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Originally Posted by chefsos
What's funny is I could name more guys on that Miami team off the top of my head than I could for any current team not named the Chiefs. Many of them are (or seem to be) all time greats, HOFers even to people of a certain age, but I wonder if it's a chicken/egg thing. Some great players carry a team farther than it deserves, but at the same time average players on a winning team seem to become better than they truly were in retrospect.
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That was near the height of my childhood football card collecting days. I'm going to go off memory and let's see how I do.
HB - Jim Kiick, but Mercury Morris got a lot of carries.
FB - Larry Csonka
QB - Bob Griese, with Earl Morrall playing a lot due to injury
WR - Paul Warfield
WR - Howard Twilley
TE - Marv Fleming? I think two guys got playing time. The other guy was an ex-Packer, I think. Or was that Fleming?
LT - Norm Evans
LG - Bob Keuchenberg (and for chrissakes, stop whining about the Hall of Fame)
C - Jim Langer? Or did he arrive later?
RG - Larry Little
RT - Who was the RT? No cheating.
K - Garo Yepremian. God, I hate Garo Yepremian.
P - Larry Seiple
FS - Dick Anderson
SS - Jake Scott
CB - ? Foley. Something Foley, right?
CB - ?
OLB - Doug Swift
OLB - What was his name? It start with a K. Kolar?
MLB - Nick Buoniconti
DE - Vern Den Herder?
DE - ?
DT - Manny Fernandez
DT - ?
I guess they really were the no-name defense.