Don't remember an exact moment...but, growing up in NH, my family wasn't really into football. So, sometime in the early 90s, I started watching, and LOVED seeing Marino. We didn't have cable, so I pretty much only got to see him on Monday night sometimes, or when they played the Pats twice a year. Then my battles with ignorant Patriots fans began, and I've been a Dolphins fan ever since.

 

Originally from NH myself, grew up a Red Sox and Celtics fan, but never caught the Patriots "bug." Became a Dolphins fan in 1976 because my best friend introduced me to them and dolphins were "so cool." Not sure my father (original Patriots fan, if you can believe it) has ever forgiven me!

Been stuck ever since.

 

Something I just grew into. I think Dan Marino was the first pro athlete I ever knew of by name.

 

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When we drafted Dan Marino. I watched him since he was at Pitt destroying WVU for years, and I was thinking "Holy Cow!"...I've never seen anyone throw like that. Just would have been nice to see him get a Super Bowl ring. If anybody deserved one it was Dan Marino. He left his heart and soul on the field ever single Sunday, and always gave it everything he had. He is absolutely the GOAT.

EDIT: I wouldn't trade all of those years of watching his amazing play week in and week out for one Super Bowl ring. NEVER

 

Zach Thomas Pick-6 vs Tennessee early in the 2001 season. That was supposed to be a really good Titans offense too.

 

When I was growing up, rarely were the Dolphins ever shown on TV. In the deep South they didn't carry them hardly ever. The Saints and Falcons sucked. Everyone else was a damned Cowboys fan. In the 70's the AFC teams of note were the Steelers, Raiders, and Dolphins.

I never liked the cowboys and admired the passing game of the Steelers and Raiders back in the day with Bradshaw and Stabler. Miami was just so damned different and I loved the colors and mystique that followed them and the way announcers spoke with admiration of Shula and his teams. I was a semi-casual fan until the first time I saw Marino on MNF in 84, then I was hooked for real. Danny Magic was just that - magical to watch. They were playing the Bills on MNF. He threw for like 300 yards and 3TDs with an INT. He also "rushed" 6 times for -11 yards. lol...

I also can remember watching the MNF game on TV when I was 16 where Danny destroyed Buddy Ryan's vaulted 46 defense and watching Ditka and Ryan screaming at each other on the sidelines... that's where my fandom really ratcheted up as I had had friends and family telling me that the Bears were going undefeated and would kick the Dolphin's asses. lol... I couldn't wait to get back to school that next day.

 

Nice to see you again.

My since moment was the '85 Bears game on MNF. I grew up a NY Giants fan in Connecticut. My 1st job after college was in Riviera Beach and a client invited me to the game. It was my most exciting live sports event since Bruno Sammartino's last match in Boston Garden.

 

When Daddy dropped the load....BOOM!

 

I like this thread. I'm tired of arguing now.

 

1982 super-bowl cemented it for me. Growing up in Western New York, I never could see what the people there saw in the Bills and I think I naturally gravitated to the team that ended up winning 20 games in a row against the Bills at one point. The Miami Dolphins were probably single handily the team that prevented OJ Simpson from having any type of post season success in his entire career. I was a fan before the super-bowl, but I remember the excitement from the game and we lead into the 4th quarter, if I remember correctly. Riggins killed us running the ball and we ended up loosing but I was forever a fan from then until now.

 

No. You're not.

:shifty:

 

Back in the mid to late 90's. I mostly remembering hating SNF/MNF because I was pretty young and my parents had given me a bedtime. During those games I had a walkman with the AM/FM radio dial and secretly listen to the games all night until they were over. Trying to keep quiet when we scored. lol

 

I had always been a casual fan of home teams growing up in south Florida(born in 82), but didn't start following the Dolphins and getting emotionally invested till around the 2001 season. I've seen Marino play before at the stadium, but was too young to really appreciate it. My uncles had taken me and my brother to games once in a while and they grew up in the seventies, so they are always about the Dolphins. But unfortunately my fandom came alive after Marino and Shula were gone, and I have faithfully followed the team ever since then. I've sat through some ****, not that I feel entitled, but I think better times are ahead sooner rather than later. I will always follow them, even if they somehow get worse God forbid, but I am excited for the new direction and even though there is always hype before the season, I think this year or next we break out of the 500 slump and back to relevancy. Go Fins!

 

LOL. I really am. That's why I bumped a couple of old threads that are non-conflictive in the "Lounge" because all we seem to do now is argue. I'm genuinely sick of it. It's not fun anymore to me. This has been a rough offseason.

 

When Don Shula and I both moved to Miami in 1970.

 

Maybe it's a bit lame, but I just like dolphins (the animals.. though it has to be one of the better looking species of dolphin like a common dolphin or a bottlenose dolphin - under no circumstances a river dolphin because they tend to look a bit ugly). Change the name and I'm no longer a fan.

.. oh the colors help too, especially the aqua + white.

 

One of my first erections as a young man was watching Pete Stoyanivich beat the Chiefs in the playoffs.

 

Well I was born in '92 so I haven't seen much of anything good but I heard about the legend of Shula, Csonka, the No Name Defense, the perfect season and Dan Marino, plus I'm from Miami, so yeah.

 

And then you went limp when he missed that 48 yard FG in the playoffs against the Chargers.

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You mean the game we squandered with a 21-3 halftime lead? That one? Didn't score a single point in the 2nd half and lost 24-21?

At least that's how it's cemented in my mind...could be off on the details, but that was my 3rd most crushing loss in Dolphins history (Niners SB, snow plow 1 and 2).

But that's what it is to be a fan...you live through that kinda sh*t and keep on chargin'...been that way as LONG as I can remember. I can't peg exactly when it was, but it was probably during the 74 or 75 season where I really became a fan. My cousin and brother are 18 months younger than me, and we ALL 3 loved the Dolphins...and grew up in Northern California! Nobody else in my family can even stand seeing the Dolphins, but I've started a whole new generation of Dolphin fans with my kids...they didn't want to be fostered, so they made the right choice.

 

You DO remember that the Chargers INTENTIONALLY cut off the electricity in our locker room at halftime so we couldn't make adjustments. Right??

Let's ask Don Shula how he feels about that game. (He's still PISSED)

 

For me it was the game against the Jets and the infamous fake spike. I was watching it live on tv. I think I was 10 or 11 and I instantly fell in love with Marino and Shula.

 

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Guess I'll be showing my age here...

I was 7 years old, we were living with my grandparents at the time and had just moved back to Jacksonville Beach from Long Beach CA when my grandfather was transferred to Mayport Naval Station. Ever Sunday my grandpa and I would turn on the tv to watch football and every Sunday the Miami Dolphins were on tv. I remember being so enthusiastic at the team, "grandpa look....dolphins!" My grandfather, being a die hard Raiders fan replied with his slow, raspy deep voice, "ehhhhh, that's a bunch of bullshhhhhhhhhhit" I didn't care. I was 7 years old, their colors appealed to me and they were dolphins!

Well, the joke ended up being on my grandpa. Every Sunday the Dolphins played and every Sunday the Dolphins won...my first year watching football was the undefeated season of '72 and I've been hooked ever since!

 

We moved to South Florida in 1961. Since I was born in Maryland, I was a Baltimore Colts fan early on, but once Joe Robbie decided to bring an AFL team to Miami, it was easy to become a Dolphin fan.

I was at the very first game the Dolphins ever played and I saw Joe Auer return the first kickoff in team history for a TD. While they eventually lost the game, I left the stadium that day a full fledged Dolphin fan and have remained one ever since.

 

Wasn't that the same game Natrone Means stepped out at the 6 and they called it a TD in a crucial spot?? We were hosed.

 

Yes Sir.

 

I was born in Miami and grew up in South Fl, so it's in my blood. I remember bits and pieces of the highlight years in the 70s,
remember my parents screaming their lungs out on that marathon Chiefs playoff game, think I was 4-5. My most notable moment
was that big A.J. Duhe int for a TD in that muddy AFC Championship game against our hated rivals at the OB. I was like 16 at that
time, and I really felt the fire of being a real fan that day.

 

No you're not.

 

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Growing up in the 90s, watching the dynamic duo in Marino and Shula. The days when the Dolphins were a respected team and you felt that every year we had a shot at winning the SB. I remember bits and pieces of the 92 season when I was 6 and watching Marino on tv and getting excited, hoping we'd win it all. My whole family was made up of Dolphins fans (as well as other Florida teams) so I naturally gravitated that way. I really didn't become a big football fan til the 97-98 season when I grew up more and paid attention. My first Dolphins game was in 98 against the Steelers and I remember Marino having an awesome game that day. Watching it all in person sold me, and from then I was rabid fan. I would be all giddy and cocky when we'd win or become a total d*&# when we lost. I'd get seriously emotional and flip out. As times changed and the Dolphins began making lots of questionable moves or just having a run on bad luck, I stopped being so emotionally invested. But I'm still a die hard fan, still hate our rivals, still try to watch them as much as possible. It's just not like how it used to be. But there's always hope we'll turn it around, year after year after year....

 

Grew up in England (olde England, not that other place with that unmentionable franchise). Somewhere in the very late 80's or maybe early 90's, as a young boy, I caught American Football late at night on TV. It was so different to the sports popular in the UK. Loved the logos, the uniforms, the 'armour', the whole different sport. As I watched various game somehow I just came to settle on the Dolphins. Maybe it was the logo, the colours, the sunshine, I really can't remember, but I just attached myself to the Phins.

A while later I'd stopped watching football and had lost track of it all, for years. Eventually I moved to the USA (Arizona). I'd been following the NBA more than anything (Go Spurs!). Eventually a friend of mine, who's a die-hard Cowboys fan, got me interested in football again, and as I came back to the sport, I looked at the various franchises to follow but despite contemplating a good few of them, in the end I still felt that attachment to the Fins and it was unshakeable. So here I am. A Fins fan for life it seems.

Incidentally, after coming back to Football years ago, it was only about 4 years ago that I started following it properly, right before Tannehill signed.

 

Conception.

 

That's awesome tdk

 

Born into it. Put it another away, some parents want to name their kids after themselves. My dad named me after Marino (Daniel).

 

after Irsay stole away into the night with the franchise & Miami hired Don Shula...