DOLPHINS: Looking back at the Pats game

[Michael Fischer]

Mira Never had a successful career in the NFL, which was a bit  
surprising. As I recall, the complaint was he threw too hard.
Sorta reminds me of someone else, who would tell the receiver to just  
"catch the damn ball."

Michael
On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Curt Fennell wrote:

> I believe he was - at the time, he was the greatest thing about  
> football played in Miami.
>
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, ldouglas at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> was George Mira the QB?
>>
>> On 9/23/08, Curt Fennell <curt at phins.com> wrote:
>>> jhgarbo at aol.com wrote:
>>>> Yes... but in 1964, the Miami Herald began running full page ads of
>>>> Danny Thomas holding a Dolphins helmet declaring he was bringing  
>>>> pro
>>>> football to South Florida. And I started following. Even entered  
>>>> the
>>>> "Name the franchise contest." But was pone of hundreds of "Shark"
>>>> entrants who didn't get our way. Several hundred picked  
>>>> "Dolphins" The
>>>> tie breaker was to guess the score of the Notre Dame vs Miami game
>>>> .Some lady who knew nothing about football picked "0-0" and won  
>>>> life
>>>> time tickets to the Phins games.
>>>
>>> Memories...
>>>
>>> I was at that 0-0 Notre Dame/Miami game.  We had season tickets  
>>> to the
>>> Hurricane games as they were the only game in town, so to speak.   
>>> That
>>> was in the days when Notre Dame perennially won everything and the
>>> Hurricanes were lucky to go 5-5.    For the 'Canes in those days  
>>> to tie
>>> the "Flailing Irish" was - at the time - roughly equivalent to  
>>> winning
>>> the SuperBowl by 30 points.   It was an amazing moral victory for  
>>> the
>>> old 'Canes and the Orange Bowl was as loud as I ever remember it  
>>> being.
>>>
>>> Times have changed.
>>>
>>> Curt
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