they become the LA Dolphins, then Miami gets a new team in 5 years and becomes the Miami Bobcats. LA Dolphins decided to name their team the LA Pelicans and Miami Bobcats rename their team to the Miami Dolphins identity they once had. Would you be a LA Pelican fan, a team you been rooting for the last 5 years, or the Bobcat/Dolphin fan?

Just leave the Dolphins as what we all loved, the Miami Dolphins.

 

I would buy some lube so I could make love to the original post. mmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

12 million people in the area. Let it roll off your tongue. tweeeeelve millllllion people. Miami/Ft/lauderdale area ? 5.5 million a lot of which that could care less about the Dolphins.

I have a home in Manhatten beach. There are almost zero 9er fans. Charger fans ? Not many and there are Raider fans but again, 12 million people. Jets and Giants are doing pretty good sharing one stadium with 19 million people of which, very few are transplants from Florida. Its the other way around in Florida. Huge transplant population from the North East, huge. I could care less if they are Miam Dolphins or LA Dolphins, they would still be the Dolphins.

 

City no longer retains the name. That ended when the Cardinals moved to Arizona. Rams moved to St. Louis and retained the name. Raiders have moved many times and they are still the Raiders. I am a Dolphin fan, could care less if they were in S. Florida or LA.

 

.... and I'm sure that's how many LA residents would feel, not in the complimentary way.

Sounds like the people in Manhattan beach don't like football. lol

 

I would extend Ireland.





















and by that i mean extend him the courtesy of providing a limo for his ride to the airport after he cleaned out his office.

 

I would have the Dolphins switch stadiums with the Marlins and play at the new stadium. We will then fill the stadium for every game.

 

The Dolphins, in a stadium that is too large, sold out over 100 straight games! A streak that went on until 2010!! LA? Never came close with all those millions of people.

You're dream will never come true....

 

There is a former UM player in GB that wants the Miami GM job too....

 

A good idea but the Marlins Stadium is way too small for this team. It would, as you suggest, sell out every game but a place with 65,000 seats is more like it.

 

Wasn't serious... ;-)

 

Tell that to Cleveland.

 

We're a few playoff wins away from that point.

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I knew this......just had to add ;-)

 

At the very least I know Paul Burmeister does. He lives there with his family. I've seen him out and about.

 

1. Build a better more football friendly stadium with about 10,000 less seats.

2. play better music at the games.

3. Have Jimmy Buffet killed.

4. I, and only I, would decide the logos and uniforms.

5. Sign the Water boy.

6. Aspiring Dolphins cheerleaders audition in my bedroom.

7. Play this song when we play the Jets.

[video=youtube;mWXG7pVXT3M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWXG7pVXT3M[/video]

 

Not an option.

The support is here, they, as has been said before, are staying away for a number of reasons, and will come back, but the Dolphins need to start winning. To blame the fans and move the team is stupid. You have 4 losing seasons in a row for the 1st time in 40 years, you have a GM many of the fans despise, and have had consecutive seasons with an offense that is putrid and near the bottom of the league.

THAT GETS YOU EMPTY SEATS IN EVERY CITY !!!!!

Why do you continue to blame the fans ?!?!?!? What have the Dolphins done to make you think it will change quickly ? Fans also see teams like Washington, Seattle & Indy have complete turnarounds in 1 year. That is also disheartening to fans and makes them believe even more that the organization is just incompetent. But you expect fans to fill the stadium to the brim ?!?!?

Miami has proven through the years it is a GREAT football town, and its only that many people on this board are too young to know what it was like when the Dolphins for many years led the league or were near the top of the league in season ticket sales, and in capacity % for their games. If you are less than 30 years old, its impossible to know what it was like because all you know is Sun Life Stadium, and were never around for the days when the OB rocked and was considered one of the hardest places to play in the NFL.

So many of the posters on this board have NO CLUE as to what the Miami Dolphins mean to this town. Many of them don't live here and don't know how devastating it would be civically for us to lose them. I get the fact that many here HAVE ZERO LOYALTY to Miami, and to keep suggesting they should leave, shows the complete ingnorance of the real situation, and leads me to believe the poster can't really be serious.

 

DJ you know I am with you 1,000,000 % on this. We need a noisemaker stadium sooooo badly.

 

I agree, they have lost 3 pro football teams due to attendance (Chargers, Raiders and Rams)

 

I'd hire you as the GM, and shouright as the head coach.

 

I think the owner seriously underestimated the anger the fans have towards Ireland, and how that has effected his bottom line. You can poo-poo the notion, but I know of at least 10 friends who claim they don't go, and will not go back to games until Ireland is gone. They don't care what he does in the draft this year, or next they just don't like the guy and refuse to have anything to do with the Dolphins until he goes. All ten of them were season ticket holders, and they owned about 40 seats. That is just a few people, and he's losing a guaranteed $ 50,000 + just from this people. They don't believe in the guy, and their mind is made up, and they are going to be stubborn about it.......until the team wins. They will be back if that happens, but for right now, they refuse to have anything to do with the Dolphins. I know of at least 10 others that will never go back to a Dolphins game even if they start winning, and it all stems from the Tim Tebow day we had in 2011. That was the straw that broke the camel's proverbial back in their minds, and they believe the Dolphins dissed their Hurricanes, and nothing is going to change their minds. They are done for good......until the Dolphins win (of course).

Common theme aye ? Dolphins win......people will come back. Its the key, but it does need to happen soon though, because the Dolphins are letting a whole generation of younger people slip through their grasps and those young people tend to follow whoever is the hottest team "right now" and that hasn't been the Dolphins in a very, very long time.

 

Make the team better. D'uh! :P

Don't know much about sport business and legal process, but I would renamed the stadium to "Joe Robbie" out of respect.

 

Well there is your answer. It's usually from top to bottom you find if a team is incompetent in one area, its usually an organizational problem everywhere.

 

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They still get better attendance night-in and night-out than Miami by a lot. Ever seen a Dodgers game? Not be full but they get better attendance than the Marlins. Heck, even check the Galaxy home games. Still get a better live crowd.

 

and you as team president

 

I actually have started to wonder, was one of the worst decisions Huizenga ever made was to block the NFL from moving the Dolphins from the East to the South. At the time it might have made financial sense, but in the long run, has it been good for the Dolphins ? Would they have had better success if they had played the Jags, Texans and Tennessee twice a year instead of Tom Brady, Ryan and the Bills ? Certainly the overhead costs would have been less costly, and made the Dolphins a bit more profitable. I don't really believe the loss of the rivalries would have been that long lasting as we would have developed good rivalries with the South teams in time, and you still would be playing the East teams often enough.

I think it was just another one of the poor moves this franchise has made in the last 20 years.

 

I'm sorry but Ross needs to do that himself. Times have changed and yes the Marlins have made any public money shelled out tough to get, but still Ross needs to build his own stadium. No welfare for the rich.

 

disagree completely. Miami is perfect for getting our team ready for September home games.

 

No Ross needs to pay for it himself.

 

This is what will happen folks.

 

And I'd hire you as the stadium janitor.

 

This year we didn't see as much of Ross. I don't even know if he was at every game.

My lasting impression of that goof will be seeing him on the sidelines smiling and joking around with Urban Meyer while Tebow made that incredible comeback.

I wanted to smack Ross so hard that day.....how dare he be smiling and dorking around when the Dolphins get whipped by Tebow on a day where your front office not only encouraged but outright sought to bring in fans to root against your own team, and piss off thousands of your own season ticket holders who felt it was an insult against your own hometown college team.

Dumbest promotion of all time.

 

How did he know Brady was going to be Brady? hindsight is 20/20

 

Well we hope he does and is Highsmith totally qualified yet ? Or would be hiring the black version of Ireland, someone that has to learn the job on the go ?

 

Gambler do you know the Marlins recent history ? And they still had 2.2 million show up last year, even with a 69 win season.