I was a huge Chargers fan back in the 80s , just loved the way they played football back then. Dan Fouts one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game, shame he never got a Superbowl ring .
Chargers were already on their downward slide by this time, but, to me, this is the last great Air Coryell Charger win. Interesting to see Coryell and his staff out-coach Shula late in the game.
The Dolphins were pretty much Dan Marino and the receivers. Mediocre defense, little running game, even the kicker had a bad year. The offense got them to the Super Bowl, but the 49ers were a much better team.
Thanks for putting these up. Love the Dolphins, but back in the day always had a soft spot for the Chargers. Marino era similar to the Fouts era for their teams.
I thought they were ugly, the yellow pants looked nice so they looked great in the white uniform. That shade of blue just reminds of an old broken down car. But its cool people have different tastes than I do on uniforms
The Miami defense actually forced the San Diego offense into a three and out on three different occasions. 35:46 to 37:42 1:13:00 to 1:16:00 1:18:50 to 1:21:15 Not bad. Nevertheless, the Dolphins gave up 537 yards total offense to the Chargers. Fouts completed 37 passes. San Diego averaged over 4.6 yards a run. San Diego had the ball for 93 plays compared to 63 plays for Miami. This was a total defensive disaster for Miami. Only the 49ers in the Super Bowl would blast them worse than this all season long.
As soon as a seen this I was like, holy COW Dan Fouts! Marino is gonna have to tangle here. Special thanks for another 1984 Dolphins 🐬 game, most of them are available thanks to good fellows like yourself. Super Duper awesome !
one of the most exciting games of all time . special creds to 5'8" charger rb Earnest Jackson , workhorse and playing with a broken hand and to TE Sievers catching a dozen or more just coming off knee surgery
The Chargers were no longer winning consistently at this point, but they could still move the ball and score points, when they had their people together.
I can finally watch the whoe game. I remember watching this live as a kid but had to leave with my parents, but it lasted so long, it was still on when we got back home 😂
We'll look back years from now and know that the 80's were the zenith for the NFL. NO political BS. NO stupid dancing. NO preening or first down showboating. NO dreadlocks out of a helmet. NO kneeling. Just....football.
@Maurence Shipley - Thank you so much for the upload ! One of the most exciting games i ever saw . just like a good novel you don't know who will win till the very last moment . Can't believe still under 10k views
I love the gutsiness of those old Charger teams. They pick off Marino deep in their own territory...Fouts dropping back to his own goal line and he's just firing bombs (Duckworth catches the 2nd one) just a fun offense that felt they could move the ball at will and weren't afraid of mistakes Duckworth had such an unreal/bizarre season regarding YPC. 700+ receiving yards...25 catches. All he did was catch bombs
I knew San Diego would win this because of Dan Fouts.. Old Master against the Young Gun. Both ran similar offense.. both defense was similar.. bend but don't break.. Miami's Defense was weak against the run.. Dan called a Great game.. mixed the pass and running game at the right time.. No Winslow..game in San Diego.. equals a San Diego win. Still this game and the Raiders at Redskins game in 83 were my favorite Regular Season games of the 80s!
Marino was already better in 84 than Fouts ever was. Miami's defence was not only bad vs the run, but atrocious vs any passer. How he (Marino) dragged that team kicking and screaming into the Super bowl i'll never know.
1983 51-48 Seahawks over Chiefs was best game of the 1980,s. Seahawks swept 1983 Raiders in their Superbowl year. Then beat Miami soundly. In Orange Bowl. Don Shula,s 2nd playoff loss at home.
Nah... This version was too "busy" for me. The additions of another color outline on the numbers, and the blue background stripe on the pants were needless & resulted in a busy & cluttered look. I thought they improved dramatically the next year with the switch to white pants, more white trim & believe a touch darker shade of blue. Instant classics - especially the white over whites. 👌🏈👍
Incredible! That neither Fouts nor Marino could never win 1 Superbowl and usually flopped in the playoffs. Especially when they were the favorites. I guess the same goes for Kelly and Tarkenton.
Neither guy had the team around him to win the SB. I was at that Seattle game. Even thought it was in Miami, the weather was terrible, raining and cold. And Marino had injured his knew a few weeks earlier and was not at full strength.
It helps a lot of you can make a few key plays with your legs in the playoffs. Neither could do that, Jim Plunkett always came through with some key runs for the Raiders.
@@ckobo84were u trying to compare Plunkett to Marino and Fouts? That's funny,, do u also think griese was better than Marino, because he had 2 rings,to Marino's none,?
19 plays over 90 yards and 10 minutes to tie the game with one minute left in the fourth quarter keeping 1984 Marino on the bench?!?! Masterful Fouts drive! I was there!!😀😀
I love this era of Marino and Marks Bros but since I was ten here and it was my first year truly understanding how the game is played and my team obviously the Dolphins,for all them years Dan had those two WR's I never realized until YT started posting all thei old games,cuz when I was young I grew up in CT so only got a little more then a handful of FIN games,just how many dropped passes between them, including many sure TD's, although I still see them as very good and still very dangerous WR's I really cant ever say ELITE again as I thought well into my 30's lol😂,Now I do see why there was no HOF consideration but they were still AWESOME in an incredible unforgettable golden era of football,how I miss those days and Imo much less SCRIPTING going on,probably zero technology also!!But there was ALWAYS money dominating it,so the RIGGING was just as prevalent imo!!
Love the 80s and Dan Marino. But so many plays that would've been penalties in today's game. Look at the 35 minute point and see DE clip Marino at the knees on his TD pass.. This was a normal play in 1980s
That Dolphins defense was pretty bad at times, especially to the Chargers and Fouts. Never really recovered after 1983 and AJ Duhe's injuries. They tried with Hugh Green and John Offerdahl, but they had their own injuries in time. It really wasn't until after Marino retired that the Dolphins had a great defense again (Zach Thomas, Jason Taylor, Sam Madison, Patrick Surtain, Tim Bowens, Daryl Gardener...so many greats). Kinda nuts when you think about it.
Wonder if the '72 team celebrated after this game. It was the Dolphins first loss of the season. They had a pretty damn good team that year despite getting hammered by the 49ers Super Bowl XIX.
Wow those pre-1985 Chargers Blue Jerseys with Yellow Pants. Not as good as 79-83 but better than 85. The worst was when they went to the really dark blue Jerseys in 88.
The Miami Dolphins could of easily been the team of the 80's,they were that good.This team would of in my opinion would of destroyed these so called good teams of today.This team was dominant in both sides of the field.I know because I grew up in the 1980's,and I watched this team
That's not even close to being true. In 1982, they tried to win the Super Bowl with David Woodley at QB. No way. After Marino came, the defense collapsed. They were a good team but not anywhere close to the NFC teams. And they certainly weren't dominant on the defensive side. As for today, the Dolphins would get killed. The teams today are much bigger and faster and more athletic. I went to night law school with Ed Newman, guard for the Dolphins. He was a big man by normal standards, but a midget by today's standards. Those teams would have no chance against the teams of today.
@@marcschneider4845 Killer Bees were born in 1977, by 78 in playoffs lost WC , 1979 , lost Div, 1981 lost Div, 1982 lost SB , 1983, lost Div , 1984, lost SB, 1985, lost , Conf ,history of last good Dolphin defenses , but never good enough .Marino came in on their last 3 yrs, Then AVG defense the rest of his career .
Saw the second half of this wild game. Was at the Cowboys at Bills game earlier that day. This game featured one of just two Miami losses during the regular season. That 14-3 Bills win over Dallas, was one of just two the Bills had in 1984.
1:14:32 it was a shame that great long ball catch by the receiver was called offensive interference . imho it was the wrong call by the refs . no, im not a chargers fan either .
This is one of my favorite games! 83 Raiders/Redskins is my Top One to this day! Marino is my age (I'm 6 months older) I told everyone that week prior I thought Fouts would expose thar Defense.. I didn't believe in Miami as a whole.. Loved Marino and wanted my Baltimore Colts draft him instead of Elway.. I knew Fouts wasn't going to concede the passing of the torch sort of speak.. He was going to show the Young Man what his Offense can do also.. 11-0 Miami Dolphins had outscored some Teams or played Offensive challenged Teams who wasn't explosive.. San Diego Chargers were.. This was a Classic game.. Quarterback play in this one was like Mahomes/Allen of last season's AFC Divisional Playoff..
What an All-Time match up this was! Dan Marino, aka Dan "The Man" Marino vs Dan Fouts, aka "Thunder" Dan Fouts, or as I always called him "The Lumberjack" 😉 Even tho I had been a Dolphin fan (had to get off that narcotic bout 5yrs ago) since I was 9, I'm still glad I watched this game, just to watch a game without challenges, without choreographed end zone dances, without players posing & do'n all different kinds of disrespectful 💩 after every decent play they make 🙄 Just to watch the beautiful game of Football being played like it was intended to be played 😍 Most of all, to watch 2 All-Time Legendary Greats throw down against each other!! 💪🤩👍!! How many TD's, How many yards per season are these two Badasses throw'n for in today's NFL 🤔... 65, 70 TD's & 6500-7000 yards in a season? Hey, a guy can dream can't he 😉 Thanks for posting this! 💪😁
You may have missed "The fun bunch" Washington Redskins were doing choreographed high fives all the time. Sure, it's not like modern NFL players, but a lot of people in that era thought anything that drew attention to players as individuals was being "disrespectful".
The Fins lost 3 games that year - all to California...Chargers, Faiders, Fortywhiners... That SD crowd looks like a happy bunch just weeks after losing the World Series, and rooting for another lukewarm Charger team LOL
Are you actually insinuating they had a running game and didn’t try to use it ? You saw their opening drive correct? Woody Bennett on a run fumbles the ball away at the SD 1 which really costs them the game. In their other regular season loss to the Raiders, Pete Johnson gets stopped on a 4th & goal at the Raider 1, another lost 7 points. In the SB, they couldn’t run on the 49ers even when they played with 3 DL for most of the game. They didn’t run more because they simply weren’t good at it.
Francesco Avila - Dan Fouts would kill for Marino’s career and 1 Super Bowl appearance. By the way, Griese won 2 Super Bowls and played in 3. He can’t hold Marino’s jock.
@@SS-th9wz Dan Marino's career! Oh you mean getting embarrassed in his one and only S.B appearance,and then spending the next fifteen seasons padding his numbers against week a.f.c. east competition??Dan Fouts has roughly the same stats as Marino..Dan Fouts appeared in more playoff games,some iconic playoff games at that.Dan Fouts went on to become a famous football commentator..Dan Fouts is worth an estimated 150 million U.S. dollars..Dan Marino has disappeared since the end of his playing days and went on to open many now failed business ventures.!!
These QBs faced real blitzes, took low hits, hard hits and had to throw into real coverage. Tired of hearing how great that smug clown in Kansas City is. Haha!
