Over the 40 plus years I have been a fan I found things about the team to support. The no-name guys, the smash mouth running of Zonk, the killer Bs, Crash, Marino, Taylor and Thomas. Over the last 10 years it has been remarkably difficult to support this team. The string of terrible coaches, the terrible personnel decisions, Satan Saban, Ireland, and now this crap. I would say without reservation the last 10 years have not been fun.
As a kid growing up it was all about the College game but in 58 I happened to watch the Giants/Colts Championship game and I was hooked for life. For some unknown reason I became a Cowboys fan while in the Navy and Dandy Don was my hero. Broke my heart when they lost to GB in the ICE Bowl. Came home to FL went I got out of the Navy, heard about the Dolphins and became a fan from the getgo. The early days were bad but then Joe Robbie hired Don Shula and Bob Griese put on his glasses and the rest was history. We had many good to great years from the Don, I remember once, while on the road, I checked into a motel room just to watch a Dolphins Bills game (Dan against Jim Kelly) in Buffalo .... we lost and I then checked out to continue on down the road. When Wayne finally took over and pushed Don out the door at the end of the 95 season then stood by and let Dan be mistreated the way he was I started to distance myself from the team. I still watch, I'm still a fan with NFL Replay but I think that this will be my last year to cough up 70.00 to watch games that I can't see on TV. I find myself this year not really caring enough to watch a complete game anymore. Sad really but that's the way it is for me.
Dolphins fans are all masochistic, we've been around for years and we know it's going to suck but we still stay here..
So we have: The Oldtimers, who remember what it felt like when the Dolphins were great, but will probably not be around by the time the Dolphins win another Super Bowl. And The Youngbloods, who will be around when the Dolphins finally win their next Super Bowl trophy, but who have only known suffering and loss with a bad Dolphins team. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
Member that 56 home winning streak by the canes..nothin to do with the dolphins, but still cool right.lol
I'm still proud to be a fan of this team. Yeah it's so frustrating to go through this year after year. Always end up being disappointed but it's going to make winning the first Super Bowl so much sweeter. I'm too committed with this team. I just hate seeing other teams getting it right yet Miami can't do anything right. Teams like the colts piss me off. Lose their franchise player only to not miss a beat. I do think Miami had some of the right pieces in place. I don't care what other people think of our franchise, I really don't. Well get there. Hopefully sooner then later!
Gives me more time to do the things I enjoy, like riding my Motorcycle etc, as when they were winning I would watch, now not so much. I really have lost my excitement for them. Eventually I might just stop watching this sport all together.
Remember when they had to take ole yeller out back and shoot him? Remember how you felt? Kinda like that..
Hey, I may be an old-timer, but I sure as hell expect to see the Dolphins win at least one more SB before the man upstairs calls my number.
I think the end began when Wayne H. forced Jimmy to keep Dan. Marino was done and very expensive under the newly begun era of the CAP. 49'ers got rid of Montana, the Patriots dumped Bledsoe, the Giants dumped Simms and recently the Colts got rid of Manning. You can never pass on a franchise QB. Johnson did take us to the playoffs every year and built a defense with players nobody had ever heard of that lasted a good decade. Jason Taylor, Zach Thomas, Sam Madison, Pat Certain, Derick Rogers and many more that he scoped out. It is arguable that Shula making one last ditch effort and exploding the cap to get Dan a ring was the beginning of the end. Since then it seems that every decision made by both owners was the wrong one.
Being a Fins fan is like doing steroids for five years then quitting cold turkey, it sucks when you break things in your home after a Fins game.
Ever hear the Coldplay song, "Fix you"? It feels like that. All that said I ****ing love my Dolphins and every win makes me feel amazing. I compartmentalize all of the losses. I have been a fan since I was about 6, but I've only been old enough to really follow and love football since 04 or so. Losing has been the tradition since I've been an adult... I'm used to it. Really, though, a great draft and free agency is all we really need to get there. A good offensive line is all that separates this team from a 6-3 record
when we lived in South Florida I held season tickets. I've been a Miami Dolphins fan since the arrival of Shula. my son & I & friends went to the Monday night game against the Buc's. if Miami cannot straighten out the franchise with the current regime & front office, I will not support the team through another season... enough is a enough. in my opinion, the problem with Miami is the fan-base & location of the franchise. eventually, I believe the entire organization (like the Baltimore Colts) will slip into the night to emerge in a better place. who is to blame? you are to blame...
I've been watching this team since 1988 and the one consistant word that always comes up is dissapointed. That much is a constant. We have been so close at times but came up short (1991,1992), we have underachieved (1995,2006,2010,2013), we have overachieved at times (1996,2000), and we have been dreadfully mediocre for about 18 years total.
how in hell can any dolphin fan say the Wanny years were horrible that is just wrong. we didn't get bad publicity on a every day thing. sure we had left overs from the Jimmy years but Dave won more then a mere 8 games and we won playoff games . we had pro bowl players in Marion , Madison , Surtain , Zach , Jason. and Seau . we had Ricky ,Konrad, who was good at catching passes in the back field. we had Chambers and Welker who won many of those games by themselves. the guys were in the news for very good reasons . many here seem to forget that . Dave's two things that hurt were his draft picks on defense and the Feidler -A.J. Feeley fiasco . even McKnight and Ward made more playes then Wallace and company at times. we used to be fun back then because our guys played hard and rarely embarrassed us the way this club has in the last 10 years.
I've been a fan for over 40 years. I no longer get excited for the games. I haven't watched more than 2 quarters of each game yet, just don't care anymore. I no longer get a week long smile after a win and a lost doesn't bother me anymore. I'm still trying to be a fan, but I'm not spending money on the NFL anymore. Other than Sunday ticket, I haven't spent a penny.
It's more of the direction the league is these days over the Dolphins. I no longer watch sun/mon or Thursdays games, just don't care anymore. Out of the 9 Dolphins games so far, think I've watch no more than 10 quarters. I'm still on here, so I still have a interest, but it's shrinking. Big turn off for me on the Dolphins side was the changing of the logo and uniforms. I now have zero interest in ever going to Miami for a game. Dolphins come here next year, but I don't really care. If I get free tickets, I might go, but I'm 100% sure that if I have to spend a penny, then I won't go. I have more interest in playing golf on sat and Sundays to watch football
So you are saying that ownership and GM drafting and signing crappy players is because of the fans. Don't know what kind of meds you took that made you think we have anything to do with the running of this team but I would like to be the first to inform you that they don't allow me to call plays, draft players or negotiate free agents.
I find it very numbing. When they lose, I definitely feel it a little less than I used to. I've been trained to expect it. I still love to see them win though.
Yeah, honestly the only thing I thought held us back during that era was not having a good QB. We should of signed/drafted other guys in place of Fiedler. Jay was a good backup QB but he had not business starting games for us every Sunday.
like the battered woman who gets beaten repeatedly but her husband while exclaming "but i love you" through two black eyes, a fat lip and broken teeth.
My recall of that situation is quite different than yours, however JJ got his preferred QB in 99 before bailing out of club and passing it on to his bud. http://www.sportsxchange.com/DS97/Analysis/MIADraft.htm JJ's complete 1997 draft, where he passed on drafting Jim Drunkenmiller for our bust Y. Green. Then in 99 he got Jim anyway in trade and we all know how that turned out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Druckenmiller Funny though, at the time I thought JJ might take JD as Dan's replacement, had he cut Dan for JD we now have the results of hindsight to see just how bad that would have been So my question to you then .... if not Dan then just who would you have picked or ...... ?