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December 06, 2020
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
One error in that tale: the Dolphins did not play the Chiefs in the 1971 AFC Championship game. They played the Baltimore Colts. I was at that game. Miami smoked Baltimore 21-0 and I thought they were destined to be league champs. Then they ran smack into Landry's superior Cowboys in the Super Bowl in the dreary depths of January and that dream was dashed on the rug.
The Dolphins played the Chiefs in the previous game, the historic double overtime game on Christmas Day 1971 that remains one of the most remarkable games I've ever seen. The Dolphins won to move on to the conference title game, and heroics abounded on both sides, but many of us still refer to that game as the "Ed Podolak game". If you've never seen highlights or footage of the game, it's worth having a look.
That game was bookended by the Chargers-Dolphins divisional playoff game in 1982, another historic epic that required heroics on both sides and featured tragic missteps at key moments. Casually known as the "Kellen Winslow game".
posted by beaverboard at 10:38 AM on December 06, 2020
That was a great article. Thanks for sharing
posted by NoMich at 10:59 AM on December 06, 2020
Jake Scott, one of the stalwart sporting heroes of my adolescence, passed away recently. The obits did a fairly good job of commemorating him.
But if you're so inclined, there's a much better window into the life and mind of the uncompromising and semi-reclusive Dolphins safety. A medium length read fitting for a Sunday morn.
I sometimes think of Scott as a kindred spirit of Dale Earnhardt. There's only one set of rules worth the stone they're chiseled on, and fuck with me once and it's over. Forever.