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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
A reminder as the NFL Draft approaches... 36 years and counting for a 3rd Super Bowl Trophy. Answer: C.J. Spiller
36 years and counting for a 3rd Super Bowl Trophy...
"It's why you play the game!" Vince Lombardi Championship Trophies from Dolphin victories in Super Bowl VII and VIII. April 2007 photo by Mario J. Bermudez taken at Miami Dolphins Headquarters, Davie, Florida
Green Bay Coach Vince Lombardi; December 21, 1962 Seven years later to the date of this cover, Lombardi coached his last game, a losing effort for the Redskins. Nine months later he'd be dead of intestinal cancer at age 57. The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University is named for him. See http://lombardi.georgetown.edu/ It's located near the French and German Embassies on Reservoir Road.
Zonk! Miami Massacres Minnesota
Larry Csonka, January 21, 1974
Miami All The Way
Bob Griese, January 22, 1973 1972 Miami Dolphins team photo at The Orange Bowl
The same color photo of the 17-0 Undefeated Team that for six years, rested in a frame on top of my bedroom dresser at my home in North Miami Beach. There it stayed 'till that fateful day in August of 1979, when I began packing for my new life in Bloomington. The photo made the trip to Bloomington intact, where it remained on my desk in Briscoe Quad 427-A for two very eventful years at IU, the latter. 1980-'81 being the year we beat North Carolina for the NCAA title. I placed the photo right below my 8' x 11' b&w glossy of the Miami Herald's All-County Gymnastics team that I got from the Herald Sports Dept. That was a tremendously talented team that featured many friends of mine from all over Dade County -like the late Dee Leutner of Hialeah Miami Lakes, my charming, sweet friend and future Georgia GymDog, who sat next to me when we took the SATs in the NMB cafeteria, and smiled at me and said "Good luck" right before we opened the test- as well as my own talented friends and classmates at North Miami Beach High, like Lisa Martin, Karen Ginsberg and Linda Zobler -the best of the best.
Last year, it was a Hoosier who led the way to the Lombardi Trophy...
Above, former IU Hoosier and Saints 2008 Number Two Draft Pick Tracy Porter makes the play of the game and intercepts Peyton Manning and scores a TD against the Colts during Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, leading the Saints to their first Super Bowl 31-17, Feb. 7, 2010.
With the 11th pick in this year's Draft, if he's still available, as Charley Casserly expects him to be as of late Wedesday night,the Dolphins should take dynamic Clemson RB C.J. Spiller,the single-most exciting player I've seen in years and whoconsistently made big plays when big plays needed to bemade. Almost single-handedly last year, Spiller defeated the Hurricanes in a way that showed how woebegone the Miamidefense and special teams had become, as he seemingly toyed with them time and again.
If he has already been selected, they should select a player who most approaches Bears Hall of Famer Mike Singletary, a player who had zeal, smarts and intuition, and who plays all-out on every play and won't tolerate slacking in his teammates. That would likely be TexasLBSergio Kindle. The lack of mental and physical toughness in the Dolphins defense the past ten years has been one of the most galling aspects of their decline into mediocrity for longtime Dolphin fans like me, who have lived long enough to know what a solid defense actually looks like. It's NOT what we have now.
Their inability to consistently pass rush, tackle and field opportunistic ball-hawks just leaves you dumbfounded at times. It's nice to beat the Patriots once a year, but one good game does not a season make.
With their second round pick, if he's available -andSpiller has gone elsewhere- the Dolphins ought to select Stanford RB and HeismanTrophy runner-up Toby Gerhart before the Patriots snap him up.
At New England, Gerhart would become the latest Dolphin-killer as he becomes the player who always leads the Patriots to late-game victories, year-after-year, with his versatility: powerful goal-line plunges, scampers down the sidelines on draw plays, or swing passes where he -shocker!- beats Dolphins' LBs, and you're screaming at your TV even before he scores a TD to kill the Dolphins once again. Made worse because we could've taken him.
I suppose it's worth reminding you here given recent news that I've never been a Jason Taylor fan, and wanted him gone years ago when he could still demand something in a trade.
I remind you how lacking he was in leadership at the very end of Cam Cameron's painful one and only year as head coach, when some leadership was needed and yet from most accounts, Taylor sat by and did nothing when defensive teammates cursed-out coaches on plane flights, including Cameron, and played out-of-control during games, as if they didn't know their assignments. Or simply didn't care anymore.
His coddled status irked me to no end and probably did him no favors with Bill Parcells, either.
But what really irked me about him was the clueless rhetoric down here on sports talk radio about him and Canton, as real NFL fans around the country who know their history know that Taylor was simply not as good or dominant as former Bears great Richard Dent, a Super Bowl MVP, who twenty years later, unbelievably, is still NOT in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, even though he should've gotten in MANY years ago.
If a dominant player of his era like Dent, who dominated good-to-great offensive teams like the 49ers, Redskins and Giants is STILL not in all these years later, JasonTaylor ought to make himself comfortable, as he's in for a very, very long wait -IF he ever gets in, which I think is unlikely.
South Beach Hoosier Trivia: My first Dolphin game at the Orange Bowl came in December of 1970, aged 9, a 45-3 win over Buffalo that propelled them into their first ever playoff appearance.
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