The Hurricanes have one bowl win - um, the Emerald Bowl - since moving to Hard Rock Stadium. Here are the facts: The Dolphins have exactly one playoff win since 2000 and multiple heartbreak playoff losses before that. It's almost as if, you know, something was working against them. Part of being cursed isn't so much about never having success - it's that both teams have been close to doing great things at times but then lose in devastating fashion. Neither the Dolphins nor the Hurricanes have had a big win since moving to Hard Rock Stadium. Problem is, all five championships happened, oddly, pre-Hard Rock Stadium.Ĭoincidence? Probably. If any other school went 89-60 over a decade-plus stretch, they'd be considered a blip on the schedule, but Miami has that "U" on the helmet, so the respect is there. Ever since the Canes moved from the Orange Bowl, they have been a nobody. The Hurricanes are 89-60 since leaving the Orange Bowl in 2008. We could detail all the things that have happened in those 27 years, but we think you know.Ĥ. That's 27 years ago, for those counting at home. The Dolphins have never been back to the Super Bowl since that 1984 season. That's where it all changed for the worse. December 1985: The Dolphins continue construction on what is now known as Hard Rock Stadium.May 1985: Tequesta Indian artifacts and remains are discovered on the land where the Dolphins now play.January 1985: The Dolphins lose 38-16 to the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XIX.Everyone thought Marino and the Dolphins would be back many more times, if not the next season. He broke just about every passing record on his way to leading the Dolphins to the Super Bowl that year.
In 1984, Dan Marino became a thing - tremendously awesome thing. Only days after construction workers found Native American remains, the Dolphins' bad luck began. Let's hope they'll make you a believer.ĥ. Actually, we have five things to tell you. If you still don't believe in the Curse of the Tequesta after all this time, we don't know what to tell you. Pretty much everyone is beginning to come around to what we tried to tell you in 2014: The Curse of the Tequesta will forever haunt our football teams no matter the caliber of coach they hire or money they spend on talent. Since then, however, more fans have come to believe something supernatural is indeed at play. Consequently, the "Curse of the Tequesta" is a real thing that is obviously the sole reason football in Miami has been an unmitigated disaster for any team that plays on that field.Īt the time, the suggestion that the Dolphins and University of Miami Hurricanes were working against a paranormal opponent each time they took the field was scoffed at - even mocked. More specific, the land on which Hard Rock Stadium is built was once an Indian burial site. On this Halloween Eve, we're reminded that the decades of heartbreak, misery, bad luck, and pain the Dolphins franchise has endured since the early '80s was also the plan - just not their plan.Ī little more than five years ago, this writer uncovered some startling news: The Miami Dolphins are cursed. Not so much why the team is 0-7 this season - because it's rather obvious that was the plan - but more so, how it's come to this. Dolphins fans have to be asking themselves where this franchise went wrong.
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