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Don Shula passed away at 90 this week, but this American legend lives on in the hearts and minds of a generation that loves winning, and decency, and discipline. His undefeated, 1972 Super Bowl champ Miami Dolphins hold that distinction to this day. What can we learn from this extraordinary life, and what should we remember from that magical moment in time?
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I have had similar feelings about the 70’s being a “kinder and gentler” time… certainly the people seemed more real and not locked into the stereotypes and rigid ideologies we have now… and I had just made aliyah to Israel in time for the Yom Kippur war… and yet…at the time I thought we can get past the hatred in one generation… with common sense and honest regard for the humanity of us all… sadly I underestimated the toxic mix of the “peace crowd” and the wide antisemitic base of the Muslim world and their ennablers in the halls of globalist power…
just rambling…
so much is better in so many ways… and I am happy to have made it this far… and happy to have the pleasure of your company on the journey…
Bill, as someone who lived through the same era as you, I still believe those days were better than now. Anthropogenically speaking, the world is indeed running down and we are even closer to nuclear Armageddon today than in those days. Amoralism has taken hold of the world. Today, more young’uns believe Hitler was neither good nor evil; it was just “cultural” differences. They go so far as to say the Holocaust never happened. One of the goals on my bucket list is to leave this world in better condition than when I entered it. Such great expectations seem too lofty, so maybe it’s better to hope to slow down its demise. RIP, Don Shula.
“I’m not much of a football fan” – spoken like a true Gator! =8^)
Go ‘Canes!
Every year we have to hear, the canes are back the canes are back. Please. How long has Jimmy Johnson been gone?
They might be the fifth best college program in Florida now, and Fl St stinks lately.
Go Hokies!
narrator; this thread could get ugly!
Nah, I know better that the Canes aren’t back, and 5th best in FL right now sounds aboiut right. I do miis the days of the triumvirate of FL/State/Miami slugging it out for the top spot.
And I admit I didn’t go there; I’m a Fightin’ Blue Hen. Becasue of a buddy from high school who went there, Miami became my big program school to root for
Hey, I like Danny Rocco. And not just because he sounds like a character on the Soprano’s. I thought he should have gotten the UVa job after leading Richmond to I-AA heights.
I still remember watching Miami’s loss to Bama in the 1993 Sugar Bowl and being reminded of The Executer crashing into the new Death Star. I also rememebr it not bothering me too much, as no empire lasts forever
And I do miss Sopranos – gre up in Soprano country. Two guys from my home town were in background character roles. In the opening credits the Sunoco sign is in the town my 1st girlfriend was from, and I used to pass those refineries every Sunday when we’d visit my grandmother
I am just a bit younger than you two, and grateful to have been young enough in the mid-to-late 70s to not know how bad disco was. It was a new thing to take “jazz” dance lessons along with the ballet and tap, and one of those years we danced “jazz” to “Funkytown” and we wore the most ridiculous costumes we could come up with: those rainbow afro wigs, plus the ugliest leg warmers we could find (mine were green and purple striped) plus ragged jean shorts, appliques, sequins, fringe. I had no clue what the point of all this was, but I was young enough to like the song and think it was fun (and show off from the front row because I was always the shortest person in the class).
We had a couple of magical football years about that time too. Earl Campbell and Dan Pastorini almost got the Houston Oilers to the Superbowl a few times (insert Steelers insults here), and my high school football team got to the state semi-finals too and we got to go to the games in the Astrodome!
…And did that inspire you to do an inspirational sprint outside the dome like Kelly Leak did in The Bad News Bears? =8^)
Hah! Nope. Would you believe I never saw that movie?
It actually happened in the “Breaking Training” sequel. NOt as good as the classic original, but still well worth watching.
Now go watch the original!
Yes, sir!