Viejo Dinosaur
EOG Master
As he should....Pitt goes down.....
The Dolphins were a great team....I have seen better Steeler teams in the past....
The Dolphins were a great team....I have seen better Steeler teams in the past....
Somewhere Larry Csonka is Celebrating....
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winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
NOT THAT ONE!
I think they only beat 2 teams with winning records all Reg Season. A team that accomplished something no one has done since - and might never do
But when ranking all-time top teams I can't put them #1 or Top 5 and struggle for Top 10
Spot-on, Winky.
The undefeated Dolphins were only a one-point favorite over the Redskins in Super Bowl VII.
Final score: Dolphins 14 Redskins 7.
Would you believe the over/under was only 33?
The year was 1973.
isn't that 14 games ? they were good the dolphins but hard to stay on top for a long time.
Viejo Dinosaur
EOG Master
The 85 Bears would have mopped the floor with those Dolphins....or any other team.....
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
I have the box set of the Bears 85 season on DVD. The game is so different now compared to 1985. Wilbur Marshall was a freak athlete, now teams starting LB's are all like him. Gone are the run stuffers like Singletary.
Always thought their champagne ceremony looked childish
FW don't you think the rules changed to help the offense? i don' t like it... bring back dorsett & payton
Almost Allright
GO Bucks!!!
73 team far better IMO. But undefeated is undefeated so the corks were popping. That ritual seems to say well this was cool when we started it but by now it’s old for everyone
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
Sure it did, that’s why you need LB’s that can cover receivers now. The days of Butkus, Singletary, and Zach Thomas are gone.
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
And the youngest living player off that team is 70. We lost two this year - Buoniconti and Jake Scott.
And ironically the '85 Bears' only loss was a Monday Nighter in Miami.
The most-watched game in Monday Night Football history.
Miami's strength (Marino) was Chicago's weakness (cornerbacks).
One other note: Did the Dolphins subconsciously lose to the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game that season, thus avoiding a rematch with the Bears in the big game?
Hmmm...
Miami was a 5.5-point home favorite over New England and lost 31-14.
The Dolphins threw the game away with six turnovers.
At the time, the Patriots had lost 18 straight games in the Orange Bowl.
And, of course, everyone knows what happened in Super Bowl XX: 46-10, Bears.
kane
EOG master
Not the '85 Dolphins
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
In all sports - all towards less contact by the defense
NFL: Da Bears and teams of that era roughed up receivers all the time and got away with it. Now they would never be able to do all they did
NHL: It used to be unless you took your stick and wrapped it around a player's neck you never got a penalty in 3P or OT. The NJ Satans won multiple cups playing "Left Wing Lock" - a style that couldn't happen today
NBA: One of the great debates is how would the Warriors have done against Jordan's Bulls, Bird's Celtics, Magic's Lakers or the Bad Boy Pistons. Tell me what rules we are playing under? If the rules of the 80s where you could hand check all the time and play was physical the Warriors probably get swept. Now - not so sure. I was at the 1984 Lakers/Celtics Finals when McHale flattened Rambis. McHale JUST got an ordinary foul on the play, Now: He gets tossed and suspended for the rest of the series. If Jordan played today with no contact he might average 50+
So any debate about how teams 20-30+ years apart from each other would do if they played can't be judged unless we know what rules we are playing with.
Patrick McIrish
OCCams raZOR
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Unreal the Dolphins in one year had three 1000 yard rushers, we'll never see that again.
Morris was a yard short, had 999, they reviewed film until they could find him a yard, LOL.
Unreal the Dolphins in one year had three 1000 yard rushers, we'll never see that again.
Morris was a yard short, had 999, they reviewed film until they could find him a yard, LOL.
mrbowling300
EOG Dedicated
In the spirit of the Dolphins toasting when a team loses for the first time of the season, me and my buddies used to joke after the 2008 Lions 0-16 season, that somewhere HC Rod Marinelli and his OC, Jim Colletto were popping the bubbly whenever a winless team won their first game of the season to preserve their dubious record. Of course, that was short lived when the 2017 Browns were winless.
Patrick McIrish
OCCams raZOR
Um......the Bucs lost 26 in a row covering 2 seasons.
They already had a "perfect" season and almost a 2nd one.
Come on now, when it comes to complete incompetence let's not sell the Bucs short.
They already had a "perfect" season and almost a 2nd one.
Come on now, when it comes to complete incompetence let's not sell the Bucs short.
kane
EOG master
Um......the Bucs lost 26 in a row covering 2 seasons.
They already had a "perfect" season and almost a 2nd one.
Come on now, when it comes to complete incompetence let's not sell the Bucs short.
John McVay was the coach of those horrible Buccs teams, a reporter once asked him about the execution of his offense, he responded "I'm all for it"
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
Detroit really got jobbed in the game at Minn. Refs stole that game for Minn.
mrbowling300
EOG Dedicated
The Dan Orlovaky safety, lol
Patrick McIrish
OCCams raZOR
LOL. Yeah, he had hundreds of those, if not thousands. Seems like every day he was coming up with a doozy.
Good memory!
PS - not sure if that's a typo or not but it's McKay, John McKay, not McVay.
His son of course went on to become our SB winning GM here in Tampa........
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
I was in a Survivor Pool that year and practically everyone had Minny. Not me. Had the Lions won the game - and as you stated they should have - my Survivor Pool would have ahd about 5 people left and I know many others were the same way