The Time It Was Too Hot to Play a Dolphins Game

Football games getting moved due to weather happens, but that's usually for things like hurricanes and dangerous snow that blocks the roads. It doesn't happen because of the heat, right? Well, in 1968, a game between the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins ended up getting moved because it was too hot outside... sort of. This is the bizarre story behind that
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[@MaRkYWaHoO]

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[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

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[@MaRkYWaHoO]

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[@CutterHistorical]

JG9: The Dolphins had a bad start to their franchise Pittsburgh Steelers pre 1972: HOLD MY BEER!!!

[@tannerwilson4843]

In 2000, they was a Cowboys Game where kickoff temperature were around 108 Degrees! One of the hottest games in Dallas Cowboys history!

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Yep the Pickle Juice Game! Did a vid on the complete history of that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmLMnWifZdVlbtUsi=qdE8MfggbgcIMKEy

[@CTubeMan]

Wasn’t it also the hottest game in NFL history on the thermometer?

[@CTubeMan]

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[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

I remember that video!

[@igorszamaszow171]

KZbin algorithm recommended it to me (and I did watch it again of course) just a couple of days ago!

[@johnwhite5485]

I remember that game

[@DolFan316]

3:40 I have to take issue with this. "Not the slightest bit competitive" is going too far, considering the Dolphins won as many games their first 2 seasons as the Saints ('67-68), Bengals ('68-69) and the Seahawks ('76-77). In fact, 7 wins tied the record for most by any expansion team in their first 2 seasons until the Jags and Panthers came along in '95. The Falcons who began the same year won just 6 games in their first THREE seasons by comparison. If you want a team that was "not the slightest bit competitive" their first 2 seasons, the Cowboys started with 0 and 4 wins while the Bucs started their history with an infamous *26-game losing streak.* Now THAT is the epitome of "not the slightest bit competitive".

[@marcus813]

The Bucs ended up doing better than the Falcons by that 1st 3 seasons metric due to winning 5 games in 1978, which is 3 more than in their 1st 2 seasons combined. I'm still amazed that the Bucs took only 4 seasons to make the playoffs considering how expansion drafts worked back then.

[@Jaydn4000]

The one win the bills had in 1968 was against the 11-3 superbowl winning jets

[@Rockhound6165]

The Eagles gifted the Bills OJ Simpson by winning games in week 12 & 13. Then came the infamous Snowballs at Santa game.

[@chrisguardiano6143]

This is very similar to what happened in 2003 in La Liga with the biggest rivalry in world soccer in El Clasico. To start off the 2003/04 season, both Barcelona & Real Madrid would kick off their seasons playing each other. La Liga did this to maximize TV ratings for the first week of the season (especially overseas). However a couple weeks after releasing the schedule, La Liga decided to move the first El Clasico from the first game of the season to mid November for two reasons. The first was to avoid the heat especially the late summer variety. Barcelona (the home team) had objected big time to playing in the heat saying that it would be too hot for their fans to watch the match (temperatures in Barcelona in late summer frequently climb above 90 degrees) especially with a mid day kickoff. Barcelona also refused to accept the proposal by Real Madrid to move the kickoff to a night one to avoid the heat saying they still wanted to play their home leg of El Clasico at mid day but at a time of year where the weather is cooler which La Liga agreed to do. The other reason why this match was moved was because there had been crowd trouble at the Nou Camp the season before when the two teams met in Barcelona & La Liga did not want a repeat of that to kick off the season. La Liga has not attempted to try this again since.

[@wewin03]

I went to many Dolphins games at the Orange Bowl and throughout the 60s and 70s all seating was aluminum benches with no backs Concrete or metal walks and no shade. They allowed umbrellas for a time But that created its own problem and was banned. So a 1 o clock game early in the season were brutal for fans so I see why it was done. The problem kind of self corrected in the 70s because the Dolphins were always good and therefore most games kicked off at 4 pm

[@DolFan316]

11:01 The return of the charts and graphs literally made my weekend. 🤘🤘🤘

[@orbyfan]

The Bills' top rookie in 1968 was guard Bob Kalsu, who was killed in Vietnam in 1970, the AFL's only fatality in that war. They also had a defensive back named Charlie Brown, which is appropriate for a team with their record.

[@effend446]

Then, when Don Shula arrived in Miami in 1970, the Dolphins have been able to take an advantage of a rule in the NFL that didn’t exist in the AFL - the option of wearing white jerseys at home. The Cowboys started the tradition of wearing white at home in 1964 mainly because the fans attending the Cotton Bowl wanted to see the colors of the visiting teams. But it also gave the Cowboys another advantage: white reflects heat, especially when playing in the Cotton Bowl during the hot and humid weeks of the season. Shula recognized this. When he was the coach in Baltimore, the Colts occasionally wore white at home. The Dolphins began to take advantage of this option in 1972 to combat the heat and humidity of South Florida, and the rest is history. In fact, more teams (especially teams based in the south) took advantage of the NFL’s 1964 rule. So much for the AFL being innovative.

[@TPTGopher]

Actually, half the league wore white at home in 1964, the Cowboys just never stopped.

[@DolFan316]

If you ever meet a woman who's actually impressed when you tell her you passed for more yards in a game than the Bills did VS the Raiders in 1968, drop everything and marry her at once. This is the kind of sage wisdom and life advice one learns in one's early 50s 😎

[@marcusmcgraw3519]

We can tell this guy gets zero women interested in him with his haircut and whiny voice

[@DolFan316]

@@marcusmcgraw3519 Reported. If you don't like him personally then just don't watch. No need for that garbage.

[@marcusmcgraw3519]

@@DolFan316 oh no, please, anything but that. You reported me for an innocuous comment? No wonder people think today’s men are soft

[@DolFan316]

@@marcusmcgraw3519 Congratulations, you're the first user who's comments I've ever opted to have completely hidden from me from now on. Your parents must be so proud. People like you are the reason the state of humanity has never been worse.

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

At that time the Orange Bowl was very busy with HS, College (the OB was home to the U of Miami Hurricanes all the way up until after the 2007 season when the stadium finally closed after the Canes decided to move to Hard Rock) and pro football. Not to mention other events like soccer, concerts, et al.

[@davidlafleche1142]

How much worse was it when the Orange Bowl had Astroturf?

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

@@davidlafleche1142 the Poly Turf REALLY made it bad. Reflected that heat in Miami very well and it was brutal for both teams although Shula drilled his teams to be ready and usually had the Fins wear white at home to cut down on the heat (so teams like the Steelers, Bengals, and Raiders had to wear black)-no secret that the Dolphins record 31 game home winning streak came during the period the Poly Turf was used (1970-75).

[@Jason_Maier]

I didn't know the Dolphins had games on Saturday nights. Since they were awful in their early years, no one was going to care about watching them on TV anyway; even in the road team's market.

[@quantumfootball]

Have you done a video about the guy the Bills wanted who they tried to delay the enlistment for?

[@r3d5ive87]

I’m trying to figure out how people “enlisted in Vietnam.”

[@lorenzobeckmann3736]

home blackout? still not happy with home blackout of NFL Championship Game 1963

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

That continued until 1973. Then the rule changed that if game was sold out 72 hours before kickoff game could be broadcast locally.

[@petechau9616]

As a longtime miami and having attended games in the Orange Bowl I remember the Orange Bowl had installed some kind of artificial turf that turned slippery when the sun was out in the afternoon and it also raised the temperature. I think they recorded the temperature on the field at 120 degrees. The league made them change it and they stopped scheduling noon kickoff until October. I recall one game the players were literally sliding and slipping all over the field.

[@JKM395]

As a lifelong Floridian, they had a point. Folks that have never spent time down here just don't understand how hot it can get. I wouldn't go to an outdoor function when it's still hot either.

[@griffinroblox73]

My dad has more passing yards than the 1968 bills.

[@marcus813]

I know the Oilers played at Rice Stadium back then and did just fine from an attendance standpoint and that Florida heat hits differently, but that request from the Fins was pretty unusual. I hate that Bills fans in upstate NY and Hamilton, Ont. couldn't watch a Bills road game.

[@RurbanWalker]

Yeah, if it was September I could see more

[@shackdaddy7106]

As long as week 18 are all divisional matchups there is always going to be repeat matchups between the divisional teams. Back in the day, the NFL did not do this. But now, for suspense and easier scheduling when the games are going to be played that final weekend, this is what we have.

[@johnwhite5485]

Great concept but in practice one team or another will have the division or plaoff seed locked up and sit their players, even against a division rival. A good example was Baltimore ans Pittsburgh last year.

[@DaveCompton5150]

I would like to see the NFL go to a fixed schedule. Something like....weeks 1-3 and 16-18 are division games. 4-7 are alternate conference games. 8-13 are interconference games + byes, etc.

[@Rockhound6165]

The Cardinals in September from 1988-2005, "Hold my beer".

[@davidlafleche1142]

Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis opened in 1966. They had the All-Star Game and the field temperature was 105 degrees. Casey Stengel said, "I must say, it sure holds the heat well!"

[@marcus813]

There's a reason why they hosted games in primetime early in the season back then regardless of how bad they were.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@marcus813 more often than not they played the first 2 or 3 games on the road.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@davidlafleche1142 you remember what Ernie Banks would say. "Let's play 2".

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@Rockhound6165 The way Roger Greedell is going, I wouldn't be surprised if the NFL started doing that.

[@orbyfan]

The way the Bills were playing in 1968, their fans wouldn't have been too upset if none of their games had been televised.

[@johnwhite5485]

I'm not si sure about that and suspect that the Bills Mafia would pass that test of true fandom

[@SPTO]

Speaking of Bills/Dolphins games, the game a couple years in Miami should've been postponed or at the very least delayed til later. A couple Bills players literally had heat sickness and were literally THIS close to having heat stroke. If you're going to play in that kind of heat then yes, even the visitor's sideline should have some shade like the Dolphins sideline. That game made me angry, not necessarily for the result (though the result wasn't nice) but for the simple fact that the NFL risked the lives of their players that day.

[@xeutoniumnyborg1192]

Dolphins fans don't complain when they have to go to Orchard Park in December or January. I've been to games at Joe Robbie Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) many times. I remember one 1 P.M. meeting vs the Bills in 1990 on week 2. It was in the 90s before the game started, then it rained around 15 minutes during the 1st and 2nd quarters. Then, the sun came out again. By the end of the 3rd quarter, Bills players were dragging. Yes, the Bills lost that game, but Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, Bruce Smith, and the Bills fan base at that time didn't complain, nor did they continue to complain nearly 2 years later.

[@SPTO]

@@xeutoniumnyborg1192 I wouldn't necessarily complain if it was just your typical September "hot weather" game. That game was bad to the point that the commentators were worried for the players on the field. BTW no one is at risk of dying during a December/January meeting at Orchard Park unless the weather is freakishly cold like the KC playoff game against Miami.

[@paulfortney4725]

IIRC with that first pick didn't the Bills take future killer O.J. Simpson with that?

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Yep

[@xeutoniumnyborg1192]

Guess they were going 0 for O.J?

[@annelosch555]

Any idea what the weather was like at 2 pm on that October 13 in Miami? If it was rainy or overcast it may not have been too hot anyway.

[@DolFan316]

In south Florida it can be a torrential downpour and then clear up entirely 5 minutes later, and vice versa.

[@danielbowden6330]

Looks like you used footage from the phone book game in Miami.

[@anthonyrivera4735]

Didn't the LOLphins play against the chargers in 1982 playoffs in 80 degree weather?

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

Yes and then the Chargers went to Cincinnati the next week for the "Freezer Bowl" with -59 wind chill.

[@marcus813]

​@andrewpadaetz5549 That wind chill was determined with a now-outdated formula. Temperature formulas as of 2024 put the wind chill at -37°F.

[@solidraven6986]

Some times

[@effend446]

Yes and actually the Chargers felt the effects of the heat more so than the Dolphins.

[@xeutoniumnyborg1192]

Usually, January temps in Miami are not that bad. On the day of the Epic in Miami, it just happened to be more like late September-mid October temps. Sometimes the weather breaks your way, sometimes it doesn't (like last January's first round playoff game @KC).

[@rushbroussard5399]

The Miami Dolphins Love Playing Games When It Is Hot And The Miami Dolphins Love Playing In Hot Weather When The Miami Dolphins Play In The Cold They Don't Like It The Buffalo Bills Love Playing In Cold Weather

[@Jasontyo]

How do you have so many helmets

[@mrbob8618]

This dude doesn't even remember the Detroit.Lions and george plympton a writer who they let play quarterback called paper lion

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Haven't done a vid on that yet, but we might get to that at some point. A lot to break down there

[@americanidol30]

Because the Philadelphia Eagles are opening the 2024 Season in Brazil against Green Bay on a Friday night, they are not violating the Sports Broadcasting Act Of 1961. Am I right?

[@CTubeMan]

As I recall that doesn’t start until the second Saturday in September.

[@americanidol30]

I meant the game being played the same time that many high school football games are being played in the Philadelphia area.

[@Jason_Maier]

@@CTubeMan You are right, the act only applies between the second weekend in September to the second weekend in December. That and the Eagles/Packers game is being played in another country.

[@Cityofstroud]

I dont see my name at the end?

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Everything updates on Mondays!

[@Cityofstroud]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 ok

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

So it was too hot to fish, too hot for golf, AND too hot for football! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nl6mp5ykpZZgoLc

[@randytracy1742]

The buffalo 🦬 bills were 1-12-1in 1968and their only win came against the new York jets-the score was 37-35 for buffalo ! The jets eventually won Super Bowl 3 after that season! 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮