How many times are you going to comment on the way he cheers? In fact, I care what he and other real fans do at the games. I don't live in Florida anymore so I always want to hear how the stadium is nowadays. If you don't like his posts, don't read them and sure as hell don't comment on them back-to-back, repeating yourself with not even a reply from the guy.
Again - I am not saying that older fans don't root and root hard. I'm just saying there are 79,000 other fans in the stadium and in my experience, they used to be filled with a lot more younger and intense fans, as opposed to corporate give away tickets.
As many times as he keeps bringing it up, how he is such a superior fan. I hate people like that. Always self-agrandizing. Its so obvious why he started this thread. He is an
I don't see it like that. I see this thread as being something he started because he is fed up with the way Dolphans don't support their team. He pointed out an example when he was at the game.
As far as a live experience goes, give me baseball over football any day of the week. Great atmosphere and you don't have to cut into your savings to afford good seats. I've only been to one Dolphins game [and it was in Atlanta] but to me it wasn't much better than watching at home or in a bar. The home crowd was nice enough and the Georgia Dome is actually a fairly intimate stadium but something was missing. Hopefully I'll get a chance to go to Miami for a home game one of these days and it will change my mind.
Wow. You're a real cynical jerk. You really think you put me in my place with your cute little .gifs. Maybe you'll find another cute little way to insult me. Gee, I bet you'll find that really fun. Maybe someone will "thank" you or give you a virtual high-five. If a superfan stands up and yells DEE-FENSE, then I'm a superfan. And if a self-aggrandizer starts a thread about how some jerk told him to sit down, then I guess that's me.
You can also be Mr. Superfan without having to yell it off a mountain top (or start a thread on a message board), and cluttering up our board with your drivel about someone who was a big ol' meany to you at the game yesterday. Yes I am cynical and probably will be p*ssed off for a while because of the Dolphins and having to listen to Pats and Jets fans in my office make fun of our team just about everyday.
Hey Gardenhead, buy me a plane ticket and and game ticket and I'll stand and cheer with you the whole game! Deal? I'd rock out with my junk out if I ever saw a game in Miami.
Dude, I have been saying the same thing since Dan Marino was the QB and it has gotten a lot worse since then. For some reason the majority of local Miami Dolphins fans are fair-weather fans. I have no idea why our fans are like this, but it is most definately true. I even got into an arguement with some of the local fans on here not too long ago, and said some things in the heat of the moment that I wish I could take back. Look at the Chiefs fans who aren't even one of the top teams...EVER. Those are REAL local fans that support their team no matter what their record is. Have you all ever watched a Chiefs home game? That stadium is pure Rock-N-Roll at ANY home game. Every time I watch a KC home game I dream that our fans were half that energized. And for those of you that don't think cheering your team or booing and yelling at the opponents so loud that they can't make an audible makes a difference, then you are obviously stupid. Look how hard it is to play on the road at Green Bay, KC, SteAlers, Philly (even though their fans are scumbags), Saints, etc. And...BOOING your own team???...PATHETIC Fans DO make a difference, if they are loud enough...
When the opponents are on offense you stand, scream, jump up and down. It's called being the 12th man!! I held season tickets for over 35 seasons and the worst part of the stadium is being on the sidelines. People are always running to the ushers to have people sit down. That's why I moved to the endzones. People get it and especially between sections 126-130...
Not every team is like the chiefs, broncos, packers..... Miami fans are in the middle of the pack when it comes to fair weather
You do know that Miami invented the decimal meter being used by the NFL right? When the team is very very good, these fans can be the best.
It’s not even that Miami fans are fairweather. It’s that the population of Miami comes from all over the country and outside the country. You’ve got a lot of people who either don’t care about the Dolphins or aren’t “trained” as fans because rooting for the local team isn’t that big of a deal for them. If we could set up some kind of force field that brainwashes everyone who moves to the area to support Miami teams, we’d see some changes. And I’d like to remind everyone in this thread of the huge turnout in games like the 2008 Ravens playoff game, the 2009 MNF game against the Jets, and both 2010 September prime time games. Incidents like the one GARDENHEAD describes aren’t nearly as common as believed.
jets fans are mean to you??? Here's a tell it to your therapist without going off on Dolphin fans. :rimsho
No doubt about that. But, isn't that the definition of a fair-weather fan? Why not cheer like that and BOO the OPPONENTS throughout the entire game instead of not getting out of your seat like a lard-a$$ and booing your home team EVERY time they don't complete a pass?... Only cheering when your team is winning = fair-weather fan. I remember the opening game following Marino's Achilles injury at Cleveland (I was in the Dawg Pound with friends on a party bus that game) when he played against Drew Bledsoe and Parcells' Cheatriots. When Marino threw that 35 yard TD down the sidelines on 4th and 5 at New England's 35 yardline with just over 3 minutes to go, you could not hear yourself think the stadium waas rocking so hard. I went with my Dad and it is still the greatest game I have ever seen, live or on TV, to this day. Vintage Dan Marino.
Thats why I had my Dolphins season tix for 22 years in the endzone of the OB. (Sec CC row 34 seats 17,18 & 19). We were known back then as the End Zone Animals. I remember making a difference in a certain Dec 1981 game in which we stopped Ron Jawarski from snapping the ball 8 times and on his 9th try he threw an INT to Lyle Blackwood.
Booing has only really come of age recently in Miami. Well, ever since Wrongstadt brang in Fiedler. I'm not ok with it one bit but have come to the point where I'm just as frustrated lately. I won't boo but I have been known to bust up a perfectly good TV during a road game.
More and more of the latin people are getting into football. But to get NEW fans such as the Latin's, they need a really good product to get them more interested. Yes, the area is diverse and full of transplants which is why I've always said that the stadium holds about 8000 seats too many....
Oh I heard plenty of booing at the Orange Bowl many times. Yesterday the booing was deserved. That may have been the worst game I have seen in a while. The offense didn't score a home TD in 7 qtrs. That deserves booing.
Of course. A good product is how the core older fanbase was created: the ’72 Dolphins beat everyone and followed it up by winning a second Super Bowl. Then Dan Marino carried the team a decade later. That sort of sustained excellence will create a core fanbase anywhere in any franchise. Repeating it is hard.
You must have been close to the exit then ? Because we were two seats from the end of the row. Coolness, then you remember the game I was talking about ? It was on a Monday night. Miami won 13-10 (ironic aye ?). That and the hook & lateral playoff loss are the two most fun games I ever was at, with the AJ Duhe 3 INTs against the Jets in the cold rainy playoff game. I miss the Orange Bowl, I don't know how others feel, but it was a dump but the best damn place ever to watch a ball game.
I think the fans on here are very diehard. But, the fact is Miami just is not the same football town it was in the 70's and 80's. Even when the Dolphins have early season home games, the stands are empty at kickoff (something you won't see at other teams that are still in the hunt or northern cities early in the season); the stadium is quite relative to Jets or Pats or Bills home games. There is just a malaise from the fan base (not here, but generally speaking). Blame it on the team or style of play - but it's there.
Notice how the teams with real hardcore fans are in the playoffs just about every year ? Is it the playoffs that make them hardcore fans ? Maybe that has something to do with it ? Miami has won a division twice in 10 years, and not won a playoff game in 11 seasons (counting this year because we won't get in). That doesn't exactly make fans frothing-at-the-mouth to root for a team. Its coupled with a large portion of the population completely disinterested because its still not a part of their culture. Many of the younger kids in Miami just have no love for the Dolphins and I have heard many of them say they won't root for "those losers". This extended losing streak of the Dolphins is killing the next generation of DolFans. You also have to couple the new media ways people can follow their favorite team even though they may have moved to a new city. Years ago it was assumed that 2nd generation and 3rd generation fans would convert over to a new team because of being born there. That can no longer be assumed because of NFL Sunday Ticket. As this board shows us, you can live anywhere and see the Dolphins games every week if you wish, no matter where you live. Its unfortunate that our little losing period is coinciding with this boom in NFL Media.
Green Bay fans are the best, imo. Dolphins fans, some of the worst, as a fanbase.... but losing all your home games doesn't help that much. Perhaps the fans and team deserve one another.
I agree. Most of the old "diehard" DolFans have moved away or died. Its a shame but it is, what it is......
I'm going to stand as much as possible this weekend at the meadowlands. Unfortunately I'm in the top most row so I wont get to block any jet fan views
I have been to every home game this season and it is god damn embarrassing. EMBARRASSING. I've literally been in the last 200_300 people to leave my seats every game. People leaving with 12(!!!) minutes to go in the fourth q vs the patriots, vs bears? Get the **** out of here. Don't tell me about beating traffic, I have to drive home 2 hrs and get up for a 7 am class. On prime time games, i walk in to my house anywhere between 3 and 5 am, depending if im dropping people off or not. You come to a god damn football game, you cheer. Don't wanna cheer? Don't want people to stand? Watch the game at home. Outside of halftime, I've sat for no more than 10 mins through all 6 games combined. Why? Because I got all week and all offseason to sit on my hands at home. When you are at a football game, act like it. There are no excuses. Period. Miami has soft *** fans. I'm not talking about anybody in particularly, but we do. I sit in the deep end (painted up section) and even some of those people leave early. It's ridiculous.
Maybe the Dolphins should move to L.A. It was pathetic when how little support there was for the Dolphins when I went to Miami last year. Heck it took a rocking game to even get the crowd involved in the Jets game.
