Seeing you in this comment section after seeing you in a dorktown comment section is enough to tell me you’re a gentleman and a scholar (in case your videos weren’t already enough)
@@morezombies9685don’t want to get 73 points cuz you don’t want to pass 72 and tie the record. But you also don’t want to try and pass 72 cuz bad things happen (all teams that tried to beat the 72 dolphins record ended up failing).
As a dolphins fan, weve been so bad my entire life, ive had nothing to root for but when he said that line it gave me a little faith that under mcdaniel that karma will come back and help them.
"35 years ago, the Dolphins were on their way to being immortalized in the record books. Now, these Dolphins are fighting for the right to be forgotten" - damn that's powerful
My dad is a lifelong Dolphins fan. He was born in 72’, and has seen all the ups and downs. I showed him this video when it first came up. I think it meant more than I could ever know. Thanks Emp for this heartwarming tale.
I'm a lifelong Dolphins fan because of my grandfather. He gave me a book that he bought at the Orange Bowl gift shop in 1971, simply entitled "The Miami Dolphins" by Morris T. McLemore. This book written before 1972 somehow had a prophetic understanding of something extremely special coming to the NFL and for the Dolphins. The book ends with the Dolphins losing the 1971 Super Bowl. The final line is: "These gentle giants of the pits, they hear bells other men never know."
My uncle, Bob Kuechenberg, was an offensive lineman on that undefeated 1972 Dolphins roster. Very cool to see you mention him in this video! His brother Rudy was also a linebacker for the Chicago Bears. Great video Emp, also enjoyed the Jet Neptune interview
Kuechenberg was a good lineman; he saw four of Miami’s five Super Bowl teams to date I believe (wasn’t he there for Dan Marino’s first season but not his second). Along with Jim Langer and Larry Little who made the Hall of Fame, he was a key blocker that helped their backfield thrive, and also would have blocked for the rushers of the 1982 team that had the Killer B’s, and made the Super Bowl with David Woodley at quarterback.
This probably the only dude on TH-cam who could get me to watch an hour long video about a sport I care almost nothing about. Plus he manages to keep it interesting. Really great work!
“35 years ago, the Dolphins were on their way to being immortalized in the record books. Now, these Dolphins are fighting for the right to be forgotten.” Hard.
The funny thing is other teams attempted the same thing, the JETS even attempted the same thing and they all got turned away but the jets cried about it and the patriots were basically the scapegoat
@@seemyjohn spygate. prior to the coaches' speaker in the qbs/mikes' ear, teams used to record opposing coaches hand signals to know what they're doing beforehand. alot of teams did this and the NFL sent out a memo saying no more filming opposing sidelines but the patriots kept doing it. League said enough and ended up punishing the Pats hard by taking a first and fining Bill Belicheck $500k. The whole situation was blown out of proportion and actually many coaches in the NFL defended the Patriots saying they did the same thing and filming opposing sidelines was a known thing in the football world.
"Some day, not too long from now, they'll all be reunited for the final time. and on that day, I hope they remember to bring champagne." is such an incredibly beautiful line of my god
@@ljafrainVikings are the definition of objectively good, but rarely the best. They have no titles, but have not had a streak of more than three losing seasons or more than four non playoff seasons since the mid 60’s.
Emp is one of the best storytellers when it comes to bringing things around full circle. Just as you forget, he brings it back and reminds you “We May Never Lose Again”
@@pizzaboynick8759One other team that did technically go undefeated and deserves a shoutout is the 1948 Browns, albeit in the AAFC (but still, that’s 15-0)
Every payoff in his videos is so good and he even pays such good homage to payoffs within the story: Case in Point> I laughed for a good 5 seconds after seeing the Delivery truck marked “NY Giants” in the Perfectville media skit 49:21 😌👌🏻 Masterclass Material.
You have a gift of making people care about things they don't normally care about. I couldn't give a rat's ass about sports, but your narration just has a way of captivating me.
This is the truest thing. From smash bros melee competitions to nascar and now football (among other odd topics) I seldom become as captivated as when emplemon is guiding me through the topic at hand.
This story is not about sports, that is why it sucked you in. It is about mathematics, probability, phycology and a little bit of superstition thrown in. The human condition is what was on display, the sport is just the vehicle he used.
@@thejunkmanA lot of people enjoy sports because of the narratives you can find within them. It's easy to reduce sports to "man chase ball", which I'm guilty of doing sometimes, but like most things there is more to it than what you see at the surface level. Not that it's super big brained or anything - my brother calls sports soap operas for men haha
Australian here, don't know much about NFL, but this was truly captivating. I hope I find a channel like yours one day to cover our national sports one day.
I would highly recommend watching a documentary on the '07 Giants season then. Emplemon could've milked that for way more, our Giants team had everything; a hard nose coach, long term vet on the brink of retirement, a terrible start, and once the players started believing in each other, our defense played lights out. Every game was a battle that led to history
I'm European, but I just watched an hour-long documentary about American football in one sitting and I'll tell you what, I was HOOKED. That's the power of Emp. He's able to tell a gripping story about anything and everything. He's hidden gem in today's TH-cam.
Watch the "the art of the choke" one of the greatest sports docu's ever made. This guy is nothing short of a genious... wait until hes nerding out in a couple years with 10 mill subs. This is no channel to sleep on
The influence of the Dolphins culturally is huge. As someone who lives in Australia, I have no idea about NFL except for the Patriots, and the Miami Dolphins. Sporting bodies sometimes go beyond their usual fans and into wider recognition
Never underestimate Emp’s ability to utterly enthrall you for an hour on a subject you otherwise would literally give zero shits about Well done my man, well done
Dude is the king of injecting alternate storylines into his subject matter. Very creative, thorough, & observant. I never thought I’d get an essay on the impossibility of the pursuit of perfection & the seemingly unnecessary, childish fear of superstitions & karma from a video about a football team until he took it home. Truly a creator.
I grew up in Indianapolis, watching football from birth. By the end of the '71 season I had just turned 10 and had become pretty familiar with all the teams, but I hadn't chosen a favorite to be "mine". Geographically, the Bengals or the Bears made sense, but I decided to ignore proximity. I chose the Dolphins during that off-season, mostly for a reason that seems silly in hindsight: I liked their uniform colors. But my selection and timing was just right. For years after that, my bedroom wall was adorned with a large poster of Larry Csonka busting through a bunch of Redskin defenders. And although I have adopted various teams over the decades as I've moved around, I still have a special place in my heart for the "One-Two Punch" of Griese-Csonka, receiver Paul Warfield, and all the rest. Every year, if any team starts to string together a number of wins, I start to get protective and find myself rooting against them until they fall.
It's worth mentioning that the 2007 season was the season of the Spygate scandal when the Patriots were recording the other coaches' signals outside of the appropriate contexts for doing so, and it was deemed such a violation by the league that Belichick was given the max fine allowed ($500K) and the Patriots were stripped of their 1st round pick in the 2008 draft. That was a big part of why many outside of New England didn't want to see the Patriots go all the way at the time. It wasn't just about preserving the novelty of the 72' Dolphins, it was about preserving the purity of the perfect season.
The “outside of the appropriate context” is a MASSIVE detail people gloss over when talking ab spygate tho. Pats never filmed anything they weren’t allowed to and gained no real competitive advantage
@@vyor8837 not really, unless you think filming the exact same thing from a different location means you’re filming something completely different but atp you’re just being absurd lmao
My great uncle played on the 72 Dolphins. When we lost him a few years back, I imagined him being met by Mr. Morrall, and Mr. Yepremian with a glass of champagne. So, when you said that last line, and I heard the opening drum roll of a song that had been played for me since I was in the cradle, I choked up a little. Thank you for helping keep their memory alive.
If you want me to give up my anonymity on site with hundreds of millions of users, all for the belief of a complete stranger, you’ve lost your mind. I shared an anecdote about an emotional response to the video. I owe you nothing more.
Emp, not gonna lie, I suggest doing more sports themed content like this. This is gold. The same way Art of the Choke was gold. Keep this up. Please. Also I enjoy the UrinatingTree cameo appearance at 8:23 btw lol
As a Giants fan, that Superbowl was the wildest, most winding rollercoaster of emotion and the greatest case of schadenfreude I would ever experience in my life. Nothing better than shattering your rival's god complex
If you ever ask yourself for some reason "Do I make good videos?", just know that I am an European who don't care about American Football I literally still don't know any of the rules of it and never watch anything about it, and I loved this video. I can tell you know how good you are at writing endings to videos too, you always bring it back very nicely. That's a skill not a lot of ppl have on here. If it ever came out that you plagiarized someone's storytelling like some other guy on this website that I used to say the same about did I would be very sad, cus the writing of your videos is really good.
As a Giants fan, it was a joy to see how our win has become historic from trying to prevent history. Beating the 18-0 Patriots turned me into a fan forever
The saddest part of being a life long dolphins fan in the 21st century is that the giants winning that game was the most excited ive been watching a football game and it wasnt even my team 😂
As a dolphins fan, I remember being at a superbowl party with a bunch of Patriots and Giants fans in college. I was hugging and high fiving all the Giants fans at the end. I will never forget what they did for our legacy.
I'm from Miami, and I remember my middle school teacher being obsessed with the Dolphins, older fellow, in his 60's now, retired 5 years back. He'd sit us down with a far off look of awe in his eyes and talk to us about how he sneaked into the Orange Bowl to watch the '72 Dolphins play, that little Miami Dolphins chant being sung while he was bored all the time. I was an egghead and didn't care much about sports, in a way it was even a little annoying, but for the first time in my life, I finally now understand why. For once I can fully comprehend the gravity of what he witnessed, and why to this day his faith in his team remains unwavering. He's now got another fan too, thanks for everything, Emp.
The experience of "chasing perfection", in my experience, isn't all too analogous to chasing something; it's closer to having one side of yourself being pulled towards it while the other recognizes its impossibility, and thus is repelled by it - until, eventually, you rip yourself apart in its pursuit.
As a Fins fan, I’d like to say thank you. This is definitely one of our greatest achievements and it means a lot to us. This whole video told the story great, and the fight song at the end really hit home. So again, thank you, for this masterpiece.
A lifelong Dolphins fan, my childhood started with the perfect season in my 7th year. You have so perfectly encapsulated my football watching life as I certainly did not realize how special my first year of watching and paying attention to football was when it happened. I thought the Lombardi was my teams birthright as they won it twice when I was very young and now sadly they have never gotten it again. Since those two seasons, the happiest I have been while watching football was the 85 Dolphins takedown of the Bears and the 07 Giants takedown of the evil empire! The futility of the Dolphins throughout the first 20 years of this century nearly destroyed my love for this game. Now, 51 years later I am excited watching my own team again and TRULY appreciated the 70 points put up against the Broncos. I await this season's ending with excitement and true hope for this year and the future as McDaniel looks to be the true heir of Don Shula's legacy. Just bringing winning back to Miami is warming my frozen football heart. God Bless Emp for making this wonderful video!
@@theEWDSDS sigh… I’m a Steelers fan. List of teams j want to win the superbowl most each year in order and why. 1. Bills As a child I witnessed the greatest and most dominant football team in the 90’s lose 4 superbowls in a row. They won me so much money in Tecmo Bowl tournaments my dad and uncle had… and they just… lost and lost and lost and lost in the superbowl. It was depressing… 2. Bengals So I can make a T shirt and hat that’s got a list of every AFC north team that’s not only been to a Super Bowl but won one. If the bengals win this year that list would be Ravens with 2-0, Bengals 1-2, Steelers 6-2, and the Browns at 0-0. I would proudly wear that shit in Cleveland and go to every browns home game wearing that shit :). 3. Steelers I’m a Steelers fan. Of course I want them to win. 4. Lions… sorta.. If they go that’s good enough. If they win cool too. It would make the browns the “oldest” team to never be there. Hoping the Jags make it too so the browns are literally the oldest team to never go instead of the fake oldest team (browns are a 1999 expansion team… jags came before. If Lions make it the Browns pretending the Ravens record is theirs is the oldest. But it if we step out of imagination land and the jags and lions make it the browns are the actual oldest tk never make it.) I hate the browns.
You are the man Emp! A Dale Earnhardt video. A Talladega video. Now a Dolphins video?!?! If I believed in such things, I'd swear we are spirit animals!! Thank you for the excellent content...
As a Dolphins fan since 84, thank you for this trip down memory lane and when all the 72 Dolphins are gone, us fans will carry on their legacy by celebrating whenever the last undefeated team loses.
YOU ARE THE GREATEST TH-camR EmpLemon. You’re probably the only one who can give me literal chills with your editing, music choices, and storytelling. You’ve mastered the art of building tension and suspense and the all too elusive release. Not only that, but I have been trying to get more into sports in general over the past few years, and your videos on football, baseball and nascar have shown me why it is that people care so much about all this. Like modern day myths, or as close to superheroes you can get. These teams and players have legends built around them. And the passion people have for their cities and their teams, is fully displayed in the content you create. I finally understand, and I am partially in debt to you for that. Good game, cheers!
I don't even care about sports at all, but i make sure to see every one of Emp's videos. He makes sports interesting in a way i just don't get from watching them on TV or hearing about them from fans.
I have always fuckin loved the idea of ghosts of players past coming into the game to defend or even aid in defeating their records. Always has a good vibe to me.
The writing is just incredible. I don't think anybody on this platform has as many potent one liners as you. Fantastic video, eagerly awaiting the next
While I'm glad Emp acknowledged the incredible feat of Man City reaching 100 points in a single Prem season, it's a shame he didn't mention Arsenal's "Invincible" season of 2003-4, when they became the only Premier League team to date to not lose a single game all season - 26 wins and 12 draws.
He did say that undefeated =/= perfect. This was about perfectville. Perfect means a lot more than undefeated. It was about winning, not avoiding to lose.
I know everyone has said it before, but I don't give a DAMN about sports and your videos about it still manage to be interesting and engaging. Keep on keepin' on.
I'm 67; I was raised on football, and until 2008, my favorite game, was the Jets > Colts in SBIII. But then, with all the 'perfect' talk about the Pats, they even started publishing a book about their perfect season, the Giants got their revenge for that regular season loss, and that became my favorite superbowl game, ever. I don't think I'll live long enough to see another perfect season; those Dolphins were great, but also had just enough luck to get them that famous moniker: PERFECT.
As a lifelong dolphin fan, this is my first time watching one of your videos. You made me laugh, you made me cry. Thank you for this gift to all dolfans. You have gained another subscriber. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Sports are so fun to watch because of the anxiety that comes with it. Football, soccer, baseball, etc all have their share of anxiety ridden seasons. The 72 Dolphins where in a league in their own
@@RAAM855 Those teams certainly are impressive, but they are college teams. Their competition is pretty good, but not the best of the best, as it is in professional sports.
@@aleksandersaame9417 Yeah when your average team is as good as they are at the professional level, things like "perfect games" really do become literal statistical flukes.
I knew every single beat of this story from beginning to end, because I've been a football fan all my life. How could I not know. And yet, I still watched it, and enjoyed the privilege of reliving so many football memories all at once. Thanks, Emp.
This was a nice trip down memory lane combined with a really good story about the league in general. I grew up in south Florida in the 80's and 90's and went to so many of the Dolphins games.. My dad produced the television broadcasts for the home games in the early to mid 80's so we were always around the stadium and I still have a few pictures of me with Don Shula and my dad down on the field. I was also in the boy scouts with the son of '72 Dolphins LDT Manny Fernandez. Even in the 90's he was still a big and intimidating guy but had a heart of gold and loved making us all laugh. I have so many good memories from my childhood tied to this team and this video really brought a smile to my face. It might've invoked a few tears in the process.
45:54 Emplemon has become such master at integrating music within his videos, it really adds an entirely new layer to his already great scripts and editing skills
This is a great companion to the Art of the Choke video. I would love a NEVER EVER episode on Don Bradman and his status as possibly the greatest sportsperson of all time, especially because he's probably not very well known to Americans. Emp Lemon has such a great way of talking about sports in an entertaining way.
God hearing Miami Dolphins #1 got me so nostalgic. I ain't a huge sports person, was only born in 2k, but hearing that song brings back fuzzy memories of going to The Big Cheese with my family and soaking in the atmosphere.
I'm American, and I hate (watching) football. But holy hell was this documentary a banger. Emp never, ever disappoints, no matter the subject. Truly a gifted creator.
Thank you Emp. As a Giants fan coming across one of the worst games in the history of our franchise, I needed this. There isn't much pride in being a Giants fan this year, but this makes me realize our legacy of beating the titans of the sport may be even deeper than we realized. We may not have the honor of the perfect team like the Dolphins do, but we have another honor. The perfection slayers. If you get too close to perfection, the Giants will be the team to bring you down to earth. You highlighted several of these moments, including the greatest game in our team history, and I thank you for doing this at a time when we have little to cheer for in the present. So enjoy your one-of-a-kind honor Miami. If you managed to beat us that year, then you truly are the chosen ones, and I guess we are the ones chosen to slay any threats. Another great video from EmpLemon to help the team he probably wasn't even thinking about when making it. List of Last Undefeated NFL Teams to lose to the New York Football Giants (I regret nothing) 1932 Green Bay Packers: 8-0-1 - 10-3-1 1934 Chicago Bears: 13-0 - 13-1 1938 Washington Redskins: 2-0-1 - 6-3-2 1946 Chicago Bears: 3-0-1 - 9-3-1 1958 Baltimore Colts: 6-0 - 10-3 1963 Cleveland Browns: 6-0 - 10-4 1979 Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 5-0 - 11-7 1996 Minnesota Vikings: 4-0 - 9-8 1998 Denver Broncos: 13-0 - 17-2 2007 New England Patriots: 18-0 - 18-1 2010 Chicago Bears: 3-0 - 11-6
The 2011 Giants were robbed against the Packers in their regular season matchup. The refs ruled Jake Ballard out of bounds on his TD catch, even though his knees touched down in the end zone. They were basically a bad call away from ending the Packers' perfect streak.
I am truly speechless. This is just such a masterclass of storytelling. Emp, you are truly the greatest out there. Every time you upload I treat it as a must-see event. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
@fortynights1513 Yea, he had bad luck with timing. When he joined the team, they were aging into a rebuild, but he was so good from the start that they were too good to get high draft picks.
Can’t say I’m happier when I see any other person uploaded than EmpLemon. Genuinely, you’re the best channel I’m aware of and your videos push the boundaries of what people view as “Standard TH-cam Content.” Keep up the good work, Emp.
Your story telling ability is practically unmatched. I do not watch sports like almost ever, but this is so fascinating it makes me want to hang around a league, s championship or a team like that in case I witness history.
Man, watching that Dan Marino footage took me back to my childhood. I sorta got into football when I was 5 because the Carolina Panthers were formed that year. I also gravitated to the Dolphins just because I loved their uniform colors. Even though I knew jackshit about football, it seemed like Marino was throwing at double speed compared to everyone else. Dude had a ballistic missile for a right arm. Also at, 28:44 the official "playin' the saints" theme.
This feels spiritually very similar to the work of Jon Bois and Secret Base, especially the recent series about the history of the Minnesota Vikings. You both have a serious talent for using numbers on a timeline to tell a cohesive and captivating story. Well done!
I love the comment at the end about bad things happening when you try to pass 72, almost like the number itself has some supernatural weight behind it. Really great stuff.
I know quite literally nothing about football other than recognizing a few team names and knowing the most basic rules, but I love watching all of these videos. Something about your pacing, vocals, editing, and whatnot is just absolute hypnosis
I knew the joy I had as a Pats fan after the art of the choke video would ultimately be followed up by the closest pursuit of perfection spoiled video, but in the end I love this comprehensive storytelling
How you collect all this data and present it in such an entertaining way just blows my mind. I discovered you after the "Art of the Choke" video and I've been captivated ever since. Keep putting out videos, man. Your videos are a day 1 must watch.
hope you've seen jon bois vids. arguably the og sports nerd documentary specialist. if you haven't seen "why do i choose this for living" you aren't living
I will never ever forget that hail mary as long as I live. Moments like that are the quintessential magic of sport, the impossible does happen, David does slay Goliath, and just when you think you've got it all figured out, the game goes and checks you with a wild result or play. Long live sports.
Fins fan for as long as i can remember, I clicked for the title, but stayed for the insane high value editing and infographics. Amazing video from start to finish!
Really great video
The Quest To Beat 72 Dolphins
The Dolphin Limit
"this is how Arcus broke Tecmo Bowl"
Seeing you in this comment section after seeing you in a dorktown comment section is enough to tell me you’re a gentleman and a scholar (in case your videos weren’t already enough)
@SummoningSalt Well, if anyone knows about how to make videos celebrating absurd achievements in highly technical and competitive fields...
“Everyone knows that bad things happen when you try to pass 72.”
That was the hardest line I’ve ever heard from one of your videos. You’re a genius
Can you explain why?
@@morezombies9685don’t want to get 73 points cuz you don’t want to pass 72 and tie the record. But you also don’t want to try and pass 72 cuz bad things happen (all teams that tried to beat the 72 dolphins record ended up failing).
So fucking cold lmao
As a dolphins fan, weve been so bad my entire life, ive had nothing to root for but when he said that line it gave me a little faith that under mcdaniel that karma will come back and help them.
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“bad things happen when you try to pass 72” is one of the most perfect lines in any video to tie the whole thing together
Bro they chose to score 70 instead of 73 i love it
Okay Dan calm down
Doesn’t even just apply to football. Look what happened to the Warriors is 2016
@@itzlucaaa6789holy shit
sent a chill down my spine.
"35 years ago, the Dolphins were on their way to being immortalized in the record books. Now, these Dolphins are fighting for the right to be forgotten" - damn that's powerful
I actually remember hitler saying something similar to this too on September 1st 1945 when I was with him in the fuhrerbunker
@@merucrypoison296 YOU WHAT?
@@jonathananker9671 ❤️
This line really keeps coming back into my head every now and then
Still the only team to be perfect not even patriots with Brady could do it lol
That “NO GOOD!” From Jim Mandich was such a raw display of positive emotion that I couldn’t help but crack a smile for the guy
yep
The "HA" is what did it for me
Always loved listening to him and Joe Rose on the radio.
"We're not going down for that one, baby!!"
My dad is a lifelong Dolphins fan. He was born in 72’, and has seen all the ups and downs. I showed him this video when it first came up. I think it meant more than I could ever know. Thanks Emp for this heartwarming tale.
My Dad was also a diehard fins fan even though we're from New Orleans. He would have loved to have seen this and would be proud of his team this year.
As a lifelong bills fan, Your dad is a legend
@@deanstanley2125 RIP pops. I'm a broncos fan, but I'm sad he didn't get to see the dolphins go nuts. Football is for the people.
Besides the 72 season, I loved the 84 Dolphins the most
I keep forgetting people born in the 70s are in their 50's and not in their 20s, like I was used to thinking for a majority of my life.
I'm a lifelong Dolphins fan because of my grandfather. He gave me a book that he bought at the Orange Bowl gift shop in 1971, simply entitled "The Miami Dolphins" by Morris T. McLemore. This book written before 1972 somehow had a prophetic understanding of something extremely special coming to the NFL and for the Dolphins. The book ends with the Dolphins losing the 1971 Super Bowl. The final line is: "These gentle giants of the pits, they hear bells other men never know."
Wow,
I think that's all I can bring myself to say about that.
Hey, your profile pic is Pretty Good™
@@marvinuhilarious If you are referring to mine, then thank you.
@@dynamicwarfare Nah he didn't tag you so probably referring to dylan.
@@GodplayGamerZulul Its been 2 months my friend, we may never know whom they truly refer to.
My uncle, Bob Kuechenberg, was an offensive lineman on that undefeated 1972 Dolphins roster. Very cool to see you mention him in this video! His brother Rudy was also a linebacker for the Chicago Bears. Great video Emp, also enjoyed the Jet Neptune interview
:o thats sick
no way your uncle was kuechenberg! that:s amazing
That’s so cool
Kuechenberg was a good lineman; he saw four of Miami’s five Super Bowl teams to date I believe (wasn’t he there for Dan Marino’s first season but not his second).
Along with Jim Langer and Larry Little who made the Hall of Fame, he was a key blocker that helped their backfield thrive, and also would have blocked for the rushers of the 1982 team that had the Killer B’s, and made the Super Bowl with David Woodley at quarterback.
That's amazing man truly
“Bad things happen when you try to pass 72” you just blew my mind. Go Dolphins
This probably the only dude on TH-cam who could get me to watch an hour long video about a sport I care almost nothing about. Plus he manages to keep it interesting. Really great work!
watch jon bois, hes another guy who could get you to watch an hour long video about a sport you care almost nothing about
Now you can finally see why people like the NFL
SecretBase/Jon Bois would like a word
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And on Halloween
“35 years ago, the Dolphins were on their way to being immortalized in the record books. Now, these Dolphins are fighting for the right to be forgotten.”
Hard.
And the only acknowledgment of having been that bad is having the top pick in the next draft.
In their case, Jake Long.
"Take us out of the history books, we are not taking that one!"
"Bad things happen when you pass 72." That is such a good fucking line.
Was super clever
i literally screamed it was so good
Honestly!
For a second there I thought he wasn't acknowledging the Patriots near perfect season because of scandals. 😂
yes
The funny thing is other teams attempted the same thing, the JETS even attempted the same thing and they all got turned away but the jets cried about it and the patriots were basically the scapegoat
Pretty sure it’s on the thumbnail
What's the scandal?
@@seemyjohn spygate. prior to the coaches' speaker in the qbs/mikes' ear, teams used to record opposing coaches hand signals to know what they're doing beforehand. alot of teams did this and the NFL sent out a memo saying no more filming opposing sidelines but the patriots kept doing it. League said enough and ended up punishing the Pats hard by taking a first and fining Bill Belicheck $500k. The whole situation was blown out of proportion and actually many coaches in the NFL defended the Patriots saying they did the same thing and filming opposing sidelines was a known thing in the football world.
Crazy how full circle Miami comes with that 70 point game and your line about "Trying to pass 72"
One of the best storytellers on the internet.
up there with internet historian and summoning salt
@@mattnic001summoning salt, yes
Someone put respect on lemmino’s names
Facts
@@mattnic001Jon Bois might be the absolute best one
"Some day, not too long from now, they'll all be reunited for the final time. and on that day, I hope they remember to bring champagne." is such an incredibly beautiful line of my god
And then just ending it off with, the fight song
Gary anderson missing that field goal in the nfc championship game is the perfect encapsulation of what it means to be a vikings fan
Dante Culpeper is LAUGHING
And then shit like last Sunday happens and it pulls you in again.
But yeah its mainly pain.
**punches table** DAMN
@@ljafrainVikings are the definition of objectively good, but rarely the best.
They have no titles, but have not had a streak of more than three losing seasons or more than four non playoff seasons since the mid 60’s.
Brother I feel for you used to be a San Diego fan... Heck all the teams I've rooted for never won a championship haha.
one of my favorite endings to any of your videos
Same :)
It's always fun to see one channel I'm subscribed to in the comments of another.
Taladega is still on top though
Same.@@OtakuUnitedStudio
nah
Emp is one of the best storytellers when it comes to bringing things around full circle. Just as you forget, he brings it back and reminds you “We May Never Lose Again”
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yes
That and the first and last almost undefeated teams he mentioned both were beaten by the giants
@@pizzaboynick8759One other team that did technically go undefeated and deserves a shoutout is the 1948 Browns, albeit in the AAFC (but still, that’s 15-0)
Every payoff in his videos is so good and he even pays such good homage to payoffs within the story: Case in Point> I laughed for a good 5 seconds after seeing the Delivery truck marked “NY Giants” in the Perfectville media skit 49:21 😌👌🏻 Masterclass Material.
“By now, everyone knows that bad things happen when you try to pass 72.”
Brilliant line.
You have a gift of making people care about things they don't normally care about. I couldn't give a rat's ass about sports, but your narration just has a way of captivating me.
This is the truest thing. From smash bros melee competitions to nascar and now football (among other odd topics) I seldom become as captivated as when emplemon is guiding me through the topic at hand.
This story is not about sports, that is why it sucked you in. It is about mathematics, probability, phycology and a little bit of superstition thrown in. The human condition is what was on display, the sport is just the vehicle he used.
@@thejunkmanfound the alt account
@@thejunkmanA lot of people enjoy sports because of the narratives you can find within them. It's easy to reduce sports to "man chase ball", which I'm guilty of doing sometimes, but like most things there is more to it than what you see at the surface level. Not that it's super big brained or anything - my brother calls sports soap operas for men haha
@@sippingthe Sorry, I don't understand?
the " bad things happen when you try to pass 72" metaphor was so fucking good
it's even true for another sport. The 16' Golden State Warriors broke the Chicago Bulls 72-10 record, only to lose in the finals. LOL.
well i’ll be damned
You are damned 😕
On Halloween too🤩
Why
For eternity
When will you become damned?
Australian here, don't know much about NFL, but this was truly captivating. I hope I find a channel like yours one day to cover our national sports one day.
Hey man, you never know with Emp lol
the history of the world swearing cup
The history of how short can we get these stubbies
History of Sport, C*nt
I would highly recommend watching a documentary on the '07 Giants season then. Emplemon could've milked that for way more, our Giants team had everything; a hard nose coach, long term vet on the brink of retirement, a terrible start, and once the players started believing in each other, our defense played lights out. Every game was a battle that led to history
Watching the Patriots losing that game live was one of the greatest moments a Floridian could’ve felt in ‘07
As a pats fan I still cry sometimes
I remember congratulating friends who were Pats fans on their 18-1 record that year. It was glorious.
That's pretty pathetic lol celebrating someone else's loss because you're too pathetic to ever win 🤣🤣
It was 2008
@@sublimeade 07 season tard
I'm European, but I just watched an hour-long documentary about American football in one sitting and I'll tell you what, I was HOOKED.
That's the power of Emp. He's able to tell a gripping story about anything and everything. He's hidden gem in today's TH-cam.
I want to see him talking about dominance in F1, that would be a good video to do, from Fangio and Clark to Hamilton and Verstappen.
Paid endorsement
Watch the "the art of the choke" one of the greatest sports docu's ever made. This guy is nothing short of a genious... wait until hes nerding out in a couple years with 10 mill subs. This is no channel to sleep on
This dude is in the top one percent of all TH-cam channels going by subscribers. He’s not a “hidden gem” lmao. He’s deservedly well known and beloved.
SAME
The influence of the Dolphins culturally is huge. As someone who lives in Australia, I have no idea about NFL except for the Patriots, and the Miami Dolphins. Sporting bodies sometimes go beyond their usual fans and into wider recognition
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Being in the ace Ventura movie helped too
@@mclovinpo Einhorn is FINKLE
Phins are jus goated ig 🐬🔥
Guess you have to contend with the Penrith Panthers winning 3 premierships in a row.
Never underestimate Emp’s ability to utterly enthrall you for an hour on a subject you otherwise would literally give zero shits about
Well done my man, well done
I hate team sports and I listened to the entire video without pausing it
Dude is the king of injecting alternate storylines into his subject matter. Very creative, thorough, & observant. I never thought I’d get an essay on the impossibility of the pursuit of perfection & the seemingly unnecessary, childish fear of superstitions & karma from a video about a football team until he took it home. Truly a creator.
As an avid Jon Bois watcher the saxophone when the saints came up was perfection. Well done.
For sure but might I point out what's in the speech bubble at 0:18
plsssss
THIS IS NOW A CROSS OVER EVENT.
Oh shit I missed that, when?
@@t17389z28:44
Emp's range is astounding. He can go from talking about Rare video game items to niche Football lore.
don't forget Fastcar
Its not that niche, most people know it
“Niche” the only undefeated NFL team ever
And making YTPs
@@Monkey_30000That’s where it all began for him from 2010-2015
“The New England Patriots, a team that will come up again later on in our story” *me as a Dolphins fan evilly rubbing my hands together*
Good for you that the Giants handled that for you. You only had two tries that season.
Geez even here a cheesedick Pats fan is guaranteed to reply. You're like bots @@jessyfretz5800
As a Massachusetts guy, I agree
@@jessyfretz5800Count on New York
Me as a NY giants fan: 😈
I grew up in Indianapolis, watching football from birth. By the end of the '71 season I had just turned 10 and had become pretty familiar with all the teams, but I hadn't chosen a favorite to be "mine". Geographically, the Bengals or the Bears made sense, but I decided to ignore proximity. I chose the Dolphins during that off-season, mostly for a reason that seems silly in hindsight: I liked their uniform colors. But my selection and timing was just right. For years after that, my bedroom wall was adorned with a large poster of Larry Csonka busting through a bunch of Redskin defenders. And although I have adopted various teams over the decades as I've moved around, I still have a special place in my heart for the "One-Two Punch" of Griese-Csonka, receiver Paul Warfield, and all the rest. Every year, if any team starts to string together a number of wins, I start to get protective and find myself rooting against them until they fall.
It's worth mentioning that the 2007 season was the season of the Spygate scandal when the Patriots were recording the other coaches' signals outside of the appropriate contexts for doing so, and it was deemed such a violation by the league that Belichick was given the max fine allowed ($500K) and the Patriots were stripped of their 1st round pick in the 2008 draft. That was a big part of why many outside of New England didn't want to see the Patriots go all the way at the time. It wasn't just about preserving the novelty of the 72' Dolphins, it was about preserving the purity of the perfect season.
Which is a lie. Every team was doing the exact same thing back then. Patriots were just the first to get punished for it
The “outside of the appropriate context” is a MASSIVE detail people gloss over when talking ab spygate tho. Pats never filmed anything they weren’t allowed to and gained no real competitive advantage
@@__sm1441 ... if they weren't done in the appropriate contexts, that means they *weren't* allowed to film or record it.
@@vyor8837 not really, unless you think filming the exact same thing from a different location means you’re filming something completely different but atp you’re just being absurd lmao
Filming other team’s playbooks and capturing specific plays on paper isn’t exactly allowed.
I never thought I'd see the day where Emp makes a video on my favorite football team. WE EATING GOOD 😭🙏
fr
The Patriots or Giants?
FINS UP
Me either I’m happy af though
We may never eat this well again
Would never have expected a EmpLemon halloween "special" but here we are
Ghosts bruh.... Ghosts.
The spookiest horror is that EmpLemon cured his nihilism
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yes
You forgot about the other perfect team. The 0-16 Detroit Lions
Pure perfection
and the browns
My great uncle played on the 72 Dolphins. When we lost him a few years back, I imagined him being met by Mr. Morrall, and Mr. Yepremian with a glass of champagne. So, when you said that last line, and I heard the opening drum roll of a song that had been played for me since I was in the cradle, I choked up a little. Thank you for helping keep their memory alive.
name or we ain't buying it
If you want me to give up my anonymity on site with hundreds of millions of users, all for the belief of a complete stranger, you’ve lost your mind. I shared an anecdote about an emotional response to the video. I owe you nothing more.
@@kos9818you do. Nobody knows you, we just want to know what player played on that team.
@@howisthis8849it's true, i was there too along side Jeff Epstein, Edp445 and Kevin Spacey. Their uncle's a wonderful balls toucher😊
@@kos9818Nah that’s an excuse you lying unless you give us the name 😂
Emp, not gonna lie, I suggest doing more sports themed content like this. This is gold. The same way Art of the Choke was gold. Keep this up. Please. Also I enjoy the UrinatingTree cameo appearance at 8:23 btw lol
STILLERS GAHNTA SUPER BOWL
All hail the mighty UTree
As a Giants fan, that Superbowl was the wildest, most winding rollercoaster of emotion and the greatest case of schadenfreude I would ever experience in my life. Nothing better than shattering your rival's god complex
Agreed. I was in college in Boston at the time. The silence on the streets was deafening, well into the next day.
God complex lmao? you cant have that when you are god
i spent the whole video waiting for him to talk about it LOL
@@bong2dome If they didn't have a God complex, they would have won the Super Bowl that year.
@@bjchit they would've won if tyree dropped that pass :(
If you ever ask yourself for some reason "Do I make good videos?", just know that I am an European who don't care about American Football I literally still don't know any of the rules of it and never watch anything about it, and I loved this video. I can tell you know how good you are at writing endings to videos too, you always bring it back very nicely. That's a skill not a lot of ppl have on here. If it ever came out that you plagiarized someone's storytelling like some other guy on this website that I used to say the same about did I would be very sad, cus the writing of your videos is really good.
As a Giants fan, it was a joy to see how our win has become historic from trying to prevent history. Beating the 18-0 Patriots turned me into a fan forever
Same
NY Forever
The saddest part of being a life long dolphins fan in the 21st century is that the giants winning that game was the most excited ive been watching a football game and it wasnt even my team 😂
Big blue for life
I’ll be a fan of them when they change their name to East Rutherford.
the way you came back to the "we may never lose again" was absolutely massive. thanks for making another fire video essay!
Stopped what I was doing to watch this one. I always love seeing you drop a sports related video!
The inclusion of the Dolphins fight song at the end literally gave me chills. Spectacular video.
As a dolphins fan, I remember being at a superbowl party with a bunch of Patriots and Giants fans in college. I was hugging and high fiving all the Giants fans at the end. I will never forget what they did for our legacy.
I'm from Miami, and I remember my middle school teacher being obsessed with the Dolphins, older fellow, in his 60's now, retired 5 years back. He'd sit us down with a far off look of awe in his eyes and talk to us about how he sneaked into the Orange Bowl to watch the '72 Dolphins play, that little Miami Dolphins chant being sung while he was bored all the time. I was an egghead and didn't care much about sports, in a way it was even a little annoying, but for the first time in my life, I finally now understand why. For once I can fully comprehend the gravity of what he witnessed, and why to this day his faith in his team remains unwavering. He's now got another fan too, thanks for everything, Emp.
The experience of "chasing perfection", in my experience, isn't all too analogous to chasing something; it's closer to having one side of yourself being pulled towards it while the other recognizes its impossibility, and thus is repelled by it - until, eventually, you rip yourself apart in its pursuit.
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Very well said
holy shit this is a lovecraft story
As a Fins fan, I’d like to say thank you. This is definitely one of our greatest achievements and it means a lot to us. This whole video told the story great, and the fight song at the end really hit home. So again, thank you, for this masterpiece.
That “Bad things happen when you try to pass 72” line goes so fucking hard for no reason
"These Dolphins(2007) are fighting for the right to be forgotten."
This guy is like a Philosopher. Subscribed!
There will Never Ever be another Team as perfect as the '72 Dolphins
i think in the near future the chiefs would get there
They will hold the record for longest season while maintaining a perfect win percentage for awhile longer in all likelihood.
@@Renegade-kf8fp😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Renegade-kf8fp as someone who's more of a Chiefs fan than a football fan, we aren't gonna be close for awhile
@@Renegade-kf8fp It's good to have dreams, even if they aren't entirely realistic.
This is one incredible video man. Brought me to tears, and I don't even watch football lol. Keep up the great work
I’m surprised no one has saw this comment yet lol
Same by the end I went “I never even watched a full NFL game why am I crying???” But damn if this didn’t captivate me
It was ok
It was ok
ain't you The Geometry Guy?
A lifelong Dolphins fan, my childhood started with the perfect season in my 7th year. You have so perfectly encapsulated my football watching life as I certainly did not realize how special my first year of watching and paying attention to football was when it happened. I thought the Lombardi was my teams birthright as they won it twice when I was very young and now sadly they have never gotten it again. Since those two seasons, the happiest I have been while watching football was the 85 Dolphins takedown of the Bears and the 07 Giants takedown of the evil empire! The futility of the Dolphins throughout the first 20 years of this century nearly destroyed my love for this game. Now, 51 years later I am excited watching my own team again and TRULY appreciated the 70 points put up against the Broncos. I await this season's ending with excitement and true hope for this year and the future as McDaniel looks to be the true heir of Don Shula's legacy. Just bringing winning back to Miami is warming my frozen football heart. God Bless Emp for making this wonderful video!
Giants fan here. I was real young, too young to remember 42. But it still is one of the greatest events in sports history.
“Sometimes, it pays to be the underdog. You have nothing to do but go out and shock the world.”
-EmpLemon, 2023
As a lifelong Bill's fan, it is a testament to EmpLemon's storytelling ability that he got me to root for the Dolphins. Good on you Emp.
Boy
I
Love
Losing
Superbowls
@@chimericalicaltake the L bills! Fins up!
Don't ask me about that Garry Anderson kick...
Best of all, isn’t he a Jags guy?
@@theEWDSDS sigh… I’m a Steelers fan.
List of teams j want to win the superbowl most each year in order and why.
1. Bills
As a child I witnessed the greatest and most dominant football team in the 90’s lose 4 superbowls in a row. They won me so much money in Tecmo Bowl tournaments my dad and uncle had… and they just… lost and lost and lost and lost in the superbowl. It was depressing…
2. Bengals
So I can make a T shirt and hat that’s got a list of every AFC north team that’s not only been to a Super Bowl but won one. If the bengals win this year that list would be Ravens with 2-0, Bengals 1-2, Steelers 6-2, and the Browns at 0-0. I would proudly wear that shit in Cleveland and go to every browns home game wearing that shit :).
3. Steelers
I’m a Steelers fan. Of course I want them to win.
4. Lions… sorta..
If they go that’s good enough. If they win cool too. It would make the browns the “oldest” team to never be there. Hoping the Jags make it too so the browns are literally the oldest team to never go instead of the fake oldest team (browns are a 1999 expansion team… jags came before. If Lions make it the Browns pretending the Ravens record is theirs is the oldest. But it if we step out of imagination land and the jags and lions make it the browns are the actual oldest tk never make it.) I hate the browns.
here after the chiefs handed an interception to the bills to give the chiefs a 9-1
As a Dolphins fan, and an EmpLemon fan, this video was just _perfection_
You are the man Emp! A Dale Earnhardt video. A Talladega video. Now a Dolphins video?!?! If I believed in such things, I'd swear we are spirit animals!! Thank you for the excellent content...
As a Dolphins fan since 84, thank you for this trip down memory lane and when all the 72 Dolphins are gone, us fans will carry on their legacy by celebrating whenever the last undefeated team loses.
YOU ARE THE GREATEST TH-camR EmpLemon. You’re probably the only one who can give me literal chills with your editing, music choices, and storytelling. You’ve mastered the art of building tension and suspense and the all too elusive release. Not only that, but I have been trying to get more into sports in general over the past few years, and your videos on football, baseball and nascar have shown me why it is that people care so much about all this. Like modern day myths, or as close to superheroes you can get. These teams and players have legends built around them. And the passion people have for their cities and their teams, is fully displayed in the content you create. I finally understand, and I am partially in debt to you for that. Good game, cheers!
As a lifelong dolphins fan, this is all I have. Maybe one day they can win a Super Bowl in my lifetime
just as the world slips into chaos. the emperor returns to save us from ourselves
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I don't even care about sports at all, but i make sure to see every one of Emp's videos. He makes sports interesting in a way i just don't get from watching them on TV or hearing about them from fans.
@@bugjamsyou might enjoy Dorktown
I don't care how long between uploads, The quality is great and I will always be here for the content, keep up the good stuff Emp.
Seriously. When it comes to good content, it's always worth the wait
I have always fuckin loved the idea of ghosts of players past coming into the game to defend or even aid in defeating their records. Always has a good vibe to me.
The writing is just incredible. I don't think anybody on this platform has as many potent one liners as you. Fantastic video, eagerly awaiting the next
While I'm glad Emp acknowledged the incredible feat of Man City reaching 100 points in a single Prem season, it's a shame he didn't mention Arsenal's "Invincible" season of 2003-4, when they became the only Premier League team to date to not lose a single game all season - 26 wins and 12 draws.
And there’s Preston who went invincible in the 1880s or 1890s
And how liverpool crumbled in the pursuit of perfection
He did say that undefeated =/= perfect. This was about perfectville. Perfect means a lot more than undefeated. It was about winning, not avoiding to lose.
@@magmaslug9305 for us prem league people it is perfection to us but i do think the invincibles are more relevant to the dolphins
@@fz7788 Crumbled? in 18/19 they lost 1 game...lol
I know everyone has said it before, but I don't give a DAMN about sports and your videos about it still manage to be interesting and engaging.
Keep on keepin' on.
Same
Emp has talent. I hate NASCAR yet watched all his NASCAR videos
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he's a great story teller to the point that I care about football when watching
I'm 67; I was raised on football, and until 2008, my favorite game, was the Jets > Colts in SBIII. But then, with all the 'perfect' talk about the Pats, they even started publishing a book about their perfect season, the Giants got their revenge for that regular season loss, and that became my favorite superbowl game, ever. I don't think I'll live long enough to see another perfect season; those Dolphins were great, but also had just enough luck to get them that famous moniker: PERFECT.
Surprised you're 67 with a Ruka profile picture. Hahahaha
As a lifelong dolphin fan, this is my first time watching one of your videos. You made me laugh, you made me cry. Thank you for this gift to all dolfans. You have gained another subscriber. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Sports are so fun to watch because of the anxiety that comes with it. Football, soccer, baseball, etc all have their share of anxiety ridden seasons. The 72 Dolphins where in a league in their own
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Eh, for Georgia and Alabama in cfb a perfect season isn't far fetched
@@RAAM855 Those teams certainly are impressive, but they are college teams. Their competition is pretty good, but not the best of the best, as it is in professional sports.
@@RAAM855that’s only because college football schedules are complete bs. Wins and a perfect season in cfb mean very little.
@@aleksandersaame9417 Yeah when your average team is as good as they are at the professional level, things like "perfect games" really do become literal statistical flukes.
I knew every single beat of this story from beginning to end, because I've been a football fan all my life. How could I not know. And yet, I still watched it, and enjoyed the privilege of reliving so many football memories all at once. Thanks, Emp.
Yeah, as soon as he said perfect season, I knew helmet catch would come up, and still when it did I was glued to the screen
This was a nice trip down memory lane combined with a really good story about the league in general. I grew up in south Florida in the 80's and 90's and went to so many of the Dolphins games.. My dad produced the television broadcasts for the home games in the early to mid 80's so we were always around the stadium and I still have a few pictures of me with Don Shula and my dad down on the field. I was also in the boy scouts with the son of '72 Dolphins LDT Manny Fernandez. Even in the 90's he was still a big and intimidating guy but had a heart of gold and loved making us all laugh. I have so many good memories from my childhood tied to this team and this video really brought a smile to my face. It might've invoked a few tears in the process.
45:54 Emplemon has become such master at integrating music within his videos, it really adds an entirely new layer to his already great scripts and editing skills
Almost shed a tear at 10:30
@@Greeeebsfor me, it's 11:30
When Vampire Killer started playing i got more excited than i have any business being
This is a great companion to the Art of the Choke video. I would love a NEVER EVER episode on Don Bradman and his status as possibly the greatest sportsperson of all time, especially because he's probably not very well known to Americans. Emp Lemon has such a great way of talking about sports in an entertaining way.
oh my god a bradman video would be incredible
An extremely different channel but Numberphile had a solid video on Don Bradman
As an Australian this is an absolute must for me
God hearing Miami Dolphins #1 got me so nostalgic. I ain't a huge sports person, was only born in 2k, but hearing that song brings back fuzzy memories of going to The Big Cheese with my family and soaking in the atmosphere.
Yo i love the big cheese i remember going there and watching the um games
I'm American, and I hate (watching) football. But holy hell was this documentary a banger. Emp never, ever disappoints, no matter the subject. Truly a gifted creator.
It was alright
made me watch and yearn for teams from things that i didnt find interesting, what a storyteller
As a long time EmpLemon fan & LIFELONG Dolfan, this video gave me chills. FINS UP 🐬🐬🐬
FINS UPP💯👍🏼
Fins up!
Thank you Emp. As a Giants fan coming across one of the worst games in the history of our franchise, I needed this. There isn't much pride in being a Giants fan this year, but this makes me realize our legacy of beating the titans of the sport may be even deeper than we realized. We may not have the honor of the perfect team like the Dolphins do, but we have another honor. The perfection slayers. If you get too close to perfection, the Giants will be the team to bring you down to earth. You highlighted several of these moments, including the greatest game in our team history, and I thank you for doing this at a time when we have little to cheer for in the present. So enjoy your one-of-a-kind honor Miami. If you managed to beat us that year, then you truly are the chosen ones, and I guess we are the ones chosen to slay any threats. Another great video from EmpLemon to help the team he probably wasn't even thinking about when making it.
List of Last Undefeated NFL Teams to lose to the New York Football Giants (I regret nothing)
1932 Green Bay Packers: 8-0-1 - 10-3-1
1934 Chicago Bears: 13-0 - 13-1
1938 Washington Redskins: 2-0-1 - 6-3-2
1946 Chicago Bears: 3-0-1 - 9-3-1
1958 Baltimore Colts: 6-0 - 10-3
1963 Cleveland Browns: 6-0 - 10-4
1979 Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 5-0 - 11-7
1996 Minnesota Vikings: 4-0 - 9-8
1998 Denver Broncos: 13-0 - 17-2
2007 New England Patriots: 18-0 - 18-1
2010 Chicago Bears: 3-0 - 11-6
As a Miami fan, I love Eli and The Giants so much. You have no idea! Well, maybe you do now. lol
Its fitting that the ones to beat the titans, are giants.
The 2011 Giants were robbed against the Packers in their regular season matchup. The refs ruled Jake Ballard out of bounds on his TD catch, even though his knees touched down in the end zone. They were basically a bad call away from ending the Packers' perfect streak.
As a jets fan, let’s put that game behind us
FINS UP brother Everybody knows giants fans are honorary fins , and we will be there when it's time to get Eli into that damn hall !!!
I am truly speechless. This is just such a masterclass of storytelling. Emp, you are truly the greatest out there. Every time you upload I treat it as a must-see event. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
the ghosts are popping champagne after watching the chiefs fall short
As an NFL Fan who is also a bears fan, it pains me to see how close we were to perfection three times but I can't stop watching and be amazed.
It's even more painful for us Dolphins fans.
Seeing Dan Marino destroy the best Defense in NFL history & still retire without a Ring.
@@pewpewTNWhat sucked for him was that the Killer B’s got old and Miami didn’t have much of a defense from 85 to the end of his prime
@fortynights1513 Yea, he had bad luck with timing.
When he joined the team, they were aging into a rebuild, but he was so good from the start that they were too good to get high draft picks.
51:55 "By now everyone knows that bad things happen when you try and pass 72" has absolutely no right to go that hard
Can’t say I’m happier when I see any other person uploaded than EmpLemon. Genuinely, you’re the best channel I’m aware of and your videos push the boundaries of what people view as “Standard TH-cam Content.” Keep up the good work, Emp.
2024: The Dolphins toast once more.
This year's Chiefs are now 9-1!
Your story telling ability is practically unmatched. I do not watch sports like almost ever, but this is so fascinating it makes me want to hang around a league, s championship or a team like that in case I witness history.
Your stuff is always excellent, keep it up!
Man, watching that Dan Marino footage took me back to my childhood. I sorta got into football when I was 5 because the Carolina Panthers were formed that year. I also gravitated to the Dolphins just because I loved their uniform colors. Even though I knew jackshit about football, it seemed like Marino was throwing at double speed compared to everyone else. Dude had a ballistic missile for a right arm.
Also at, 28:44 the official "playin' the saints" theme.
As a European, I know zero about American Football. This man single-handedly made me interested.
Same here
This feels spiritually very similar to the work of Jon Bois and Secret Base, especially the recent series about the history of the Minnesota Vikings. You both have a serious talent for using numbers on a timeline to tell a cohesive and captivating story. Well done!
He even used the same song for the Saints at 28:44 that Secret Base used in the Falcons and Vikings documentaries
Emp stated in the Dale Earnhardt video that he is inspired by Bois
0:18 thru 0:21 is actually footage from Jon's now famous video "Every NFL Score Ever | Chart Party"
Secret base is trash
@@randyTrevor-fs3toTheir collective politics might suck but the quality of their work is undeniably great
Emp I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the instrumentals of some of my favorite bands and artists, I was so surprised to hear Paradise by Sade.
I know right. I heard the Sade sample as well and I was like "we have the same music taste lol"
I love the comment at the end about bad things happening when you try to pass 72, almost like the number itself has some supernatural weight behind it. Really great stuff.
The 2015-16 Golden State Warriors (73-9) were the only team to choke away a 3-1 series lead…in the NBA Finals. 🤔
Emp, you’re still the best script writer on this website, and have been for years. Another certified banger
I know quite literally nothing about football other than recognizing a few team names and knowing the most basic rules, but I love watching all of these videos. Something about your pacing, vocals, editing, and whatnot is just absolute hypnosis
I knew the joy I had as a Pats fan after the art of the choke video would ultimately be followed up by the closest pursuit of perfection spoiled video, but in the end I love this comprehensive storytelling
Since Art of the Choke I was really hoping we’d eventually get a video specifically on Football and I am so excited that it’s finally here
Josh Allen and the Bills in Week 11 of the 2024 season just ended the Chiefs run at perfection
Bust out the champagne boys🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾
How you collect all this data and present it in such an entertaining way just blows my mind. I discovered you after the "Art of the Choke" video and I've been captivated ever since. Keep putting out videos, man. Your videos are a day 1 must watch.
hope you've seen jon bois vids. arguably the og sports nerd documentary specialist. if you haven't seen "why do i choose this for living" you aren't living
@@keyboard-commentator ill check them out now
I always get chills from Vin Scully's call: “In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!”
I will never ever forget that hail mary as long as I live. Moments like that are the quintessential magic of sport, the impossible does happen, David does slay Goliath, and just when you think you've got it all figured out, the game goes and checks you with a wild result or play.
Long live sports.
Fins fan for as long as i can remember, I clicked for the title, but stayed for the insane high value editing and infographics. Amazing video from start to finish!