Tonight’s Phinsider Hump Day Flashback is perhaps the one game that I will feature that I attended or was at least old enough to remember attending. I went into this game with the highest of hopes, like most of the Miami Dolphins fans at the time, that this was the beginning of another Super Bowl run following the demoralizing defeat at the hands of the San Francisco 49ers just the season before. On top of that Miami entered this game, at home, as huge Vegas favorites with a 14 point line.
The one thing that I have never forgotten about the game is that it was on January the 4th 1986 and for the hundreds of times that I had been in the Orange Bowl I cannot for the life of me remember it feeling more hot or suffocating than that day.