1984 AFC Champ Miami Dolphins Locker Room Interviews - Don Shula, Dan Marino

[@waynenoll1967]

Those were good days! Marino, Clayton, Duper, the old Orange Bowl was the heart and soul of Miami. All time winningest coach in Shula, shame they couldn’t have gotten Dan a ring.

[@merman78]

Wish I could see them do that again in my lifetime:(

[@LampwicksCigar]

Marino had just had the greatest quarterbacking season ever.

[@mcgurkryans]

Such a joyous scene. I think we were expecting many more interviews with Marino in the winning locker room after AFC Championships. Alas…

[@Shinobi33]

Tell me about it 😢

[@jeffgreen3376]

I still can't believe that we never won a Super Bowl in all those years of having Dan Marino at QB. Friggin Buffalo stole most of our best chances and then they went on to lose the big game. Such a shame. :/

[@tdrewman]

No defense and lack of a running game.

[@Useyno]

The Drewman Dan is one of the best QB's to never have won a superbowl unfortunately.

[@chrispap4957]

I'm from Pittsburgh bro, to this day I hate the Steelers with my soul for passing on Marino, I was a little kid then watching that draft, not sure why but we were off school that day and cried so bad my mom sent me to bed, LOL...Fuck the Steelers, lifelong Dolphin fan from the Burgh, However Hail to Pitt always and forever...

[@henryezpeleta6241]

Its a shame, the greatest pure passer and no ring? ...1984 season was the year to win the Superbowl,.... with the numbers that Dan put up that year? 46 td's etc .... too bad , its sad man! As a Dolphin fan i live with early 70's dolphins triumphs and live with a little regret for not wining the 1984 Superbowl during the Dan Marino years,... he lid up the skies,broke all the records, great, outstanding performance, but man that Superbowl against Joe Montana and the 49rs?...

[@d0nKsTaH]

It is shocking that they didn't even make another trip. I was a teenager (and a Steeler fan here in Florida)... I fully expected Miami to make at least 3 or 4 Super Bowls with Marino---even after the loss to the 49ers. I can understand Buffalo beating them in the playoffs ... but the one game I truly wish had been the other way around (at least for Miami-Marino fan's sake) is the New England loss. Miami should have gone to play Chicago that year (in 1985) and I bet you they would have won that SB too... they beat the Bears badly on Monday Night in the regular season. Everyone talks about 85 bears this and 85 Bears that... but truth is.. Dolphins matched up better on them than anyone. New England lost to them 20-7 early in the season IN New England. That team was clearly not ready for a SB. Dolphins would have been tougher for sure against the Bears.

[@timjones8166]

marino was the best ever. Nobody would have beat marino records if they played under the same rules as he did.

[@footballrealist9171]

The best loser what did he win the 49ers rookie secondary laid Marino to rest, and 1 veteran, Dwight hicks Ronnie Lott Eric Wright Carlton Williamson. Marino is the reason why I know tom Brady is a fraud and a fake and the National fake league is rigging staging and fixing these games ask tom Brady have he ever heard of Greg Lloyd. The black players have sold out to accommodate tom Brady to appease the overall white audience, sort of this great white hope 🗑 the NFL has created to fool the masses to attainment for those who are in controlled with deception to deceive the naked eyes it's called the antichrist spirit. Ok bye.

[@phins2dright]

Football Realist do you know how to form a proper sentence? I have no idea what I just read.

[@timjones8166]

@Greg Hubbard last time I checked teams win super bowls Marino could have won a ring if he played on the forty niners that year. 5048 yards an 48 touchdowns when defenses knew they were gonna throw the ball still couldn't stop him. Sounds like overrated to me.

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Football Realist Although your comment was one year ago I do understand why you think the NFL is rigged to promote a “great white hope” athletically. However I think that you’re noticing the NFL’s practice of keeping big games closer in points & confusing it with outright rigging. In 2019 the NFL went back to letting the teams play while at the same time making sure that refs gave the same protection to young black QBs like Mahomes, LamJack & Watson that they’ve been giving to old slow white guys. Did the 2019 NFL season impact your view that the NFL is fixed?

[@timothysimpson1561]

@@footballrealist9171 change your username to Football Clown. Feel free to use your stimulus money to hitch a flight back to the mutha land.

[@jimwoodle2626]

Remember when the Dolphins used to host AFC Championship Games? Today's ownership seems more interested in hosting Super Bowls.

[@zigomanis18]

Dan was one of the best ever..equal to Elway Brady , Manning ect. After this season, he never got any help. The running game continued to regress year after year. His defenses never got better. He was literally a one man show. Not fair at all.

[@shannonrhett3304]

It wasn't "not fair." It just wasn't EASY, nor was it supposed to be.

[@jonmolina948]

421yds on 21 completions. 20yds per completion. Those Marks Bros were great. If Marino played with Tyreek and Waddle today, they would combine for 4,000yds easily in 17 games.

[@mcgurkryans]

1:06... defense getting it up?? 21 points against the Cowboys... 28 points against the Steelers... yeah, if that's getting it up, 38 points againsat the 49ers was not a surprise.

[@shannonrhett3304]

How many points they gave up to Pittsburgh was not so important. It was WHEN they allowed those scores that mattered. The Steelers led 14-10 at halftime then got left in the dust with no hope of catching up. It was a frustrating day indeed for this faithful Steeler fan.

[@ericbarth5334]

Danny Marino. Beating his hometown Steelers.

[@jeffgreen3376]

Little did we know that this would be the last time the Dolphins ever won a Championship game. :(

[@brando7266]

Almost 40 yrs now,still can't believe it's been so long,

[@stevefowler2112]

I was just two years out of Engineering College up in Orlando working at Martin Marietta and starting to make good money so I bought 2 season tickets for the '84/'85 seasons. I grew up a Dolphins fan and was ecstatic to have Danny...it made for some long Sunday's/Monday's/Tuesday's but I was young and was having a blast taking different dates to the games and partying all weekend in south Florida...great times!!!

[@tuatagovailoa1770]

My Idol

[@kelvinkloud]

good Lord look at 1:51..... razor release then roped right on stride. killer form.

[@AlbanianMan]

God, this feels like a million years ago. I remember being at the Orange Bowl when I was a kid. I wasn't alive during the early 70's Super Bowl wins. Sad to say, I don't ever think I'll live to see a Dolphins Super Bowl win in my lifetime :-(

[@fritterfoof5146]

most likely you wont

[@thespaceram2879]

@@fritterfoof5146 we will see. The Dolphins have a chance every year. So there is a chance they may go to a Superbowl and win one.

[@baasheep6874]

I wish they won the super bowl

[@bensantiago4557]

Remember this game.So happy to see Fins go to Super Bowl.84 was a great season.Too bad about the Super Bowl loss.I was 15 and now I'm 50 still waiting for the fins to go to another Super Bowl.Losing hope.-Pittsburgh's#1 Dolphins fan

[@fritterfoof5146]

hold your breath

[@wcm5636]

Man Shula was such a class act.

[@addmarx7207]

I was 8 years old.

[@BagofRoastedNuts]

add marx you old fart

[@keymaster7798]

I was 7

[@jonmolina948]

I was born in Sept 1984, so I was maybe 4 months old. Still got to Dan play later in the 90’s and I enjoyed Ahmad Rashaad on NBA Inside Stuff.

[@stringtheoryguitars4952]

The Dolphin's Defense was aging rapidly and that would soon become painfully evident. And it didn't help that 49er's squad was possibly the best team ever assembled top-to-bottom. Everyone remembers Marino's historic '84 season but in the end, Miami was exposed as a one man show. Bill Walsh built a monster in San Francisco that would have dominated any era, including the 70's Steelers and 90's Cowboys, and 2000's Pats. Sorry Dan, but NOBODY was gonna beat the Niners that year.

[@charlieyellowstone8248]

Yes the Niners were pretty good but remember, that great 1984 squad got beat by these same Steelers in San Francisco in 1984.

[@shannonrhett3304]

The 49ers dominated THEIR era. I hope you're satisfied with that. Leave the rest to actual history.

[@stringtheoryguitars4952]

@@shannonrhett3304 Haha yeah, because dominating a sport merits zero historical consideration according to some wanker named Shannon Rhett. Let's close the hall of fame, delete all the documentaries, burn all the record books, destroy the museums, and put all the sports historians and scholars out of work. All because some dickwad can't handle ppl making comparisons. Great idea.

[@jesseleblanc1199]

And don't forget the following year that 49ers team didn't want anything to do with those Bears but Dan Marino and them Dolphins put a beat down on that 46 zone

[@stringtheoryguitars4952]

@@jesseleblanc1199 If there's one Monday Night game I could go back and attend, THAT would be the one. That Orange Bowl was shaking. That was bigger than a Superbowl for Miami, their perfect 17-0 season was under assault and about to be outdone. Marino and the Marks brothers stood up for Coach Shula and protected his legacy.

[@kjuergens1985]

I've been looking for video of the game for years. Anybody know where to find it?

[@CynicalCharlatan88]

Same. The one damn game that can’t be found

[@markclark7178]

Joe Robbie was the reason this team didn’t win the SB

[@bryantennyson3638]

Steelers was like oh shit, Wat was we thinking when we passed on Dan?!!

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Bryan Tennyson Yes there was some outright slandering of Marino going into the draft. I still remember heading into the 1983 draft that even as a fan of Penn State I thought Marino was a better NFL QB than Todd Blackledge, who was drafted ahead of Marino by the Chiefs. Broke my heart to see the Steelers pass on Marino.

[@charlieyellowstone8248]

Yeah, you're singing to the choir. 😳

[@shannonrhett3304]

They were thinking, they had a presumably healthy Terry Bradshaw going into the season, two seemingly capable young backups in Cliff Stoudt and Mark Malone, a still functional running game and a defense in need of retooling, so they made real-time decisions instead of succumbing to romantic notions about bringing the local boy home. By now most of us who know the story are well aware of the rumors surrounding Marino going into the '83 draft, but I have it on excellent authority that concerns about his off the field behavior were even worse than imagined. I can't get into specifics, but I can recommend you check out the following works by author Tom Danyluk: "The Super '70s," and "Majesty and Mayhem: Pro Football Of The 1980s."

[@shannonrhett3304]

@@r.williamcomm7693 , Marino was undoubtedly better than Todd Blackledge, but Blackledge led Penn State to a national championship, while Marino regressed noticeably in their respective senior seasons. That can never be left out of the equation if the situation is to be accounted for objectively. It was a major part of the story then and should remain so.

[@erikmanzano8144]

Where is the video of this game

[@omarswearingen7199]

Well good job Dan steelers fan.

[@kelvinkloud]

swagger

[@philosophersfountain]

RIP

[@dsscam]

And the crappy defense cost them in the Super Bowl too. Waste of Marino's career because their defense (and running backs) always sucked with the greatest QB ever

[@vccstudents]

Today's NFL is ruined. It has become a pass happy league with just about every quarterback putting up Marino like numbers. Marino himself said if he was playing today he'd throw for 6,000 yards. Brady would be average at best if he played in this era. The only quarterback in today's NFL who could have played in this era is Aaron Rodgers of the Packers.

[@fivehundrediq5212]

It’s not ruined, it got smarter

[@vccstudents]

@@fivehundrediq5212 You obviously weren't around in '84. I could watch a game from '84 and tell you what "great" defensive plays would be penalties today.

[@broderickcrawford8110]

@vccstudents you're either trolling or don't have an IQ above avocado if you seriously believe that bullshit!!! 🤦🏽🤦🏽

[@shannonrhett3304]

@@fivehundrediq5212 , no, just more geared toward entertainment than ever before. There's no way the game has gotten smarter when observers speak so openly about devaluing running backs in the draft, and maybe there's a reason the sainted Aaron Rodgers has only played in ONE Super Bowl his entire soon to be 18-year career.

[@andrearel3703]

Five Hundred IQ The game got softer not smarter. Perhaps to you, taking punching out of boxing would it "smarter."

[@rivercap1986]

Marino should've been a steeler What a waste of the 80's

[@hoodlow77]

Steelers would have been to at least two more SB’s, maybe three

[@cschoen100]

Glad he wasn't a Steeler...

[@charlieyellowstone8248]

If he would've made it to the Steelers, Marino would have won about 4 super bowls because they still had the defense and running game throughout most of the eighties and of course the nineties they were a very solid team.

[@rivercap1986]

@@charlieyellowstone8248 more division titles probably, but I don't think super bowls plus we still would have low draft picks

[@shannonrhett3304]

Am I the only Steeler fan here who understood the overall shape the team was in then? Did anyone else notice how old the team was at certain other key positions, mainly on defense, or how Chuck Muncie ran all over that defense in the Chargers' playoff win at Three Rivers Stadium the year before? Drafting Marino was far from THE solution to all the Steelers' ills at the time, and the Dolphins, who were slightly (if not appreciably) better than the Steelers through the '80s, only managed to get to one Super Bowl with him. No one knows for an indisputable fact that he would have made all the difference in Pittsburgh's fortunes, so it's high time to get over the sentimental regrets and move the hell on. Kenny Pickett's in tahn nah. 😐

[@tombradley37]

And after Dans Retirement, Marino tried too sell his SOUL TO SATAN FOR A SUPER BOWL, as He did for Namath, but the Devil declined! Because Satan is a Jets fan

[@TalkMyShiit]

Have not made it back since... (Raiders fan here). Marino was selfish and sacrificed the run game for his personal glory. As a result, they never made it back and the closet was the 92 AFC Conference Championship Game.

[@jasonejones77]

hahahaha youre a damned fool.

[@TalkMyShiit]

Why didn't he ever go back? I'll wait!

[@TalkMyShiit]

Marino wanted all the glory and therefore was one dimensional... he is prolific and a GOAT but its a price to pay. Look at Montana who had a run game and actually Miami had a better defense than the 49ers did for a period of time.

[@PrinceTron1]

@@TalkMyShiit You totally ignore the fact that Don Shula was in charge of the Dolphins, not Dan Marino. Don Shula let Marino throw for all those yards and touchdowns defense. I criticize Don Shula for not putting together a better defense between 1985-1988. The Dolphins defense and running game actually got better in the late 80s, early 90's. But the Buffalo Bills put together a team that was more complete and could beat teams all kinds of ways. Bill Walsh ran the 49ers and Joe Montana ran the offense Bill Walsh wanted. Bill Walsh was trying to trade Joe Montana after the 1987 season and after they lost that playoff game to the Vikings at home. The game that Anthony Carter and Wade Wilson went crazy on them.

[@TalkMyShiit]

LaTrone Latham ok Shula is at partial fault ... you go with worked in the past ... run run then pass... 85 team would have beaten the Bears ... but NE fucking upset my Raiders and then Y’all in the Orange Bowl