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Sad day at stadium

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by pumpdogs, Oct 22, 2018.

  1. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    I flew down for game and was amazed at how many lions fans I saw.I mean the lions!Until yesterday I have never even met a lions fan.It was so sad when the let's go lions chant was louder that the let's go dolphins chant.That would never happen up north.I love the stadium and the atmosphere but disappointed in the fan turnout and of course the outcome.I am now 0-2 when I have traveled down there.
     
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  2. TheHighExhaulted

    TheHighExhaulted Well-Known Member

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    Very true. The fans down there suck.
     
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  3. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    I met some cool people but overall very subdued.Me I lost my voice from screaming.
     
  4. brandon27

    brandon27 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    So it's your fault!!!! You jerk!!! Stay home!!

    :sidelol:
     
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  5. Fame

    Fame Well-Known Member

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    Ironic.
     
  6. TheHighExhaulted

    TheHighExhaulted Well-Known Member

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    I can't tell if you're dumb for trying to say I used incorrect grammar.
     
  7. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Ha!My boys I watch the game with every sunday said the same thing.
     
  8. KeyFin

    KeyFin Well-Known Member

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    Now we know what the darn problem is! Stop going to games and cursing our team! LOL =)
     
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  9. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Never know, players may feel the same when they look up.
     
  10. Bumrush

    Bumrush Stable Genius Club Member

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    I was at the game.. it was pathetic and frankly,embarrassing.
     
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  11. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    No one wants to talk about if that has an effect on a team..

    I believe it does..
     
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  12. bigballa2102

    bigballa2102 Well-Known Member

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    Nobody wants to go see this same team be mediocre like we have been for 20 years, specially when the beach is right there with half naked women walking around!!!!!!
     
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  13. Dolphin Dundee

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    I live 40 minutes away and rarely go to games its just not worth it to me.If the NFL was pay per view i wouldn't bother watching at all. Its all about egos now and players sitting out hurting their teams because they feel they are not paid enough.That and the new rules football just aint what it used to be.To many better ways to spend my money than on a team that comes out flat every week home field or not.
     
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  14. bigballa2102

    bigballa2102 Well-Known Member

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    i cant even begin to tell you how much I spend yearly to watch this team!!!!
     
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  15. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Every year I say I'm cancelling my sunday ticket and then my delusional side comes out thinking we might actually go 10-6 and make the wildcard rd.Reality sets in about week 8 and I scream and yell that everybody sucks and needs to be fired!In reality I'm just mad at myself for falling for the same **** year after year after year!****img time loop.
     
  16. Dorfdad

    Dorfdad Well-Known Member

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    Please stop going
     
  17. Puka-head

    Puka-head My2nd Fav team:___vs Jets Club Member

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    I've gotta tell ya'll. I watched this game the same place I've watched every game that wasn't nationally televised. At The End Zone in Port Orchard WA. Tiny little hole in the wall, usually the only Dolphins fan there. Bunch of Shehacks and Faiders, but it's a Navy town so a surprising scattering of every teams fans.

    This week the big boys were on bye's so it was a Vikings (about 6 fans) and Dolphins ( there were actually 4 Fins fans there!!!!) bar for a few hours.

    So I actually got to have sound for the whole game. Sad game to have it.

    There was a play in the fourth Q 3rd down clock ticking. Stafford comes up under center and from Flipping Port Orchard WA I could hear Stafford slapping his Center on the butt, like slap slap slap, hurry hurry hurry slap slap snap!

    I should never be able to hear the opposing teams QB slaphis C azz on our home field. EVER. Fail home fans...FAIL!
     
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  18. Redwine4all

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    Start winning. Start giving fans a reason to care, stop choking every damn week and fans will start going to games. As long as the team sucks, it's what they're going to get. This team sucks.
     
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  19. aesop

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    You know how many times I have heard a dolphins chant take over metlife?
     
  20. pumpdogs

    pumpdogs Well-Known Member

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    Thats true I was a part of it two years ago.I guess the real reason is just like us the jets suck!
     
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  21. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Yeah that’s the bottom line, my thought process over the years has been when the team has taken a small turn and put themselves into position to win at home and really make a move the fans are not there with the support they need..
     
  22. TheHighExhaulted

    TheHighExhaulted Well-Known Member

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    Don't give me this. That 2008 home playoff game against the Ravens was 50/50 fans.
     
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  23. Redwine4all

    Redwine4all Well-Known Member

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    yeah...7 years between playoff appearances? It's a fact. If we had NEs record and they had ours...you couldn't get within 50 miles of our stadium.
     
  24. adamprez2003

    adamprez2003 Senior Member

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    The philosophy of a front runner not a fan
     
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  25. Carmen Cygni

    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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    LOL. Get out of here with that nonsense. We all knew exactly what that season was - a flash in the pan compliments of the wildcat. Which is exactly what it was sandwiched b/w 13 years of incompetence.
     
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  26. Patster1969

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    Agree with your last comment CC but wouldn't the first playoff game in several years mean that fans should be excited to see playoff football, therefore you would hope more would make the effort to turn out & support the team? Not having a go but genuinely interested
     
  27. Carmen Cygni

    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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    I was there and one would think it would bring out the fans in droves, but on the other hand fans knew we also had little chance vs the Ravens. Lo and behold, we were embarrassed and I'm sure many were confident in there decision to stay home. The playoff atmosphere is great, but knowing you don't stand a true chance and are going to get bounced in the first round has little appeal.
     
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  28. Patster1969

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    That's a bit sad though, isn't it - if the Fins fans had been well up for it & vocally behind them, that could have inspired the team to new heights (I know that I am looking at this through hopeful rose tinted specs :sad:)
     
  29. TheHighExhaulted

    TheHighExhaulted Well-Known Member

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    Bet the players love that enthusiasm.
     
  30. mlb1399

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    Miami hasn’t given fans a reason to go out and spend the kind of money attending NFL games costs.
     
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  31. TheHighExhaulted

    TheHighExhaulted Well-Known Member

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    If being 4-2 with a home game against an assy Lions team can't get anyone a little enthused I have no hope for that fanbase.
     
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  32. adamprez2003

    adamprez2003 Senior Member

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    And the LIONS have? They were half the fans in an opposing stadium
     
  33. TheHighExhaulted

    TheHighExhaulted Well-Known Member

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    I understand opposing teams making Miami a little vacation. Still no excuse.
     
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  34. Carmen Cygni

    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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    Out of town New Yorkers judging South Florida fans. What a crock of **** we've got going on here.
     
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  35. adamprez2003

    adamprez2003 Senior Member

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    New Yorkers support two teams in every major sport. You guys can't even support one
     
  36. Carmen Cygni

    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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    So foolish. Miami has the number one home attendance percentage in the entire NFL. Jax is #15. Jets #22. Giants #24.

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/attendance/_/sort/homePct
     
  37. jdallen1222

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  38. adamprez2003

    adamprez2003 Senior Member

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    Thank God for ticket brokers and out of town fans. Cute how you used percent rather than average. Ever wonder why Miami chose to build such a small seating stadium?

    1 Dallas 90,478
    2 Green Bay 78,174
    3 NY Jets 77,982
    4 NY Giants 77,790
    5 Denver 76,555
    6 Kansas City 75,662
    7 Carolina 73,638
    8 New Orleans 73,050
    9 Atlanta 72,878
    10 Houston 71,828
    11 Baltimore 70,462
    12 Philadelphia 69,696
    13 Los Angeles 69,163
    14 Seattle 68,970
    15 Buffalo 68,694
    16 San Francisco 68,366
    17 Cleveland 67,431
    18 Minnesota 66,758
    19 Jacksonville 66,107
    20 New England 65,878
    21 Miami 65,476


    http://www.espn.com/nfl/attendance


    To me, the valid reasons for not going are you can't afford it or you can't stand the rule changes over the last few decades and just aren't into the sport anymore. Both of those are more gripes with the sport and therefore valid IMO. But if you are into the sport and Miami is your team and you live in the area you should go to at least one home game every season to support your team. Otherwise don't call yourself a fan. Call yourself a casual fan.

    Hell I like the Islanders and Nets and go every year to about five home games no matter how bad they are. And thats decades of suckitude. But there's still something about going to the game regardless of if your team wins or not that is unlike anything else and worthwhile
     
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  39. Carmen Cygni

    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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    Nobody chose to have it small. It's now so in comparison to modern stadiums because it was built in '87 (8th oldest stadium in the NFL) and was considered a large venue at the time.

    That's why the percentage is more relevant than the capacity.
     
  40. adamprez2003

    adamprez2003 Senior Member

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    And in 87 it had a capacity of 75,000. After the renovations of a couple years ago that seating capacity was reduced to 65,000. Try again
     

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