Wtf was wrong with that team

 

They thought that winning the Super Bowl was beating NE

 

And just tanked it in for the rest of the season

 

I hate to be a part pooper but I'm having a hard time voting for a 7-9 team

 

This play doesn't matter. The whole point of it was it knocked New England out of the #1 seed which was moot in the end.

 

You're voting for a singe play- not a team. I'm not sure how that wasn't evident.

 

Awesome play.But that was the last game they won so it's hard for me to forget the lows that followed that high.(Much like drug withdrawal)

 

Yea, how dare they enjoy winning a game. The audacity.

 

That wasn’t his point..the celebration wasn’t wrong..it was the mentality thereafter that was.

 

Classic Gase coached team

 

Yep, it would be a HUGE win if it had cost the Patsies another Super Bowl win. Instead, it's really just a rare type of play.

 

Phins up, but it was for me an empty meaningless memory..

 

The Cleo Lemon to Greg Camarillo miracle (Yes, that was a miracle) has more significance in Dolphins history then this play ever will.

 

I don't get all the negativity at all. On any given Sunday, if the Fins win then I'm ecstatic. If they beat a division rival, then it makes my entire week. Where I differ from others here is that if we lose 77-3 the following week, that doesn't mean the previous win doesn't matter. In some ways, it matters even more because it shows the team's potential when everything clicks.

I told this story the week after the Miami Miracle- we had 14 inches of snow in South Carolina that day. No power. No water. Stranded. And obviously no Direct TV to watch the game. At the very last minute though, I remembered I could get the Sunday Ticket app on my tablet with Verizon internet. So I walked through the snow to my dad's house...and since cellular reception wasn't good enough there, we walked all the way back to my place around halftime. My dad's 84....not an easy walk at all. We were freezing, got the fireplace lit, and watched the 2nd half in a dark room with the fireplace roaring. And then it happened when all hope was lost...the play of the decade.

The Miami Miracle may have been the best day of my life as a Dolphins fan for so many reasons....and it amazes me that some "fans" here would say the win didn't matter. It would have mattered to me without the story to go along with it, and it will matter to the team this coming season when we face NE and try to keep our home winning streak alive against them. It's the absolute best story in sports, the David vs Goliath redemption, and how we keep beating the top dynasty in modern football on our home turf.

The losses that followed show that that victory was even more improbable- we never should have scored those first 28 points to be in that position in the first place. It was a great team win though and deserves to be honored by ESPN.

 

I’m rooting for a Super Bowl victory, not regular season wins.

 

That wasn't a miracle. That was a scene that happens every year.
It was a nice moment but even now it is mostly forgotten.

 

Its baffling how some of you dont realize the context of the play is entirely irrelevant and not what the vote is about.

It's a style points vote. It's how cool was that play in the moment.

 

It’s hard to make the super bowl if you go 0-16

 

Yayyyyyyy

 

You don't get to the Super Bowl without regular season wins....and you don't get very far in the playoffs without beating New England.

 

Yes thank you for 1st grade logic Key, point is when you proceed to sh## yourselves as a team right after and don’t make the playoffs then the victory is just temporary pleasure, means nothing in the big picture of a franchise that hasn’t won a championship in almost 50 years..

 

No, the real point is that most fans here enjoy any win and you want to sh## all over them for it. Disagree if you want....but there's no reason to be attacking people for the Fins beating the Pats.

 

“Phins up, but it was for me an empty meaningless memory.”

That’s called a personal opinion.. didn’t attack anyone..

 

The play doesn't have to have some spectacular meaning to you. It doesn't "mean" anything to me, but it was a hell of a cool play out of context of the season.

 

Yup, what a great play

 

I want a Superbowl too of course, I'll trade the damn play any day for that...but it can't be done. So I'll just appreciate it as is.

 

When you vote go thru and vote for all the lower seeds in the other brackets. See if we can eliminate the stronger competition early

 

We all appreciate the play in the moment, there’s lot of great plays in the game of football, but when the same team tanks it after then it’s left to what it was, a meaningless great play..

that scenario, you know the one where the team tanked and the staff got fired doesn’t make me all sentimental and appreciative like some, happy for you all if it does, rock on man.

 

You hated Gase you should be the happiest person the team tanked no?

 

Sure for good reason, but that has nothing to do with the context of this.which is ridiculous.

 

Man, some of y'all must be great at parties

 

Its entirely in context of your view point.

You as well as others I dont mean to single you out are ragging on the play because of the impact it had on either you or the season afterwards.

My point is that by your standards the end result of the play, if you believe it ruined the season, should be a positive and not a negative.

If we make the playoffs or win our last two games I guarantee you Gase is still here. That would be a much worse long term effect in your eyes than losing a couple games right?

 

Wrong Alex I’m not ragging in the play..I’m saying it doesn’t mean anything to me because of what happened after the play, the team showed it’s azz, and that doesn’t make me proud, so what is left, being proud of my team for making a play? Please, Ive never witnessed a championship in my life, I’ve got bigger things on my mind than showering my team with praise for making a play..they don’t deserve the praise after how they played after.

 

1) The Miami Miracle. I gave the reasons above.

2) The 1st Wildcat game against NE- take your pick which play. Beating NE always ranks high on my list and we slaughtered them that day.

3) Marino's fake spike/TD throw. It just always felt special.

4) Take your pick of Jason Taylor's strip sack TD's or pick 6's. Maybe the game winner against Minne?

5) The first game in Joe Robbie Stadium. It was against the Bears and we ran the opening kickoff back for a TD. I was there as a teen and that one always felt pretty special.

 

The Miami Miracle doesn't come anywhere close to top 5 all time in Dolphins history IMO because for me historical significance matters. So many great (and historically important) Miami plays that people just don't remember. Here's a nice refresher:

As for my favorite it starts at 3:29 in that video: Marino throwing a pass that was batted away and through luck landed in Clayton's arms for a TD against the previously undefeated Bears on Monday Night Football week 13 (I remember watching this).

The reason? Simple: the historical significance of that game is hard to overstate because without a Dolphins win the Bears go undefeated and everyone will say the '85 Bears are the greatest NFL team ever (for a single season). As it stands right now, depending on who you ask they'll either say it's the '72 Dolphins or '85 Bears, but only the '72 Dolphins hold the distinction of having a perfect season in both regular season and playoffs in ALL of NFL history since 1920!!!