'72 Dolphins.

[lukethedrifter]

The only (nearly) full game if the 72 Dolphins. I can find. Hammered the 4-9-1 Cardinals.

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[jim]

I actually remember that game. 10:00 bedtime got re-negotiated that night. Luke ... was your Dad on that Big Red team? I'm going to have to watch this.

[lukethedrifter]

I actually remember that game. 10:00 bedtime got re-negotiated that night. Luke ... was your Dad on that Big Red team? I'm going to have to watch this.

7 years retired. I went to the game on Turkey Day '77 when the Dolphins rolled up 55 points.


http://www.pro-football-reference.com/b ... 240crd.htm

[jim]

I actually remember that game. 10:00 bedtime got re-negotiated that night. Luke ... was your Dad on that Big Red team? I'm going to have to watch this.

7 years retired. I went to the game on Turkey Day '77 when the Dolphins rolled up 55 points.


http://www.pro-football-reference.com/b ... 240crd.htm

I remember that too. Didn't it snow a little bit that day?

[Richie Allen]

...and the second was a Miami Dolphin helmet. Not just any helmet mind you .. this was "Made for Competitive Play". And very few of you will probably know what that label meant on the back of the helmet. Richie might. They used to see these really cheapo helmets with this grey foam interior, this helmet was much better quality and although I question whether it really was for competitive play it certainly was a step in that direction.

The helmets I got were from the Sears catalog and I'm pretty sure "Not for competitive play" was stamped on them.

...these little helmets that you got in the bubble gum machine and on and on.

I remember seeing, I think in the Sears catalog again, that you could buy all of those little plastic helmets at once and they came clipped onto a couple little miniature goal posts.



IHOP sold them too, apparently. BTW, don't a lot of those helmets look cooler than the ones today? Redskins? Bills? Eagles? Rams? Chargers? Patriots?

[The Third Man]

Without even getting into the issue of era adjustments, is anybody actually betting on the '72 Dolphins over the '85 Bears?

[jim]

Hell the 85 Dolphins beat the 85 Bears, so hell yeah. Richie .. the Sears helmets were the cheapos. Also those helmets you show I collected from a bubblegum machine. Remember those sticker books from sunoco gas?

[Richie Allen]

Hell the 85 Dolphins beat the 85 Bears, so hell yeah. Richie .. the Sears helmets were the cheapos. Also those helmets you show I collected from a bubblegum machine. Remember those sticker books from sunoco gas?

Yes, those helmets would come in a slightly larger gray plastic container out of a vending bubblegum-type machine. .25? Can't remember.

Yes, almost everything from the Sears catalog were the cheapo variety by the 1970s. Ted Williams baseball equipment?

Yes, I got a completely filled Sunoco album from a garage sale about ten years ago. Little stamps for each player.

And I think I would welcome another Bears championship if it meant I would ultimately hear less about that '85 team.

[Mary1966]

My cat Sidney modelling his Build A Bear Packers jersey with my Packers mini-helmet on the ground next to him. I bought it on eBay for $35, it's signed by my favorite player when I was in high school, Lynn Dickey.

[Sutter'sBeard]

Cszonka was my favorite player in the NFL in the 70s. He would run through and drag defenses today just as he did back then. It was a way meaner game back then, even if the average size was a bit smaller.

By "bit" you mean 100+ pounds. Oh, by the way they are much, much faster also. Oh, and they are also three times stronger today.