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Two Redskin blockers can’t keep Dolphins defensive tackle Manny Fernandez from pressuring Redskins quarterback Billy Kilmer in Super Bowl 7, January 14, 1973. (John Walter/Miami Herald)

The way Bob Matheson remembers it, the Dolphins’ perfect season of 1972 was Murphy’s Law working in reverse. If anything could go right, it would. “It was a season where everything seemed to work out in a storybook fashion. We were the type of team that didn’t beat ourselves. We had the confidence to go out and expect to win every single time we played.”

January 14, 1983, Miami Herald

“The 1972 team was the best in the history of pro football. The record speaks for itself. I’ve had time over the years to reflect on this, and the more you think about it the more amazing it seems.”

Larry Little, 1983