Dolphins' visit to White House, “another Super Bowl of a different kind"
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____ The 31 former Dolphins who trouped into the East Room of the White House, along with their Hall of Fame Coach Don Shula, bore the years well, for the most part. Wide receiver Paul Warfield was as trim as Obama himself. Larry Csonka’s mustache was bushy as ever. And Shula still sported a shock of white hair and that chiseled jaw. Collectively they have signed untold autographs and cycled through nearly as many marriages, divorces, second careers and joint-replacement surgeries in the last four decades.
But Tuesday, they were reduced to wide-eyed children on the field trip of a lifetime, gamely taking their place on risers behind the president with youngsters’ vigor and a pride that made each stand a little taller.
Most acknowledged the honor wouldn’t have resonated as deeply in their youth, when they sat atop the sporting world, setting records on the field and raising hell off it.
Former tight end Marv Fleming, a veteran of five Super Bowls and the driving force behind the belated honor, equated the visit to “another Super Bowl of a different kind . . .”
read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/miami-dolphins-undefeated-team-gets-white-house-honor-41-years-later/2013/08/20/0c9e4988-09db-11e3-9941-6711ed662e71_story.html?hpid=z4
more pics and video: http://theobamadiary.com/2013/08/20/1972-miami-dolphins-meet-president-obama/
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. . . thanks so much for sharing them. 