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  • meaning that the Patriots won this game of "milk"

  • Miami shoulda been in the Super Bowl. Pats were the sacrifical lambs to the Bears. The only team to beat the Bears that year was Miami and probably the only ones that could contest their D. Pats ran into a string of lucky bounces getting 16 turnovers in the playoffs.

  • dolphins v chicago would have been better...

  • Great game but the Patriots had a better all around team

  • @MrSPAXX7 i agree, the current NE unis suck. They should bring these ones back!!!!

  • Never has one game been decided on turnovers than this one.

  • Pats ran into a string of lucky bounces getting 16 turnovers in the playoffs.

  • Damn Sumerall was already old 25 years ago.

  • This was a huge upset, here where Dolphins with there sights on a return trip to the Superbowl and at home !!

    Really should have blown the Patriots out of the Orange Bowl.

  • thank you SO MUCH for posting this. as a 15-year-old kid, this was the greatest thrill of my life up til then as a sports fan. the 01, 03, and 04 championships were great, but nothing was as special as that first trip to the big game. (i choose not to remember superbowl xx itself).

  • How the Dolphins choked this game away....the Patriots had no business representing the AFC in the Super Bowl

  • @bwashinski What the hell are you talking about? The better team always wins, and the Patriots were the most talented team in the AFC in 1985...the 85 Dolphins were without a doubt, the worst 12-4 team in NFL history, they only got into the playoffs by running the tables on a weak schedule...how many times have the Dolphins played in the Super Bowl, since 1984? What about New England?

  • @GemCan78 Very simple - 1st they whipped the team that embarrassed the Pats 46-10.. 2nd - this was essentially the same team that went 14-2 and represented the AFC in the Super Bowl in 1984 (and featured a lot of the core of players that reached the Super Bowl 2 years before that. The fact that the Dolphins played the best team of the 1980s, the 15-1 team that WAS NOT a one year wonder - they still maintained a more successful run in that era. What the 2000 Pats have done is not relevant.

  • @bwashinski So you're basically saying, that the Patriots of the 2000's, who had the best record, most playoff appearances, most Super Bowl appearances and wins, aren't relevant? What have the Dolphins done since 1984? Absolutely nothing, they haven't even played in a Conference Championship Game since 1992...plus, the 84 Dolphins had a terrible defense, they gave up 298 pts, which they wonderfully exposed themselves in Super Bowl XIX against the 49ers...

  • @bwashinski What was absolutely retarded on the Dolphins standpoint, is that, they steadfastly refused to get Dan Marino a running game...I guess that thought that Marino would just will his way to the Super Bowl, just like he did back in 1984, when he threw 48TD's...what alot of people fail to realize, is that, in football you can only fool so many teams...yes, Marino caught alot of teams off guard in 1984, but they quickly caught on...

  • @bwashinski Do you remember the Dolphins record in 1986? I think it was 8-8, even though Marino threw 44TD's...the 85 Patriots, on paper, were far better than the 85 Dolphins...just admit it, dude...

  • I was at that game. The most humiliating Dolphins loss in their history.

  • @OmissionsBand this was the first game i ever saw.i was 10 i remember before the game all the grown folk were saying squish the fish and then skin the bears.well we all know what happened.i think back now,dolphins would beat the bears.

  • @MrSPAXX7 No way. The modern uniforms are great, the 1995-9 lighter blue are even better. Those old red uniforms just don't cut it.

  • @STP43FAN1 I agree. I prefer the design of the 1995-99 Patriots uniforms though I would like them better in a darker shade of blue. In other words, same color as the current uniforms, but same design as the 1995-99 ones.

  • Who knew this would be Miami's last playoff game in the '80's.

  • @wizeman5974 The 85 Dolphins, were, without a doubt, the worst 12-4 team in NFL history...I remember them back in 1985, they were 5-4 at one point, and nearly missed the playoffs, the AFC East race was the best race, up to that point...the Dolphins high point, that year, was obviously beating the Bears, but Miami had no running game, which didn't serve them well against the Pats...if Shula had drafted a good RB, then Marino would probably have had another chance at a ring...

  • @GemCan78 I remember that too. Every game after being 5-4 was billed as a "must" win for Miami and somehow they pulled it off. It shows just how great Marino and the "Mark's" brothers really were at the time. With that team it really was their offense that carried them. You are right about the RB situation, if Miami had an elite RB, maybe they do win it all that year. But I think being so good for so long and drafting low in each round finally caught up to Miami.

  • it's weird how they have patriots painted in one of the end zones in miami. did a lot of teams have both team logos painted in the end zone back then?

  • @HaulinHearse No...only in the Super Bowl, can both teams have their team logos painted in their respective end zones...the Orange Bowl groundscrew, royally screwed up on that one, which probably jinxed the Dolphins...I remember watching this game back in 1985, I was just seven at the time...I been a Patriots fan ever since...

  • @GemCan78 Thanks I thought that seemed strange. I'm sure Patriots fans appreciated the screw up. I was born in 1980 and vaguely remember the bears and patriots super bowl being on tv, but don't remember anything about the game.

  • @HaulinHearse My question exactly...

  • @MrSPAXX7

    Absolutely. The Pats need to get back to their traditional, red-white-and-blue uniforms. Maybe go back to the grey facemasks, too.

  • I still can't believe Merlin Olsen is gone. I enjoyed his NFL broadcasting as well as his talented acting on "Little House on The Prairie". I'm too young to have seen his career with the Rams.

  • @MrSPAXX7 agred

  • ahHHH OLD SCHOOL

  • One of the great play-by-play teams of all time - Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen (Lord rest his soul). I was always partial to Enberg and Olsen, though I wouldn't turn the sound down on Pat Summerall and John Madden (or Summerall and Tom Brookshier).

  • @cag1970 You said it!

  • This was a forgotten BAD loss by Miami. This was worse than the superbowl the year before. What's sad, is this would be the last playoff appearance for Miami for 5 years ! Shula never upgraded that defense nor the offense. What a shame.

  • Watching Superbowl XIX was tough to watch,but this game was just downright asstwitching.I left out of my room just shaking my head saying C'mon Chicago! C'mon Chicago!

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  • Squish the Fish!

  • Whatever happened to Merlin Olson? He was an awesome color commentator.

  • @gymcoach15 he passed away a few months ago, after he left NBC after the 1988 season he went over to CBs for a couple of years and then he just retired

  • @crawford371 I didn't know he passed away, that's too bad.

  • @crawford371 Actually, Merlin Olsen was demoted in favor of Bill Walsh. He paired w/ Charlie Jones for the '89 season. For the final 2 years of his broadcasting career, he teamed up w/ Dick Stockton on CBS.

  • i wanted dofins to win so bears could have a rematch

  • 1980s and 1970s football: unbeatable. i wish a channel dedicated to these 2 decades of football. sounds kinda weird but the ratings would sky rocket for it. just broadcast old games, old pregame shows, reunions of 70s and 80s teams... it would be heaven

  • @SBXXChampions

    start a campaign to promote the idea 

  • @SFFOOL76 ahahahaha i should

  • @SBXXChampions Agreed.

  • @SBXXChampions that would be pretty sweet SBXX, that way people could see football when the teams played for things a lot bigger than themselves like honor, pride, glory, and above all, the love of the game, not these twittering ballhogs of today

  • @Madamow i know! it pisses me off to no end!

  • lol, loving these old school graphics!

  • There's no way Miami would have beaten the Bears again had they gone onto the Super Bowl, that Bears team was a group of personalities and they would have been out for blood against the Dolphins. The Bears would have killed Miami.

  • dolphins a.) should have never got rid of those uniforms b.) revamped the orange bowl to modern specifications because that was a great stadium (went there once)

  • What is the name of the song that starts at 2:12, I remember they used this only for nbc nfl '85

  • @SFFOOL76 Not sure, but I do remember hearing the theme during the Super Bowl XVII NFL Films highlight film (during the segment culminating with Joe Theismann throwing the clinching touchdown pass to Charlie Brown).

  • @HamptonRoadsTVFan I remember watching those "Super Bowl Memories"...with the narration by John Facenda, those games were just made into an epic saga, something like a medieval struggle...the 1985 AFC Championship had to be the most underrated Conference Championship in the Super Bowl Era...this game, officially started the Patriots dynasty...

  • @SFFOOL76 I like that music also. Wished they used that for NBC Sunday Night Football. That music was used during NFL films highlights of Super Bowl XVII as John Riggins kept running through the Dolphins defense.

    Also when Dan Marino mentioned that he heard Julius Adams wanted to tear some faces off, I laughed because it teminded me of Lyle Alzado's threats to tear Joe Theismann's lips off!

  • All about matchups. New England outplayed Miami, but were no match for the Bears. The Dolphins vs. Bears would have been a much more exciting Super Bowl (the Dolphins were the only team to beat the Bears that year). What a shame the Patriots had to go and embarrass the AFC with one of the crappiest Super Bowl performances of all time.

  • @johnboy779 You have to understand, that in the four major professional sports, baseball, football, basketball, hockey, there's always that one team, every decade, that has no business making it to the championship...during the 1980's, in the NFL, it was the 85 Patriots...

  • @johnboy779 The 85 Patriots weren't the only AFC team, to play lousy in the Super Bowl...from 1984 to 1996, the NFC won every single Super Bowl, with numerous blowouts...the reason that the AFC couldn't break the streak, until Elway, was because the AFC was so focused on their quarterbacks...if you remember that 83 draft, the six QB's who were taken in the first round, were all picked by AFC teams...

  • @GemCan78 No question about there being other blowouts, but it's interesting to think how much better these Super Bowls would have been had a different AFC team made it in: '85= Dolphins, '86= Browns or Seahawks (better D than Broncos), '87= Browns (again, way better defense), '89= Browns or Bills, 91' & '92= Oilers (best all-around AFC team), ''94=Steelers (Chargers sucked)

    So there you go: the Super Bowls that SHOULD have been.

  • @johnboy779 Maybe they should make the missing rings.

  • in the background shot when theyre talking about raymond berry, notice steve grogan he looks like he has a dip in.

  • its forgotten cause the partriots killed the dolphins in all aspects up and down the field. what people remember first and foremost in patriot history is the tuck rule game vs oakland in the snow. that was what helped catipult new england in the super bowl and launch a dynasty.

  • So many great quarterbacks that came out of Western Pennsylvania...I can't believe that this game was 25 years ago...I was just seven years old, and this was the first AFC Championship that I ever watched...So much has changed since then...

  • wow thanks for posting... what great memories, I was at this game. GO PATS!

  • @Yanks777Jets75

    Actually, it was the Divisional Playoff. The Cowboys beat the Vikings in the NFC Championship

  • seriously, i think the people who painted the end zones were drunk.

  • @Yanks777Jets75 The 1977 "mud bowl" playoff game between the Rams and the Vikings is on youtube. you can see Vikings painted in one of the endzones and that was just a division playoff game.

  • Why the heck did the Dolphins put the Patriots name in the endzone?It's their home game?No wonder why the Pats won this game.I still can't believe the Dolphins lost this game.The whole world wanted to see that Dolphins/Bears rematch.

  • @WEINBAUER I would of been 5 years old but I guess this is when the AFC still treated it Championship game like it was still the AFL days, either way the Bears would of smoked anyone in its path

  • @rileymayhem20 I bet that rematch would have been awesome if Miami had won this game.Remember they embarrassed the Bears on Monday Night Football that year to ruin the Bears perfect season.

  • @rileymayhem20: The next year, the Brown groundskeepers painted Broncos in one of the end zones. That wasn't done every year, though, and I think that 1986 was the last year that was done. I don't remember that being done since.

  • @Yanks777Jets75 It was an LA colissium thing. They painted the endzone for the opposing team when the Rams played title games there in the 70's too.

  • Squish the fish? I thought a dolphin was a mammal.

  • Thanks for giving me the opportunity to watch that memorable game.

  • The end zones look very weird. One says 'Patriots,' and they're an odd color.

  • The end zones look very weird. One says 'Patriots,' they're an odd color.

  • in some attic, there's a picture of bob costas getting older

  • Squish the Fish!

  • Strange how Bob Costas looked exactly the same in 1985.

  • @mukumuku08 Dude, you are so right...it's truly bizarre, figuring that Costas hasn't aged a day, since 1985...it's like he's caught in some hyperbaric chamber...

  • Only in Miami (and maybe southern California) could Dick Enberg have described mid-60s temperatures in January as cool and that would have been credible.

  • Gilch: They have ALWAYS been the Oakland Raiders, REGARDLESS of venue, A Hole!!

  • Strange seeing a network pre-game show stay in the studio for a conference championship; especially compared to CBS; which during this era, would send Brent, Irv, Jimmy and Co. to every playoff game after the wild-card.

  • @Market42Fan Never mind, I watch the later videos and NBC did send Ahmad Rashad to Miami, though I'm still having a hard time making sense of why Costas and Axthelm didn't join Little Mike at the Orange Bowl.

  • Thanks for putting this up bro!

  • great ! i always loved to see this game...awesome; many thks; any chance to see also the other 2 play-off games: La Raiders and Ny Jets ?

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  • Great game. I didn't forget it=)!!!

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