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1972 Miami Dolphins season

On August 20, 2013, four decades after their accomplishment, President Barack Obama hosted the '72 Dolphins noting that they "never got their Whitehouse visit".

2 Skinnee J's

The group recorded several demos, 2 EPs, and 3 studio albums; SuperMercado! on Capricorn Records, Volumizer on Volcano Records, and Sexy Karate on Dolphins vs. Unicorns.

Asmahan Farhat

Raised in Strongsville, Ohio she began training with the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins before moving down to Marco Island, FL at age 11 and began swimming with her father for the Marco Island Swim Team.

Bruce Greensill

In 2003, he founded the Forster-Tuncurry Dolphins and was active in golden oldies rugby with first the Manning Mongrels of Taree and the Derelict Dolphins.

Cris Dishman

During the 2006 Miami Dolphins season, Dishman spent training camp as a coach for the Dolphins, alongside Eric Green and Cornell Brown.

Curtis Martin

On November 11th, 2013, Martin was added to the Miami Dolphins five-man committee to develop the conduct code by owner Stephen M. Ross following a locker room hazing incident involving Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin.

Damon Huard

He won his first three games that he started, tying a Dolphins record set by Earl Morrall in 1972.

Daniel Carpenter

Dan Carpenter (born 1985), American football placekicker for the Miami Dolphins

DAPG

Dolphin Action and Protection Group, a non-governmental organization in South Africa which campaigns for the protection and conservation of dolphins and whales

David Overstreet

A contract dispute with the Dolphins led him to sign with the Montreal Alouettes, who, under the ownership of Nelson Skalbania, tried to buy a big money winning team.

Deepo's Undersea 3D Wondershow

These include a singing shark, a sea turtle named "Searetha" (who sings a cover version of Aretha Franklin's song "Think") and playful dolphins.

Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School

The Dolphins eventually won the Division 2A State Championship against Wakefield by a score of 35-0, and completed an undefeated season at 13-0.

Don McNeill

Don McNeal, former American football player for the Miami Dolphins and the University of Alabama

Donnie Jones

Less than a week later, Dolphins general manager Randy Mueller announced that the team would not match the offer sheet and Jones became property of the Rams in exchange for the 225th pick in the 2007 NFL Draft.

Doug Swift

Swift's blitz late in the second quarter of Super Bowl VII forced Washington Redskins quarterback Billy Kilmer to make a hurried throw, which Nick Buoniconti intercepted and returned into Washington territory to set up the Dolphins' second touchdown in a 14-7 victory, cementing Miami's 17-0 season.

Erwadi

Sea turtles are frequent visitors to the gulf as are sacred sharks, dugongs, and dolphins.

Ferae

According to recent studies (reflected in the diagram below), the closest relatives of Ferae are Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs and rhinos) and Cetartiodactyla (which combines Artiodactyla--camels, pigs, ruminants and hippos—with Cetacea--whales and dolphins).

Fleeting expletive

On November 4, 2012, during the Dolphins-Colts game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, referee Tony Corrente loudly said, “God damn it!” CBS play-by-play announcer Kevin Harlan apologized on-air because Corrente’s illegal language slipped past the censors.

Fresno City College

Cameron Worrell Free-Agent Defensive Back has played for the Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins & New York Jets, is currently the Defensive backs coach for the Fresno City College Football team.

Gardena High School

George Farmer: NFL wide receiver, 1982–1984, 1987, attended Southern University, played for the Los Angeles Rams and Miami Dolphins.

Hank Goldberg

In 1992, following weeks of Hurricane Andrew aftermath that dominated all the local market stations, Goldberg opted to interview guests Dolphins coach Don Shula to talk football and novelist/screenwriter Elmore Leonard when WIOD's program director insisted he talk only about Hurricane Andrew, three weeks after the storm.

Jake Scott

In the late 1980s, NFL Films named Scott as the Dolphins All-Time Neutralizer sponsored by Tums.

Jim Del Gaizo

However, he was re-signed by the Dolphins for the second half of the 1975 season after injuries had sidelined both Bob Griese and Earl Morrall, and was on the roster for the final three games of the season, but did not play.

Jimmie Jones

In 1993 he was part of one of the most famous Thanksgiving football plays, when he blocked a 47-yard field goal attempt from the Miami Dolphins' Pete Stoyanovich, to preserve what seemed an apparent 14-13 victory, but as the ball rolled toward the Cowboys' end zone, Leon Lett kicked the ball and the Dolphins recovered.

Joe Thomas

Joey Thomas (born 1980), American football player for the Miami Dolphins

Justin Hunter

He attended Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach, and played high school football for the Ocean Lakes Dolphins.

Kacy Rodgers

Rodgers had previously worked with Sparano in Dallas the previous five seasons while also serving under current Dolphins Vice President Bill Parcells during his tenure as Cowboys head coach from 2003 to 2006.

In 2008, Rodgers joined the Miami Dolphins as defensive line coach under first-year head coach Tony Sparano, replacing Travis Jones and Diron Reynolds from 2007.He would churn out three pro bowlers in Randy Starks DT, Paul Soliai DT and Cameron Wake DE while with the Dolphins.

Larry Little

Little was a key contributor to the success of the Dolphins' punishing running attack of the early and mid-1970s, which featured Larry Csonka, Mercury Morris, Paul Warfield and Jim Kiick.

Lincoln O'Barry

It was on this trip that the family made its first visit to Taiji, the birthplace of Japanese whaling, and also the site of the Academy Award-winning film, The Cove, where thousands of dolphins are slaughtered each year.

Louie Psihoyos

Released in 2009, the film aims to bring worldwide attention to the yearly killing of dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.

The movie also features the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and IWC's refusal to protect small cetaceans, such as dolphins, primarily due to Japan's influence on the commission.

Marzena Godecki

During the filming, Godecki was able to swim with dolphins and even with a pod of Minke whales that came up to the film crew's boat.

Mostly Harmless

In the alternate ending, after the destruction of Earth, the description of the Babel fish from the earlier series is replayed with an additional section, which states that dolphins and Babel fish are acquainted, and that the dolphins' ability to travel through possibility space (first mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel) and elaborated on in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish) is shared by the Babel fish as well.

Nathan Eyres-Brown

That same year he was also then selected in the Gold Coast Dolphins Under 16s side, coached by Scott Sattler.

Nathaniel Hill

Nate Hill (1966–2007), former pro American Football player (Washington Redskins, Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins)

Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong

Other research studies include: Irrawaddy Dolphins in northern Borneo,Malayisia and Mahakam River and Lakes in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Parcell

Bill Parcells, Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins

Ric O'Barry

Richard O’Barry started out capturing and training dolphins for the Miami Seaquarium and through the 1960s became the head trainer for the five dolphins who collectively played Flipper on the popular American TV show, while also serving as stunt double for show cast member Luke Halpin.

Robert McClain

After dropping Dunta Robinson, and letting Chris Owens and Brent Grimes walk to the Browns and the Dolphins, respectively, in free agency, McClain will likely reprise his role in this nickel spot behind Asante Samuel and Desmond Trufant in 2013.

Sagmatias

Mitochondrial DNA studies have indicated that certain dolphin species within Lagenorhynchus are actually more closely related to dolphins within the genus Cephalorhynchus.

Serbia men's national water polo team European Championships overview

Ivan Buljubašić interrupted a large series of "dolphins" with his first goal in a match, after which Sukno managed to score a goal and brake in to a half the "-4" backlog.

Shamarko Thomas

He attended Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach, and he played for the Ocean Lakes Dolphins high school football team.

Stephen Ross

Stephen M. Ross (born 1940), Miami Dolphins owner, real estate developer, and founder of The Related Companies

Summerland Key

Summerland Key was also home to singer-songwriter Fred Neil, composer of "The Dolphins" and "Everybody's Talkin'." Neil died here in July 2001.

Swimming with Dolphins

On June 21, 2010, Swimming with Dolphins signed onto the Seattle record label Tooth & Nail Records.

The Legend of the Titanic

Everyone runs to the Brooklyn Bridge and sees a huge flotilla of whales and dolphins in the harbor.

WFLX

The only exception is when the Miami Dolphins are on Fox at the same time (which only occurs when the Dolphins play host to an NFC team; for interconference games, the rights to the broadcast belong to the network that has the rights to the visiting team's conference; since the Dolphins are in the AFC, most of that team's games are aired on CBS (locally on WPEC)).


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