Ironically, the Miami Dolphins became a Professional Football powerhouse, winning two Super Bowl Championships, including the perfect season of 1972.

This included the 1948 season, in which the Browns became the first unbeaten and untied team in professional football history, 24 years before the NFL's 1972 Miami Dolphins duplicated the feat.

# Quarterback Roger Staubach – Super Bowl VI – Staubach became the fifth quarterback overall to be awarded the MVP trophy after Dallas ' win over the Miami Dolphins.

The Dolphins thus became the first NFL team to accomplish a perfect regular season.

The Dolphins set the NFL single-season rushing record, and running backs Csonka and Mercury Morris became the first teammates to each rush for 1, 000 yards in a season.

When Rex Ryan became New York's head coach, there was an increased war of words between the clubs culminating with Ryan flashing an obscene gesture to heckling Dolphins fans in January 2010.

In the 1981 playoffs, the Chargers managed to outlast the Miami Dolphins in the divisional round, 41 – 38, in a game that became known as The Epic in Miami.

Despite the lopsided loss in the Super Bowl, Beathard, who traded for or drafted the bulk of the Chargers roster, and who hired coach Ross, was named the NFL's smartest man by Sports Illustrated, and became the only general manager to lead three different teams to the Super Bowl ( Chargers, Dolphins, Redskins ).

The Dolphins defeated the Redskins by the score of 14 – 7, and became the first and still the only team in NFL history to complete a perfect undefeated season.

The Dolphins ' Larry Csonka became the first running back to be named Super Bowl MVP ; both his 145 rushing yards and his 33 carries were Super Bowl records.

Indeed, the Dolphins became the first team score a touchdown after receiving the game's opening kickoff.

The game then became a rematch of Super Bowl VII, also played in the Los Angeles area at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum ten years before, where the Dolphins completed their 17 – 0 perfect season at the Redskins ' expense by a score of 14 – 7.

The Bills became the first team to lose three consecutive Super Bowls, and just the second team to play in three straight ( the Miami Dolphins played in Super Bowls VI-VIII, winning VII and VIII ).

The 49ers became the second team to take the opening kickoff and score a touchdown on that first drive ( the first being the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VIII ), and setting a new Super Bowl record for the fastest touchdown ( later broken by Devin Hester in Super Bowl XLI ).

In August 2009, Venus Williams became part-owners of the Miami Dolphins with sister Serena Williams.

Drafted in the fourth round by Don Shula and the Miami Dolphins, Theismann became frustrated with contract negotiations, Leo Cahill saw an opportunity and pounced to lure Joe north.

In October 2009, Ferguson became a part owner of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins.

Brady became the quickest to achieve 100 regular season wins by helping his team defeat the Miami Dolphins 41 – 14 on October 4, 2010.

The Jets got off to a 6 – 5 start under Carroll, but in week 12, he was the victim of Dan Marino's " clock play "— a fake spike that became a Miami Dolphins game-winning touchdown.

This variant became one of announcer Curt Gowdy's idiosyncrasies in 1971 when the AFC divisional championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins went into overtime.

In 1948, the Browns became the first professional football team to complete an entire season undefeated and untied — 24 years before the 1972 Miami Dolphins of the NFL would accomplish the task, but this feat is not recognized by NFL record books.

* Nagoya Golden Dolphins 1936-1940-formerly Tokyo Senators 1936-1940 ; Tsubusa 1940, merged with Nagoya Kinko to form Taiyo 1941-1942 ( merged with Tsubasa in 1940, Tsubasa later became Nishitetsu 1943.

Dolphins became weak and gullible ; humans enslaved and exploited them.

Dolphins became aggressive creatures and forced humans from the seas, never to return.

Professional football players include former Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler, linebacker Reggie Williams, three-time Pro Bowler Nick Lowery, quarterback Jeff Kemp, and Tennessee Titans tight end Casey Cramer.

* Charles Bowser, Former Professional Football Player, the Miami Dolphins

* Mel Branch ( College / Professional Football Player-LSU / Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs / Miami Dolphins )

Robert Allen " Bob " Griese (; born February 3, 1945 ) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football quarterback who earned All-American honors with the Purdue Boilermakers before being drafted in 1967 by the American Football League's Miami Dolphins.

They played home games from their inaugural season to the 2011 season at Sun Life Stadium, which they shared with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League ( NFL ) and which was also called Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, and Land Shark Stadium during their tenancy.

The rivalry was effectively retired after this ; the two clubs did meet in a memorable Monday Night Football matchup in 2009 where the Colts, despite having the ball for only fifteen minutes, defeated the Dolphins 27 – 23.

On October 27, 2003, the Chargers wore their navy pants with their navy jersey for a Monday Night Football game versus the Miami Dolphins that was played at Sun Devil Stadium, then the home of the Arizona Cardinals, due to wildfires in southern California.

Super Bowl VI was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Miami Dolphins to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1971 season.

Super Bowl VII was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Washington Redskins to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1972 season.

Super Bowl VIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Minnesota Vikings and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Miami Dolphins to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1973 season.

The Dolphins lost three of their most productive players Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield to the startup World Football League.

Super Bowl XVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Washington Redskins to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1982 season.

Super Bowl XIX was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion San Francisco 49ers to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1984 season.

* Daniel Thomas, National Football League player for the Miami Dolphins

* Ethan Albright, a free agent of American football Pro Bowl long snapper of the National Football League formerly played for the North Carolina Tarheels, Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, and the Washington Redskins.

It also served as the home for the San Diego Chargers, on October 27, 2003, when the NFL moved a game against the Miami Dolphins there, due to wildfires in Southern California ( it was the first Monday Night Football game in the stadium in four years-the last MNF game there prior to 2003 was the game wherein legendary San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young suffered his career-ending concussion ).

Although the Dolphins lost that Super Bowl in a bitter loss to the Dallas Cowboys, there was no denying that this was a team that was quickly becoming a powerhouse.