Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team. They play in the National Football League’s American Football Conference East division. The team plays its home games at Hard Rock Stadium, located in the northern suburb of Miami Gardens, Florida. The Dolphins joined the NFL as a result of the 1970 AFL–NFL merger.
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The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League as a member team of the league’s American Football Conference East division. The team plays its home games at Hard Rock Stadium, located in the northern suburb of Miami Gardens, Florida. The Dolphins joined the NFL as a result of the 1970 AFL–NFL merger. For most of their early history, the Dolphins were coached by Don Shula, the most successful head coach in professional football history in terms of total games won. They were extremely successful in the 1970s, completing the first complete perfect season in NFL history by finishing with a 14–0 regular-season record and winning the Super Bowl that year. The early 1980s and 1990s saw the emergence of future Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino, who went on to break numerous NFL passing records. In 2008, theolphins became the first team inNFL history to win their division and make a playoff appearance following a league-worst 1–15 season. They also maintained a strong rivalry with the New York Jets throughout much of their history, often competing for AFC supremacy when Jim Kelly emerged as the quarterback for the Bills. Miami also appeared in Super Bowl XVII and Super Bowl XIX, losing both games. The Dolphins are the oldest professional sports team in Florida, having been founded by attorney-politician Joe Robbie and actor-comedian Danny Thomas in 1965. The region had not had a professional football team since the days of the Miami Seahawks, who played in the All-America Football Conference in 1946, before becoming the first incarnation of the Baltimore Colts.
They began play in the AFL in 1966, and were assigned to the AFC East division in the NFL’s new American Football conference. The AFL merged with the NFL in 1970, and the Dolphins became the Dolphins’ new AFC division in 1971. They are the only team in the division that was not a charter member of the American Football League. The team played in its first Super Bowl in Superbowl VI, losing to the Dallas Cowboys, 24–3. In Super Bowl VII, they were the third NFL team to accomplish a perfect regular season. The next year, they won Super Bowl VIII, becoming thefirst team to appear in three consecutive Super Bowls, and the second team to win back-to-back championships. For the rest of the 20th century, the Shula-led Dolphins emerged as one of the most dominant teams in theNFL with a strong running game and defense, with only two losing seasons between 1970 and 1999. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the team developed a competitive rivalry with Buffalo Bills, winning every game against the Bills in the 80s and 90s. The two teams also made two Super Bowl appearances in three of three years, despite losing both times and both losing times and losing both Super Bowl times and winning two Superbowls both times in the 2000s. In 2007, the Miami Dolphins upset the New England Patriots on the road during Week 3, handing the Patriots their first regular- season loss since December 10, 2006, in which coincidentally, the Patriots were also beaten by the Dolphins.
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