Miami Dolphins Milestones

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How to play the Miami Dolphins history timeline

The Dolphins deck turns franchise history into a set of moments, each with a short description, to be sorted by year. One card is already down with its year in view. Place each new card before, after or between the others. A good call shows the year; a bad call puts the card in its rightful spot and takes one of your three lives.

The Dolphins' peak came under one legendary coach, and a long stretch of the deck belongs to his teams and to a record-setting quarterback who arrived during his tenure. Those cards stack up quickly. Beyond them, the deck moves through quarterback searches, quirky offensive experiments and an explosive offense. Famous games named in the headlines are easy to misplace, so lean on the descriptions.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 28 of the 28 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Awarded an AFL expansion franchise Joe Robbie and Danny Thomas brought pro football to South Florida
Played their first season Joe Auer returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown at the Orange Bowl
Drafted Bob Griese The Purdue quarterback went fourth overall
Drafted Larry Csonka The Syracuse fullback arrived to anchor the ground game
Hired Don Shula Poached from the Colts, a move that cost Miami a first-round pick
Won the longest game in NFL history Garo Yepremian ended a double-overtime Christmas playoff against Kansas City
Finished the regular season 14-0 Nobody touched them, and the Super Bowl was still to come
Won Super Bowl VII to finish 17-0 Beat Washington 14-7 to complete the only perfect season
Won Super Bowl VIII Csonka bulldozed the Vikings for back-to-back titles
Lost the 'Epic in Miami' A 41-38 overtime playoff classic against Fouts, Winslow, and the Chargers
Drafted Dan Marino The Pitt quarterback slid all the way to pick 27
Marino shattered the passing records 5,084 yards and 48 touchdowns in a single season
Lost Super Bowl XIX Montana's 49ers won at Stanford in Marino's second year
Opened Joe Robbie Stadium Left the Orange Bowl for a privately financed new home
Shula passed George Halas for most wins Victory number 325 came with a patched-up quarterback room
Marino's fake spike beat the Jets He motioned to clock it, then threw the winner to Mark Ingram instead
Don Shula retired He walked away with 347 wins; Jimmy Johnson replaced him within days
Dan Marino retired He left holding nearly every passing record, and his No. 13 soon went up
Traded for Ricky Williams The new arrival from New Orleans promptly led the league in rushing
Ricky Williams abruptly retired He walked away days before training camp opened
Went 1-15 under Cam Cameron Hired after Nick Saban bolted for Alabama, he won only an overtime game against Baltimore
Unleashed the Wildcat and won the AFC East Chad Pennington led a worst-to-first turnaround
Stephen Ross became majority owner The real-estate developer bought control from Wayne Huizenga
Returned to the playoffs under Adam Gase Jay Ajayi's ground game powered a 10-6 wild-card season
Won on the Miami Miracle A hook-and-lateral finished by Kenyan Drake stunned New England as time expired
Drafted Tua Tagovailoa The Alabama lefty went fifth overall
Traded for Tyreek Hill New coach Mike McDaniel got a game-breaker from Kansas City
Dropped 70 points on Denver The most points scored by any NFL team in decades