Well, the Super Bowl has come and gone. For New Yorkers, it was a GREAT one. For New Englanders, not so great. I will say this, however, I am proud to be a Patriots fan today. In my eyes, what happened yesterday does not take away from the amazing season that they put forth for us to be a part of and to experience. With that said, I would like to talk about the 1972 Dolphins. I know there's a lot of other stuff to get to like the crappy commercials, the boring Tom Petty performance, and the game itself, but I choose the '72 Dolphins today.
Being born in 1975, I didn't have the pleasure of seeing the '72 Dolphins in action so all I have to judge them on, outside of their record, is how they act today. Does anyone else think that the '72 Dolphins are a lot like the old guy at the bar trolling for younger women and desperately trying to hold on to his younger years because he knows his best years are behind him? Or maybe a better example would be to think of them as the 25 year old who still hangs out at high school parties wearing his Varsity jacket trying to remain relevant for something he may have done well years ago? Either way, it just seems sad to me. I'm not saying that they shouldn't be proud of their accomplishment, because they should. But do they really have to be so childish about it? Great athletes tend to let their accomplishments stand on their own, unlike Mercury Morris and his friends. If you have to tell people how great you were, could you have really been that great?
Did anyone see Troy Aikman, Terry Bradshaw or Joe Montana trying to prove that their teams were better than the Patriots this year? No, you didn't, because they let their achievements stand on their own. Will another team ever make a run at perfection like the Patriots did this year? I don't know. Thanks to the 72' Dolphins, though, I do know this: Apparently you can be perfect and still have no class.
On another sad note, it seems as if a lot of Dolphins fans are much more interested in the fact that they had a great team 36 years ago than they are with the fact that they have a terrible team today. Check out this article. It's enough to make you want to puke. I love the part about Don Shula never running up the score that comes immediately after the point he makes about the Dolphins beating the Patriots 52-0.
It's kind of funny, while the Dolphins were winless this year I kept hoping that they would find a way to win just one game to keep them from the embarrasment that would have been attached to that record. Right about now, after listening to some of the 72' Dolphins players and their current fans, I can't believe I rooted for them to win. In hind sight, if they had gone winless, I don't think there is any other franchise that would have been so deserving of that 0-16 season as the Dolphins. I wonder what Mercury Morris would have said about that?
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