The Miami Dolphins are one of the NFL's 32 football teams. The Miami Dolphins have a very storied past and are one of the NFL's up and coming teams right now. The Miami Dolphins have many great accomplishments as an organization and also look to add to their history in the near future.
The Miami Dolphins are a very proud organization. Just 4 years after they entered the league in 1968, the Dolphins were in their first Superbowl. In the 1971 season, the Miami Dolphins went to the Super Bowl and lost to the Dallas Cowboys. The very next year they would do something no other team in NFL history has ever done, go undefeated. Through a very difficult schedule they made their way to the Super Bowl a second time, with no losses on their resume. Somehow the Dolphins were still not favored. The Dolphin's won and the 1972 season went down in history. The team repeated as Super Bowl champions in the fantastic 1973 season.
The Dolphins would go to the Super Bowl only 1 other time from that time up until the present but they are working hard to go back. Throughout the 1990's, the Dolphins were favorites many seasons in a row to win the Super Bowl. They had a powerful offense led by Dan Marino and a decent defense with John Offedale, Brian Cox and several others. Their efforts fell short year after year and the Dolphins' fans were continually left with nothing but a feeling of disappointment.
In 2004, the proud Miami Dolphins organization known for making the playoffs on a continuous basis faced something quite unusual to them. A losing season. The Dolphins went 4-12 and had their first losing season in a great number of years. It would not be the first, as they would face 3 more losing seasons before they finally came back to prominence and respectability.
Now, in 2010, the Miami Dolphins are back on track. They have found a quarterback, not quite as good as Dan Marino, but he should get the job done. They also have a great running back in Ronnie Brown and a fantastic Left Tackle in Jake Long. The rest of the offensive line is also very good as the Dolphins now boast one of the best Offensive lines in the NFL thanks to former offensive line coach Tony Sparano, who is now the Dolphins current head coach.
Sparano is a member of the Bill Parcells coaching tree. While Parcells coaches have proven to be very powerful throughout the league, Tony has proven no different. This past season, Parcells' disciple Sean Payton won a Super Bowl. Many people expect the same thing from Tony Sparano within the next few season.
This expectation seems quite irrational, but every team should expect to be competing for a Super Bowl just about every year. To expect less would be to be a bad fan. The Miami Dolphins have plenty of fans who believe they can be one of the league's best teams.
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