It’s not often that the Dolphins win a game, much less in overtime and in prime time, that you can say it was one of the darkest moments in team history.
Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of probably the darkest.
On Dec. 8, 1980, the Dolphins defeated the Patriots, but it was a day the world remembers for an entirely different reason: John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York apartment.
It’s a shocker forever linked to that Monday night game in the Orange Bowl because MNF analyst Howard Cosell was charged with informing the country of “an unspeakable tragedy” far more important than anything happening on the field.