Remember when you were kid? About seven, maybe eight years old. That's about the age where being a little kid starts to fade away. Your friends started to find out there are no fictional characters. First it's Santa Claus. Then they all start to fall like dominoes. The Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy. Even all the oversized characters you see at theme parks. "Sorry kid but they are all just people in a costume." Poof! The magic is gone.
That's kind of how I feel about this 2010 Miami Dolphin season. I have finally (I know it took me that long!) come to the realization that the team I have supported for 30 plus years is just a fairy tale. They are not as good as I've made them out to be. But like anyone who has been severly brainwashed by winning consecutive championships on Madden you refuse to believe this. You are white knuckled dug in deep hanging on for dear life to that age of innocence. Wishing that at some point you'd wake up in your jammies know it was all just a bad dream.
But it's not. It's the sobring truth. This team and this franchise in general is in some sort of purgatory. I mean I've know since Week 4 against the Patriots the Dolphins were basicly caught in the tuna net and are going to be pulled aboard a Japanese fishing vessel. But cheese and fucking crackers guys what the fuck was that shit you put out on the field last night(reffering to the Bears/Dolphins game)? What the fuck have you put on the field the past 11 weeks?
Why? Why every year does it have to be this way with this franchise? Was I the Marquis de Sade in a former life and now I am paying for it? Was Satan really present in 72 in order for this team to go undefeated and still be the only one to go undefeated? I have never seen this franchise win shit. Sure I saw Marino break shitload of records. But even with him at qb this team was still doomed. Why you say? Because the Dolphins continue to do the same dumb mistake season after season. They put it all on one guy or one side of the ball to burden the load. The Dolphins have not been a "team" since they won back to back titles in the 1970's. And that was a long fucking time ago!
After Miami signed Marino he was the entire team until JJ came to town. Then we got this great defense that would swoon every late November into December. Why? Because they were fucking exausted from carrying this sack a shit of a franchise. Then JJ spilts and in comes Uncle Dave. JJ snows Wayne that this is the guy. Marino is gone and in comes dreadlocekd Jesus Ricky. Dave puts it all on Ricky and the defense. Do we really need to relive how this went?
Then we get this red ass of a coach (Saban) who winds up pulling a dead beat dad and hauls ass on us. So we get a patsy as coach (Cameron) to be the stop gap and in comes the Tuna. All is well don't worry he's going to make us a winner. And to his credit he did in the first season. So what do we load all the hopes and dreams onto again? Not a player. Not defense, but a unorthodox play formation. The wildcat. But like anything else with the Dolphins it gets overused and the rest of the league figures how to defend it.
The 2010 season really reflects a popular song by Katy Perry. Hot n Cold. Yes I refrenced one of her songs. But an apropos title for them. One week they seem to have it together, then the next they look in contention for a first round pick. Don't let the Oakland game sucker you in Dolphin fans. They looked good. It felt good to really beat a team. However you know the Browns are going to look like a elite team after Sunday. I hope not but by the bi polar antics of the Dolphins this season I am forcasting a total bed shitting by the Dolphins on Sunday. Which is ironic because the team is the Browns.
All you can hope for this 2010 season is that they play spoiler and fuck up New England or New York's season and keep one of them out of the playoffs. It's really crucial they beat both of them so they split. But that's like asking Christopher Reeve to walk when he was alive. So cross your fingers they can at least give one of them a nice big shit burger to eat for the holidays!
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