This past week, I asked about your fandom of the team.
What are your best and worst moments as a Miami Dolphins fan? This can be a game, a season, or just a single play that you experienced as a fan, or any other memories that you have that are tied to the team and your fandom.
Below are some of your thoughts and answers-
holland182.0 believes the worst days are behind us and our best have yet to come.
Worst – “With the 5th pick the Miami Dolphins select . . . . .”
Best – When the Miami Dolphins won the 2057
Super Bowl
finfanfromsiam seems to be missing Grier.
Losing to the Chargers in OT!! Chris Grier!! Best the Perfect Season!!
MIAMI235 wanted the damn record.
This will sound petty.
Not attempting a FG at the end of the Denver game, after scoring 70.
( then having to listen to the Bozo HC, talk about Karma! Worst)
Recent Best….Miracle in Miami!
toscana-jones remembers Gronk stubling that day.
I’m a realtively recent fan, I didn’t get to enjoy the undefeated glory years…
However, these are my best and worst moments:
Worst: Monday night defeat against an otherwise inept Titans team, after leading by 14pts with less than 3 minutes to go. If the Phins had won that game, they would have secured the division title and a home playoff game…
Best: Gronkowsky not having the angle in the Miami Miracle.
Phoenix6 remebers the same game that I remeber staying up to watch as a teen.
What are your best and worst moments as a Miami Dolphins fan?
1985, December 2nd. Monday Night Football.
Bears were undefeated (12 – 0) coming in to the Orange Bowl.
They had Jim McMahon (from BYU) as QB in the 2nd half (regular QB Steve Fuller was injured) & a vaunted defense that smashed mouths.
RB Walther Payton had another 100yd game too.
Miami built a commanding 31-10 halftime lead, with Dan Marino passing for 270 yards & three touchdowns. Beating da Bears 38-24 in the final score.
Members of the ’72 undefeated Dolphins 🐬 team were on the sidelines, giving extra motivation to Miami in protecting their legacy!
JUK is still bitter about how last season began as well as Marino’s final game. Me too!
Fan since 85, the moments that immediately spring to mind are:
Good
Beating the bears in 85
Fake spike
Marino’s comeback game against the pats
Lamar smiths 200 yard game
The wildcat game against the pats
The miracle in miami
Putting 70 on Denver
Bad
Jacksonville 62-7
The afc title blowout loss at home in 92 season. We’d blown out the bills in buffalo and we’re coming off a 31-0 win in the division round
Cam cameron
Recency bias but the season opener last year
Miami7 really did not like Wayne.
Best: Watching the undefeated team finish out perfectly in 72′
Worst: THE DAY Wayne Huizenga purchased the Miami Dolphins – subsequently dismissing Coach Shula, who was ready to step down but;
A) should have had input on his successor….he preferred Marty Schottenheimer
B) should have – at the very least – been given a role in the FO to maintain INTEGRITY within the organization HE BUILT to be the most respected in all of professional sports
NeenerWhacker misses Ronnie thowing passes to Ricky.
Worst moment: my first in-person Dolphin game was Marino vs the Jags playoffs in 2000.
Best Moment: Wildcat Ronnie Brown? Very few to choose from
Dolfanjoe remembers the one win that year. I will never forget how excited Jason Taylor was that day.
In 2007 Miami won one game ! 1 – 15 a GREAT SEASON ! Went to the game live only one time that year. Expecting a loss and somehow they came out with a last minute miracle win. Just a great feeling knowing we would not be undefeated for the year ! Cleo Lemon pass to Greg Cammarillo in overtime defeating the Ravens. Surrounded by Raven fans in the crowd and all of us were in shock ! No one knew what to say, but it was wow i guess on any given Sunday !
Phin is the Word prefers to not remember the wost moments.
My best and worst have already been named but I’ll add them again just to keep score.
Best: That Super Bowl win against Washington to cap The Undefeated Season. It would have been terrible to have won every game, then lose the big one. I mean… how could a team look itself in the mirror… face its fans… be forever etched in history as having lost the game that counts? No one would remember all those wins… all for nothing. Yes, to go undefeated was a total team effort with unselfish players on both sides of the ball, the greatest coach in the NFL, overcoming in-game adversity like a botched field goal attempt and a spectacular one-handed helmet-assisted catch (oh wait… not that one) which could have turned the tide in a closely contested game. Come right down to it, history only remembers *that* winner forever because otherwise you would have been a pretending wannabe that should’a but just couldn’t close the deal to be the best. (Runner-up was the win against the undefeated Bears on Monday night – a team that went on to close the Super Bowl deal despite that one loss. 2nd and 3rd place go to winning the “Longest Game” against KC and the Marino fake-spike Jets game).
Worst: Madden and Stabler led Raiders winning that “Sea of Hands” game in 1974 that stopped the Dolphins from going to another Super Bowl. Don’t even want to go there really. (Runner up was the 1983 Super Bowl Riggins Run that denied Dan, and the San Diego shootout loss with Fouts. Don’t wanna think about any of them either).
jffawtsn79 has at least one hand that he should not eat with.
Realizing Dan Marino was standing right next to me at the Cleveland Hilton cocktail lounge the night before the game. My father in law and I went up to the bar to order drinks for our table and I noticed someone to my right that was also trying to get the bartender’s attention. It was Dan the Man! I got to shake his hand and thank him before he got mobbed by another couple trying to get 20 different items autographed. I will never wash that hand. 😂
PA phinphan has a best and worst moment, both against the same team.
Worst: John Riggins running for that TD on 4 and 1. Miami wins that Super Bowl if they stop him. 😭
Best: Overcoming the worst throw ever of a football by Garo.
The irony that Washington was involved in both.
twinssdfan was happy to see us hand the Bears their only loss that season.
Beating the Bears on National TV to at least give them one loss.
Worst Game
Playoff game against the San Diego Chargers all that effort to lose by a field goal.
Tony Nathan’s and the hook and lateral was awesome.
madcitydave is right, we had zero business losing to the Titans.
Obviously the best was winning the Super Bowl in the undefeated season. The worst was losing to Kellen Winslow and Dan Fouts Chargers after the hook and ladder play.
More recently I would say the…
Best. Ronnie Brown and the Wildcat running ruff shot over the Patsies.
Worst. Losing to the Titans.
TheRoo1 loved seeing the 72 team celebrate a win in 85.
Worst,,, Their SB loss in 1983. To the team I hate most, but am not allowed to name.
Best,,, 1985 Boars game
Watching the perfect team celebrating
Phinkle still has the VHS tape of the game. I likewise have a tape of this game despite not having owned an actual VCR in so long I can’t remember.
Best: the MNF Bears game in ’85. I still have a grainy VCR of that game…..
Well thats our list of comments for this evening. There’s a lot of nostalgia in that list for me, but good and bad. Some of those moments still seem so vivid despite many of them happening so long ago that I was still a kid. That Bears game is still an all time high for me as a kid. As always thank you to each of you who took the time to join in and answer our Phinsider Question Of The Day.
