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A message to Dolphin fans...

Let's rewind back about 14 years>>>I became a Dolphin fan in 1996, shortly after I realized that cheering for the Cowboys just made me a front runner, and just before cleveland moved its sorry franchise to baltimore..in which case I would have been a raven fan being that i'm from baltimore and all. In 1996 Dan Marino was nearing the end of his extremely prolific career, he was a statue in the pocket. The Phins went 8-8 that year, the epitimy of mediocrity. Legendary coach Don Shula retired and in came my boy from the team I formely cheered for..Jimmie Johnson. Fast forward 14 years>>>

"Fire Tony Sparano!" Am I hearing this correctly? I can't speak for the population of Dol-fans that watched the '72 team boast a perfect record in route to winning the franchises 1st of 2 Super Bowl Championships. Who I can speak for is every body else, everybody my age, who hasn't seen much more than 'middle of the road' for the last decade and a half. Let's face it guys, were not elite, we haven't been in a looong time. Definitely not in my lifetime. So where is this sudden lack of perspective coming from?

It wasn't but three years ago (2007) that the dolphins tied the record for most losses in an NFL season with 15 (a record broken by the lions a year later). Tony Sparano took over in 2008 and turned the team around completely. We went on to win our division for the first time since 2000! One of the greatest turn arounds in league history: That was 2 years ago...Flash back to the present where the dolphins are sitting at they're usual 7-6 record. While were 6-1 on the road..were 1-5 at home. Not great by any means, but a far cry from 1-15. Did we over achieve in 2008? Absolutely. Let's not forget that had Tom Brady a.k.a Mr. Perfect not gotten hurt in the first game that year, putting him out for the season, the patriots would have most likely topped our 11-5 record. The following year we came back down to earth with a 7-9 record but keep in mind we lost our offense in the middle of the year when Ronnie Brown went down with a foot injury. In theory and relative to what he was working with...Sparano's coaching tenure has been a wild success. If you don't agree with me, why don't we take a trip down memory lane and look at some of the goolish ghosts of Dolphin past...

Dave Wannstedt has had the most success of them all during my time as a fan and he just got run out the door at the University of Pittsburgh, a school whose biggest competition is UConn...plus, Wannstedt was basically doing his best Barry Switzer impression in Miami, making a name for himself due to the drafting wizardry of one Jimmie Johnson. The Dolphins defense was dominant under Wannstedt. A defense led by Sam Madison, Patrick Surtain, Zach Thomas, and Jason Taylor. All of whom were drafted by Johnson.

After a brief stint with Jim Bates we went on to hire the NCAA's hottest coach. Nick Saban. A guy who I'm convinced watched college football all day on thurdays and saturdays rather then breaking down game film. Before we even had time to thank him for acquiring Dante Culpepper rather than Drew Brees or applaud him for turning the Dolphins 2006 & 2007 drafts into a 'who's who?' of SEC football..he was on a bus towards Alabama to coach the Tide.

"Fire Tony Sparano!" 'Cause the grass is always greener on the other side..well, is it? To know where you're headed, you've got to know where you've been...and we've been mediocre at best. So let's all take a deep breath and appreciate a job well done from a guy who will likely bring us success here in the near future.

Simply the best...

GO 4 IT!

Warning: This gets awfully cheezy so if you're not ready for your eggs to be sunny side up this morning I suggest you stop reading now.

...2010 has been a trip. Easily one of the best if not the best year of my life. I made a commitment to myself at the beginning of the year to just fail. That simple, my New Years resolution was to fail. If you fail it means you tried and you don't have to live with regret. I am alwaaaays holding myself back, just assuming I can't do something or thinking it will be too difficult, or that I'll make an ass of myself. Well who cares. I went for it this year...for everything, and I love myself for it...

I thought of this the other day: I truely believe you can judge you're happiness based on what the 10 year old version of you would think if they saw you now. No one knew how to be happier than 10 year old you. Now thats not to say that you should play in the mudd or use jokes like 'i know you are but what am i?' but 10 year old you probably had life more figured out then, then you do now.

Just a thought.

Not sure how those thoughts came together but they did...just how my brain works.

Top 10 Thursday Edition

THINGS that need a comeback...

10. POGS
9. THE SAYING: THE BOMB.COM
8. BEEPERS
7. CITRA (the soda)
6. FIELD DAY
5. STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
4. ZEBRA PRINT PANTS
3. NSYNC
2. PHONE BOOTHS
1. CHEAP GAS

Dream Big

I just slept for 18 hours...I feel like Charlie's grandparents from those Wonka books. I'm still checking for bed sores______Allow me to explain what preceded that massive underscore. I just finished broadcasting school and right out of the gate I was given a tremendous opportunity to be the lone intern for a brand new sports talk morning show on 740 am (the local fox sports affiliate). I can not stress enough how exciting this is and how much this could benefit my future career. This could and hopefully will open up many doors for me in the years to come. Back to the underscore...The show starts at 6am..I have to be there at 5am..I live approximately 30 min. away..therefore if i want to shower and eat breakfast I have to set my alarm for 4am. No problem, not complaining...not at all. It's really not even that bad, no traffic at that time, the studio has a coffee maker that makes delicious cappuccinos (although they are suspiciously awesome and I bet they are terrible for you). I'm happy, I'm grateful, but the reason why I decided to share this is because I'm tired...at least I was 30 dreams ago.

Cliffhanger

Is it possible to be jaded by 19 followers? I guess, boy how that got to my head fast. I act like I’m google’s most searched human…I became so concerned with entertaining the less than handful of people that may or may not even read this blog that I forgot why I starting writing in the first place…I love people, I especially love people who would take time out of their day to read my random non-sense but I never did this for that. I just want to talk about sports, random goings on of the day, and boogers. So let’s hit the restart button on this banana hammock and discuss some boogers…

How am I supposed to react to someone having a booger stuck on their face? I know it sounds gross but these are the real issues I’m discussing here. If you don’t confront the problem immediately it only becomes more awkward, as if it weren’t awkward enough. It’s not like that little factoid fits in to any particular conversation “Oh really? I didn’t realize that oranges only grew in November, by the way you have a giant booger on your face.”…if you don’t bring it up in minute one of a conversation but decide to bring it up at minute six, the boogered face person is going to know that you’ve been staring at it. They know that you’ve been having your own personal melt down about whether or not to say anything, rendering the last five minutes of your conversation meaningless. I truly don’t know how to handle these situations when life presents them to me, so please, blow your nose.

Fact of the day

"Real fact" #917

The average lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write roughly 50,000 English words.

Good game...Better game..

I love how baseball has to play out 162 games over 183 days (roughly 7 months) to tell me something that I already knew. The Yankees and the Phillies are the best teams in baseball, we knew that in April and it’s still obvious closing in on October. I love baseball but the season reminds me of that guy or girl that we all run into that starts to tell you a story, you see where its going within the first two sentences, yet he or she still proceeds to share every mind numbing detail with you…then to your amazement the story ends as predicted and you look down at your cell phone only to learn you’re life just became 15 minutes shorter. That’s baseball. This is one of the reasons I appreciate the NFL so much. You go into the season thinking maybe the Saints can repeat but you don’t know…you think to yourself the Colts are always good right…but then they get bashed by the Texans. By week 2 you’re left looking at 2-0 Chiefs and Buccaneers teams and you can only say to yourself…wtf. I love you baseball but just get to the point.

Holler...glad to be back.