The game moved like a tortoise. But Jakeem Grant didn’t. Kenny Stills didn’t. Reshad Jones didn’t.
The game was the longest in NFL history, with two lightning delays stretching a 1 o’clock start to a finish just past 7.
“Today slash tonight,” quarterback Ryan Tannehill called the season opener.
Incredibly, preposterously, for the Dolphins, it was worth the wait. So, too, for the 65,184 fans who had dwindled to maybe 7,000 by the end, none of them suffering from astraphobia, apparently, and all of them reveling in a 27-20 Miami victory over Tennessee -- and maybe reveling in their own tenacity as well.