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The Dolphins will play their NFL-record 84th “Monday Night Football” game at Hard Rock Stadium and the team is breaking out its undefeated season uniforms and helmets (should be the full-time uniform and helmet) to commemorate the occasion.

Here’s another way to mark the event: Win the game.

For once this year, perform on prime time.

The Dolphins, you’ll recall, were deemed an up-and-coming team after the 2016 season. So the NFL “rewarded” them with multiple prime-time TV games this year. The league typically puts its better, more interesting and exciting teams on prime-time telecasts because that’s what the national audience wants to see.