If you’ve had a sneaking suspicion that the national press doesn’t like the Miami Dolphins, you are by no means alone, and the media’s reporting on players who started their careers with Miami, versus the exalted treatment many of them have received after they moved on to other teams would seem to reinforce this belief.
One of the first examples I remember seeing of this phenomenon was when former Dolphins center Jeff Dellenbach, a fourth round pick out of the University of Wisconsin in 1985, signed with the New England Patriots in the ‘95 offseason.