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Johnw1104 on 01 September 2017
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HomokHarcos said:
Johnw1104 said:

Well I don't complain as I've otherwise been treated quite nicely by sports. My CFB team (FSU) has won three in my lifetime and one fairly recently, my NBA team (Heat) won it all a decade ago and then had those four straight finals appearances (including two wins), and while I don't follow it too closely the Marlins have won twice over the past two decades. 

Really, it's only my NFL teams (Miami Dolphins and Jacksonville Jaguars) that have constantly dropped the ball (the last time either seemed to have a legitimate shot was back in the 90's with Marino and Brunell respectively). I stopped allowing myself to actually be upset by their failures long ago, and instead just have fun with it and allow myself to be pleasantly surprised when things actually go somewhat well :D

A Miami sports fan! I assume you're not a NHL fan because the Panthers have been terrible the past 2 decades.

 

Dan Marino is often considered to be the best player to never win a championship (IRC the Dolphins only made it to one Super Bowl with him). They have been a playoff bubble team recently. As for the Jaguars... just crap.

lol I moved to Jacksonville for college and have lived there for the past 10 years... at the time of adopting them the Jags were pretty decent. Things haven't gone well sense. The Dolphins have largely been trapped in mediocrity lately.

I definitely think Dan Marino was the best player not to win a Super Bowl... I actually feel bad for him as in the 17 years Marino was with the Dolphins the team apparently was in the bottom 5 of total spending for all but one. The combination of Marino and Shula alone was always sufficient to make the playoffs more often than not, but when they'd start making it deeper into the playoffs the lack of depth would really become apparent. Unfortunately for Marino, the only time he made it to the Super Bowl he went up against one of history's best teams in Bill Walsh and Joe Montana's 49ers.

It's a shame he didn't show up in the QB-and-WR-protected 2000's instead, as I think it almost inevitable that he'd have won a ring then. He was among the last generation of QBs that really took a beating (he basically played the second half of his career in a ski boot).