The Miami Dolphins just started a new season. See what they looked like the first year
Jeff Kleinman
Before Don Shula and Bob Griese and the rest of the Dolphins that won Super Bowls in the 1970s, there was the very first team.
In 1966, the new football franchise hit the Orange Bowl field in a magical way. On the very first play of the very first game, a Dolphins player well known to the home crowd took the opening kickoff for a touchdown.
It was all downhill from there, as the new team struggled to win under its first coach, George Wilson.
But the Miami Dolphins had arrived. And Flipper danced in the end zone to prove it.
Here’s a glimpse of what the inaugural season looked like through the archives of the Miami Herald: