While the Dolphins didn’t begin their existence as badly as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers once did by losing 26 straight games, people sometimes forget how dismal the Dolphins were in their early years. During their first four seasons, beginning in 1966, the team’s record was 15-39-2. The franchise sold only 12,503 season tickets when it launched and the team’s reputation for ineptitude made it something of a joke. In fact, among the Houston Oilers, if a teammate blew an assignment or messed up somehow, the other players would sing “Moon Over Miami,” a sarcastic hint that the blunder might lead their being shipped to football’s south Florida Siberia.
