Before we continue with anything further, we might as well have a vision of
the Miami Dolphins Football God.

That is, of course, Don Shula.

Shula arrived on the scene in 1966 while I was getting adjusted to the infernal heat of Miami.  The new coach of the otherwise terrible "expansion team" arrived after a mini-controversy with the Colts. Professing to have no idea of what was necessary for a successful football team, he instituted the idea of four workouts per day in a place where the mid-day temperatures hover around ninety with the humidity not far behind....Any surprise they became competitive in just a few years?

As Winston Churchill famously said, "If you're going through hell, keep going..."