The NFL's super-annoying supermen, the '72 Miami Dolphins, have to be sweating rather profusely about now. For the first time since the near-miss of the '85 Bears, their status of sole perfection seems in real doubt. The Brady Bunch of New England appears intent on writing a little of their own history...and promptly relegating the aging smack-talkers to footnote status.
Meanwhile, the bigger story may be that the Dolphins franchise is currently on pace to set the other record of perfection. The same team that once went 17-0 may well go 0-16 in 2007. Their season of futility and frustration continued Sunday with their 17-7 loss to the Eagles.
Serves them right, though, really, doesn't it? They have been whipping everyone's ass with that '72 season long enough. Maybe this year the old coots from back when can invite the young bucks from the current team to their drinking party when and if the Patriots finally do stumble along the way. They can escape reality together. The old guys can continue to believe they were the greatest of all time (never mind that the current Patriots would destroy that long-overrated bunch of over-achievers by half a hundred points at least), while the young ones try to forget they are the worst.
In anticipation of the coming party, I propose this toast:
From winning without a loss to losing without a win,
You're as perfect now as you were back then.
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