January 19, 2026 • 39 mins
Highlights the Patriots’ historic AFC Championship win over the Dolphins — their first-ever victory in Miami. Captures the emotion, the execution, and the significance of finally breaking through to reach the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do you remember about the nineteen eighty five Patriots
forty years later? We're going back to tell the story
of the first Patriots team to make it to a
Super Bowl, the special team that blazed a pathway that
we much traveled over the next four decades. Here from
the players and coaches, as well as the sounds from
television and radio that defined the season, as we uncover
what made this a Patriots team to remember even if
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they didn't win a Super Bowl championship.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Annihilating might be a better word.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Sixty five.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
More cush out doing with Chief Coy's back, We're.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Going to throw a fire. This one come fire, cut down.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Then we mark them touch down pair hurbing player running
it all away. Poor touchdowns eighty five yards curving prior
Deacon rolling out to the right side, avoiding the pressure.
I'm Ronny Brown, Lynn doffin Indian zone. Six point Patrios
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shut down, Atrio, Tony Cullen, look at brand that.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Believe I might do so. And this is a Patriots
Super Bowl Sound Odyssey nineteen eighty five, Episode eight, Squish
the fish.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
But we will go down to Miami. Don Shula is
standing by at his home.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Gone We have to keep it brief.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
But obviously, although the Patriots will be no picnic, you're
gratified to be playing.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
At home much rather be playing at home.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I know how tough it is to beat the Raiders
out there, to try to beat him, and this is
why you have to give New England and Raymond Barry
credit for a great, great job all year long and
in particular today.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Patriots had beaten the Jets in the wildcard round and
then the Raiders in the Divisional round, and now they
were poised for their first appearance in the AFC Championship.
The opponent was one they knew inside and out, the
Miami Dolphins with quarterback Dan Marino. For two decades, Miami
had been a graveyard for the Patriots. I hadn't won
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there since nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Quarterback diick Wood pros to Carl Noonan, who in turn
clips to Joe Hour and Hour goes the rest of
the way on this exciting thirty eight yard razzle dazzle play. However,
the Dolphins fall one touchdown gives Jim Nance becomes then
EAFL Singles season ground gaining king and the Patriot twen
twenty eight to fourteen, This.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Would be the biggest game ever played between the two
divisional rivals. The Dolphins were the defending AFC East champions.
Dan Marino was the league's Golden arm, the only quarterback
to assault the nineteen eighty five Bears defense. The recent history,
even away from the Orange Bowl was rich between the
two franchises. In nineteen eighty two, the Patriots had defeated
the Dolphins in Foxboro three zero when a snowplow cleared
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a spot for field goal kicker John Smith to secure
the game's only points.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
Snowplow driver Mark Anderson, a convicted burglar employed at the
stadium on a weekend worked furlough program, rode to the
rescue and clear the small area that enabled the Patriots
to get a toe hold for a field goal.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But Miami would get their revenge, knocking New England out
of the playoffs during the same strike shortened season.
Speaker 9 (03:02):
But I remind you of the fact that the until
this year, they'd been under the same system. Chuck Fairbanks,
I believe, came to New England in nineteen seventy three,
and ronnier Earhart succeeded him, so they were basically under
the same system.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
This is the first.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
Year to Ron Meyers system, and then they're five and four.
As you said, there are some real positives.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
New England had beaten the Dolphins in Week nine, with
Grogan orchestrating some late game.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
Heroics rog and Rawley Grogan.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The Dolphins had held on in the rematch to secure
the division title and home field advantage.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
A lot of times, please let the over throw the
kind of will be picked off. Lean Blackwood had another
opportunity took out champions.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
He hook slid out a fix twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Five yard line pass intended for Dereck Ramsey, and the
Dolphins players are going banners.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
With their first two NFL playoff wins under their belt.
The Patriots were the toast of New England, with a
fan rally held in downtown Boston before they departed from Miami.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Those who have been with the team since those bombie
days at Old Bray's Field, it redreams a degree of
patients that can only be described as saintly saintly fans.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Mike, I'm telling you, it's.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Been a long time and it has been a wild
week for the Patriots in all of New England. As
the preparations were on for another trip to the Orange
Bowl and another matchup with the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
The rally was one of the most memorable parts of
the playoff run for players like ten sack, rookie standout
Garon Varis, and thousand yard rusher Craig James.
Speaker 11 (04:27):
Before we went to Miami, the rally at Government Plaza
and in Boston. I mean that to this day is
one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me.
I mean, I would have loved to won the World
Championship and had had another rally there the Government Plaza
or Parade, but.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
You know, we didn't get there.
Speaker 11 (04:46):
But that's one memory I remember as Swuish the Fish,
and that's that game will always be called Squish a
Fish game. And I still see t shirts being sold
on eBay and everything else, and I still have some
of the Squish the Fish stuff. Just a lot of
fun times in Boston, in the whole New England region
at that time.
Speaker 10 (05:05):
Tell me how long you've been a Patriot fan all
my life? Can you believe this has finally happened?
Speaker 12 (05:10):
I think I think we deserve it. We got a
great bunch of fans here in New England, and this
part of the world deserves the Patriots' beautiful and We're
going to turn it all around this year and I'm
gonna be there. I'm gonna be there, and I'm gonna
be there.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
See the biggest win defensive had where number what.
Speaker 13 (05:33):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
There was a pep rally.
Speaker 14 (05:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (05:35):
Some guy came up to me and he had tattooed
on his steel. You know, Craig James, he goes, squish
the fish. I was like, well, dudek, Squish the fish
became the official rallying cries the Patriots tried to make history.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Inspiring the first musical jingle of the playoff run.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
With people say with Me.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Patriots founder Billy Sullivan could feel the weight of the
moment as the Patriots fans finally had something to rally
around the fans.
Speaker 16 (06:07):
Of the game.
Speaker 17 (06:07):
Without them, we don't made owners, coaches, players, and of
these fans coming out here today.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I've waited so long. It's sorry what that.
Speaker 17 (06:18):
I hope we can get them all bys aserve them.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
No one knew better what it was like than quarterback
Steve Grogan, one of the veterans holdovers from the nineteen
seventies who lived the team's tortured history.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
There's some of US players that have waited a long
time for this, and we know there's a lot of
you that have waited even longer.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The time is now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Thank you. Even the Boston media descended upon Miami for
the big game, with local radio personality Eddie Inelman stoking
the fan fires two six six.
Speaker 18 (06:46):
One number here on WHGH in the sports medal, and
a very quick reminder that in about fifteen minutes of
we will be hooking up with the Miami radio talk
sports show and we want you people to really give
them the old raspberry. Let them know what it's like
to be a passionate New England sports fan that really
cares about your team and not laid back waiting for
fishing reports.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Give it for him right between the eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
As the Patriots left the rally, the longest tenured player,
Julius Adams, signed off with a succinct message.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I just want to say what theme we bought our hair.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
We're gonna rip their faces all.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
January twelfth, nineteen eighty six, the Patriots returned to the
Orange Bowl filled with confidence despite their lack of success there.
Head coach Raymond Barry copied his plan from Los Angeles,
having the Patriots travel early to get acclimated to the
Florida humidity. The weather would play a role and feed
perfectly into a game plan that would lean heavily on
the offensive line and running backs.
Speaker 10 (07:40):
Here we are at the.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida for the AFC Championship Game.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
Whoever would have believed.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
In the early part of the season that the Patriots
would be here, Patriots have.
Speaker 10 (07:50):
Not wont to hear in eighteen straight games. This one
is for the right to play in Super Bowl twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Patriots GM Patrick Sullivan saw favorable conditions for his team.
Speaker 13 (07:59):
You know, is kind of rainy, not pouring rain, sloppy,
but it was a bit sloppy down there, so you know,
to have a running attack and then an offensive line
that complimented the running attack the way our guys did
really seal the deal down there.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
First question, and it'll be answered early.
Speaker 19 (08:18):
Can the New England Patriots run the football effectively against
these Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins were not able to stop
their running the Super Bowl last year at killed them,
and last week Cleveland swept them off their feet with
the running game.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Patriots player Cedric Jones and Andre Tippett were already confident
when they saw the rain.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
And then we went to Miami.
Speaker 20 (08:34):
You know, we're down there and stayed for a week,
get acclimated to the heat, and we just ran the
balls rainy and I was so impressive with so many
Patriots fans were at the hotel. Squished the fish, Squish
the fish. You know, as we bored about us, and
we had so much momentum going into that game. I
knew we were gonna win that game. It was really excited.
It was a different game.
Speaker 16 (08:52):
It was wet. They couldn't pass the ball as much
as they thought they could, and they couldn't run the
ball as effectively as they could, and it fell right
into what we do well.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The crowd will be on Miami, Ali, it has been
in the last fifteen years, and they'll make it tough
on the Patriots. But the weather, a normal friend of
the Dolphins, will favor the Patriots today.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
It's cool in the mid sixties.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The winner goes to Super Bowl twenty against the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Oh yeah, well, it was pounded on us, you know,
through the media and papers and the Dolphins, and you
know that the Patriots had not won, and I think
eighteen Street Street games.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
In Miami, and you know, the role that we had
been on.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
Out if we could beat the Jets, if we can
beat the Raiders, you know, why can't we beat the
Dolphins to get to the super Bowl. And I think
from the get go, I think the Dolphins knew that
this was a different New England Patriot team coming in.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
The verbal challenges of the past week are over. It's
time to play.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The Patriots plan was obvious from the start. With five
straight runs, they picked up just one first before they
had to punt away their first possession. Center Pete Brock
loved the game plan that leaned on him in the
offensive line.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Raymond Barry and the coaching staff put the game plan
together and they said, okay, we've you know, with all
the film and we went down there and trained. We
went down there, so we were ready for Wednesday practice
down in Miami and it was a you know, kind
of a wet, muddy track and the whole bit.
Speaker 18 (10:23):
But the the uh.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
He stood in front of us and said, Okay, we've
got a game plan. We did all this film breakdown,
and we've determined that Anne Marino has a difficult time
scoring from his own eventure are just that just light
up the room with the smiles on the offensive line, saying,
we possessed the ball, We're going to win, and that's
exactly what we did.
Speaker 19 (10:46):
That's also the kind of thing that the Do England
Patriots dipped so effectively in their first two wins against
the Jets and against the Raiders, running out of that
shotgun formation. Miami, of course, knowing that they like to
do that well flip for it, was able to stop
it on that play.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The first drive didn't produce, but the Patriots defense continued
its toward takeaway pace, with Steve Nelson punching the ball
out on Miami's first offensive play and rookie garn Varus
recovering it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Dan Marino ready to move the Dolphins on offense for
the first time.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
He had another outstanding year.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Thirty touchdowns led the National Football League. He did a
race a Bob Greasy record and that pleased our colleague today.
Most interceptions in a year by a Miami quarterback, he
threw twenty one.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
That's what you're glad to have off your back.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He has with him Tony Nathan, excellent all purpose back,
and of course incredible speed on the outside Duper and Clayton.
And they started with three wide receivers as veteran Nat
Moore joins the magic markers Clayton and Duper Nathan five
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ball and now England has it. The Patriots and the
two playoff picked Rays have picked off ten turnovers, giving
up the ball only twice a plus eight. And on
the first play from scrimmage, darn Varis, the rookie from Stanford,
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gets it for the Red Shirts.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
I gave it comes back to Raymond Barry doing those
drills every single day.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The Patriots would get all the way to the Miami
one yard line, but couldn't get into the end zone
with bruising backs, mostly to Tupu and Robert Weathers.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Robert Weathers Mike Charles the two hundred and eighty five
pound nose tackle.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Drops him for a loss.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Instead, they'd open the scoring with a Tony Franklin field goal.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Tony Franklin, who has kicked six out of seven in
the playoffs. We'll try not much more than an extra point,
and New England has scored first.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The Patriots kept doing the things that already helped them
win two playoff games. After grabbing a takeaway on Miami's
first offensive play, the special teams forced another fumble on
the kickoff, one that the Dolphins were lucky to recover.
Ronnie Lapett highlighted that it wasn't just the defense getting
the takeaways, but the special teams as well, led by
future Patriots Hall of Famer Dante Scarnikia.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Thus far, New England's had the ball for ten scrimmage plays.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Miami just won.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Franklin to kick it off Lorenzo Hampton, the rookie from Florida.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Deep in short.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Hampton at the eleven and Miami recovered.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Lorenzo Hampton able to fall on his own misque and
did he take a lick of course last week, reflecting
on the winner of the Raiders, there was that kind
of play that led to the Patriot victory.
Speaker 19 (13:42):
Aggressive special teams hitting in three out of the last
four games.
Speaker 21 (13:47):
Man our special team players, they could go play anywhere
and start.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
I mean the guys that backed.
Speaker 21 (13:55):
Us up and the guys that play on Nikolin they
can go anywhere there and start. So we had guys
that didn't playing special team because startingywhere and they went
down there.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And did the job.
Speaker 14 (14:06):
To go down to Miami and in the championship game
and be a team that had beaten the Bears and
the team that you know, we hadn't beaten down there
in nineteen years, so you know, to.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Go down and we really played well.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
I mean, we played well everywhere.
Speaker 14 (14:23):
And the guys did a great job and won that
game and then went to the championship game.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Miami would go three and out on their second possession,
then New England would punt it right back and that's
when Marino and the Dolphins started to rally, putting together
a sustained scoring drive that would take the game into
the second quarter.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Johnson touchdown a tight end from Iowa State Man.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Miami leads for the first time.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Fourteen minutes, thirty nine second remaining in the first half,
and it's Miami seven, New England three.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Miami took a seven to three lead, but for the
rest of the second quarter and all of the third,
it would be all Patriots.
Speaker 16 (14:59):
And again it was our special teams doing things, making
things happen. It was our need to show these guys
that we could win down in Miami, and it was
the last game that was going to be played at
that stadium before they tore the stadium down or whatever
they did the closing of it. But it was, you know,
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reenacting what he had said earlier in the year about
how we've been delayed, but we would not be denied,
and we took full advantage of it.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
It was a great game.
Speaker 16 (15:33):
It was it was surreal.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
On their third possession, the Patriots leaned on powerbacks Weathers
and Tatupu, and after some early short games, Weathers exploded
through the line for a forty five yard game.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Robert Weathers all away to the Miami eight yard line.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I'm a Patriot fans tier.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Three plays later, Tony Collins would finish off New England's
first touchdown drive with a four yard reception Morgan.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
To the right, Starring to the left.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Eason likes to go to a tight end. He's got
Derrick Ramsey left. Touchdown, Tony Collins, Easton doing a good job,
the young quarterback showing patience. He didn't hurry the throw,
and finally Collins, with that much time, broke free.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
New England took a ten to seven lead, and once
again the defense would quickly get the ball back to Easton.
In the offense, bumballland who's got it?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
No signal yet it's New England.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Lester Williams, a former Miami Hurricane, played his college ball
in this stadium. That exchange and another turnover to the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Eastern state of fishing through the air, completing a twelve
yard pass to Stanley Morgan to set up a one
yard touchdown pass to tight end Derrick Ramsey Morgan White.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Often it'll be first and goal New England about a
yard and a half. Morgan looked like a ball in
a pinball machine the way he was getting hit about,
but maintained possessions first in goal New England, trying to
add to a ten to seven leagues Easton on the
bootleg touchdown Derek.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Dramsey down seventeen to seven. Marino orchestrated another solid drive,
hitting big passing plays to Mark Duper for eleven yards,
Mark Clayton for sixteen yards, and Bruce Hardy for twenty
nine yards, but New England's defense would get a red
zone stop at their own fourteen and the Dolphins would
miss the field goal attempt, quelling the momentum change.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
This is a thirty one yard attempt by Reves, who
missed only five all year. Oh bad snap and that's
gonna be wid to the right.
Speaker 13 (17:26):
No good.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
The teams traded final punts to cap off the first half.
The Patriots are stuck to their playoff winning formula by
forcing two turnovers, winning time of possession with a consistent
ground game, and delivering just enough passes to keep the
defense honest. Rookie garn Varus continued his playoff dominance, picking
up the Patriots first sack of the game to cap
off an impressive half, and.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Marina are the best protected quarterback in the league, sack
for the first time, and Veris, the rookie from Stanford
who had ten sacks on the air along with Tiffett,
get the initial sack for New England today.
Speaker 11 (18:00):
Get being quarterbacks, whether the Tip and I, you know,
putting pressure on the quarterback. And then Dan Marino he
would always get so upset at his lineman that he'd
be cussing them out on the field.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So that's what we knew we had him.
Speaker 11 (18:12):
And you know, I can remember Tip saying a couple
of times, you know, talking to one of their offensive line,
You're gonna let.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
Dan talk to you like that.
Speaker 11 (18:18):
And so we knew we had him, had them all
shook at that point when they were arguing with each other.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
The Patriots have certainly been opportunistic in this game and
throughout the playoffs, two turnovers leading to ten of their
seventeen points today. They have forced twelve turnovers in two
and a half playoff games thus far. With the wins
over the Jets and the Raiders. Counting the seventeen points
they've scored against Miami, they have seventy playoff points thus far,
forty seven of them set up by turnovers.
Speaker 19 (18:45):
But Dick, let's go back to our theorem of the
card game. Right now, Raymond Berry is sitting there with
even more chips than he started with his conservative philosophy.
His style is playing perfectly for him. I don't think
he's going to change. He can afford to be patient,
let his defense do the work for some more turnovers.
On the other hand, Don Shuler, who already had to
play aggressive, high risk football, almost has to play double up.
Speaker 10 (19:06):
And catch up.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The second half would be more of the same for
the Patriots. Right from the opening kickoff.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Seventeen to seven.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
As we open the second half, Hampton at the nine,
he has a running room Bolve and Greg Hawthorne recovers.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
For New England. Oh my, the turnover table.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Continues to rock in the direction of the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It was New England's third takeaway of the game and
instantly set the tone for the second half. Patriots GM
Patrick Sullivan trace the season long run of turnovers back
to Barry and the fumble drills he put his team
through from day one.
Speaker 19 (19:40):
Coming out of that locker room. You established the momentum
the second half in this first series, Miami, with all
its plans offensively and with all its thoughts, suddenly is
on defense again.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
You know, they always regarded Don Shuler as the great one,
and you know, among the top, and he certainly belongs
him on the top three or four golf head football
coaches in history, no question about that. But he was
totally out coached in this game by Raymond Berry. There
are former teammates at the Colts, and Raymond out coached him.
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That was That was a real The players executed perfectly,
but that was a real coaching victory. He hated turnovers
and he taught the team not to turn the ball over.
You know, it was really ingrained in their head. Six
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straight running plays. We get the Pats down to the
Miami two. Robert Weathers was stopped short on third down
and faced with the fourth and one from the two,
Erry went for it.
Speaker 19 (20:41):
Having made conservative decisions up to this point, what did
Raymond Berry do?
Speaker 10 (20:46):
I think he's going to go for it. That's interesting,
isn't it?
Speaker 8 (20:49):
But not out of character.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
He has been well conservative, also a gambler all season long.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Big big play early in the second.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Half, up and Weathers touchdown. Flag is down.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Robert Weathers all alone, A flag is down in the
end zone. It could be no, it is not. It's
against Miami.
Speaker 22 (21:16):
Much.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
John will stand and the Patriots Everett Closer have opened
Hey twenty three seven.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
League Easton's play action passed to Weathers extended the lead
to twenty four to seven. It was Easton's second TD
throw of the game, as the third year quarterback continued
his playoff hot streak. Bruising back Robert Weathers was excited
to become a bigger part of the game plan. It
will be the only receiving touchdown to Weather's career, and
his eighty seven rushing yards were the second highest. It
was another example of getting contributions from everyone you know
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the game.
Speaker 23 (21:47):
We're trying to close it out. I remember they were
really coming hard at its supposed to go out, like
I'm blogging the most, and just slipped past him and
Tony just laid it out there. Scales going to drop.
Speaker 19 (21:59):
It and very willing to go with the unusual play.
The play action pass and third an inches.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Miami continued to struggle to move the ball. After three
straight Marino and completions, they were forced to once again
pump the ball back to the Patriots. But that's when
the turnover issues flipped to New England dying spiral.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
James bubbles and the Dolphins have recover. A flag is out,
Bud Brown recover the ball. Let's say if it counts may.
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Have been a question.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
There's the first mistake by New England.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Let's see how it picks up Miami.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It seemed like just the break that the Dolphins needed,
and the momentum swing continued. On Miami's first play off
the takeaway.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh, Miami gets a break at the forty three, trailing
twenty four to seven with eleven minutes plus remaining in
the third quarter. Joe Carter, the second year man from
an Obama What a run by Carter so theout twenty.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Four, but the Patriots wouldn't blink and Fred Marian grabbed
an interception for New England's fourth take away the game.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Second in chart Marino into the endzone interception bred Merion
and Marion, who has an interception and each of the
playoff games has made it a hat track. Three for
three had that Dolphins tonight again.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Up by seventeen, New England lead even harder on their
rushing attack, draining the time in the third quarter with
an eight minute drive that featured eleven runs in just
one pass, converting a third down and a fourth down
along the way. Craig james thirteen yard run was the
longest play of the drive as New England continued to
grind it out and take Miami's will.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
It was a muddy mess, and you know, your mud
deep into your ankles and that kind of stuff. And
we ran for two hundred, just shia, two hundred and
fifty yards in that game.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
But we ran the ball the whole.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Time, you know, we just kind of smashed them in
the mouth and then did play action when we got
inside the twenty and we were fortunate enough to score
with it. But that was, you know, relying on the
offensive line and well.
Speaker 19 (23:56):
We've been talking about that Patriot offensive line. First round
draft picks on the left side of the line, Holloway,
Hannah and Brock.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You know, not only did we train ourselves to recover fumbles,
but we trained ourselves not to fumble. I know, was
that one another one of those things, But that was
that Miami game. I think was was the epitome of
my career, not that not only did it just win
the AFC Championship for US, but it did it on
the shoulders of the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Tony Franklin with an apparent forty one yard field goal
of Temps. If successful, that would be a three.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Touchdown lead for New England. It is no gude wide
to the left.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
One of the few things Dolphin fans have had to
cheer about in the second half.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Tony Franklin missed the forty one yard field goal, but
it was an effective drive to continue to pile the
pressure on a potential Miami comeback.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
Drives the ball so that him.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Fumble Miami who has it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Dlphin's Marino and Miami would struggle to mount a response.
But a second fumble by Roland James, filling in for
Irving Friar punt returner set up their second score of
the game.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Marino shotgun wants to get it on the board in
a hurry. He's got it, Tony Nathan exactly what Miami
had to have a five second touchdown drive.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Suddenly Miami was within ten points the start of the
fourth quarter, and their defense would force a three and out,
giving Marino the chance to close within one score. The
Miami crowd was back in it. The game was entering
its most critical phase.
Speaker 19 (25:37):
Ck we wondered why Raymond Barry had them turn up
those sound on those speakers so loud.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Now we know.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Miami took over at their own thirty eight yard line,
and that's when the Patriots' most tenured veteran, the oldest
defensive lineman in the league at the time, Julius Adams,
made a championship ceiling play recovering a fumble.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Harder all and I believe Julius Adams has it for
New England. He does.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
A veteran, Adams had seen it all. A nineteen seventy
one second round pick, he lived through the ups and
downs of the seventies. Now with the game on the line,
an AFC championship at stake. The old Vet made one
of the biggest plays of his career.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Harter who has given the extra effort throughout this game,
but you had a feeling when you get hit that
many times and bounced around, somebody's gonna finally knock it free.
And Adams Worth a man who finally saw that precious
pumpkin and New England Patriots have it again.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
The Patriots offense re engaged their run game and Craig
James and Tony Collins led them to the promised Land.
Collins converted the third and seven on the ground to
keep the drive alive. New England had gone over two
hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
New England has now rushed for two hundred yards.
Speaker 19 (26:49):
Should I have been on the field for Miami, It's
better just barely made it off.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
There's a play that worked against the Raiders head it
pays off again today. Collins out of the shotgun that
was such a big weapon and beating the Raiders in
Los Angeles last week. That particular play.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
James got them down to the one and mostly Totupu
finished the drive with a touchdown, extending the lead to
thirty one to fourteen, while the possession consumed another five
minutes of game time. Super Bowl twenty was within sight.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Mostly to two.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Fu touchdown went just seven and a half minutes late.
Even a great quarterback on an outstanding team's gonna have
trouble making up that deficit.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It's thirty to fourteen.
Speaker 19 (27:35):
New England Patriot fans have felled all year that their
team was not getting an up respect. Believe me, they
have earned the respect of the entire league and the
entire country, winning on the road against the Jets, winning
on the road against the Los Angeles Raiders, and apparently
winning here to end the last of those big Jinxes.
Speaker 15 (27:56):
I think any championship team I was blessed to bet
on state championship in Texas in high school arguably the
best team I ever played on, the really good team
college championship teams, and then the NFL playing on an
AFC championship team. Every one of those teams had a
common denominator selfless team teams win, Individuals don't win.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Miami put together a desperation drive, leaning on Marino's arms
as they once again drove deep into New England territory,
but That's when another Patriots veteran who had seen it
all stepped up and delivered the team six turnover.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So now fourth down and Viscayne Bay to go for
the Dolphins do for again, intersected by Clavern and Raymond
Clavern completes a cycle of superb coverage as he picks
off the pass the sixth turnover of the game for
the Patriots, and are they We'll put it up in
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grand all, New England. The Patriots always a quality team,
great players, and Raymond Barrens he has made them believe
that they are what they approved to be a great team.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Raymond Claiborne went to the Pro Bowl in nineteen eighty
five and put an exclamation point in the season that
would eventually help land him in the team's Hall of Fame.
Speaker 19 (29:13):
Well, there were ten thousand people, didn't they say, waiting
to meet them when they came home from Los Angeles.
One has to wonder what it's going to be like
when they come home from this victory.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We have a moment.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yes, let's acknowledge our budwise their most valuable players for
this championship game. Raymond Clayburn of the New England Patriots
and his teammate on defense, linebacker Don.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Blackman, head coach Raymond Berry, remained locked in until the
very end, even as the celebration was already getting started.
On the sidelines and back in New England.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I was looking through some old notes on Raymond Berry
when he took the job last year, and they certainly apply.
Barry said that his biggest coaching influence was his dad Mark.
They're in Paris, Texas, and he said, I learned.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
These things from my dad. Always believe you can win.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Two, convence your players of their potential. Three, insist on
balance runs, pass kicked, and special teams.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Can you be more prophetic on that?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
That's exactly what he's done. Those were the words of
Very when he took.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
The job as a so called interroom jobs a year
and a half ago.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
After a final failed attempt by Marina and the Dolphins,
the Patriots were kneeling in victory formation, sealing their first
DFC championship and completing a three game road trip to
the Super Bowl, which.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Is Jessa, I'll tell you what, Raymond. We'll chip ban, We'll.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Throw in our booty here just to see you jump
in the air.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
One show me some emotion. Come on, you go to
the Super Bowl. His idea of getting emotional.
Speaker 10 (30:41):
Is the smile hard jack.
Speaker 19 (30:43):
I had a chance to sit out and talk to
Raymond Berry and I said, are you having fun? And
Raymond said, you know, he said, being the head coach
of New England is kind of like being on a
trip through the desert. He said, most of it is
hard work and it's difficult, and you're out there all
day long. And he said, finally you come to an
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oasis and for a brief time you can drink deeply.
And he said, that's the great The best part of
the job is those brief stops at the oasis. Well,
last week there are palm trees in Los Angeles. They
had that oasis there, and I believe looking out here,
there are some palm trees right.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
Outside the stadium.
Speaker 19 (31:22):
I think this might be the sweetest oasis that he
stopped at so far. And I got to tell you inside,
even though he's not showing us, he has to be
bursting with joy.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
For veteran Steve Nelson, it was the perfect time to
break the losing streak in Miami. They're good and and
you know we were We just for whatever reason, you know.
Speaker 24 (31:42):
And we played him early in the season where it
was really hot down there, so we always blame the weather.
And then then we got beat after Christmas, so it
wasn't the weather, you know. And and and they had
they had a good teams, and uh, you know, we
always did well when we played him up here. But
for some reason, that was a game where we got
over in the most important game that you know, we
ever played in Miami.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Alamar Hunt Championship Trophy for the American Football Conference title.
I will go and well, if you had a set
back in the middle of the season, New England Patriots
would be the American Football Champions, especially after a two
and three start, you might have to run for cover.
They would want to put a straight jacket on you.
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But Barry has brought this team together and made them believe,
and they have certainly played to their talent.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Seven Patriots players went to the Pro Bowl, with future
Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Tippett and his sixteen
and a half sacks leading the way. But it wasn't
just the star players that got the Patriots their first
AFC championship. It was the total team effort.
Speaker 16 (32:43):
You got to be on a good football team that
could acknowledge. But you could be on some bad teams
and not get the acknowledgement and still play great. But
you know, it was just we were all playing at
a high, high, high level, and you know I don't
get there without my quarterback.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Tony Easton turned in a third straight game without a
turnover as the third year quarterback perfectly executed his role
in getting the Patriots to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Tony Easton sixty nine percent completions, conservative attack, all the
five touchdowns, no intercepts.
Speaker 19 (33:16):
He has done exactly what Raymond Berry asked him to do.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
As the clock expired, the team hoisted Raymond Berry onto
their shoulders. Not even the stoic Berry could contain his joy.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Raymond Barry.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
With forty five seconds left, there was a smile we
asked for.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
I wonder if he's ever been carried off the field.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I bet there were times Unias wanted to.
Speaker 19 (33:40):
I'll bet there were two almost embarrassed by that success,
but loving every minute of it.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
You can almost say, Oh, way we go is a
sorry for the New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
They're on their way to New Orleans.
Speaker 25 (34:06):
Lexington and Concord and Brockton and Foxborough and Boston and
the fans.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Who have supported this team and know the other end
of the emotion. Today they can share with the New
England Patriots.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
New England champions of the American Football Conference thirty.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
One fourteen, New England. Ending all kinds of streaks, they
go to the Super Bowl as a wildcard team. Only
one wildcard team has ever won it. That was the
Raiders a few years back. They also accomplished it in
New Orleans. They end the long winning streak of the
Dolphins at eight and they snapped the jinks that have
gone back to nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
They lost eighteen in a row at the Orange Bowl.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Not today, they dominated, taking the ball away from the
Dolphins six times.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Inside the locker room, Lamar Hunt presented the AFC Championship
Trophy named after him to Billy Sullivan, who's the biggest
highlight of the Patriots twenty five year history.
Speaker 18 (34:55):
Now for the presentation for the AFC Trophy Championship Trophy
by Lamar Hunt.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Lamar Thanks.
Speaker 22 (35:01):
In nineteen sixty the Patriots joined seven other renegades to
form the American Football League and now twenty six years
later that Championship day has come for the Patriots, the
last of those original eighth Bill to win a championship
of the Old Americans.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
And I think so highly of this man. He's the
guy that was the father of it.
Speaker 22 (35:24):
He nurtured it, he kept it alive all through the years,
and I just it gives me a fantastic pleasure to
present the AFC Championship Trophy to Bill Sullivan, to my
friend Raymond Berry.
Speaker 10 (35:36):
And to the New England Patriots.
Speaker 14 (35:38):
My dad was the fan, right I was eight years old,
so I like it, you know, but he was his vision.
Speaker 13 (35:46):
And when I looked at him, he's holding that trophy up,
I said, well, you know what he basically, he basically
is almost reached the pinnacle. He's got one more step
for the pinnacle. And you know, it was it was
very emotional for him because it was the Lamar Hunt
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Trophy that was handed to him by Lamar Hunt, who
was the head of the.
Speaker 10 (36:12):
American Football League who agreed to admit.
Speaker 13 (36:15):
Boston in uh and and Lamar and my dad ended
up being very good friends. In fact, you know, when
Lamar was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame, he
asked my dad to give his induction.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Speech, which is a very it's a significant honor, and.
Speaker 13 (36:35):
So that that particular moment was quite emotional and really exciting,
really exciting.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I'm out.
Speaker 17 (36:42):
I must say this, but if there's a happy man
in the world, and I I don't know who he is,
and I must thank God for all of his blessings,
but particularly for bringing Raymond Burry loyally of our fans,
loyally of our family.
Speaker 10 (36:56):
All Right, congratulations Raymond.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
It just seems to me that it doesn't matter where
you guys play.
Speaker 10 (37:01):
You've been on the road three weeks and you just
keep turning it up.
Speaker 25 (37:04):
It's hard to believe this is all happening. We thought
we could do it, but when it happened, it's still
hard to believe. We have some unces to be thankful for,
and for Missus Sullivan and Pat dick Steinberg who get
all these players here, and our coaches down and our
football team and our fans. It's hard to believe it's happened.
Speaker 15 (37:26):
Dan Marino said. He later he said, I can't believe
you guys beat us, and said we had no doubt
in our mind we were going to physically beat you
exactly We're not going to take that game from us.
And that was the kind of attitude. I remember the exuberance,
the excitement that we had after the game, dancing on
the sideline, and I remember saying, Man, we got one
more game. Man, let's go do this one more time.
Speaker 10 (37:46):
Traditional football at his best. And I think we can
look forward.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
To do or lets see if we only could have
a contrast and coaches personality going going into the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It'll be Mike.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Dicka and Raymond Berry, two former assistant coaches under Tom
Landry of the Dallas Cowboy Me two weeks from now
in New Orleans.
Speaker 11 (38:01):
To look back on it, I mean, just just to
realize of what was on what was at stake, losing
so many games to Miami and Miami and being the
super Bowl, you know, for the super Bowl, to get
to the super Bowl, and what it meant to This
could be the last opportunity for John Hannah, This could
be the last opportunity for a Steve Nelson, those guys
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that had really gave their blood and guts to the
New England Patriots organization and what was on the line.
And I think that everybody took that the heart and
it didn't matter if you were a rookie year or
who you were, you were contributing to that team to
get to be the first New England Patriots team to
get to the Super Bowl. And we felt that the
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pride that New England fans had, they were, you know,
behind us.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
The Patriots had made history, winning three playoff road games
and secured their first conference championship in franchise history. But
their story was not over. They were about to face
one of the greatest teams in NFL history in the
Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
I remember We're getting on the airplane flying back and
I remember saying to Raymond Berry, hey, we need to
remind everybody we're not finished.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
We got another game to play.
Speaker 15 (39:07):
And unfortunately it took two weeks to play that game.
Speaker 10 (39:10):
But we rolled such a high after.
Speaker 15 (39:11):
The Orange Bowl victory and the Dolphins victory and all
those things, we could never come back down to earth
and get focused back in on another game next time.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
On the nineteen eighty five Super Bowl sound Odyssey, the
final game, super Bowl twenty, the Bears, the forty six defense,
the Fridge, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the team
that made New England believe.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Introducing coach Raymond Berry and the rest of the New
England Patriots, so.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
The introduction of the main character is Raymond
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Berry and Mike Ditka's teams are on the field for
Super Bowl twenty
What do you remember about the nineteen eighty five Patriots
forty years later? We're going back to tell the story
of the first Patriots team to make it to a
Super Bowl, the special team that blazed a pathway that
we much traveled over the next four decades. Here from
the players and coaches, as well as the sounds from
television and radio that defined the season, as we uncover
what made this a Patriots team to remember even if
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they didn't win a Super Bowl championship.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Annihilating might be a better word.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Sixty five.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
More cush out doing with Chief Coy's back, We're.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Going to throw a fire. This one come fire, cut down.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Then we mark them touch down pair hurbing player running
it all away. Poor touchdowns eighty five yards curving prior
Deacon rolling out to the right side, avoiding the pressure.
I'm Ronny Brown, Lynn doffin Indian zone. Six point Patrios
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shut down, Atrio, Tony Cullen, look at brand that.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Believe I might do so. And this is a Patriots
Super Bowl Sound Odyssey nineteen eighty five, Episode eight, Squish
the fish.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
But we will go down to Miami. Don Shula is
standing by at his home.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Gone We have to keep it brief.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
But obviously, although the Patriots will be no picnic, you're
gratified to be playing.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
At home much rather be playing at home.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I know how tough it is to beat the Raiders
out there, to try to beat him, and this is
why you have to give New England and Raymond Barry
credit for a great, great job all year long and
in particular today.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Patriots had beaten the Jets in the wildcard round and
then the Raiders in the Divisional round, and now they
were poised for their first appearance in the AFC Championship.
The opponent was one they knew inside and out, the
Miami Dolphins with quarterback Dan Marino. For two decades, Miami
had been a graveyard for the Patriots. I hadn't won
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there since nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Quarterback diick Wood pros to Carl Noonan, who in turn
clips to Joe Hour and Hour goes the rest of
the way on this exciting thirty eight yard razzle dazzle play. However,
the Dolphins fall one touchdown gives Jim Nance becomes then
EAFL Singles season ground gaining king and the Patriot twen
twenty eight to fourteen, This.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Would be the biggest game ever played between the two
divisional rivals. The Dolphins were the defending AFC East champions.
Dan Marino was the league's Golden arm, the only quarterback
to assault the nineteen eighty five Bears defense. The recent history,
even away from the Orange Bowl was rich between the
two franchises. In nineteen eighty two, the Patriots had defeated
the Dolphins in Foxboro three zero when a snowplow cleared
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a spot for field goal kicker John Smith to secure
the game's only points.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
Snowplow driver Mark Anderson, a convicted burglar employed at the
stadium on a weekend worked furlough program, rode to the
rescue and clear the small area that enabled the Patriots
to get a toe hold for a field goal.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But Miami would get their revenge, knocking New England out
of the playoffs during the same strike shortened season.
Speaker 9 (03:02):
But I remind you of the fact that the until
this year, they'd been under the same system. Chuck Fairbanks,
I believe, came to New England in nineteen seventy three,
and ronnier Earhart succeeded him, so they were basically under
the same system.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
This is the first.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
Year to Ron Meyers system, and then they're five and four.
As you said, there are some real positives.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
New England had beaten the Dolphins in Week nine, with
Grogan orchestrating some late game.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
Heroics rog and Rawley Grogan.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The Dolphins had held on in the rematch to secure
the division title and home field advantage.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
A lot of times, please let the over throw the
kind of will be picked off. Lean Blackwood had another
opportunity took out champions.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
He hook slid out a fix twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Five yard line pass intended for Dereck Ramsey, and the
Dolphins players are going banners.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
With their first two NFL playoff wins under their belt.
The Patriots were the toast of New England, with a
fan rally held in downtown Boston before they departed from Miami.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Those who have been with the team since those bombie
days at Old Bray's Field, it redreams a degree of
patients that can only be described as saintly saintly fans.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Mike, I'm telling you, it's.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Been a long time and it has been a wild
week for the Patriots in all of New England. As
the preparations were on for another trip to the Orange
Bowl and another matchup with the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
The rally was one of the most memorable parts of
the playoff run for players like ten sack, rookie standout
Garon Varis, and thousand yard rusher Craig James.
Speaker 11 (04:27):
Before we went to Miami, the rally at Government Plaza
and in Boston. I mean that to this day is
one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me.
I mean, I would have loved to won the World
Championship and had had another rally there the Government Plaza
or Parade, but.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
You know, we didn't get there.
Speaker 11 (04:46):
But that's one memory I remember as Swuish the Fish,
and that's that game will always be called Squish a
Fish game. And I still see t shirts being sold
on eBay and everything else, and I still have some
of the Squish the Fish stuff. Just a lot of
fun times in Boston, in the whole New England region
at that time.
Speaker 10 (05:05):
Tell me how long you've been a Patriot fan all
my life? Can you believe this has finally happened?
Speaker 12 (05:10):
I think I think we deserve it. We got a
great bunch of fans here in New England, and this
part of the world deserves the Patriots' beautiful and We're
going to turn it all around this year and I'm
gonna be there. I'm gonna be there, and I'm gonna
be there.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
See the biggest win defensive had where number what.
Speaker 13 (05:33):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
There was a pep rally.
Speaker 14 (05:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (05:35):
Some guy came up to me and he had tattooed
on his steel. You know, Craig James, he goes, squish
the fish. I was like, well, dudek, Squish the fish
became the official rallying cries the Patriots tried to make history.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Inspiring the first musical jingle of the playoff run.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
With people say with Me.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Patriots founder Billy Sullivan could feel the weight of the
moment as the Patriots fans finally had something to rally
around the fans.
Speaker 16 (06:07):
Of the game.
Speaker 17 (06:07):
Without them, we don't made owners, coaches, players, and of
these fans coming out here today.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I've waited so long. It's sorry what that.
Speaker 17 (06:18):
I hope we can get them all bys aserve them.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
No one knew better what it was like than quarterback
Steve Grogan, one of the veterans holdovers from the nineteen
seventies who lived the team's tortured history.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
There's some of US players that have waited a long
time for this, and we know there's a lot of
you that have waited even longer.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The time is now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Thank you. Even the Boston media descended upon Miami for
the big game, with local radio personality Eddie Inelman stoking
the fan fires two six six.
Speaker 18 (06:46):
One number here on WHGH in the sports medal, and
a very quick reminder that in about fifteen minutes of
we will be hooking up with the Miami radio talk
sports show and we want you people to really give
them the old raspberry. Let them know what it's like
to be a passionate New England sports fan that really
cares about your team and not laid back waiting for
fishing reports.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Give it for him right between the eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
As the Patriots left the rally, the longest tenured player,
Julius Adams, signed off with a succinct message.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I just want to say what theme we bought our hair.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
We're gonna rip their faces all.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
January twelfth, nineteen eighty six, the Patriots returned to the
Orange Bowl filled with confidence despite their lack of success there.
Head coach Raymond Barry copied his plan from Los Angeles,
having the Patriots travel early to get acclimated to the
Florida humidity. The weather would play a role and feed
perfectly into a game plan that would lean heavily on
the offensive line and running backs.
Speaker 10 (07:40):
Here we are at the.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida for the AFC Championship Game.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
Whoever would have believed.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
In the early part of the season that the Patriots
would be here, Patriots have.
Speaker 10 (07:50):
Not wont to hear in eighteen straight games. This one
is for the right to play in Super Bowl twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Patriots GM Patrick Sullivan saw favorable conditions for his team.
Speaker 13 (07:59):
You know, is kind of rainy, not pouring rain, sloppy,
but it was a bit sloppy down there, so you know,
to have a running attack and then an offensive line
that complimented the running attack the way our guys did
really seal the deal down there.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
First question, and it'll be answered early.
Speaker 19 (08:18):
Can the New England Patriots run the football effectively against
these Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins were not able to stop
their running the Super Bowl last year at killed them,
and last week Cleveland swept them off their feet with
the running game.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Patriots player Cedric Jones and Andre Tippett were already confident
when they saw the rain.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
And then we went to Miami.
Speaker 20 (08:34):
You know, we're down there and stayed for a week,
get acclimated to the heat, and we just ran the
balls rainy and I was so impressive with so many
Patriots fans were at the hotel. Squished the fish, Squish
the fish. You know, as we bored about us, and
we had so much momentum going into that game. I
knew we were gonna win that game. It was really excited.
It was a different game.
Speaker 16 (08:52):
It was wet. They couldn't pass the ball as much
as they thought they could, and they couldn't run the
ball as effectively as they could, and it fell right
into what we do well.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The crowd will be on Miami, Ali, it has been
in the last fifteen years, and they'll make it tough
on the Patriots. But the weather, a normal friend of
the Dolphins, will favor the Patriots today.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
It's cool in the mid sixties.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The winner goes to Super Bowl twenty against the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Oh yeah, well, it was pounded on us, you know,
through the media and papers and the Dolphins, and you
know that the Patriots had not won, and I think
eighteen Street Street games.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
In Miami, and you know, the role that we had
been on.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
Out if we could beat the Jets, if we can
beat the Raiders, you know, why can't we beat the
Dolphins to get to the super Bowl. And I think
from the get go, I think the Dolphins knew that
this was a different New England Patriot team coming in.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
The verbal challenges of the past week are over. It's
time to play.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The Patriots plan was obvious from the start. With five
straight runs, they picked up just one first before they
had to punt away their first possession. Center Pete Brock
loved the game plan that leaned on him in the
offensive line.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Raymond Barry and the coaching staff put the game plan
together and they said, okay, we've you know, with all
the film and we went down there and trained. We
went down there, so we were ready for Wednesday practice
down in Miami and it was a you know, kind
of a wet, muddy track and the whole bit.
Speaker 18 (10:23):
But the the uh.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
He stood in front of us and said, Okay, we've
got a game plan. We did all this film breakdown,
and we've determined that Anne Marino has a difficult time
scoring from his own eventure are just that just light
up the room with the smiles on the offensive line, saying,
we possessed the ball, We're going to win, and that's
exactly what we did.
Speaker 19 (10:46):
That's also the kind of thing that the Do England
Patriots dipped so effectively in their first two wins against
the Jets and against the Raiders, running out of that
shotgun formation. Miami, of course, knowing that they like to
do that well flip for it, was able to stop
it on that play.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The first drive didn't produce, but the Patriots defense continued
its toward takeaway pace, with Steve Nelson punching the ball
out on Miami's first offensive play and rookie garn Varus
recovering it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Dan Marino ready to move the Dolphins on offense for
the first time.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
He had another outstanding year.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Thirty touchdowns led the National Football League. He did a
race a Bob Greasy record and that pleased our colleague today.
Most interceptions in a year by a Miami quarterback, he
threw twenty one.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
That's what you're glad to have off your back.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He has with him Tony Nathan, excellent all purpose back,
and of course incredible speed on the outside Duper and Clayton.
And they started with three wide receivers as veteran Nat
Moore joins the magic markers Clayton and Duper Nathan five
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ball and now England has it. The Patriots and the
two playoff picked Rays have picked off ten turnovers, giving
up the ball only twice a plus eight. And on
the first play from scrimmage, darn Varis, the rookie from Stanford,
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gets it for the Red Shirts.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
I gave it comes back to Raymond Barry doing those
drills every single day.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The Patriots would get all the way to the Miami
one yard line, but couldn't get into the end zone
with bruising backs, mostly to Tupu and Robert Weathers.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Robert Weathers Mike Charles the two hundred and eighty five
pound nose tackle.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Drops him for a loss.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Instead, they'd open the scoring with a Tony Franklin field goal.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Tony Franklin, who has kicked six out of seven in
the playoffs. We'll try not much more than an extra point,
and New England has scored first.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The Patriots kept doing the things that already helped them
win two playoff games. After grabbing a takeaway on Miami's
first offensive play, the special teams forced another fumble on
the kickoff, one that the Dolphins were lucky to recover.
Ronnie Lapett highlighted that it wasn't just the defense getting
the takeaways, but the special teams as well, led by
future Patriots Hall of Famer Dante Scarnikia.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Thus far, New England's had the ball for ten scrimmage plays.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Miami just won.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Franklin to kick it off Lorenzo Hampton, the rookie from Florida.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Deep in short.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Hampton at the eleven and Miami recovered.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Lorenzo Hampton able to fall on his own misque and
did he take a lick of course last week, reflecting
on the winner of the Raiders, there was that kind
of play that led to the Patriot victory.
Speaker 19 (13:42):
Aggressive special teams hitting in three out of the last
four games.
Speaker 21 (13:47):
Man our special team players, they could go play anywhere
and start.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
I mean the guys that backed.
Speaker 21 (13:55):
Us up and the guys that play on Nikolin they
can go anywhere there and start. So we had guys
that didn't playing special team because startingywhere and they went
down there.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And did the job.
Speaker 14 (14:06):
To go down to Miami and in the championship game
and be a team that had beaten the Bears and
the team that you know, we hadn't beaten down there
in nineteen years, so you know, to.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Go down and we really played well.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
I mean, we played well everywhere.
Speaker 14 (14:23):
And the guys did a great job and won that
game and then went to the championship game.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Miami would go three and out on their second possession,
then New England would punt it right back and that's
when Marino and the Dolphins started to rally, putting together
a sustained scoring drive that would take the game into
the second quarter.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Johnson touchdown a tight end from Iowa State Man.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Miami leads for the first time.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Fourteen minutes, thirty nine second remaining in the first half,
and it's Miami seven, New England three.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Miami took a seven to three lead, but for the
rest of the second quarter and all of the third,
it would be all Patriots.
Speaker 16 (14:59):
And again it was our special teams doing things, making
things happen. It was our need to show these guys
that we could win down in Miami, and it was
the last game that was going to be played at
that stadium before they tore the stadium down or whatever
they did the closing of it. But it was, you know,
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reenacting what he had said earlier in the year about
how we've been delayed, but we would not be denied,
and we took full advantage of it.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
It was a great game.
Speaker 16 (15:33):
It was it was surreal.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
On their third possession, the Patriots leaned on powerbacks Weathers
and Tatupu, and after some early short games, Weathers exploded
through the line for a forty five yard game.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Robert Weathers all away to the Miami eight yard line.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I'm a Patriot fans tier.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Three plays later, Tony Collins would finish off New England's
first touchdown drive with a four yard reception Morgan.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
To the right, Starring to the left.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Eason likes to go to a tight end. He's got
Derrick Ramsey left. Touchdown, Tony Collins, Easton doing a good job,
the young quarterback showing patience. He didn't hurry the throw,
and finally Collins, with that much time, broke free.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
New England took a ten to seven lead, and once
again the defense would quickly get the ball back to Easton.
In the offense, bumballland who's got it?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
No signal yet it's New England.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Lester Williams, a former Miami Hurricane, played his college ball
in this stadium. That exchange and another turnover to the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Eastern state of fishing through the air, completing a twelve
yard pass to Stanley Morgan to set up a one
yard touchdown pass to tight end Derrick Ramsey Morgan White.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Often it'll be first and goal New England about a
yard and a half. Morgan looked like a ball in
a pinball machine the way he was getting hit about,
but maintained possessions first in goal New England, trying to
add to a ten to seven leagues Easton on the
bootleg touchdown Derek.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Dramsey down seventeen to seven. Marino orchestrated another solid drive,
hitting big passing plays to Mark Duper for eleven yards,
Mark Clayton for sixteen yards, and Bruce Hardy for twenty
nine yards, but New England's defense would get a red
zone stop at their own fourteen and the Dolphins would
miss the field goal attempt, quelling the momentum change.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
This is a thirty one yard attempt by Reves, who
missed only five all year. Oh bad snap and that's
gonna be wid to the right.
Speaker 13 (17:26):
No good.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
The teams traded final punts to cap off the first half.
The Patriots are stuck to their playoff winning formula by
forcing two turnovers, winning time of possession with a consistent
ground game, and delivering just enough passes to keep the
defense honest. Rookie garn Varus continued his playoff dominance, picking
up the Patriots first sack of the game to cap
off an impressive half, and.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Marina are the best protected quarterback in the league, sack
for the first time, and Veris, the rookie from Stanford
who had ten sacks on the air along with Tiffett,
get the initial sack for New England today.
Speaker 11 (18:00):
Get being quarterbacks, whether the Tip and I, you know,
putting pressure on the quarterback. And then Dan Marino he
would always get so upset at his lineman that he'd
be cussing them out on the field.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So that's what we knew we had him.
Speaker 11 (18:12):
And you know, I can remember Tip saying a couple
of times, you know, talking to one of their offensive line,
You're gonna let.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
Dan talk to you like that.
Speaker 11 (18:18):
And so we knew we had him, had them all
shook at that point when they were arguing with each other.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
The Patriots have certainly been opportunistic in this game and
throughout the playoffs, two turnovers leading to ten of their
seventeen points today. They have forced twelve turnovers in two
and a half playoff games thus far. With the wins
over the Jets and the Raiders. Counting the seventeen points
they've scored against Miami, they have seventy playoff points thus far,
forty seven of them set up by turnovers.
Speaker 19 (18:45):
But Dick, let's go back to our theorem of the
card game. Right now, Raymond Berry is sitting there with
even more chips than he started with his conservative philosophy.
His style is playing perfectly for him. I don't think
he's going to change. He can afford to be patient,
let his defense do the work for some more turnovers.
On the other hand, Don Shuler, who already had to
play aggressive, high risk football, almost has to play double up.
Speaker 10 (19:06):
And catch up.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The second half would be more of the same for
the Patriots. Right from the opening kickoff.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Seventeen to seven.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
As we open the second half, Hampton at the nine,
he has a running room Bolve and Greg Hawthorne recovers.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
For New England. Oh my, the turnover table.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Continues to rock in the direction of the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It was New England's third takeaway of the game and
instantly set the tone for the second half. Patriots GM
Patrick Sullivan trace the season long run of turnovers back
to Barry and the fumble drills he put his team
through from day one.
Speaker 19 (19:40):
Coming out of that locker room. You established the momentum
the second half in this first series, Miami, with all
its plans offensively and with all its thoughts, suddenly is
on defense again.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
You know, they always regarded Don Shuler as the great one,
and you know, among the top, and he certainly belongs
him on the top three or four golf head football
coaches in history, no question about that. But he was
totally out coached in this game by Raymond Berry. There
are former teammates at the Colts, and Raymond out coached him.
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That was That was a real The players executed perfectly,
but that was a real coaching victory. He hated turnovers
and he taught the team not to turn the ball over.
You know, it was really ingrained in their head. Six
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straight running plays. We get the Pats down to the
Miami two. Robert Weathers was stopped short on third down
and faced with the fourth and one from the two,
Erry went for it.
Speaker 19 (20:41):
Having made conservative decisions up to this point, what did
Raymond Berry do?
Speaker 10 (20:46):
I think he's going to go for it. That's interesting,
isn't it?
Speaker 8 (20:49):
But not out of character.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
He has been well conservative, also a gambler all season long.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Big big play early in the second.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Half, up and Weathers touchdown. Flag is down.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Robert Weathers all alone, A flag is down in the
end zone. It could be no, it is not. It's
against Miami.
Speaker 22 (21:16):
Much.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
John will stand and the Patriots Everett Closer have opened
Hey twenty three seven.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
League Easton's play action passed to Weathers extended the lead
to twenty four to seven. It was Easton's second TD
throw of the game, as the third year quarterback continued
his playoff hot streak. Bruising back Robert Weathers was excited
to become a bigger part of the game plan. It
will be the only receiving touchdown to Weather's career, and
his eighty seven rushing yards were the second highest. It
was another example of getting contributions from everyone you know
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the game.
Speaker 23 (21:47):
We're trying to close it out. I remember they were
really coming hard at its supposed to go out, like
I'm blogging the most, and just slipped past him and
Tony just laid it out there. Scales going to drop.
Speaker 19 (21:59):
It and very willing to go with the unusual play.
The play action pass and third an inches.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Miami continued to struggle to move the ball. After three
straight Marino and completions, they were forced to once again
pump the ball back to the Patriots. But that's when
the turnover issues flipped to New England dying spiral.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
James bubbles and the Dolphins have recover. A flag is out,
Bud Brown recover the ball. Let's say if it counts may.
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Have been a question.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
There's the first mistake by New England.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Let's see how it picks up Miami.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It seemed like just the break that the Dolphins needed,
and the momentum swing continued. On Miami's first play off
the takeaway.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh, Miami gets a break at the forty three, trailing
twenty four to seven with eleven minutes plus remaining in
the third quarter. Joe Carter, the second year man from
an Obama What a run by Carter so theout twenty.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Four, but the Patriots wouldn't blink and Fred Marian grabbed
an interception for New England's fourth take away the game.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Second in chart Marino into the endzone interception bred Merion
and Marion, who has an interception and each of the
playoff games has made it a hat track. Three for
three had that Dolphins tonight again.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Up by seventeen, New England lead even harder on their
rushing attack, draining the time in the third quarter with
an eight minute drive that featured eleven runs in just
one pass, converting a third down and a fourth down
along the way. Craig james thirteen yard run was the
longest play of the drive as New England continued to
grind it out and take Miami's will.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
It was a muddy mess, and you know, your mud
deep into your ankles and that kind of stuff. And
we ran for two hundred, just shia, two hundred and
fifty yards in that game.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
But we ran the ball the whole.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Time, you know, we just kind of smashed them in
the mouth and then did play action when we got
inside the twenty and we were fortunate enough to score
with it. But that was, you know, relying on the
offensive line and well.
Speaker 19 (23:56):
We've been talking about that Patriot offensive line. First round
draft picks on the left side of the line, Holloway,
Hannah and Brock.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You know, not only did we train ourselves to recover fumbles,
but we trained ourselves not to fumble. I know, was
that one another one of those things, But that was
that Miami game. I think was was the epitome of
my career, not that not only did it just win
the AFC Championship for US, but it did it on
the shoulders of the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Tony Franklin with an apparent forty one yard field goal
of Temps. If successful, that would be a three.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Touchdown lead for New England. It is no gude wide
to the left.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
One of the few things Dolphin fans have had to
cheer about in the second half.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Tony Franklin missed the forty one yard field goal, but
it was an effective drive to continue to pile the
pressure on a potential Miami comeback.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
Drives the ball so that him.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Fumble Miami who has it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Dlphin's Marino and Miami would struggle to mount a response.
But a second fumble by Roland James, filling in for
Irving Friar punt returner set up their second score of
the game.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Marino shotgun wants to get it on the board in
a hurry. He's got it, Tony Nathan exactly what Miami
had to have a five second touchdown drive.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Suddenly Miami was within ten points the start of the
fourth quarter, and their defense would force a three and out,
giving Marino the chance to close within one score. The
Miami crowd was back in it. The game was entering
its most critical phase.
Speaker 19 (25:37):
Ck we wondered why Raymond Barry had them turn up
those sound on those speakers so loud.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Now we know.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Miami took over at their own thirty eight yard line,
and that's when the Patriots' most tenured veteran, the oldest
defensive lineman in the league at the time, Julius Adams,
made a championship ceiling play recovering a fumble.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Harder all and I believe Julius Adams has it for
New England. He does.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
A veteran, Adams had seen it all. A nineteen seventy
one second round pick, he lived through the ups and
downs of the seventies. Now with the game on the line,
an AFC championship at stake. The old Vet made one
of the biggest plays of his career.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Harter who has given the extra effort throughout this game,
but you had a feeling when you get hit that
many times and bounced around, somebody's gonna finally knock it free.
And Adams Worth a man who finally saw that precious
pumpkin and New England Patriots have it again.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
The Patriots offense re engaged their run game and Craig
James and Tony Collins led them to the promised Land.
Collins converted the third and seven on the ground to
keep the drive alive. New England had gone over two
hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
New England has now rushed for two hundred yards.
Speaker 19 (26:49):
Should I have been on the field for Miami, It's
better just barely made it off.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
There's a play that worked against the Raiders head it
pays off again today. Collins out of the shotgun that
was such a big weapon and beating the Raiders in
Los Angeles last week. That particular play.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
James got them down to the one and mostly Totupu
finished the drive with a touchdown, extending the lead to
thirty one to fourteen, while the possession consumed another five
minutes of game time. Super Bowl twenty was within sight.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Mostly to two.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Fu touchdown went just seven and a half minutes late.
Even a great quarterback on an outstanding team's gonna have
trouble making up that deficit.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It's thirty to fourteen.
Speaker 19 (27:35):
New England Patriot fans have felled all year that their
team was not getting an up respect. Believe me, they
have earned the respect of the entire league and the
entire country, winning on the road against the Jets, winning
on the road against the Los Angeles Raiders, and apparently
winning here to end the last of those big Jinxes.
Speaker 15 (27:56):
I think any championship team I was blessed to bet
on state championship in Texas in high school arguably the
best team I ever played on, the really good team
college championship teams, and then the NFL playing on an
AFC championship team. Every one of those teams had a
common denominator selfless team teams win, Individuals don't win.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Miami put together a desperation drive, leaning on Marino's arms
as they once again drove deep into New England territory,
but That's when another Patriots veteran who had seen it
all stepped up and delivered the team six turnover.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So now fourth down and Viscayne Bay to go for
the Dolphins do for again, intersected by Clavern and Raymond
Clavern completes a cycle of superb coverage as he picks
off the pass the sixth turnover of the game for
the Patriots, and are they We'll put it up in
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grand all, New England. The Patriots always a quality team,
great players, and Raymond Barrens he has made them believe
that they are what they approved to be a great team.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Raymond Claiborne went to the Pro Bowl in nineteen eighty
five and put an exclamation point in the season that
would eventually help land him in the team's Hall of Fame.
Speaker 19 (29:13):
Well, there were ten thousand people, didn't they say, waiting
to meet them when they came home from Los Angeles.
One has to wonder what it's going to be like
when they come home from this victory.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We have a moment.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yes, let's acknowledge our budwise their most valuable players for
this championship game. Raymond Clayburn of the New England Patriots
and his teammate on defense, linebacker Don.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Blackman, head coach Raymond Berry, remained locked in until the
very end, even as the celebration was already getting started.
On the sidelines and back in New England.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I was looking through some old notes on Raymond Berry
when he took the job last year, and they certainly apply.
Barry said that his biggest coaching influence was his dad Mark.
They're in Paris, Texas, and he said, I learned.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
These things from my dad. Always believe you can win.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Two, convence your players of their potential. Three, insist on
balance runs, pass kicked, and special teams.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Can you be more prophetic on that?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
That's exactly what he's done. Those were the words of
Very when he took.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
The job as a so called interroom jobs a year
and a half ago.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
After a final failed attempt by Marina and the Dolphins,
the Patriots were kneeling in victory formation, sealing their first
DFC championship and completing a three game road trip to
the Super Bowl, which.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Is Jessa, I'll tell you what, Raymond. We'll chip ban, We'll.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Throw in our booty here just to see you jump
in the air.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
One show me some emotion. Come on, you go to
the Super Bowl. His idea of getting emotional.
Speaker 10 (30:41):
Is the smile hard jack.
Speaker 19 (30:43):
I had a chance to sit out and talk to
Raymond Berry and I said, are you having fun? And
Raymond said, you know, he said, being the head coach
of New England is kind of like being on a
trip through the desert. He said, most of it is
hard work and it's difficult, and you're out there all
day long. And he said, finally you come to an
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oasis and for a brief time you can drink deeply.
And he said, that's the great The best part of
the job is those brief stops at the oasis. Well,
last week there are palm trees in Los Angeles. They
had that oasis there, and I believe looking out here,
there are some palm trees right.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
Outside the stadium.
Speaker 19 (31:22):
I think this might be the sweetest oasis that he
stopped at so far. And I got to tell you inside,
even though he's not showing us, he has to be
bursting with joy.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
For veteran Steve Nelson, it was the perfect time to
break the losing streak in Miami. They're good and and
you know we were We just for whatever reason, you know.
Speaker 24 (31:42):
And we played him early in the season where it
was really hot down there, so we always blame the weather.
And then then we got beat after Christmas, so it
wasn't the weather, you know. And and and they had
they had a good teams, and uh, you know, we
always did well when we played him up here. But
for some reason, that was a game where we got
over in the most important game that you know, we
ever played in Miami.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Alamar Hunt Championship Trophy for the American Football Conference title.
I will go and well, if you had a set
back in the middle of the season, New England Patriots
would be the American Football Champions, especially after a two
and three start, you might have to run for cover.
They would want to put a straight jacket on you.
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But Barry has brought this team together and made them believe,
and they have certainly played to their talent.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Seven Patriots players went to the Pro Bowl, with future
Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Tippett and his sixteen
and a half sacks leading the way. But it wasn't
just the star players that got the Patriots their first
AFC championship. It was the total team effort.
Speaker 16 (32:43):
You got to be on a good football team that
could acknowledge. But you could be on some bad teams
and not get the acknowledgement and still play great. But
you know, it was just we were all playing at
a high, high, high level, and you know I don't
get there without my quarterback.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Tony Easton turned in a third straight game without a
turnover as the third year quarterback perfectly executed his role
in getting the Patriots to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Tony Easton sixty nine percent completions, conservative attack, all the
five touchdowns, no intercepts.
Speaker 19 (33:16):
He has done exactly what Raymond Berry asked him to do.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
As the clock expired, the team hoisted Raymond Berry onto
their shoulders. Not even the stoic Berry could contain his joy.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Raymond Barry.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
With forty five seconds left, there was a smile we
asked for.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
I wonder if he's ever been carried off the field.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I bet there were times Unias wanted to.
Speaker 19 (33:40):
I'll bet there were two almost embarrassed by that success,
but loving every minute of it.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
You can almost say, Oh, way we go is a
sorry for the New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
They're on their way to New Orleans.
Speaker 25 (34:06):
Lexington and Concord and Brockton and Foxborough and Boston and
the fans.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Who have supported this team and know the other end
of the emotion. Today they can share with the New
England Patriots.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
New England champions of the American Football Conference thirty.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
One fourteen, New England. Ending all kinds of streaks, they
go to the Super Bowl as a wildcard team. Only
one wildcard team has ever won it. That was the
Raiders a few years back. They also accomplished it in
New Orleans. They end the long winning streak of the
Dolphins at eight and they snapped the jinks that have
gone back to nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
They lost eighteen in a row at the Orange Bowl.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Not today, they dominated, taking the ball away from the
Dolphins six times.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Inside the locker room, Lamar Hunt presented the AFC Championship
Trophy named after him to Billy Sullivan, who's the biggest
highlight of the Patriots twenty five year history.
Speaker 18 (34:55):
Now for the presentation for the AFC Trophy Championship Trophy
by Lamar Hunt.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Lamar Thanks.
Speaker 22 (35:01):
In nineteen sixty the Patriots joined seven other renegades to
form the American Football League and now twenty six years
later that Championship day has come for the Patriots, the
last of those original eighth Bill to win a championship
of the Old Americans.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
And I think so highly of this man. He's the
guy that was the father of it.
Speaker 22 (35:24):
He nurtured it, he kept it alive all through the years,
and I just it gives me a fantastic pleasure to
present the AFC Championship Trophy to Bill Sullivan, to my
friend Raymond Berry.
Speaker 10 (35:36):
And to the New England Patriots.
Speaker 14 (35:38):
My dad was the fan, right I was eight years old,
so I like it, you know, but he was his vision.
Speaker 13 (35:46):
And when I looked at him, he's holding that trophy up,
I said, well, you know what he basically, he basically
is almost reached the pinnacle. He's got one more step
for the pinnacle. And you know, it was it was
very emotional for him because it was the Lamar Hunt
(36:07):
Trophy that was handed to him by Lamar Hunt, who
was the head of the.
Speaker 10 (36:12):
American Football League who agreed to admit.
Speaker 13 (36:15):
Boston in uh and and Lamar and my dad ended
up being very good friends. In fact, you know, when
Lamar was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame, he
asked my dad to give his induction.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Speech, which is a very it's a significant honor, and.
Speaker 13 (36:35):
So that that particular moment was quite emotional and really exciting,
really exciting.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I'm out.
Speaker 17 (36:42):
I must say this, but if there's a happy man
in the world, and I I don't know who he is,
and I must thank God for all of his blessings,
but particularly for bringing Raymond Burry loyally of our fans,
loyally of our family.
Speaker 10 (36:56):
All Right, congratulations Raymond.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
It just seems to me that it doesn't matter where
you guys play.
Speaker 10 (37:01):
You've been on the road three weeks and you just
keep turning it up.
Speaker 25 (37:04):
It's hard to believe this is all happening. We thought
we could do it, but when it happened, it's still
hard to believe. We have some unces to be thankful for,
and for Missus Sullivan and Pat dick Steinberg who get
all these players here, and our coaches down and our
football team and our fans. It's hard to believe it's happened.
Speaker 15 (37:26):
Dan Marino said. He later he said, I can't believe
you guys beat us, and said we had no doubt
in our mind we were going to physically beat you
exactly We're not going to take that game from us.
And that was the kind of attitude. I remember the exuberance,
the excitement that we had after the game, dancing on
the sideline, and I remember saying, Man, we got one
more game. Man, let's go do this one more time.
Speaker 10 (37:46):
Traditional football at his best. And I think we can
look forward.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
To do or lets see if we only could have
a contrast and coaches personality going going into the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It'll be Mike.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Dicka and Raymond Berry, two former assistant coaches under Tom
Landry of the Dallas Cowboy Me two weeks from now
in New Orleans.
Speaker 11 (38:01):
To look back on it, I mean, just just to
realize of what was on what was at stake, losing
so many games to Miami and Miami and being the
super Bowl, you know, for the super Bowl, to get
to the super Bowl, and what it meant to This
could be the last opportunity for John Hannah, This could
be the last opportunity for a Steve Nelson, those guys
(38:24):
that had really gave their blood and guts to the
New England Patriots organization and what was on the line.
And I think that everybody took that the heart and
it didn't matter if you were a rookie year or
who you were, you were contributing to that team to
get to be the first New England Patriots team to
get to the Super Bowl. And we felt that the
(38:44):
pride that New England fans had, they were, you know,
behind us.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
The Patriots had made history, winning three playoff road games
and secured their first conference championship in franchise history. But
their story was not over. They were about to face
one of the greatest teams in NFL history in the
Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
I remember We're getting on the airplane flying back and
I remember saying to Raymond Berry, hey, we need to
remind everybody we're not finished.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
We got another game to play.
Speaker 15 (39:07):
And unfortunately it took two weeks to play that game.
Speaker 10 (39:10):
But we rolled such a high after.
Speaker 15 (39:11):
The Orange Bowl victory and the Dolphins victory and all
those things, we could never come back down to earth
and get focused back in on another game next time.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
On the nineteen eighty five Super Bowl sound Odyssey, the
final game, super Bowl twenty, the Bears, the forty six defense,
the Fridge, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the team
that made New England believe.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Introducing coach Raymond Berry and the rest of the New
England Patriots, so.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
The introduction of the main character is Raymond
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Berry and Mike Ditka's teams are on the field for
Super Bowl twenty
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