One thing about Joe Gibbs, he knew how to keep his team together when so much else was falling apart.
During his first stint in Washington, Gibbs won not one but two Super Bowls in strike-torn seasons.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The only full season of NFL perfection in the Super Bowl era including winning the championship occurred in 1972. When the Dolphins took the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field against Washington on Jan.
It can be argued — and has been for decades — that a perfect record including winning a championship makes that team the best in its sport.
Maybe.
And maybe the 1972 Miami Dolphins wouldn't have matched up with, say, the great Steelers dynasty of the later 1970s.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The Patriots squandered an opportunity to lock up the AFC East title in a humbling loss to the Bills last week.
They took out their frustrations on the lowly Jaguars to earn their way back into the postseason.
Something we've come to expect is Kansas City closing in on AFC home-field advantage for the playoffs and the only bye. A win and the Titans losing to the Dolphins does the trick.
As for the Cincinnati Bengals clinching anything but a high draft choice?
MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Dolphins’ most recent playoff win is nearly old enough to drink.
On Dec. 30, 2000, Dave Wannstedt and Jay Fiedler helped Miami beat the Indianapolis Colts in overtime in a wild-card game.
2020 reminded us that the show mustn’t always go on. Disrupted by the coronavirus, sports stopped cold three months in and then started up again in emptied-out stadiums, stumbling, skidding and finally staggering across the finish line — all the while shadowed by loss...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Rex Burkhead can’t remember the last time he scored three touchdowns in a game...
MIAMI (AP) — Jim Kiick, the versatile running back who helped the Miami Dolphins achieve the NFL’s only perfect season in 1972, died Saturday at age 73 following a battle with Alzheimer's disease, daughter Allie said...
MIAMI (AP) — The use of the adjective “winningest” in sports dates at least to the 1930s, when Don Shula was a toddler...
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MIAMI (AP) — Measuring Don Shula by wins and losses, no NFL coach had a better year. Or career.
He looked the part, thanks to a jutting jaw and glare that would intimidate 150-pound sports writers and 300-pound linemen alike...
MIAMI (AP) — Don Shula often said he wanted to be remembered for playing within the rules, and that's what happened Monday.
In the wake of his death at age 90, an outpouring of tributes from around the NFL saluted not only Shula's two Super Bowl championships and NFL-record 347 coaching victories, but also the way he won.
Success for athletes and coaches usually is measured by numbers. That’s a too-limited way to encapsulate the impact of Don Shula on professional football...
MIAMI (AP) — Don Shula has been about longevity for, well, a long time.
He entered the NFL as a player in 1951 and retired in 1995 after coaching the Miami Dolphins for 26 years...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Bill Belichick was 39 years old when he coached the Cleveland Browns to a win over the New England Patriots in 1991 — his first as an NFL coach...
ATLANTA (AP) — Yes, it's time for another story about the Patriots trying to accomplish something nobody has done since the 1972 Dolphins...