Nov.
5: After catching a touchdown pass, tight end Marv Fleming
found a folded $10 bill in the end zone. "He came back to
the bench screaming, 'I hit pay dirt!' " punter and tight
end Larry Seiple says. "He was happier about that than the
TD, which makes
sense if you know
Marv."
GAME 9, VS. NEW ENGLAND,
52-0
New England
0
0
0
0
-- 0
Miami
17
14
7
14
-- 52
Passing:
Morrall 7-13-162, 1
TD
Rushing: Morris 16-90, 3
TD
Receiving: Briscoe 4-128, 2
TD
Nov. 12:
At 45-0 Miami scored on a 39-yard Jim Del Gaizo-to-Mandich
pass. "It was 60-double-Q," Mandich says. "I ran a post
pattern against some stumbling linebacker. They were
god-awful. We had a swagger to us. Rub it in? Who
cared?"
GAME 10, VS. NEW YORK JETS,
28-24
New York
7
10
7
0
-- 24
Miami
7
7
7
7
-- 28
Passing: Morrall 8-17-132, 1 TD, 1
INT
Rushing: Morris 23-107, 3
TD
Receiving: Twilley
3-75
Nov.
19: "Trivia question," Kuechenberg says. "We had three of
the greatest runners in the game: Csonka, [Mercury] Morris
and Kiick. We had Warfield, who was great on the end
around. So who got the longest touchdown run of the year?
It was Morrall, 31 yards.
I got nine blocks on the play; [Larry] Little got
11."
"Longest run of the season," Morrall says.
"Two-and-a-half
minutes."
GAME 11, VS. ST. LOUIS,
31-10
St. Louis
0
3
0
7
-- 10
Miami
7
3
14
7
-- 31
Passing: Morrall 12-19-210, 2
TD
Rushing: Csonka
16-114
Receiving: Stowe 6-140, 2
TD
Nov.
27: Monday Night Football. The whispers were starting. Could
Miami become the first team to go unbeaten and untied since
the 1948 Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference?
"Howard Cosell, who was doing the game for ABC, talked to
us during the day,
and he brought it up," Morrall says. "But honestly, even
though we'd clinched the division the week before, all we
were thinking about was the
playoffs."
"In the locker room before the game," recalls Little,
"I said to my roommate, Wayne Moore, 'You know, we still
haven't lost a game.' He said, 'Don't talk about it. You'll
jinx us.' Kind of like not talking about a no-
hitter."
GAME 12, AT NEW ENGLAND,
37-21
Miami
3
10
17
7
-- 37
New England
0
7
0
14
-- 21
Passing: Morrall 11-19-205, 2 TD, 1
INT
Rushing: Morris
15-113
Receiving: Warfield
3-65
Dec.
3: "The night before the game, Shula let us go into
Boston for a
meal," Morrall says. "So 16 of us took a bus in, and we had
dinner on the wharf, Anthony's Pier 4, and all the New
England fans kept sending wine to our table, hoping we
would imbibe
heavily. We were only too glad to
oblige...
"Next day at his pregame meeting, Shula jumped on us: 'You
guys are losing your focus.' " The Dolphins rushed for 304
yards, a team record. The game was over in the third
quarter.
GAME 13, AT NEW YORK GIANTS,
23-13
Miami
10
7
0
6
-- 23
New York
6
7
0
0
-- 13
Passing: Morrall 9-17-171, 1 TD, 1
INT
Rushing: Morris 19-98, 1
TD
Receiving: Warfield 4-132, 1
TD
Dec. 10:
It was a muddy day in Yankee Stadium. Griese, newly
activated, jogged around the field before the game and
thought, Uh-uh, not
today.
By completing a modest nine of 17 passes for 163 yards,
Morrall took over the NFL passing lead. He was averaging 15
passes a game. "Same as my uniform number," he
says.
GAME 14, VS. BALTIMORE,
16-0
Baltimore
0
0
0
0
-- 0
Miami
3
7
3
3
-- 16
Passing: Morrall 7-15-110, 1 TD, 1
INT
Rushing: Morris
26-86
Receiving: Warfield 2-35, 1
TD
Dec
16: The Dolphins needed 105 yards to break the alltime
single-season record, set by the 1936 Detroit Lions. Miami
did it in the third quarter, on a five-yard scramble by
Morrall.
