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Perfect ending has '72 Dolphins bubbling over

By Elizabeth Merrill
ESPN.com


GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Darkness covered the desert when Bob Kuechenberg awoke two time zones away Sunday morning. "Kooch" was nervous, amped and hopeful. The former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman was not afraid to say it: He was rooting for the New York Giants almost as hard as he rooted for his own team 35 years ago.

Imperfection is human, he says. Perfection is immortal.

"Hell, yeah, I think the Giants are gonna win," Kuechenberg said as he took off for a Super Bowl party at a friend's house in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

"It's terribly important. The same passion that flowed through our bodies 35 years ago is still with us."

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Dolfans revel in '72's perfection

Miami fans relished the Giants upset of the Patriots in the Super Bowl, which allowed the 1972 Dolphins to remain the only perfect team in NFL history.

BY PATRICK DORSEY
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They were in town. In the neighborhood. On the block.

But, as former Dolphins running back Mercury Morris told his ESPN audience in the hours before Sunday's Super Bowl, ``Whether or not they park, that's another thing.''

The New England Patriots didn't.

The regulars at one South Florida bar couldn't be happier.

''We still have the 1972 record!'' shouted Nicole Siatkowski of Miami, who watched the game among a host of New York Giants fans -- along with a few Patriots supporters -- at Hooligan's Pub & Oyster Bar in Miami.

''I am so happy that I get to keep my record,'' added Joe Risko of Miami.

And there were plenty more shouts of jubilation -- from ''I can't believe it'' to unprintable expletives -- raining down along with plentiful bottles of beer after the Giants sealed their improbable 17-14 win Sunday in Glendale, Ariz.

A round of drinks to the Giants?

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