1973 Miami Dolphins - Week 16 - AFC Championship - MIAMI vs OAKLAND Radio Edit

December 30, 1973 - The Oakland Raiders visit the Orange Bowl to play the Miami Dolphins in the AFC Championship game. This is a rematch of Week 2 when Oakland defeated Miami to break the Dolphins winning streak.
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[@dolbra4]

I attended this game on my 15th birthday. It was the first meaningful Dolphins game I ever attended- I only had attended single preseason games that year [Bengals] and in 1972 [Falcons] up to that point. Maybe still the greatest birthday present I've ever recieved...

[@bravobravoh1344]

The Dolphins were a well oiled machine back in those seasons.

[@larrymeyer6978]

I was very fortunate and blessed to have gone to this game with My Father God bless him who passes several years ago!! It was a unbelievable moment like I can not believe I am here!! A very special friend of the family gave us two tickets to go to the game!!!! Game was a complete sell out of very Loud screaming loud fans!!!! I have always been a life long Dolphin fan along with My Father!! We had an unbelievable team just like a well oiled Machine for the Dolphins!!!! I hope someday I will have the chance to see another Dolphin game as special as This one !!!! Dolphins fan for Life!!!!

[@josephnoneofyourbeeswax8517]

The Orange Bowl was magic. Joe Roby stadium might be if the original name was honored.

[@miamidolphinsfan]

Was there that day !!!

[@Heisenberg-src]

Bringing back lots of great memories ....thanks for posting these videos!

[@benb3306]

What many people forget was that the Orange Bowl of all places had Poly-Turf! I was all of 8 years old then in Richmond VA, Redskin country, but I fell in love with the Fins and have lived and died with them ever since (not a whole lot of livin'). Today's team makes me really care again, and excited, and that hasn't been the case really since Dan retired.

[@richarddurr7724]

I'm with you on the current team - something to get excited about after a long drought. What I think also led to the Dolphins decline was not only the retirement of Dan Marino but Don Shula shortly after. At the end of his career, Shula was getting the team into the playoffs but the spoiled fans grew restless because the team was not getting to the Super Bowl. Fans started calling for Shula to be replaced and finally was. During his 25 years with the team, Shula took the Dolphins to 31 playoff games including 4 Super Bowls. In the past 23 years, the 11 coaches the team has had since Shula have taken them to 11 playoff games.

[@haroldsmyth6685]

​@@richarddurr7724shula retired way beforemarino

[@richarddurr7724]

You are correct. I knew that, just a slip of the brain. Shula retired first. But don't get me started about how the fans were calling for Shula's head because they wanted Jimmy Johnson to come in and "save" the team. Johnson lasted only four years and had no clue as to how to use Dan Marino. Johnson ended his time with the Dolphins coaching Marino to the humiliating 62-7 playoff loss against the Jaguars which was the last game for both of them. @@haroldsmyth6685

[@haroldsmyth6685]

@@richarddurr7724 i agree good call

[@KT72273]

The fact that Griese was 3 of 6 passing is mind-blowing!

[@anthonydileonardo8156]

Tony Cline and Art Thoms.....gone from the Raiders by the time SB XI

[@johnyurick8785]

When football was real

[@roblatham6265]

While the Dolphins went undefeated in 1972, they were an even more dominant team in 1973. They were certainly the greatest rushing team of all time. In their three playoff games, they matched up against the top three rushing defenses in the league: the Bengals, the Raiders, and the Vikings. And they completely dominated all three teams, especially on the ground, where they amassed 703 total yards. Fullback Larry Csonka led the way with 333 of those yards, and 6 total touchdowns. Their running game was so potent and unstoppable that quarterback Bob Griese threw just 31 passes in those three games combined. Griese and Csonka are rightfully in the Hall of Fame, as is the Dolphins' brilliant wide receiver Paul Warfield. But, criminally, only two of the members of that all-time greatest offensive line have been enshrined: center Jim Langer and right guard Larry Little. Probably the finest blocker of them all, right guard Bob Keuchenberg, has not made the cut, nor have either of their world-class tackles, Wayne Moore and Norm Evans. But if you want to see a ballet of great blocking, five team members moving like a well-oiled machine, just watch these highlights. The 1970s Dolphins' defense, too, has not received the recognition it deserves. They held the Bengals, Raiders, and Vikings to a total of 26 offensive points in those three games. But only one member of that squad-linebacker Nick Buonicotti-has been elected to the Hall of Fame. The two greatest safeties of the era-Jake Scott and Dick Anderson-have never even been finalists. Oh well, they're two-time World Champions anyway.

[@richarddurr7724]

Your analysis of the two-year run of the Miami Dolphins in 1972 and '73 is excellent. Thanks for posting. Another distinction is it is the only time in NLF history that a team has won more than 90% of their games over a two-year period. Football is a team sport and the Dolphins played then, and play today under Mike McDaniel, as a team. If it means individual recognition, so be it. But I will take the undefeated season, the only one in NFL history, over all the individual accolades. After listening to the players who played on '72-'73 teams talk about it, I think they would, too.

[@roblatham6265]

Yes, Bob Keuchenberg certainly loved to pop that champagne cork every year when the last remaining undefeated team lost...

[@crazyantny9161]

Have no idea what sportswriters Kuetch pissed off. He's gone now and yet another class was announced. He was a the lynchpin. Damed, best run line and a decade later in his final season, the best passblock line Kuetch...HOFer in the mind of anyone who knows what makes the offense go

[@roblatham6265]

@@crazyantny9161 yup

[@acitoneroyal6002]

Watched it at K-mart, I was 12.

[@johnyurick8785]

Kmart ??

[@tino6846]

I was celebrating my 50th birthday I’ll never forget

[@crazyantny9161]

If the offense didnt stahl in the first game of the season agaist guess who, this team goes undefeated back to back! Remember we went 12 and 2, resting the final week for the second loss. 12 straight! The 73-74 team was the most dominating team ever

[@gregford2103]

It was this loss, plus the two that followed to the Steelers in the AFC title game, that forced the Raiders to get younger and bigger on both sides of the line. By 1976, when the Raiders won the AFC, they had one of the best and toughest offensive lines in football, and defensively, their down linemen and linebackers were bigger, stronger and faster than they had in the early part of the decade.

[@Jiltedin2007]

Yes I know! 50 years ago this past Saturday(On New Year's Day, 2024). It was the year that one of the oddities of the NFL has occurred, this was the year when both Conference Championship Games finished with Identical Final Scores. NFC Championship Game: Minnesota Vikings 27 Dallas Cowboys 10 AFC Championship Game: Miami Dolphins 27 Oakland Raiders 10

[@richarddurr7724]

The conference championship games were actually played on December 30, 1973, according to www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1973/week_16.htm

[@Jiltedin2007]

@@richarddurr7724 And this past Saturday, December 30, 2023, would be exactly 50 years since that AFC Championship Game.

[@williamdunphy352]

Commentators: Rick Weaver & Henry Barrow

[@johnyurick8785]

George McGovern and Ted Kennedy 😂😂😂😂🤪🤪🤪😡😡😡😡🤮🤮🤮