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How the Dolphins’ No. 1 fan earned Super Bowl invite and could wind up in Hall of Fame

Super Bowl With a Smirk is back with the second of five daily needling jabs at the self-important NFL and the oversized gravitas of its big game. Flying under the banner, “Make Fun, Not War,” Smirk is an annual Super Bowl Week feature in the Miami Herald years we remember to do it.

The Miami Dolphins made it to this year’s Super Bowl! OK, well, no. Sadly that last happened 34 seasons ago, if you want to get technical about it.

But a Dolphins fan made it to this week’s Super Bowl in Atlanta, as one of three finalists in a Ford Hall of Fans contest that will see the winner featured in a first-of-its-kind display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, O.