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1981

DOLPHIN TRIVIA:

Which Dolphins quarterback holds the team record for most passing yards in a game? Name the player, the game and the yardage total.

David Woodley, 408 vs. Dallas in 1981 [Book editor’s note: Current record is 521 yards by Dan Marino, Oct. 23, 1988 vs. Jets.]

February 5:

Six-time All Pro guard Larry Little retires after a 14-year career that included 12 years with the Dolphins.

June 25:

Bob Griese retires after a 14-year career with the Dolphins, boasting a record of 101-62-3, two Super Bowl victories and six Pro Bowl appearances.

You knew from the first that it would be this like this with Griese. No tear-stained farewells. No nostalgia hangovers. No desperate search to find a place in the real world after football’s fantasyland. “When you’ve been hanging around locker rooms as long as I have, you forget what a normal life is. One year coaching, 14 years quarterbacking pro, four at Purdue, four in high school. That’s a long time to be doing the same thing,” Griese says.

August 8, 1982 (Edwin Pope/Miami Herald)

Griese was one of the last true heroes, so obsessively upright that he never took even one personal misstep to shatter his idolators. He exemplified Bernard Malamud’s line in “The Natural:” “Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.” Griese showed us by climbing the highest hills with little more physical talent than a lot of people right off the street.

August 8, 1982 (Edwin Pope/Miami Herald)