50 years this year, still the only UNDEFEATED team in NFL history , enough of this weak schedule nonsense, doesn't matter , they won them all in 2019 for the NFL' 100th season, they were voted the best team of all time, perfection is perfection, anything less get a cigar
What a great year! People knock the schedule but they were playing a colts team that had been to the super bowl (1968, 1970 & AFC championship 1971) twice. The a Jets team that had a healthy Joe Namath all season - twice, a Vikings team that had gone to super bowl 1969, playoffs in 1970 (12-2), 1971 (11-3) & the sickly good (& big) Kansas City Chiefs team who won super bowl (1969), picked to return in 1971 (10-3-1, 7-0 @ home) & a New York Giants team that finished 8-6 but had super bowl bound Washington Redskins (11-3) & two time super bowl participant (SB 5,6) Dallas Cowboys (14-3, 11-5) in same division twice each. Buffalo got a new coach Nick Saban who used OJ Simpson well & their improved defense. Lets not forget the Brown's (10-4) & Steelers (12-4). Every week was a near heart attack! Oh yeah, we lost our signal caller, Bob Grieseim game 5 of what would be a 17 game season
@user-rb6ec9mb5o he was still 38 years old and hadn't played since the Super Bowl when the Jets beat the Colts in 1968 to diminish the feat is really silly for you to do.
@@billhassell434Boy you really went out on a limb. Those teams didn't do it with a STARTING qb. Some of you guys are making arguments you don't have to make. Even the weak schedule argument is moot. How many good teams since '72 had, I'll say favorable schedules, with lesser teams coupled with injury riddled teams and still didn't accomplish what the Dolphins did? No need to bring up what teams did in '70 & '71 to make a case for their '72 schedule, that doesn't make sense either.
What?!? TWO highlight reels of the Super Bowl, and neither one showed Garo's hilarious interception "throw"? That was the most interesting play of the game!
This was the greatest team ever assembled. Don Shula was quoted to say: this was the most intelligent team he had ever coached! Many of the players had impressive jobs on their off time. I believe that Nick Buoniconti was a lawyer on his off time. This is just one example. Overall this was one of the best years of my life and I completely cherish every moment of this glorious accomplishment. This feat can never be equaled because of so many rule changes since. It’s just not the same game anymore.
Earl deserved better, especially from such a "knowledgeable" fan like yourself who can't even get the man's name right, his name was Earl M-O-R-R-A-L-L!
Some of these dynasty dolphins players and headcoach Don Shula have actually unintentionally undermined the historical accomplishment of this undefeated team by stating they believe the 73 team was better .
Greatest season ever of course but lost in history is this team can never be matched for 3 reasons 1. Finished #1 in scoring offense & defense 2. Played the majority of the season with a backup QB and 3. Had to play the AFC Championship game ON THE ROAD!
The music for the last two minutes of this video was an outstanding culmination of the greatest team for a single season in NFL History that completed a feat that will never happen again
Every time I see one of these videos of pro football from the early 1970s, I'm reminded how much better the pro game was then. It's nonsense now in comparison.
100% correct! The most feared man in football 🏈 Dick Butkus would not be able to play today. The man voted as the most dedicated player ( would not be able to play today) they might as well be playing flag football at this point
I think the 72 Dolphins caught a break by not having to face the Raiders in AFC championship game. The Raiders would have been an underdog and in the 70s when the Raiders were an underdog they won 85% of the time. I think the game would have been played in Oakland. If so then the Raiders probably would’ve been the favorite.
no problem call them overrated whatever, the Dolphins still greatest team ever 1972 can't be better than undefeated lol lol...lolololol...lololol smack dab in the middle of 3 straight SB'ls other contenders how'd they do the next year? win the super bowl?
Then why do many of those that played on that '72 Miami Dolphins team say the '73 Miami Dolphins team was better? Why would so many of them say that? Because they were better in '73! In '72, each of Miami's post-season games was decided by seven points or less. In '73, each of Miami's post-season games were dominated by the Dolphins winning those by 18, 17 and 17 points. Boxers have had undefeated records facing nothing but tomato soup cans as opponents. Does that make them the best ever? Until they face a real opponent. Gerry Cooney was 24-0 till he faced Larry Holmes. Strength of opponents matter.
What matters is Takeaways , The dolphins had 56 and lead the league , That 72 team lead the league in all 4 stats at end of year a record that will never be broken EVER , 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 as the Super Bowl champion , 1st in scoring off, 1st scoring def , 1st points for , 1st points against , Turnovers 56 , That team played the competition of that era and strength of Opponents is really Irrelevant once the league mergers in 1970 , You cannot expect to play an entire season in a postseason 8 best teams format, You make no sense With a 40 man roster playing together as a team of Tomato cans .
@@mr.majestic3851So you honestly believe all schedules and opponents are equal from year to year???? Seriously??? That's the most ridiculous thought I've heard in a long time.
1972 was the first year they wore white at home as primary jerseys. As a fifty plus year fan of the New York Giants I am partial to the 1986 team as my candidate as best ever
1972 Miami Dolphins Perfect Season 17 To 0 It Was So Magical Year Grabs Their First Super Bowl Championship ☺🏈 By The Way 1992 Dallas Cowboys Greatest Team In My Opinion
The Miami Dolphins had the perfect team but the 1992 Dallas Cowboys had a excellent team as well but there was one thing that the Miami Dolphins accomplish a perfect season undefeated.
I wouldn't call the 72 Dolphins overrated. They won a couple of squeakers and the majority of their opponents were cupcakes. But as Berman would say "That's why they play the games!"
They played a CUPCAKE SCHEDULE! But they did run the table against teams that would have struggled playing against the top college teams of the era. The team that ended their 18-game winning streak was a consistently great team, playing in 5 consecutive AFC Championship games after shutting the Dolphins down to end their winning streak, if it wasn't for a garbage time 4th quarter score, Miami would have been shut out, they managed to make 10 First Downs and they rolled up ( more like shriveled up ) 195 yards of total offense. Many members of the 1973 Oakland Raiders remained with the team through their unprecedented ( at the time ) run of AFC Championship games and were part of the 1976 World Champion Oakland Raiders, considered by many as the best ever.
@@davidcobb2693 You seem to forget they beat KC on road they were in SB 1-4 with HOF QB , the Colts at Baltimore in SB 3 - 5 , HOF QB , the Vikings on road in SB 4 ,HOF QB , the Jets in SB 3 , HOF QB , Pittsburgh on the road HOF QB all in the making , yes a few cupcakes but these teams were not dismantled from 1967 to 1972 , just like dolphins still had some players in 78 from 73 title team , you write like these teams were nobody's they all were in the super bowl last 5 years .
@@mr.majestic2667 You toss around Super Bowl numbers like you actually know something but you really NEED to learn what a comma is AND how and where to use them, when you put a dash (-) in between numbers, it indicates through, like if you say, "Before Tom Brady signed with the Bucs in 2020, he was the Patriots from 2000-2019". 2000-2019 verbally stated is, "two thousand through 2019". The way you wrote your comment looks like you think the Chiefs were in Super Bowl 1 through 4 which they weren't and it also looks like the Colts were in Super Bowls 3 through 5 the way you wrote it. IF your level of reading comprehension must be painfully weak if YOU thought I called ANY team "nobody's". The '72 Dolphins Strength of Schedule (SoS) WAS -4.27 (minus 4.27). SoS - Strength of Schedule indicates the combined winning percentages of the opponents this team played in a given year. Higher SoS indicates a tougher schedule, lower indicates easier. The 8-6-0 Kansas City Chiefs and the 8-6-0 NY Giants had the best record among the teams Miami played during the 1972 regular season, the Vikings were 7-7-0, the Jets were also 7-7-0 and the declining Johnny Unitas led Baltimore Colts were 5-9-0. Their '72 regular season schedule gave them 4 games against the Bills and Patriots who were a combined 7-20-1, other heavyweights on their schedule were the 1-13 Houston Oilers, the 4-9-1 San Diego Chargers and the 4-9-1 St. Louis Cardinals. Unitas, Namath and Dawson were declining and even though Tarkenton was still a steady QB, the Vikes didn't have Chuck Foreman in 1972, he was the 1973 Offensive ROY, Rookie Of the Year. You old Dolphins fans are a sensitive bunch, maybe 2023 will be their year, the Chiefs won Super Bowl IV and it took them 50 years to win their next one, Super Bowl LIV, maybe Dolphins fans should look forward to Super Bowl LVIII (58).
@@93pinkrockgirl forgive the idiot........numbers are a hard concept to handle with just 2 braincells.....as is logic.....as is the meaning of words such as "defeat" and "undefeated" Getting all those in order....too gard for those 2 overworked braincells
The Chicago Bears went undefeated twice and didn’t win the championship. And I think the Chicago Bears are the greatest team ever, next to the Miami Dolphins 🐬
50 years this year, still the only UNDEFEATED team in NFL history , enough of this weak schedule nonsense, doesn't matter , they won them all in 2019 for the NFL' 100th season, they were voted the best team of all time, perfection is perfection, anything less get a cigar
A few teams went undefeated in the 1920s but had a tie or two. Miami was the only team that was undefeated and untied including the playoffs.
What a great year! People knock the schedule but they were playing a colts team that had been to the super bowl (1968, 1970 & AFC championship 1971) twice. The a Jets team that had a healthy Joe Namath all season - twice, a Vikings team that had gone to super bowl 1969, playoffs in 1970 (12-2), 1971 (11-3) & the sickly good (& big) Kansas City Chiefs team who won super bowl (1969), picked to return in 1971 (10-3-1, 7-0 @ home) & a New York Giants team that finished 8-6 but had super bowl bound Washington Redskins (11-3) & two time super bowl participant (SB 5,6) Dallas Cowboys (14-3, 11-5) in same division twice each. Buffalo got a new coach Nick Saban who used OJ Simpson well & their improved defense. Lets not forget the Brown's (10-4) & Steelers (12-4). Every week was a near heart attack! Oh yeah, we lost our signal caller, Bob Grieseim game 5 of what would be a 17 game season
PLUS they did it with a backup QB I'd love to see ANY TEAM do that, Patriots, 49ers, Ravens, Cowboys any of them included.
@@billhassell434Earl Morral wasn't any ordinary back upQB he was a former League MVP for the colts
@user-rb6ec9mb5o he was still 38 years old and hadn't played since the Super Bowl when the Jets beat the Colts in 1968 to diminish the feat is really silly for you to do.
@@billhassell434Boy you really went out on a limb. Those teams didn't do it with a STARTING qb. Some of you guys are making arguments you don't have to make. Even the weak schedule argument is moot. How many good teams since '72 had, I'll say favorable schedules, with lesser teams coupled with injury riddled teams and still didn't accomplish what the Dolphins did? No need to bring up what teams did in '70 & '71 to make a case for their '72 schedule, that doesn't make sense either.
@rtee48 do you read man? I was lauding the Dolphins achievement SMH 🙄😒 some people
The very best football 🏈 I miss those good day s of football
What?!? TWO highlight reels of the Super Bowl, and neither one showed Garo's hilarious interception
"throw"? That was the most interesting play of the game!
This was the greatest team ever assembled. Don Shula was quoted to say: this was the most intelligent team he had ever coached! Many of the players had impressive jobs on their off time. I believe that Nick Buoniconti was a lawyer on his off time. This is just one example.
Overall this was one of the best years of my life and I completely cherish every moment of this glorious accomplishment. This feat can never be equaled because of so many rule changes since. It’s just not the same game anymore.
What a great collection thorough! To me the greatest take away was The Earl Morall Story.
Yes I was going to say the same thing. Couldn’t have happened without Earl. Yet he’s rarely mentioned, interesting.
Earl deserved better, especially from such a "knowledgeable" fan like yourself who can't even get the man's name right, his name was Earl M-O-R-R-A-L-L!
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Greatest Team Ever!
Some of these dynasty dolphins players and headcoach Don Shula have actually unintentionally undermined the historical accomplishment of this undefeated team by stating they believe the 73 team was better .
All they did was win.....the critics can say what they want....but nobody has done what the 72 Dolphins did....
Nice mixture of footage from the ‘72 season; the This Week in Pro Football highlights
Grew up in Hialeah, was 12 in 1972, what a year that was for the Fins!
Same age as me! I loved the Dolphins since my grandparents moved to Florida in 1971
Greatest season ever of course but lost in history is this team can never be matched for 3 reasons 1. Finished #1 in scoring offense & defense 2. Played the majority of the season with a backup QB and 3. Had to play the AFC Championship game ON THE ROAD!
The music for the last two minutes of this video was an outstanding culmination of the greatest team for a single season in NFL History that completed a feat that will never happen again
the fish were incredible this season
Browns had them far more on the ropes in the playoffs than most people realize.
Um, Pat….Arrowhead is in Missouri.
Love this nostalgia. Love some of these names are classic Csonka, Twilley, Hamburger.
Hamburger? Hanburger but at least you got Csonka right!
@@davidcobb2693fuss pot arnt you. It's a TH-cam comment section, not the Oxford Union.
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Least penalized.forcing turnovers. Special teams#1. Complere team but not fancy why the media hated them
Larry csonka was a goddamn freight train.
Every time I see one of these videos of pro football from the early 1970s, I'm reminded how much better the pro game was then. It's nonsense now in comparison.
100% correct! The most feared man in football 🏈 Dick Butkus would not be able to play today. The man voted as the most dedicated player ( would not be able to play today) they might as well be playing flag football at this point
I think the 72 Dolphins caught a break by not having to face the Raiders in AFC championship game. The Raiders would have been an underdog and in the 70s when the Raiders were an underdog they won 85% of the time. I think the game would have been played in Oakland. If so then the Raiders probably would’ve been the favorite.
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Arrowhead Stadium is NOT in Kansas. Jeezus Pat! Geography people.
It’s MISSOURI.
“LETS GO DOLPHINS, " - THE SUN KING OF HEARTS ALBERT SPENCER MARTINEZ THE ONE & ONLY ROI !!!
I thought best record had home field advantage in all playoff games.
It was based off rotation back then not seeding. For example in 1968 the Colts team played at Cleveland for the NFL Championship game.
no problem call them overrated whatever, the Dolphins still greatest team ever 1972 can't be better than undefeated lol lol...lolololol...lololol smack dab in the middle of 3 straight SB'ls other contenders how'd they do the next year? win the super bowl?
Even the 1985 Bears lost a game .............to the Dolphin 🐬 s
The 1973 Miami Dolphins were much better.
Being from the KCMO I take great offense at the beginning of this horrible film when they said arrowhead stadium was in kansas.
It was probably put together by an uneducated Dolphins fan, there so many to choose from!
Agreed!
Then why do many of those that played on that '72 Miami Dolphins team say the '73 Miami Dolphins team was better? Why would so many of them say that? Because they were better in '73! In '72, each of Miami's post-season games was decided by seven points or less. In '73, each of Miami's post-season games were dominated by the Dolphins winning those by 18, 17 and 17 points.
Boxers have had undefeated records facing nothing but tomato soup cans as opponents. Does that make them the best ever? Until they face a real opponent. Gerry Cooney was 24-0 till he faced Larry Holmes. Strength of opponents matter.
What matters is Takeaways , The dolphins had 56 and lead the league , That 72 team lead the league in all 4 stats at end of year a record that will never be broken EVER , 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 as the Super Bowl champion , 1st in scoring off, 1st scoring def , 1st points for , 1st points against , Turnovers 56 , That team played the competition of that era and strength of Opponents is really Irrelevant once the league mergers in 1970 , You cannot expect to play an entire season in a postseason 8 best teams format, You make no sense With a 40 man roster playing together as a team of Tomato cans .
@@mr.majestic3851So you honestly believe all schedules and opponents are equal from year to year???? Seriously??? That's the most ridiculous thought I've heard in a long time.
How much were they paid back then???
1972 was the first year they wore white at home as primary jerseys. As a fifty plus year fan of the New York Giants I am partial to the 1986 team as my candidate as best ever
They wore their aqua jerseys for Monday Night Football home games in that era.
@@davidcobb2693 They wore the aqua jerseys for a home game against Buffalo that year and a Monday Night game against St Louis, that's it for the aquas
@@michaelleroy9281 I mentioned their wearing the aqua jerseys for home Monday Night Football games in the era, thanks for proving me right!
That was the best Giants team ever without a doubt
1972 Miami Dolphins Perfect Season 17 To 0 It Was So Magical Year Grabs Their First Super Bowl Championship ☺🏈 By The Way 1992 Dallas Cowboys Greatest Team In My Opinion
@UCCeg4kGb2lmDGf6aMdLe_YQ Dallas Cowboys Greatest Team 1992 And 1993
The Miami Dolphins had the perfect team but the 1992 Dallas Cowboys had a excellent team as well but there was one thing that the Miami Dolphins accomplish a perfect season undefeated.
Your opinion would be wrong as can be.
The 1996 Packers would like a word with you
1992 Cowboys lost 3 games 1972 Dolphins lost NONE
Summerall was wrong from the start.
Arrowhead Satadium is located in Missouri,not Kansas!
It's called fact checking Pat..
The 72 Dolphins are simultaneously the greatest team of all time and the most overrated team of all time.
I wouldn't call the 72 Dolphins overrated. They won a couple of squeakers and the majority of their opponents were cupcakes. But as Berman would say "That's why they play the games!"
They played a CUPCAKE SCHEDULE! But they did run the table against teams that would have struggled playing against the top college teams of the era. The team that ended their 18-game winning streak was a consistently great team, playing in 5 consecutive AFC Championship games after shutting the Dolphins down to end their winning streak, if it wasn't for a garbage time 4th quarter score, Miami would have been shut out, they managed to make 10 First Downs and they rolled up ( more like shriveled up ) 195 yards of total offense. Many members of the 1973 Oakland Raiders remained with the team through their unprecedented ( at the time ) run of AFC Championship games and were part of the 1976 World Champion Oakland Raiders, considered by many as the best ever.
@@davidcobb2693 That first sentence is why Shula himself considered the 73 Dolphins to be better
@@davidcobb2693 You seem to forget they beat KC on road they were in SB 1-4 with HOF QB , the Colts at Baltimore in SB 3 - 5 , HOF QB , the Vikings on road in SB 4 ,HOF QB , the Jets in SB 3 , HOF QB , Pittsburgh on the road HOF QB all in the making , yes a few cupcakes but these teams were not dismantled from 1967 to 1972 , just like dolphins still had some players in 78 from 73 title team , you write like these teams were nobody's they all were in the super bowl last 5 years .
@@mr.majestic2667 You toss around Super Bowl numbers like you actually know something but you really NEED to learn what a comma is AND how and where to use them, when you put a dash (-) in between numbers, it indicates through, like if you say, "Before Tom Brady signed with the Bucs in 2020, he was the Patriots from 2000-2019". 2000-2019 verbally stated is, "two thousand through 2019". The way you wrote your comment looks like you think the Chiefs were in Super Bowl 1 through 4 which they weren't and it also looks like the Colts were in Super Bowls 3 through 5 the way you wrote it. IF your level of reading comprehension must be painfully weak if YOU thought I called ANY team "nobody's". The '72 Dolphins Strength of Schedule (SoS) WAS -4.27 (minus 4.27). SoS - Strength of Schedule indicates the combined winning percentages of the opponents this team played in a given year. Higher SoS indicates a tougher schedule, lower indicates easier. The 8-6-0 Kansas City Chiefs and the 8-6-0 NY Giants had the best record among the teams Miami played during the 1972 regular season, the Vikings were 7-7-0, the Jets were also 7-7-0 and the declining Johnny Unitas led Baltimore Colts were 5-9-0. Their '72 regular season schedule gave them 4 games against the Bills and Patriots who were a combined 7-20-1, other heavyweights on their schedule were the 1-13 Houston Oilers, the 4-9-1 San Diego Chargers and the 4-9-1 St. Louis Cardinals. Unitas, Namath and Dawson were declining and even though Tarkenton was still a steady QB, the Vikes didn't have Chuck Foreman in 1972, he was the 1973 Offensive ROY, Rookie Of the Year. You old Dolphins fans are a sensitive bunch, maybe 2023 will be their year, the Chiefs won Super Bowl IV and it took them 50 years to win their next one, Super Bowl LIV, maybe Dolphins fans should look forward to Super Bowl LVIII (58).
pats went 17 -1 so they did it too so fins arent the only ones
Perfect means no losses. 1 loss is still a loss
@@93pinkrockgirl forgive the idiot........numbers are a hard concept to handle with just 2 braincells.....as is logic.....as is the meaning of words such as "defeat" and "undefeated"
Getting all those in order....too gard for those 2 overworked braincells
The Chicago Bears went undefeated twice and didn’t win the championship. And I think the Chicago Bears are the greatest team ever, next to the Miami Dolphins 🐬