@wolfen244 The Dolphins were 14-2 and had the number one offense. The 49ers were 15-1 and had the number one defense. The combined record including playoffs was 33-3. The best in Super Bowl history.
@wolfen244 84 niners were definitely one of the best teams ever. However, I don't think those 84 bears were as impressive. They didn't get the Fridge until 85 and in the 84 playoffs they had to play two straight road games aginst Washington and then SF. You're right about Fred Dean and the Steelers game. Miami actually beat Pitt 31-7 which was the worst loss ever at Three Rivers up to that time.
SF was the first team to face the Marino-Dolphins twice. They learned a great deal from this loss and really had a great game plan in SB19. The niners were unquestionably the best team in 1984.
Football played outside on real grass. This was when players wore adult sized shoulder pads. Jerseys were simple with no unnecessary lines and stripes.
You are absolutely right. Everything about this is better than the garbage we have today. From the style of play to the way it's presented, uniforms ,announcers everything. And most of all the officiating. They don't throw a flag after every play. In todays game the offensive player immediately looks around after making a play. He's looking for the flag. They just let them play football. There was no roughing the passer. That nonsense didn't exist until years later.
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Mark Clayton didn't even have the receiver position that year he was just running back kickoffs and punt returns they would a done more that year with Clayton already playing receiver
Maurence Shipley - FACTS! Fins Up.. thanks for posting these games. i was raised on the early 80s Dolphins. these games take me back.. the good ol’ days... thanks!
Dan Marino's first GWD? Game winning drive? How so? The Dolphins scored 20-17 with about 8 minutes left in the quarter. The game was still very much up in that air at that point, and both teams still had multiple drives afterward still trying to score...
What a team that Marino inherited in '83. A No. 1 Defense-Least Points Allowed, and running backs that gained OVER 2,000 yds. rushing. Shula didn't know it yet that Dan would be playoff challenged throughout his career-especially in his biggest games.
Just to explain the above-in Marino's 3 championship game losses he had 4 TD's BUT 6 INT's, a Comp.% of UNDER 50%, an avg. Passer Rating of UNDER 60, and he led his offense to an avg. of only 12 p.p.g. How can a team win championships when their QB is playing like that ??
@@sandramumford817 where are you getting your statistics from because you are way off. I see you commenting a lot on Marino videos downplaying his career, where did he hurt you?? Just for clarification, in Marino's 3 afc championship games, he's thrown 7 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, at least get your facts straight. On top of that, its obvious you just looked up his stats rather than actually watching the games. In the 1992 afc championship vs the bills, he had 3 TD passes dropped in that game alone. Marino didn't win a super bowl because his teams were complete trash, if Dan had the 49ers, he'd have 5-8 rings
As I clearly said-in his 3 champ. game LOSSES. Two of those were Conf. Champ, games (at home no less) and the other was the S.B. loss. I loved watching Marino perform in the Reg. season but who can deny that he was playoff challenged?
By the way, P-F-R did a study that showed Marino gave the Dolphins NEGATIVE VALUE in 10 of his po games, and a value in the single digits in 2 others. Dan's TOTAL PO VALUE was a NEGATIVE 156 compared to Elway, Bradshaw, Montana, etc. whose TOTAL PO VALUE was 500 to 1, 000. Dan was PO challenged !!
Sandra - check out the run yards conceded by the Dolphins in Marino’s 10 playoff losses - 2,111! An average of 211 a game. That’s the main reason for the losses. Most of those games Marino was playing from behind and having to throw caution to the wind. Many of those teams Marino carried to the playoffs
Montana always seemed to pick it up in the big game. I would have liked to see Marino get at least one but he was in the NFL when the NFC was dominant. From 1984- 1997 it was ONLY NFC teams that won the Super owl. Poor Danny boy.
Actually played in another game when Montana was for the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs and the Dolphins won as well 27-17. It was Montana's last game and he hurt his knee he retired after that game.
@@greatriffishere what a stupid comment. Montana was on stacked teams his entire career in SF and Marino was on mediocre to trash teams his entire career. You put Marino on Joe and Steve's niner squads of the 80s-90s, he'd have between 5-10 super bowls
@@gregtrust5599 It was the perfect comment Greg!! Marino had a stacked team in 84 when he was crushed by the 49ers !!! Mark Duper and Mark Clayton were pretty damn good receivers !!! Marino was not a clutch player !!! He folded like a used lawn chair in key situations.
Best Miami Dolphins uniforms ever. Best San Francisco 49ers uniforms ever. Joe Montana, what is the deal with your face mask? It has an extra face bar in it and this is the only year in your entire NFL career you will wear this particular brand of face mask. It is actually rather ugly looking. Two horizontal bars are very close to each other. It must be a type of reinforcement. Apparently, your "normal" face mask must have been damaged at some point in the 10-7 loss to the Rams at Candlestick because every single 1983 game after that you always show up with this particular strange looking face mask. Weird.
At the intro to the game they showed "the NFL's greatest games" the first was the 1980 AFC championship game where they show Dan Fouts hitting Charlie Joiner for the long touchdown, now damn it when are they ever going to give respect to the Raiders? They won that damn game 34-27 but yet they put the Chargers highlight on there to make everyone think THEY won it, but it's ok The Raiders got their respect on Jan. 22nd, 1984.
This "Great Games, Great Moments" montage was from 1986, because that 100 yard kick return by Gerald McNeil against the Steelers was from the Browns' first-ever win at Three Rivers Stadium, which occurred that season, and that 36 yard TD pass from Ken O'Brien to Mickey Shuler gave the Jets a 14-13 win over the Bills at Giants Stadium that same season. Jets didn't move to that stadium until 1984. Why a "Great Games" sequence from 1986 was shown before a game from 1983, IDK.
Watched this game live, and I am commenting before watching it again, and I remember this being one of the four games that campaign that the refs stole. Personal foul call late if I remember right..the fumbles didn't help.
@@kidmack1121 That was a personal foul. No robbery. Have a look at 1:22:00. Even if he had caught the ball, all the LB had to do was touch him, not pounce on him.
@@howardcosell2022 Gr8 point. For some reason they just were better on the road. Even their greatest team ever, 1984, had a better road record (8-0) than home record (7-1).
Attention 1983 San Francisco 49ers !!! This nonsense must stop immediately. You simply must stop losing all these games at home in Candlestick. A loss to the Eagles. A loss to the Rams. A loss to the Jets. And now a loss to the Dolphins and their rookie quarterback with that crazy fast quick release of his that has defenses reeling !! Enough. No more of this, you 1983 49ers. Get it together, especially in front of your home fans. Only 1-4-0 at home to this point in 1983? Not acceptable. Shameful. Bill Walsh, do something . . . . .please!!!
@@jaggedben and it looks as though the refs gave san fransisco the escape from what would a been the only superbowl loss and multi interception blemish in superbowls that 1984 raider team just the defense would a tore the 49ers ass 7 ways apart they were so good washington. Had punked them that year and were still their most challenging competitor the downside is the refs would a been sure to blatantly take the superbowl from the raiders and give it to san fransisco. The refs would have nullifued most or all of the raiders sure multi interceptions with fabricated penalties but joe montana same as fouts any team throwing the ball as much as san fransisco or san diego WOULD HAD GOT at least 2 incercetions in a superbowl 8n joe montanas record in a superbowl
Wsh’s blowout loss in the sb only did more to make the memories enduring of the nfc title game officiating, whoever is right there can be no doubt sf would’ve done much better in that sb
