That’s why they cook up a story of the ’72 Phins being the “bad guys.” Because they need a juicy story. Well screw espn, si, and all the other media hounds. The ’72 Miami Dolphins will always be the best, not the cheating patriots who lost the biggest game.

And a point I heard today was that no QB has been perfect. The Dolphins lost Bob Griese to injury in their perfect year. That’s something Manning could have achieved that no one else has, had the Colts not pulled him from that game.

Nearly every sportswriter who doesn’t cover the Dolphins posts the falsehood that the members of the 1972 team get together every year and pop champagne when the last undefeated team loses. That myth is perpetuated by those who feel it necessary to to denigrate the greatest team accomplishment in the history of the NFL. However, if you’ll check snopes.com, you’ll see that this is a myth: http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/miami72.asp

What DOES happen every year is that sportswriters like you dredge up the old tired arguments about the ’72 team, seek out members of that and ask them what they think. And when they tell you they’re proud of what they accomplished, you accuse them of being bad sports.

But I guess when those Dolphins players say that they would congratulate the next team to go undefeated, that doesn’t draw readers, now does it?

Parity seems to prevail most seasons so the odds say that we should return to normal. Everybody loves a run, but it just draws attention to the team and causes them to make bad decisions (damaging overall success) to keep it alive. On this one I would tend to agree with Tony Dungy ( ), yeegads!!