No association football team has ever achieved a perfect season, but some have achieved a perfect record in their respective domestic league competitions, although that feat itself is rare. Paul Warfield led the receivers, averaging over 20 yards per catch on 29 receptions. The Dolphins' 17-0-0 season culminated with a 14-7 victory over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII. The one complication with those two filings is that, while thousands of T-shirts were printed commemorating a perfect Patriots season, none of them were ever sold. The 2007 Patriots became the first team after the NFL expanded its regular season to sixteen games in 1978 to finish the regular season undefeated. [11], The Dolphins then traveled to Shea Stadium in New York to face the Jets in week 3. Though it has been nine years since the Patriots nearly achieved an undefeated season, the team just now has gotten around to trademarking "Perfect Season" and "19-0.". 15 -- AFC Divisional Playoff -- Dolphins 20, Browns 14, No.

[11] In the 12th race, he was battling for the lead on the final lap, but spun out and finished second. The Bisons followed up with a 48–5 defeat of the Regina Rams in the Hardy Trophy and a strong 52–20 showing against the perennial contenders from the University of Western Ontario, the Western Ontario Mustangs, in the Mitchell Bowl. The Dolphins were beneficiaries of a weak AFC East which saw the Colts lapse from a perennial contender into a three-year stretch in which they would win only 11 games; a Bills team which had yet to find its legs with O.J. "Truth of the matter is, we came in and played hard. That night the Gee Gees became the first undefeated team in CIS and Vanier Cup history. Between 1887 and 1929, seasons were gradually increased in length to a standard twenty-eight matches for all counties. A perfect season in any sport is hard to achieve, but in the NFL it is harder than most. The Miami Dolphins 1972 team consisted mostly of the same core of players it possessed from 1970 through 1974 (five seasons) was the most dominant professional football team in the NFL during that stretch. Apart from the 1972 Dolphins, three NFL teams have completed undefeated and untied regular seasons: the 1934 Chicago Bears, the 1942 Chicago Bears, and the 2007 New England Patriots.

The 1998 Broncos, 2005 Colts and 2009 Saints lost at least two of their final three games but the Broncos and Saints recovered to win the Super Bowl. Since the 1975 season, teams that have won their division and have had a superior record than their opponent (as was the case with the 1972 Dolphins when they faced the Steelers) would play their postseason games at home. This does not however constitute any record: the 1975 Minnesota Vikings, who began 10–0 and finished 12–2, played fourteen opponents with an average winning percentage of .332 and nine of their games were against teams 4–10 or worse.[27]. By the beginning of the fourth quarter, which little doubt about which team would win, Dolphins quarterback Jim Del Gazio replaced Morrall. [15] The University of Oklahoma's FBS record 47 game winning streak included three straight perfect seasons from 1954–56. However, three failed attempts at entering the end zone and two penalties against the Jets forced them to settle for an 18-yard Bobby Howfield field goal, cutting the deficit against the Dolphins to 17-10. The Women's National Basketball Association‘s season has been between 28 and 36 games long, and it too has never produced a perfect season. The Spurs played a total of 5 home games in the post season, finishing 43-3 at home, losing twice to the Thunder. Early in the first quarter, Chargers defensive tackle Ron East and defensive end Deacon Jones sacked Griese. They successfully defeated France four times, Australia three times, South Africa and Argentina twice and also beat Japan, England and Ireland in their incredible winning run. Additionally, the team also won the national DHB Cup and the international EHF Champions League.[49]. [26] Statistically, the Dolphins’ 1972 regular-season opponents had an aggregate winning percentage of .397 and only two had winning records for that season (both the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Giants finished 8–6). At the time, the Eastern and Western unions played separate regular seasons and only met in the Grey Cup. The undefeated campaign was led by coach Don Shula and notable players Bob Griese, Earl Morrall, and Larry Csonka. Morris too aggressive on fourth down, costs Falcons the win, 64 seconds. Since the NFL expanded to a fourteen-game regular season in 1961, eleven teams have had regular seasons with one loss and no ties (or better) while failing to achieve a perfect season: Most of these teams suffered their regular-season loss early in the year and, other than the 2007 Patriots (started regular season and playoffs 18–0), only the 1962 Packers (10–0), 1985 Bears (12–0), 2011 Packers (13–0), and 2015 Panthers (14–0) were on track for a perfect season when they lost. In those five seasons the Dolphins made the playoffs all five years, won three AFC Championships, went to the Super Bowl three times for two wins and went undefeated and untied while winning the Super Bowl in 1972. [46] FC Bayern Munich managed a 11-0-0 perfect record en route to winning the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League, the first team to do so. [12] The highest level of college football, the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (introduced as Division I-A in 1978), did not use a playoff to determine a champion prior to the introduction of the four-team College Football Playoff (CFP) in 2014. Griese was replaced by 38-year old Morrall before returning in the AFC championship game. President Obama, a Chicago resident and Bears fan,[31] had called them the greatest team ever, but during the Dolphins' visit he called his own words into question, also noting that the only loss the 1985 Bears had was to the Dolphins. The WAFL has existed since 1885 within Western Australia, and until the latter part of the 20th century was of equivalent standard to either the VFL or SANFL. Despite losing several players and head coach George Halas to military service in World War II, the 1942 Bears finished 11–0–0 but again lost the NFL Championship Game, this time against the Washington Redskins. Miami trailed Minnesota for much of the game. Every year that passes makes the remarkable record seem less and less likely to be matched. Miami's win-loss record improved to 5–0. Most games and most wins by unbeaten county team. [18], There is an urban legend that every season, whenever the last remaining undefeated NFL team loses its first game, all the surviving members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins open bottles of champagne in celebration. It has often been reported that the surviving members of the 1972 Dolphins would, every season, either gather to drink champagne when the final undefeated team earned its first loss of the year, or send a case of champagne to the team who beat this final undefeated team. The Bandits won all eight of their regular season games and won the championship in a two-round tournament; the season was the continuation of a multi-season winning streak that dated to the Bandits’ successful run for the previous year's championship.[8]. With one minute and twenty-eight seconds left, the Vikings attempted to reach field goal range. Five plays later, the Jets scored a touchdown via a 1-yard rush by Emerson Boozer cut Miami's lead to 24-17. Anderson returned the ball to the New England 4-yard line before fumbling. Later in the fourth quarter, Miami fumbled a punt, allowing New York to their next drive at the Dolphins 20-yard line. At the CCAA Hockey National Championships in Camrose, Alberta, St. Clair downed Cape Breton 10–4 in the semi final and Selkirk 11–2 in the final. [9] After beating the Hamilton Nationals, the Outlaws had a sequence of twenty consecutive regular season wins despite losing the 2012 championship. After the Dolphins re-gained possession, Vikings linebacker Roy Winston intercepted Bob Griese. I will just post my bets for every week, so far 11/11 we are going for a perfect season.

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