The fickle finger of fate is defined as a series if very unlucky or unfortunate events. For example, someone gets fired from their job, crashes their car driving home, finds out their insurance has lapsed, gets home to find out their wife is pregnant, and their son was in jail for drugs. It was a catchphrase started by an old TV show "Rowen & Martins Laugh In" which had many others.
From a Phins perspective, how many very unlucky or unfortunate events can we point our "Phickle Phingers" at?
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Chad Henne gave us the best chance of winnng out of all the qbs we have on the roster so we open up with two of the most difficult games on the schedule. We are winning against the browns and it takes a fumble from DT, boneheaded coaching decisions and a complete breakdown of the defense on the last drive to lose a game we had no business losing.
We dominate the jets the first half yardage wise and are still losing due to a pick 6 and complete ineptitude in the red zone. We play the broncos who we would of easily beaten i feel if we had Henne, so by the grace of God hes out that game.
We blow a game against the giants that we could of easily won.
Teams have been able to exploit our pass defense and that has alot to do with nagging hammy from Davis.
We've caught miracle after miracle from Marshall dropping at least 3 tds to the broncos recovering an onside kick.
I dont know about you but i feel we have been extremely lucky this season so far. Im excited about getting a new coach, FO and a franchise qb. Could you imagine if we went 8-8 and kept Sparano. That would of been proof that we were cursed
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David Overstreet. I think that's about as 'unfortunate' as you can get.
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You make your own Luck as the saying goes.:wink2:
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11th grade in high school...I had a chemistry teacher, Mrs. Croft. When she was looking for someone to answer a question or go up to the board to solve a problem, she would say "The fickle finger of fate is pointing at ________".
One day I had enough of her bull****. This is the same woman who flunked me on my table of elements test, which I didn't miss one answer, because I wrote in all caps but with a smaller letter next to the bigger letter. Every one like that she marked wrong, even though the letters were correct. So we never saw eye to eye. I couldn't drop the class at that point, so I toughed it out but didn't put much effort into it either. I mean, what is the point learning it if you are going to purposely fail me anyway. But I digress...
So one day she tells me that the fickle finger is pointing at me. I look at her and say, "Fickle finger this" and proceed to give her a middle finger salute. She flips out and kicks me out of the classroom. I go to the principals office. He asks me what happened. I tell him, "Mrs. Croft said the fickle finger of fate is pointing at....". He stops me and says, "don't tell me you....". I said, "yes sir, I did". :pointlol:
He told me to just ride out the rest of the hour in the library and he will take care of it. It all ended up in a parent teach conference. She got in trouble for my failing tests when the answers were correct and she was forbidden to ever say "the fickle finger of fate is pointing at _________".
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We got fickle fingered by Jimmy,Dave,Nick,Cam and fisted bo Tony,Bill and Ireland.
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It is the PHLYING PHICKEL PHINGER OPH PHATE!!
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I would just like to say...As someone that used to complain so much about bad luck. It pisses me off when people complain about bad luck. That guy in the example probably was a terrible father that didn't know how to pull out. Spent all his money on booz so he couldn't pay his car insurance, got drunk at work and was fired for it. Then on the way home he crashes cuz hes to drunk to know the difference between green and red. None of that is bad luck. All those things he could control and didn't. I often look back on my bad luck and realize it was my own damn fault.
Dolphins have created their own damn bad luck!
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you guys were ****ty kids :tongue2:
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Fortuitous ?? Based on the facts you pointed out, there is a good chance that we will win a game or two, since we've been close on every game. The Dolts haven't been close at all. I'd say it's still only about 30% chance that we end up with the #1 overall pick...there is still a long way to go...
I think you are assuming a lot about where we are and what our phate is...I don't see that illustrious #1 overall pick in our future and Ireland's phate will be written by who takes over...right now, the the two major candidates are proclaiming that they're not going to be coaching in 2012... Even Fisher is likely to have Ireland as his GM...
The funny thing is, if you look real closely at this season, it's a mirror of 2008 with the breaks going our way instead of against us....The team is just as inept, but the talent is better overall. The only difference between the two years (other than the 0-7 vs 11-5) is a QB...Southbeach likes this. -
The editing must have been done by a friend of mine who uses "don't give a flying ****" often. :) I sent him your pic, and he sends his thanks, saying that he will use it well, and often. -
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We chose Rick Spielman and Dave Wannstedt over Ted Thompson.
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Quite possibly the worst saying in sports. -
"Hey Tom! Autograph my back while I suck your d***!"
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insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result....
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Luck is what you make it, we have made bad decisions and are paying the price for them, will continue to for several years. Luck is nothing more than preparation meeting opportunity.
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Sounds like a Gunny I knew one time. He and a chief RM I worked under were always talking about the Seven P's...
Proper Prior Preparation Prevents P*** Poor Performance!
I have to wonder if this version of the Dolphins have even heard the Seven P's.