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The 1980 Miami Dolphins season was the 15th year of existence for the Miami Dolphins franchise. Quarterback Bob Griese retired after the season, following a 14-year career with the Dolphins. However, in Griese's final season the Dolphins would only play mediocre football finishing in third place with an 8-8 record.
The Oakland Raiders' defeat of the Miami Dolphins on September 22 ended the Dolphins 31-game home winning streak. During this game, ABC switched at halftime to ABC News anchor Harry Reasoner for an update on the assassination attempt on President Ford by Sara Jane Moore earlier that day.
The National Football League playoffs for the 1979 season began on December 23, 1979. The postseason tournament concluded with the Pittsburgh Steelers defeating the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl XIV , 31–19, on January 20, 1980, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California .
This is a list of seasons completed by the National Football League (NFL)'s Miami Dolphins, an American football franchise based in the Miami metropolitan area.The list documents the season-by-season records of the Dolphins franchise from 1966 to present, including postseason records, and league awards for individual players or head coaches.
Throughout the 1970s the Miami Dolphins had the highest winning percentage in all of professional sports. [citation needed] Griese was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990. Following the end of Griese's tenure, quarterback David Woodley became the Dolphins' starting quarterback and continued the Dolphins' success.
The Miami Dolphins' playoff schedule was officially revealed at halftime of Sunday night's contest against the Buffalo Bills.
The announcerless game was an American football contest played on December 20, 1980, between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League.As an experiment, the NBC television network broadcast it without assigning any commentators to cover it.
The seeds of change were planted in Miami Beach in the late 1970s and into the ‘80s. The first two renovated Art Deco hotels, the Cardozo and the Carlyle, reopened in 1978.