DOLPHINS: Trivia Time

[ldouglas]

aren't the Twins in the playoffs? ahh nevermind - I forgot they play in a dome.

On 10/9/09, Michael Fischer <thebigfish at smunet.net> wrote:
> I will always remember "Bouncing Benny Malone" .. he ended up on the
> cover of Dolphin Digest after he
> ran right at me.. I was positioned behind the corner of the endzone.
> It was a cheap ($99) 400mm coke bottle telephoto,
> but it worked pretty well @ f11.
>
> It's supposed to SNOW  here tonight. I remember the warmth of that
> long ago Sunday afternoon.
>
> Michael
>
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:35 PM, dolfanbg at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I remember Malone, mostly as the RB who had to follow Csonka.
>>
>> But one thing I do remember about him was a comment in either the
>> Dolphin Digest or Media Guide about him, that went something like
>> this....  "Has a running style that is best described as looking
>> like a man falling downstairs".
>>
>> Apparently he had a bit of the 'Crazy Legs' style where his knees
>> went outward while he ran.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "ldouglas" <ldouglas at gmail.com>
>> To: "Miami Dolphins Discussion" <dolphins-disc at phins.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:35:26 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada
>> Pacific
>> Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: Trivia Time
>>
>> I only remember Benny Malone from footage of a Colts - Dolphins
>> playoff game - and only after I did the trivia thing. Coincidentally I
>> couldn't remember Troy Stratford's last name (need Ginko) but I
>> remember his breakout year in 87 and his knee injury in 88? which led
>> us to draft Sammy "Braylon Edwards" Smith.
>>
>> On 10/8/09, dolfandave at att.net <dolfandave at att.net> wrote:
>>> I remember all those guys plus Benny Malone.
>>>
>>> Delvin Williams was a lightning rod but also a coke head. Plus he
>>> was injury
>>> prone. He followed Gale Sayers at Kansas.
>>>
>>> ddave
>>> -------------- Original message from ldouglas <ldouglas at gmail.com>:
>>> --------------
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ahh a member of the Miami Pound Machine IIRC
>>>>
>>>> I got most of the names on there (once I realized the years they
>>>> played were on that site) but I had no idea who Don Nottingham, Norm
>>>> Bulaich or Gary Davis were. Those post 74 years were lost to history
>>>> when I was learning about the team's past. I did think, though, that
>>>> JJ Johnson would have at least gotten 2000 yards rushing.
>>>>
>>>> I never knew the backstory of Delvin Williams. And when I did a
>>>> search
>>>> all I found was a cached copy of an article from the Dolphins' site:
>>>> http://is.gd/45HZn
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/8/09, Kristoffer Shields wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Speaking of names from the past, Ethan Skolnick pointed out in
>>>>> his blog
>>>>> today that Alfred Oglesby passed away a week or so ago. He'll
>>>>> always be
>>>>> most famous, of course, for his fake kidnapping story....but I
>>>>> always
>>>>> thought he was a decent player, too.
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: mroz66 at comcast.net
>>>>>> To: dolphins-disc at phins.com
>>>>>> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:13:11 -0700
>>>>>> Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: Trivia Time
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Larry Csonka
>>>>>> 2. Ricky Williams
>>>>>> 3. Mercury Morris
>>>>>> 4. Ronnie Brown
>>>>>> 5. Jim Kiick
>>>>>> 6. Tony Nathan
>>>>>> 7. Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar
>>>>>> 8. Mark Higgs
>>>>>> 9. Delvin Williams
>>>>>> 10. Andra Franklin
>>>>>> 11. Benny Malone
>>>>>> 12. Lamar Smith
>>>>>> 13. Bernie Parmalee
>>>>>> 14. Lorenzo Hampton
>>>>>> 15. Sammie Smith
>>>>>> 16. Woody Bennett
>>>>>> 17. Don Nottingham
>>>>>> 18. Norm Bulaich
>>>>>> 19. Gary Davis
>>>>>> 20. Troy Stradford
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DUH.... :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> on a side note, 39th on the list was David Overstreet who died
>>>>>> in a car
>>>>>>
>>>>>> accident after part of one season with the Fins. How good would
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Fins
>>>>>> have been if David would have been there with Marino?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rick
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Richie Wohlers"
>>>>>> To: "Miami Dolphins Discussion"
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:06 PM
>>>>>> Subject: DOLPHINS: Trivia Time
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you name the top-20 players in career rushing yards as a
>>>>>>> Dolphin?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.sporcle.com/games/RichieW13/dolphins_rush
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