The Daily Dolphin · Dec 8, 2015
35 years later, John Lennon tragedy announced during Dolphins win still haunts
Memorabilia sits a top the “Strawberry Fields” tile mosaic in Central Park, which was created in tribute to John Lennon, to mark the 35-year anniversary of his death Tuesday. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)It’s not often that the Dolphins win a game, much less in overtime and in prime time, that you can say it was one of the darkest moments in team history.
Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of probably the darkest.
On Dec. 8, 1980, the Dolphins defeated the Patriots, but it was a day the world remembers for an entirely different reason: John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York apartment.
