{"id":3315,"date":"2013-08-20T17:26:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2013-08-20T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:26:22","slug":"how-bout-them-72-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"How ’bout them ’72 Dolphins?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s a little late, but it ought to be welcome nevertheless.<\/p>\n

President Obama is bringing one of the NFL’s most storied teams to the White House for a decidedly belated congratulatory visit. The 1972 Miami Dolphins are coming to town to be honored in a ceremony that should have occurred oh, about four decades ago.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/08\/20\/obama_to_give_72_dolphins_a_belated_salute_119645.html<\/p>\n

The president at the time of the Dolphins’ historic season — in which they went 17-0, capping it off with a 14-7 win in the Super Bowl over the Washington Redskins — was Richard Nixon. He was vacationing in Florida and professed to be a Dolphins fan. He also had told Redskins coach George Allen that he was rooting for them to win the big game. <\/p>\n

One other thing might have kept the president from inviting the Dolphins to the White House. Nixon was fresh off his smashing 1972 re-election victory, but was facing increasing scrutiny over the “third-rate burglary” that occurred the previous June at the Watergate Hotel.<\/p>\n

President Nixon had other things on his mind, I reckon, and couldn’t be bothered with saluting the Miami Dolphins’ history-making season.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama also is a big sports fan and isn’t bashful about bringing in sports teams or individual athletes to be honored.<\/p>\n

I’m quite happy to see him honor the Dolphins. Forty years is a little late, but I’m sure this band of aging former athletes and coaches will enjoy the spotlight once again.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s a little late, but it ought to be welcome nevertheless. President Obama is bringing one of the NFL’s most storied teams to the White House for a decidedly belated congratulatory visit. The 1972 Miami Dolphins are coming to town to be honored in a ceremony that should have occurred oh, about four decades ago. … Continue reading How ’bout them ’72 Dolphins?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,540,3016,3302,3572,3940,4001,4468,5206,5246],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1972-season","tag-barack-obama","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-nfl","tag-pete-rozelle","tag-richard-nixon","tag-roger-goodell","tag-super-bowl","tag-watergate","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}