......were a 3 point dog for SB VII vs. the Redskins! Yup! That's right! I should know as by that time I had become an NFL bettor starting with SB III when Joe Willie "guaranteed" a Jets victory. I loved the Dolphins in this game and I didn't know anything about 'traps" and such. But when the line first came out I scratched my head wondering how an unbeaten team could possibly be an underdog for the Super Bowl.
You have to understand that in that era, even though the Jets and then Chiefs won back to back Super Bowls and forced a merger in 1971 I believe, the old NFL still thought they were far superior than their AFL rivals. People just couldn't accept that the AFL opponents had caught up to the NFL and even surpassed them on the field. I think the Dolphins lost to the Cowboys in 1971 the year before they went undefeated. They must have thought that things were going back to "normal" when the Cowboys beat the Dolphins so they made the Skins a fave. At the time I thought that was the easiest money I ever made. Probably had no more than $100 on the game, but at that time I was only making $100 a week. OK! Maybe $150.
You have to understand that in that era, even though the Jets and then Chiefs won back to back Super Bowls and forced a merger in 1971 I believe, the old NFL still thought they were far superior than their AFL rivals. People just couldn't accept that the AFL opponents had caught up to the NFL and even surpassed them on the field. I think the Dolphins lost to the Cowboys in 1971 the year before they went undefeated. They must have thought that things were going back to "normal" when the Cowboys beat the Dolphins so they made the Skins a fave. At the time I thought that was the easiest money I ever made. Probably had no more than $100 on the game, but at that time I was only making $100 a week. OK! Maybe $150.
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